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Aeropay vs. Plaid
Payments

Pay by bank, guaranteed

See why businesses choose Aeropay over assembling Plaid products into a payments stack.

100% guaranteed ACH deposits
Linking, payments and risk in one product
Guard scores risk in real time
Payments

Aeropay vs. Plaid

See why businesses choose Aeropay over assembling Plaid products into a payments stack.

Aeropay
North America's pay by bank network
Plaid
Data network with payments bolted on
Guaranteed ACH
Guaranteed

100% guaranteed ACH deposits

Varies

Full, partial or no guarantee per transfer

Platform
Unified

Linking, payments and risk in one product

Modular

Link, Auth, Signal and Transfer sold separately

Risk decisioning
Automated

Guard scores risk in real time

Merchant-tuned

Signal scores; merchant sets rules

Access
Regulated-ready

Gaming, predictions, digital assets, billing

Restricted

Transfer needs approval; use-case limits

Recovery
Built in

Predictive, in-house recapture

Not offered

No recovery service publicly documented

Pricing
Predictable

Transparent, all-in pricing

Commitments

Platform fees plus API minimums

Why choose Aeropay

Why businesses choose Aeropay

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Plaid
Plaid

Plaid built the leading bank-data network, and its payments offering still reflects that modular heritage. Merchants assemble Link, Auth, Balance, Signal and Transfer, and each piece brings its own configuration and fees. Transfer is US-only, requires approval and carries use-case restrictions. Guarantee outcomes come back per transfer as full, partial or none, and Signal scores return risk without settling or guaranteeing the payment, so the merchant still writes the rules and carries much of the loss.

Aeropay

Aeropay delivers the whole flow as one product. Bank linking runs on Aerosync, our own multi-source aggregator, so the data that verifies an account is the same data Guard uses to score the payment. ACH deposits are 100% guaranteed, recapture is handled in-house, and merchants brand the full experience as their own. Built over the last decade for regulated industries, Aeropay is a partner, not a parts list.

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