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SoFi

SoFi (Social Finance) is a digital personal finance company and federally chartered bank offering an integrated suite of financial products including banking (checking and savings), personal loans, student loan refinancing, private student loans, mortgages, home equity products, active and automated investing, cryptocurrency trading, and credit cards. The platform is unified through the SoFi app and complemented by a SoFi Plus premium membership ($10/month) that unlocks enhanced APY, investment matching, loan rate discounts, and unlimited financial planner access. Third-party integration with SoFi accounts is facilitated through open banking aggregators Plaid and Finicity (Mastercard Open Banking) for consumer-permissioned data access. SoFi's subsidiary Galileo Financial Technologies provides the underlying fintech infrastructure and white-label banking APIs used by major fintech brands globally. SoFi does not publish a first-party consumer-facing open-banking API; consumer account access is aggregator-only (Plaid, Finicity, MX, Akoya). Its real first-party public API surface is B2B/partner-oriented: two documented REST APIs in SoFi's public Postman workspace (a Partner Offer Pre-Qualification API exposing SoFi's PL/SLR underwriting model, and a Home Loan Affiliate Lead API), a Business Banking developer-docs project at docs.sofi.com, and the SoFi Tech Solutions (formerly Galileo) platform at docs.tech.sofi.com.

agent native

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles SoFi the way a machine reads it — 26 machine-readable artifacts across 4 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — SoFi scores 53.1/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 72/100 (agent native). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 53.1/100 · developing
Contract Quality 15.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 12.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Regulatory · Banking & Open Finance 8.1 / 15
Agent readiness — 72/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile SoFi

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for SoFi. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 4

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

SoFi Partner Offer Pre-Qualification API

SoFi's partner-offer-api (documented as Partner Offer Pre Qual V2) is a real, first-party external REST API that exposes SoFi's underwriting model to approved partners, returnin...

SoFi Home Loan Affiliate Lead API

SoFi's Home Loan Affiliate Lead API is a real, first-party REST endpoint that lets approved affiliate partners submit home-loan leads to SoFi via POST /afpq/api/v1/affiliate/lea...

SoFi Business Banking API

SoFi Business Banking (marketed as Big Business Banking) is SoFi Bank, N.A.'s API-driven commercial platform combining a nationally chartered bank with direct Federal Reserve ac...

SoFi Tech Solutions Platform API

SoFi Tech Solutions (formerly Galileo Financial Technologies, a SoFi company) is SoFi's B2B fintech platform arm, exposing cloud-native RESTful APIs - Program API (accounts, car...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

sofi-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Sofi Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Sofi Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Sofi Finops

FINOPS

Features 15

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Digital personal finance platform covering banking, lending, investing, and insurance
SoFi Money combined checking and savings with high-yield APY (4.50% for Plus members)
Personal loans from $5,000 at fixed rates starting at 6.99% APR
Student loan refinancing with fixed rates from 3.99% APR with autopay
Private student loans with no origination, late, or NSF fees
Mortgage, home equity loan, and HELOC products
SoFi Invest for stocks, ETFs, fractional shares, crypto, IPOs, and automated investing
SoFi Credit Card with cash back rewards and Smart Card with 5% grocery cash back
SoFi Plus premium membership at $10/month with enhanced rates and rewards
Open banking connectivity via Plaid and Finicity (Mastercard) aggregators
SoFi Relay credit score monitoring and financial tracking dashboard
Galileo Financial Technologies subsidiary powering white-label fintech infrastructure APIs
100% uptime across Bot, Site, Payment, and Backend services (90-day tracked)
SoFi Coach AI-powered financial planning tool
Unlimited financial planner appointments for SoFi Plus members

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Sofi Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Sofi Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Sofi Agentic Access

2 operations · 2 acting

2 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for SoFi — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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