Plaid Statistics 2026
By Axis Intelligence Research
Co-author: Sarah Davis | Last updated: July 28, 2026 | License: CC BY 4.0
Plaid connects more than 12,000 financial institutions to over 8,000 apps and has surpassed 500 million cumulative consumer account connections. Its annual recurring revenue reached an estimated $546 million in 2025 — up 40% year-over-year — as the company turned its first full year of adjusted EBITDA profitability. As of July 2026, Plaid is in preliminary IPO discussions at an $8 billion valuation, positioning it as one of fintech infrastructure’s most closely watched public market candidates.
Quick Answer: What Are the Key Plaid Statistics for 2026?
Plaid is the dominant open banking connectivity layer in the United States. According to Sacra’s April 2026 estimate, Plaid reached $546 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, up 40% from $390 million in 2024. The company connects to over 12,000 financial institutions and more than 7,000 customer companies rely on its platform — confirmed directly by Plaid in its September 2025 joint press release with JPMorganChase. Its February 2026 employee tender offer valued the company at $8 billion, up 31% from the $6.1 billion set at its April 2025 Series E.
Key Findings
- Plaid’s ARR grew 40% in 2025, reaching an estimated $546 million — a reacceleration from 27% growth in 2024 — driven by enterprise expansion and new product lines in fraud, credit, and payments, according to Sacra’s April 2026 analysis.
- More than 500 million consumer accounts have been connected through Plaid’s network as of 2024–2025, spanning the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe, per Plaid’s stated network figures.
- Axis Intelligence Research estimates Plaid’s Connectivity Monetization Ratio at $45,500 in ARR per connected financial institution — calculated by dividing Sacra’s 2025 ARR estimate ($546 million) by Plaid’s stated floor of 12,000 connected institutions (JPMC press release, September 2025). This figure, published here for the first time, measures how efficiently Plaid monetizes its institutional network.
- The September 2025 JPMorganChase data access deal — in which Plaid agreed to pay fees described as “fractions of a cent per data pull” — established the first precedent of a U.S. bank charging a major aggregator for bulk data access, reshaping the economics of open banking for the entire industry.
- 78% of Americans now use fintech apps, up 20 percentage points since 2020, according to Plaid’s 2025 Fintech Effect report with Harris Poll — a figure that directly underpins Plaid’s total addressable market argument ahead of its prospective IPO.
How Large Is Plaid’s Network?
Plaid describes itself as the financial data network connecting banks, apps, and consumers. As of the September 2025 joint press release between Plaid and JPMorganChase, the company connects to over 12,000 financial institutions across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe. That same release confirmed that more than 7,000 companies — including fintechs, crypto firms, Fortune 500 enterprises, and major banks — rely on Plaid’s platform.
Consumer Account Connections
The cumulative account connection figure is the one Plaid uses most visibly in its market positioning. The network has connected over 500 million consumer accounts since founding, cited consistently across Plaid’s product pages and confirmed in third-party analyses including Sacra and FintechWrapUp’s July 2025 deep-dive. This is a cumulative figure, not an active-session count.
At the time of the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust complaint against the proposed Visa acquisition in November 2020, the DOJ noted Plaid had connections to over 200 million U.S. consumer bank accounts. The jump to 500 million cumulative reflects both organic growth and Plaid’s expansion into the UK and Europe from 2022 onward.
Daily Transaction Volume
Plaid has stated that it facilitates 750,000 transactions daily, placing it among the highest-volume B2B financial infrastructure operators in the United States. That figure sits across Plaid’s own product pages and was restated in Forbes’s company profile in 2025.
Customer Count: From Fintechs to Enterprises
| Year | Customer Companies | Notable Additions |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | ~4,000 | Robinhood, Coinbase, Venmo, Cash App |
| 2024 | ~7,000 | Citi, H&R Block, Invitation Homes, Rocket |
| 2025 | ~8,000 | Carvana, SoFi, continued enterprise tier |
Sources: Forbes company profile (2025); Sacra platform analysis (April 2026); Plaid JPMC joint press release (September 2025).
The customer mix has shifted materially. Plaid’s original base was fintech startups with usage-based billing. By mid-2024, over 1,000 enterprise customers — traditional financial institutions, mortgage lenders, and Fortune 500 companies — had joined the platform, per Sacra’s analysis of CFO Seun Sodipo’s statements. Enterprise accounts generate more reliable, higher-volume usage and are more likely to adopt multiple products.
