Adyen vs. Plaid

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adyen
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Adyen is a payment gateway software solution offered by Adyen.N/A
Plaid
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Plaid in San Francisco offers a suite of applications supporting banks with risk management and customer account management features. Plaid is used by digital financial apps and services like Betterment, Expensify, Microsoft and Venmo, and by banks to make it easier for consumers to connect their financial accounts with the apps and services they want to use. Plaid connects with over 11,000 financial institutions across the U.S, Canada and Europe.
$500
per month
Pricing
AdyenPlaid
Editions & Modules
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Scale
500+
per month
Test
Free
Launch
Pay as you go
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AdyenPlaid
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
AdyenPlaid
Considered Both Products
Adyen
Chose Adyen
Of the self-service options like Braintree and Stripe, Adyen provides the widest and most reliable feature footprint. Other providers, like Stripe, may work better for very narrow applications, or like Shopify if you've fully bought into the entirety of that ecosystem.
Chose Adyen
Theses payment methods were used via Adyen in different markets around the world.
Chose Adyen
It's easier to use and offers a better view on the payments' evolution.
Chose Adyen
Adyen makes easy integrations, like API and drop-in frameworks that can be implemented using easy documentation in different technology. Also, Adyen is a well-suited payment provider for the Europe region and Adyen has good business in Europe as well.
Chose Adyen
Adyen has better handling of Disputes, provides much more detailed forecasts and withdrawal reports. Adyen has a specific page to clear doubts much more complete. Adyen have not fees for processing refunds, have not fess for chargeback received, and have not fees for retry …
Chose Adyen
Adyen is more European focused, while Stripe is more American focused. As our business is based in Europe we wanted to have a partner who specialises in European payments. Additionally, Adyen has invested more money into innovation than Stripe and their product is more …
Chose Adyen
We selected Adyen as it fits to our E-Commerce technology Spryker well and supports our global approach
Chose Adyen
Ayden has proved to be much more reliable with transactions and faster at completing them. We also have been benefited by their affordable rates and that it doesn't feel like a scheme to take from our profits. Lastly, the reports they provide help us to know what next steps we …
Chose Adyen
Adyen can support a bit more currencies and credit cards.
In addition their rates were much lower.
The online platform and the reports are convenient to any user.
Chose Adyen
Vantiv, Ingenico ePayments, PayPal Payments and Amazon Pay
Chose Adyen
I have used several tools to manage billing and payments in my job. It was not my choice in my company to use Adyen but we are pretty happy with it. It can be integrated very well with the other tools we use in our job and it is reliable and safe.
Plaid

No answer on this topic

Features
AdyenPlaid
Payment Gateways
Comparison of Payment Gateways features of Product A and Product B
Adyen
9.6
Ratings
28% above category average
Plaid
-
Ratings
Fraud Detection9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
API or SDK9.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Recurring Payment Support9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Billing and Invoicing Support9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Global Support9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Payment Form Acceptance9.80 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
AdyenPlaid
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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10.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AdyenPlaid
Likelihood to Recommend
Wherever a payments solution needs to be offered relatively fast, it's easy to set up and powerful, with strong technical capabilities. It works well both in settings where there isn't a dedicated payments department or team, as it can be customised with relative ease and low technical know-how
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Plaid is extremely well suited to be your payment API if you're a start-up looking to scale your banking connections fast and securely. Their API is fully functional upon integration. Most end-users have encountered Plaid before so it's a trusted platform for many consumers so even if you're a new app, users feel comfortable connecting their bank through Plaid.
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Pros
  • PCI DSS Compliant Solution
  • Provided options to configure a specific list of payments, like Alipay, ACH, PayPal, etc.
  • Good support and quick solution for the technical help
  • Well described documentation on technical integrations
  • Drop in framework to display the payment options
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  • Plaid connects with 100s of US consumer banks.
  • Plaid continuously updates its software to meet the requirements of individual banks.
  • Plaid can get your company's payment processing up and running faster than traditional methods.
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Cons
  • I would like to be able to create my own reports, like a combination between "Received payment details" and "Interactive payment accounting".
  • Maybe you can have a better integration with PayPal. The disputes are reflected all wrong in Adyen, for example if we accept a chargeback in PayPal, in Adyen we see a "chargeback reversed" status first, then we see a "refund" status. This is very confusing for us, we have accepted that chargeback, which means we have lost the case, what are a Chargeback Reversed and a Refund statuses doing here? I think PayPal is trying to unblock the transaction that received the chargeback, but this is a very confusing way of handling the chargebacks. If I look at the "Dispute transaction details" reports, all the PayPal chargebacks are "won" because of that "Chargeback reversed" status, which is obviously wrong, we lose some cases and we win others.
  • Amex chargebacks could be integrated. We don't see them in Adyen at all.
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  • Consumer feedback or troubleshooting typically comes back to us because Plaid doesn't have an easy way of re-routing support once a user encounters a problem.
  • Update timelines could be clearer when they are working on updating a connection with a certain bank.
  • The search functionality for the user to find their bank could be a little more robust.
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Likelihood to Renew
Well, Ayden is a very easy system to manage, it allow the user a nice visibility and many details about the clients. It integrated very easily to our system and allow us to increase our activity. In addition, Ayden have a very good help center that available all the time and very helpful.
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Reliability and Availability
Response time are as expected, and Adyen team is always knowledgeable and are clear subject matter experts. Quite often I am assigned an engineer who is not in our time zone and sometimes 8-12 hours different from me. This causes delays in resolution due. It would be great to have a support agent who is located in the US.
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Alternatives Considered
Ayden has proved to be much more reliable with transactions and faster at completing them. We also have been benefited by their affordable rates and that it doesn't feel like a scheme to take from our profits. Lastly, the reports they provide help us to know what next steps we should take as a company, thankful for that direction.
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Return on Investment
  • After implementing payment integration, payment of B2B orders is instant which really helps business financial planning.
  • Using Adyen payment integration, businesses are also able to provide payment options based on their geography.
  • It provides multi-currency support.
  • It also provides key and secret-based security for sites and origin.
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  • Plaid got us up and running with most US-based and even some international banks with minimal engineering effort.
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