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Tink
European open banking platform for account data and payment initiation
As of 31 August 2026, Tink's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Tink is a Swedish FSA licensed payment institution passported across the EEA, connecting to roughly 6,000 European institutions for both data access and payment initiation. Softwr lists it under APIs. Tink is made by Tink AB, owned by Visa, available on API, Web.
Overview
What Tink does
Tink is an open banking platform covering Europe. Under PSD2 it holds account information and payment initiation service licences from the Swedish financial supervisory authority, passported across the European Economic Area, and connects to around 6,000 banks and financial institutions across nineteen markets. Products cover account data retrieval, balance and transaction access, income and expense categorisation, account verification, and pay-by-bank payment initiation where a payer authorises a transfer directly from their bank rather than using a card. The fact that should be on the table in any evaluation is ownership. Visa acquired Tink in 2022 for around 1.8 billion euros. Tink is therefore the open banking arm of the largest card network, and one of its principal products, pay-by-bank, exists to move payments off card rails. Buyers using it to reduce card acceptance costs should understand whose strategic interests set the roadmap and the pricing, and should read the contract on that basis. Visa is not obliged to price account-to-account payments to cannibalise its own interchange. The buyer is a European fintech, bank, lender or merchant. The trade offs start with geography: Tink is Europe only, so a transatlantic product needs a second provider. Beyond that, PSD2 access is only as good as each bank chooses to make it, and success rates, consent lifetimes and re-authentication intervals vary sharply by institution, which is why a coverage list of 6,000 connections says less than a per market reliability report. PSD3 is expected to standardise these obligations further, which will change performance in ways neither you nor Tink controls. Pricing is not published.
What people use it for
- A European lender that needs verified income and expense data from a borrower bank account across several EEA markets under one licence
- A merchant offering pay-by-bank at checkout to avoid card acceptance costs on high value baskets
- A fintech that does not hold its own PSD2 licence and needs to operate under an authorised provider passported across the EEA
- A bank building an account aggregation view of a customer external accounts without negotiating with each institution individually
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Tink.
- Visa owns Tink, and pay-by-bank exists to move payments off card rails, so the roadmap and pricing of the product you are using to reduce interchange are set by the company that earns the interchange.
- Coverage is Europe only, so a product serving both European and United States users runs a second aggregator with a different data model and a separate contract.
- PSD2 connection quality varies sharply by bank, and headline connection counts hide wide differences in success rate, consent lifetime and re-authentication frequency that determine what users actually experience.
- Consent under PSD2 expires and requires periodic re-authentication, so any product depending on continuous data access has a recurring user friction it cannot design away, and drop-off at re-consent is a real product problem.
- Pricing is quoted with data access and payment initiation priced separately, and there is no published rate card, so small merchants cannot compare pay-by-bank economics against card acceptance without a sales process.
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Pricing
What Tink costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Tink Platform
On request
- Priced by product, market and volume
- Data access and payment initiation priced separately
- Annual commitments typical for enterprise agreements
- Sandbox access available for development
- No published rate card
Capabilities
Features
Account data access
Balances, transactions and account details from around 6,000 European institutions under PSD2 AIS
Payment initiation
Pay-by-bank transfers authorised directly from the payer bank account under PSD2 PIS
EEA passporting
Swedish FSA licences passported across the European Economic Area so you do not need your own licence
Categorisation
Classifies transactions into income and expense categories for affordability and personal finance
Account verification
Confirms account ownership and IBAN before payouts or direct debits
Risk and affordability signals
Derived income and expense views for lending decisions
Variable recurring payments support
Recurring account-to-account payment mandates in markets that support them
Consent management
Handles PSD2 consent, re-authentication and revocation flows
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Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Who owns Tink?
Visa, since 2022. That is directly relevant if you are adopting pay-by-bank specifically to reduce card costs.
Do I need my own PSD2 licence?
No. Tink holds AIS and PIS licences from the Swedish FSA passported across the EEA, and customers can operate as its agent rather than obtaining their own authorisation.
Does Tink cover the United States?
No. It is a European platform. US coverage requires a separate provider.
How reliable are the bank connections?
It varies by institution far more than the headline count of roughly 6,000 connections suggests. Ask for per market and per bank success rates and consent lifetimes for the banks your users actually hold accounts with.
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