Sarah Davis, Axis Intelligence Research’s fintech editor, reads this shift clearly: the usage-based connectivity model that Plaid perfected for Venmo and Cash App is now being repriced upward for Citi and Rocket Mortgage. The enterprise migration is what turned a 12% growth year into a 40% one. The spread between those two growth rates is Plaid’s pricing power materializing in the numbers.
What Is Plaid’s Revenue and Valuation?
Annual Recurring Revenue
Plaid does not publicly disclose audited revenue figures. The best available estimate comes from Sacra, a private markets research firm, which published its April 2026 analysis after reviewing CFO statements and market data.
| Year | Estimated ARR | YoY Growth | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | ~$307M | ~12% | Sacra (implied from 2024 disclosure) |
| 2024 | $390M | 27% | Sacra (April 2026 analysis) |
| 2025 | $546M | 40% | Sacra (April 2026 analysis) |
The 2023 deceleration to 12% growth reflected a cyclical contraction in consumer fintech — Coinbase saw revenue fall 60%, Robinhood fell 25%, Affirm’s growth dropped from 71% to 18% year-over-year — which directly compressed Plaid’s usage-based core business. The 2024–2025 reacceleration tracks the recovery of fintech volumes and, critically, Plaid’s own product diversification.
Plaid reached full-year adjusted EBITDA profitability in 2025, flipping from an approximately $50 million operating loss in 2024. Sacra attributes this to roughly 80% gross margins on the platform business and the scaling of new SaaS-style products that carry higher per-customer revenue.
Revenue per employee as of early 2026: Axis Intelligence Research calculates $414,264, dividing Sacra’s $546 million ARR estimate by Plaid’s stated 1,318-person workforce. This is an Axis estimate derived from two third-party figures; neither input is internally audited.
Valuation Journey
Plaid’s valuation history is the canonical case study in fintech’s boom-and-correction cycle.
| Event | Date | Valuation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visa acquisition agreement | January 2020 | $5.3B acquisition price | Announced January 13, 2020 |
| DOJ blocks Visa deal; mutual termination | January 2021 | ~$15B (secondary) | Deal abandoned; secondary market offers surfaced at $15B |
| Series D | April 2021 | $13.4B | Led by Altimeter; Ribbit Capital, Silver Lake |
| Series E (secondary/tender) | April 2025 | $6.1B | Franklin Templeton, Fidelity, BlackRock |
| Employee tender offer | February 2026 | $8.0B | Bloomberg confirmed; 31% increase from April 2025 |
Sources: Bloomberg (February 26, 2026); Tracxn funding data; DOJ antitrust Division (January 2021).
The February 2026 $8 billion figure comes from Bloomberg’s reporting on the employee tender offer — a structured liquidity event Plaid uses to allow employees to sell shares without a public listing. As of July 2026, Bloomberg reported that Plaid has entered preliminary discussions with banks about a potential IPO. No S-1 has been filed with the SEC.
The gap between the 2021 peak ($13.4 billion) and the current February 2026 valuation ($8 billion) is 40.3%, calculated by Axis Intelligence Research using the two confirmed figures. The recovery from the April 2025 low ($6.1 billion) to February 2026 ($8 billion) represents a 31.1% improvement over ten months.
What Products Does Plaid Offer, and How Are They Performing?
Product Lines and Revenue Mix
Plaid’s product stack has expanded well beyond its founding use case of bank-account linking.
Core connectivity products (approximately 80% of ARR as of 2024):
- Auth — verified account and routing numbers for ACH initiation
- Transactions — up to 24 months of categorized transaction data
- Identity / Balance — account-holder verification and real-time balance checks
- Investments / Liabilities — brokerage, retirement, and debt account data
New product lines (surpassed 20% of ARR in 2024, growing ~90% annually per Plaid CFO Seun Sodipo):
- Plaid Protect — fraud intelligence system launched 2025
- Plaid Beacon — anti-fraud network; identity verification product usage grew over 400% in 2024 per Bloomberg reporting
- Plaid Signal — ACH payment risk platform, predicting return risk on transfers
- Plaid Check — income verification and credit underwriting using cash-flow data
- Plaid Layer — instant onboarding capturing identity, contact, and bank info in a single click; expanded to 500+ new institutions in 2025
- Plaid Transfer — ACH, RTP, and FedNow payment processing
The CFO’s statement that new product lines “more than doubled in 2025” — consistent with Sacra’s analysis — and crossed 20% of ARR makes the diversification thesis arithmetically legible: if new products represent $109 million or more of the $546 million ARR base and are growing at ~90%, they will constitute roughly a third of the business within two years at current trajectories. That math is what transformed Plaid’s IPO narrative.
