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Tink

Tink, a Visa solution acquired in 2022, is a European Open Banking platform with 6,000+ bank connections across Europe and a US Pay by Bank stack. Tink exposes a single API for PSD2-aggregated bank data (Accounts, Transactions, Balances, Identities, Investments, Loans), value-added risk reports (Account Check, Business Account Check, Income Check, Expense Check, Risk Insights, Risk Categorisation), Money Manager BFM, Data Enrichment, and PSD2 Payment Initiation Services (Pay by Bank, Auto Payments, Variable Recurring Payments, Mandates, Refunds, Payouts). Authentication is OAuth 2.0 with delegated user consent through the Tink Link hosted flow.

agent ready

Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Tink the way a machine reads it — 99 machine-readable artifacts across 25 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 — Tink scores 71.8/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). 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 — 71.8/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 18.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 10.3 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Banking & Open Finance 10.1 / 15
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Tink

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Tink. 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 25

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.

Tink Accounts API

User bank accounts and balances.

Tink AccountVerificationReports API

Account ownership verification reports.

Tink BalanceRefresh API

On-demand balance refresh.

Tink Budgets API

Personal and business budgets.

Tink BusinessAccountVerificationReports API

Business account ownership verification reports.

Tink CashFlow API

Cash flow summaries.

Tink Categories API

Tink categorisation taxonomy.

Tink ConnectorAccounts API

Partner-ingested accounts.

Tink ConnectorTransactions API

Partner-ingested transactions.

Tink EnrichedTransactions API

Categorised and merchant-enriched transactions.

Tink ExpenseChecks API

Expense verification reports.

Tink FinancialCalendar API

Financial calendar events and reconciliations.

Tink Identities API

Account holder identities returned by the bank.

Tink IncomeChecks API

Income verification reports.

Tink Investments API

Investment accounts and holdings.

Tink Loans API

Loan accounts.

Tink Mandates API

Recurring payment mandates.

Tink OAuth API

Token, authorization, and delegated grant endpoints.

Tink Payments API

Payment initiation, status, cancel, and refund.

Tink RecurringTransactions API

Recurring transaction detection and prediction.

Tink RiskCategorisation API

Risk categorisation reports.

Tink RiskInsights API

Risk decisioning reports.

Tink Transactions API

User bank transactions.

Tink User API

Permanent user lifecycle management.

Tink WebhookEndpoints API

Webhook endpoint management.

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Postman Collections 9

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

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Open Collections 9

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Tink Account Check API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tink Connector API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tink Data API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tink Data Enrichment API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tink Money Manager API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tink Payments API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tink Risk and Reports API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tink Webhooks API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Arazzo Workflows 10

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Tink Account And Transactions Overview

List a user's accounts, read the balances of a chosen account, then list its transactions.

ARAZZO

Tink Account Check Verification And Report Retrieval

Create a Tink Link session pre-loaded with identity, then retrieve the resulting Account Check report as JSON and PDF.

ARAZZO

Tink Trigger A Balance Refresh And Poll It

Trigger an on-demand balance refresh for a credentials object, then poll until it finishes, then read fresh balances.

ARAZZO

Tink Initiate A Payment And Poll Its Status

Initiate a Pay by Bank payment, then poll the payment until it reaches a terminal status.

ARAZZO

Tink Create A Payment Mandate And Confirm It

Create a recurring payment mandate for a user, then read it back to confirm it is active.

ARAZZO

Tink Refund An Executed Payment And Poll The Refund

Confirm a payment is executed, initiate a refund, then poll the refund until it reaches a terminal status.

ARAZZO

Tink Review And Revoke A Bank Consent

List a user's provider consents and credentials, then delete the credentials object to revoke the underlying bank consent.

ARAZZO

Tink Build A Budget From Recurring Spend

Read a user's confirmed recurring transactions and category taxonomy, create a business budget around them, then read the budget's progress.

ARAZZO

Tink Onboard A User And Access Their Bank Data

Create a permanent Tink user, delegate bank authorization, exchange the code for a user token, and list their accounts.

ARAZZO

Tink Register And Verify A Webhook Endpoint

Register a webhook endpoint for selected event types, read it back to capture its signing secret, then confirm it is enabled in the endpoint list.

ARAZZO

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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.

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.

Tink Com Rate Limits

4 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.

Features 11

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.

6,000+ Bank Connections

PSD2 and non-PSD2 connectivity across the Nordics, UK, DACH, Benelux, France, Iberia, Italy, Ireland, and Poland.

PSD2 Payment Initiation

Single API for one-off payments, Variable Recurring Payments, Auto Payments, payouts, refunds, and mandates.

Account Check and Business Account Check

Verified account ownership for individuals and businesses with optional identity match (name, DOB, address).

Risk Insights and Risk Categorisation

Lender-grade affordability and risk-decisioning reports built on aggregated bank data.

Income Check and Expense Check

Verified income streams and categorised expenses for underwriting and KYC.

Money Manager

Cash-flow summaries, budgets, financial calendar, and reconciliations for SMB and personal apps.

Data Enrichment

Tink categorisation taxonomy, merchant identification, and recurring-transaction detection and prediction.

Connector API

Push partner-collected data into the Tink platform for downstream enrichment and reporting.

Tink Link

Hosted bank-consent UX handling SCA and bank app-to-app redirects on mobile.

Webhooks

Asynchronous notifications for report completion, payment and refund status, and credentials updates.

SOC 2 Type II and PSD2 Licence

Single PSD2 licensed integration removes the need for customers to obtain their own PSD2 authorisation.

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Tink Com Context

52 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Tink API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Tink API Rules

7 rules · 3 errors · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Tink Account Verification Report

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tink Payment

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tink Transaction

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 3

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 3

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.

Tink Com Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Tink Com Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Tink Com Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt

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.

Tink Com Agentic Access

63 operations · 25 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

63 operations · 25 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 8

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

Onboarding and KYC

Verify bank ownership and identity match in seconds with Account Check.

Affordability and Underwriting

Risk Insights, Income Check, and Expense Check inform consumer and SMB lending decisions.

Pay by Bank Checkout

Initiate account-to-account payments at checkout with one-off PIS or Auto Payments.

Subscription Billing

Sweeping Variable Recurring Payments collect recurring charges directly from the customer's bank.

Business Financial Management

Embed Money Manager dashboards in SMB banking and accounting apps.

PFM and Personal Banking

Power personal finance experiences with categorised transactions and recurring detection.

Payouts

Disburse funds back to a verified bank account using PIS payouts.

Open Finance Composition

Stitch PSD2 data with partner-collected data via Connector API for a unified view.

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Integrations 6

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Visa

Tink is a Visa solution following the 2022 acquisition; integrates with Visa's payment and risk products.

Adyen

Pay by Bank rails for Adyen merchants.

Revolut

Open Banking data and payments connectivity for Revolut.

Younited

Risk decisioning powered by Tink for the European consumer lender.

Bank Norwegian

Account aggregation and risk reports for the Nordic digital bank.

PostNord Strålfors

Payment Initiation Services for the Nordic communications and logistics group.

Solutions 5

Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.

Packaged solutions this provider offers.

Banking

Aggregation, money management, and PIS for retail and business banking platforms.

Lending

Income, expense, risk, and account verification for credit underwriting.

Payments

Pay by Bank, VRP, mandates, refunds, and payouts for ecommerce, billers, and PSPs.

Wealth and Investments

Holdings, loans, and balance aggregation for wealth-management and PFM apps.

SMB

Money Manager BFM, business budgets, cash-flow, and Business Account Check for SMB platforms.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Tink — 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 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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