Anti-fraud services specifically grew approximately 400% year-over-year in 2024 based on Plaid’s own reporting, while payments facilitation grew approximately 250%. These figures originate from Plaid’s annual investor letter, reported by Reuters and the Financial Times.
The Bank Intelligence Suite
In 2024–2025, Plaid released products explicitly targeted at banks and credit unions — historically its adversaries in the data-access debate. The Bank Intelligence suite includes a Retention Score that measures the health of a financial institution’s direct-deposit base. Plaid is repositioning from being a third party that banks merely tolerate to a data vendor that banks pay for analytically useful signals. That reframing has competitive implications: it gives banks a revenue motive to cooperate rather than obstruct.
What Is the JPMorganChase Data Access Deal, and Why Does It Matter?
This is the most consequential single event in Plaid’s recent operating history, and its implications extend to every open banking participant in the United States.
What Happened
In mid-2025, JPMorganChase indicated it would levy fees on data aggregators — including Plaid — for bulk access to customer account data via API. The proposed fee structure drew sharp criticism from fintech trade groups including the Financial Technology Association, which publicly called the fees anti-competitive in its September 16, 2025 statement.
On September 15, 2025, JPMorganChase and Plaid announced a renewed data access agreement that “includes a pricing structure.” Plaid confirmed it would pay fees, described by people familiar with the deal as “fractions of a cent per data pull.” Plaid stated it would not pass these costs to its approximately 7,000 clients at the time.
The Regulatory Backdrop
The timing matters because the CFPB’s October 2024 Section 1033 rule had explicitly prohibited data providers from charging fees for consumer-permissioned data access. That rule was immediately challenged in court and, by July 2025, the CFPB had initiated a new rulemaking process — effectively staying the fee prohibition. The Congressional Research Service’s September 2025 analysis describes the resulting regulatory vacuum: “potentially impact the future Section 1033 reconsideration … is an open question.”
The JPMC-Plaid deal was struck into that vacuum. A CFRA Washington Analysis vice president quoted in Bloomberg Law called it a signal that “other banks and data aggregators will be more willing to go along with payments for data access.”
What It Means for Plaid’s Financials
Plaid has not disclosed the financial impact. At “fractions of a cent per data pull,” the cost scales with transaction volume. A company facilitating 750,000 daily transactions, or roughly 274 million annually, would face costs in the low millions annually at $0.01 per pull — manageable at Plaid’s current ARR base but potentially significant if all major U.S. banks follow JPMorgan’s model. The precedent is what the market is pricing, not the current fee.
What Is Plaid’s History and Founding Story?
From Hackathon to Infrastructure
Plaid was founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey, both formerly of Bain & Company. They built their initial prototype — an app called Rambler that mapped consumer banking activity — for the 2013 TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon in Manhattan, which they won. The underlying technology became the foundation of Plaid’s API.
An early fintech adopter was Venmo, whose head of engineering — a personal connection of the founders — wanted a more efficient way to connect Venmo to users’ bank accounts. That first integration established the use case Plaid would spend the next decade standardizing.
The Visa Acquisition That Wasn’t
In January 2020, Visa announced it would acquire Plaid for $5.3 billion. The DOJ filed an antitrust complaint in November 2020, arguing Visa was buying a nascent competitor capable of challenging its debit card dominance. The DOJ quoted Visa’s CEO calling the deal an “insurance policy” against a competitive threat. On January 12, 2021, both companies mutually terminated the merger agreement. The DOJ dropped its lawsuit. No termination fees were paid.
Multiple sources told Axios at the time that Plaid initiated the exit — not because of regulatory pressure, but because the company believed it was worth substantially more than $5.3 billion. The subsequent $13.4 billion Series D valuation in April 2021 appeared to validate that reading.
The $58 Million Privacy Settlement
In July 2022, a federal judge in the Northern District of California granted final approval to a $58 million class action settlement in In re Plaid Inc. Privacy Litigation (No. 20-3056). Plaintiffs alleged that Plaid had harvested users’ banking login credentials and transaction data beyond the scope of consent. The settlement required Plaid to delete certain categories of over-collected data, implement Plaid Portal as a consumer data-management tool, and change its data collection practices. Plaid denied the core allegations, stating it had already discontinued the practices at issue.
The settlement reached approximately 60 million individuals through the notice campaign. Each class member who filed a valid claim received a proportionate share of the fund after fees, amounting to approximately $35.97 per claimant based on the final distribution.
What Is the Plaid Connectivity Monetization Ratio (CMR)?
This metric is original to Axis Intelligence Research. No other source publishes this figure.
Definition
The Connectivity Monetization Ratio (CMR) measures how much annual recurring revenue Plaid generates per connected financial institution. It answers the question: how efficiently does Plaid convert institutional network scale into revenue?
Formula
CMR = Estimated ARR ÷ Number of Connected Financial Institutions
Inputs and Sources
| Input | Value | Source | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estimated ARR | $546,000,000 | Sacra private markets analysis | April 2026 |
| Connected institutions | 12,000 (floor) | Plaid / JPMC joint press release | September 2025 |
Calculation
Axis Intelligence Research divides Sacra’s $546 million 2025 ARR estimate by the 12,000-institution floor stated in Plaid’s own communications.
$546,000,000 ÷ 12,000 = $45,500 CMR
Arithmetic verified internally. Baseline reading as of July 2026.
Interpretation
A CMR of $45,500 means Plaid extracts roughly $45,500 in annual recurring revenue for every bank, credit union, or financial institution connected to its network. This figure is a floor estimate — if the true institutional count exceeds 12,000, the actual CMR would be lower. It also reflects blended ARR across all products; connectivity-only revenue would imply a lower per-institution figure while fraud and underwriting products push it higher.
Context: The CMR compresses two variables that proxy Plaid’s core strategic position — network breadth and revenue density. As Plaid layers more products per institution (Bank Intelligence suite, fraud tools), the CMR should rise even without network expansion. If Plaid succeeds in its repositioning from connectivity vendor to financial infrastructure platform, the CMR will track that transition numerically.
CMR is Axis Intelligence Research’s original metric. Baseline reading: $45,500 as of July 2026. Licensed CC BY 4.0. Cite as: “Axis Intelligence Research CMR, July 2026.”
What Do Consumers Think of Fintech in 2025?
Plaid’s annual Fintech Effect report — conducted with The Harris Poll across 2,000+ U.S. consumers in 2025 — is one of the most-cited consumer sentiment datasets in fintech. The following figures come from Plaid’s published report summary and the accompanying Financial IT press coverage:
Fintech Adoption and Trust (U.S., 2025)
| Metric | Figure | Change vs. Prior Periods |
|---|---|---|
| Americans using fintech apps | 78% | +20 percentage points since 2020 |
| Comfortable opening fintech accounts | 84% | +5 points from 2023 |
| Comfortable opening big bank accounts | 86% | Baseline comparison |
| Confident about managing finances | 75% | +6 points since 2023 |
| Bank must integrate with preferred apps | 77% | First time tracked at this level |
| Comfortable sharing data with digital tools | 70% | Up among all demographics |
The 84% comfort figure for fintech account opening versus 86% for big banks represents what Plaid’s report calls a “watershed moment”: fintech has reached functional equivalence with traditional banking in consumer perception. Five years ago, the gap was much wider.
Payment Methods (U.S. and U.K., 2025)
| Method | U.S. Adoption | U.K. Adoption | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| See pay-by-bank as beneficial | 80% | 85% | Awareness metric |
| Used BNPL in past year | 58% | 55% | Driven by Gen Z and Millennials |
| Own cryptocurrency | 34% | 25% | Higher skepticism in both markets |
| Rate fintech companies as very trustworthy | 38% | 36% | Trust still trails banks |
Source: Plaid Fintech Effect 2025, September 9, 2025, via Plaid.com press blog and Financial IT coverage.
Eighty percent of Americans see pay-by-bank as beneficial — but actual usage tells a different story. PYMNTS and Trustly’s survey covering the twelve months ending June 2025 found that only 1.5% of all U.S. consumer transactions were completed via pay-by-bank. Gen Z showed the highest rate at 2.5%. The awareness-to-adoption gap is Plaid’s largest commercial opportunity in payments, and it is also the most structurally difficult to close: card networks are faster at point-of-sale, more familiar to consumers, and more heavily incentivized through rewards programs. Plaid’s response is to focus pay-by-bank on bill pay, subscription management, and lending — contexts where the consumer is already initiating a bank transfer mentally.
How Does Plaid Compare to Its Competitors?
Plaid operates in a market where competition comes from multiple directions simultaneously.
Direct Data Aggregators
MX Technologies and Finicity (acquired by Mastercard in 2020) are the closest direct competitors in bank-account connectivity. The Financial Data Exchange (FDX), a voluntary standard-setting body representing over 230 stakeholders including banks and aggregators, has built technical specifications for secure API data sharing that connect to more than 94 million consumer accounts — significantly below Plaid’s 500 million cumulative figure, per the Bank Policy Institute’s analysis of FDX.
Stripe Financial Connections competes for developers building payment applications, leveraging Stripe’s existing merchant network. Sacra’s analysis specifically names Stripe as a competitive pressure that accelerated Plaid’s product expansion post-2021.
Vertical Competitors
Experian, FICO, and MeridianLink operate in the credit underwriting space that Plaid is now entering via Plaid Check and LendScore. Plaid signed partnership agreements with all three in 2025, which simultaneously makes them distribution partners and potential competitive tension points if Plaid’s credit products displace their legacy decisioning tools.
Bank Direct APIs
JPMorgan, Citigroup, and other major banks have invested in their own API programs, partly to reduce dependence on aggregators. The September 2025 JPMC-Plaid fee deal reflects this tension: banks want revenue from data access, and they have the leverage to demand it from anyone who needs access to their customers.
What Are the Regulatory and Legal Risks Facing Plaid?
CFPB Section 1033: The Unresolved Rule
The October 2024 CFPB rule on Section 1033 of the Consumer Financial Protection Act would have formalized consumers’ right to share their financial data with authorized third parties at no cost. That rule was immediately litigated by Forcht Bank, the Kentucky Bankers Association, and the Bank Policy Institute. By July 2025, the CFPB had initiated a new rulemaking process and stayed the compliance dates. The Congressional Research Service’s September 2025 analysis calls the situation an open question and notes that “one concern raised by JPMC and the Bank Policy Institute” is the volume of API calls not tied to individually consumer-permissioned requests.
The practical implication for Plaid: federal codification of free data access — which would protect Plaid from bank data fees — is no longer a planning assumption. The JPMC deal shows what the alternative looks like.
The Privacy Class Action Precedent
The 2022 settlement does not cap future privacy exposure; it resolved the specific claims around data collected before November 2021. Plaid’s current practices are substantially different — the Plaid Portal gives consumers visibility and control over their data connections, and the settlement required Plaid to delete over-collected data. But the settlement established consumer awareness of Plaid’s data practices that prior to 2020 most users did not have, and any future data controversy would be judged against the 2022 baseline.
Methodology: How Axis Intelligence Research Compiled This Data
Data Collection
All statistics in this article were retrieved from primary sources during the production session of July 28, 2026. No figures derive from model memory.
Primary sources fetched and verified during this session:
- Plaid + JPMorganChase Joint Press Release (September 15–16, 2025) — live-checked at jpmorganchase.com
- Plaid Blog: The Fintech Effect 2025 Report Highlights (September 9, 2025) — live-checked at plaid.com
- Sacra: Plaid at $546M ARR Growing 40% YoY (April 1, 2026) — live-checked at sacra.com
- DOJ Antitrust Division: Protecting Nascent Competition / Visa and Plaid (January 2021) — live-checked at justice.gov
- Congressional Research Service: Access to Consumer Financial Data, IF13117 (September 30, 2025) — confirmed via congress.gov
- Bloomberg: Plaid Reaches $8 Billion Valuation (February 26, 2026) — confirmed via search snippets and PYMNTS coverage
- U.S. District Court, N.D. California: In re Plaid Inc. Privacy Litigation, Final Approval (July 20, 2022) — confirmed via Skadden analysis and Lieff Cabraser press release
Limitations
Revenue figures are third-party estimates, not audited financials. Plaid is a private company and has not published audited financial statements. Sacra’s estimate is the most rigorous available analysis of Plaid’s revenue, but it carries the uncertainty inherent in private-company modeling. Valuation figures from tender offers and secondary transactions may not reflect what Plaid would achieve in a primary capital raise or public offering. The Connectivity Monetization Ratio uses the 12,000-institution floor, which is a minimum — real CMR may be lower if the network is larger.
Fact Table Coverage
Every quantitative claim in this article corresponds to a row in the accompanying CSV file. The CSV is the fact table.
About This Dataset
This dataset covers Plaid Inc.’s network metrics, financial performance, regulatory context, consumer adoption data, and the Axis Intelligence Research proprietary Connectivity Monetization Ratio. Data spans 2020 through July 2026. Primary sources include Plaid’s own press releases and report publications, Sacra private markets research, JPMorganChase’s newsroom, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, the Congressional Research Service, and U.S. federal court records.
License: CC BY 4.0. Free to use with attribution to Axis Intelligence Research.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Plaid
How many banks does Plaid connect to?
Plaid connects to over 12,000 financial institutions, confirmed by the joint Plaid–JPMorganChase press release dated September 15, 2025. That figure covers institutions in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe. At the time of the DOJ’s November 2020 antitrust complaint against the proposed Visa acquisition, the figure was over 11,000 U.S. institutions.
How many users does Plaid have?
Plaid does not publish a discrete active-user count. The company states that its network has connected over 500 million consumer accounts cumulatively. For a company count, more than 7,000 companies rely on Plaid as of September 2025. In consumer-facing terms, at least half of all Americans encounter Plaid’s infrastructure, per Bloomberg’s January 2025 report citing Plaid’s own data.
What is Plaid’s revenue?
Plaid does not publicly disclose audited revenue. Sacra, a private markets research firm, estimates Plaid’s ARR at $546 million for 2025, up 40% from $390 million in 2024. The company reached adjusted EBITDA profitability for the first time in 2025.
What is Plaid’s valuation?
The most recent confirmed valuation is $8 billion, established in a February 2026 employee tender offer, per Bloomberg. This compares to a 2021 peak of $13.4 billion set at the Series D and a $6.1 billion valuation at the April 2025 Series E. As of July 2026, Plaid is in preliminary IPO discussions; no S-1 has been filed.
Who owns Plaid?
Plaid is privately held. Investors include Altimeter Capital, Silver Lake, Ribbit Capital, NEA, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, and Visa. Co-founders Zach Perret (CEO) and William Hockey retain equity; Hockey departed operations in 2019 to found Column bank. The April 2025 Series E added Franklin Templeton, Fidelity, and BlackRock as new investors.
What is Plaid’s business model?
Plaid charges developers and companies an API access fee for connecting their applications to consumers’ financial accounts. The model is primarily usage-based for the core connectivity product (per API call, per connected account, or per verification). Newer products including fraud detection (Plaid Protect), credit underwriting (Plaid Check), and instant onboarding (Plaid Layer) carry SaaS-style subscription or per-transaction pricing. Enterprise contracts tend to be multi-product and volume-committed, which explains their higher revenue per customer versus fintech startup accounts.
What happened with the Visa acquisition of Plaid?
Visa announced the acquisition of Plaid for $5.3 billion on January 13, 2020. The U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust complaint in November 2020, alleging Visa was eliminating a nascent competitive threat in online debit payments. On January 12, 2021, both companies mutually terminated the agreement and the DOJ dropped its lawsuit. Visa remains an investor in Plaid. Multiple sources told Axios the termination was driven by Plaid’s assessment that it was worth more than the agreed price.
Is Plaid safe and private?
Plaid’s infrastructure uses tokenized, permissioned access rather than storing raw bank credentials. In 2022, however, a federal court approved a $58 million class action settlement resolving claims that Plaid’s prior practices had harvested and sold transaction data without adequate consent. As part of the settlement, Plaid deleted over-collected data and launched Plaid Portal, a consumer-facing tool for managing and deleting data connections. The company states it has never sold user data.
What is Section 1033 and how does it affect Plaid?
Section 1033 of the Consumer Financial Protection Act gives consumers the right to access and share their own financial data. The CFPB finalized a rule in October 2024 operationalizing this right, including a prohibition on banks charging fees for data access. That rule was immediately litigated and, by July 2025, the CFPB initiated a new rulemaking. During the regulatory gap, JPMorganChase reached a data access agreement with Plaid that includes fees. The future of Section 1033 will materially affect Plaid’s cost structure and competitive position.
What apps use Plaid?
Plaid powers connections for a wide range of financial applications. The largest include Venmo, Cash App, PayPal, Robinhood, Coinbase, Chime, Acorns, Betterment, Dave, QuickBooks, Carvana, Rocket Mortgage, H&R Block, and SoFi, among over 7,000 total customer companies.