🆚 Arcot vs. Plaid
- 📈 Arcot is much more popular than Plaid.
- 🌍 Arcot is more popular in all countries.
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About
The Arcot Network is a payment authentication network that enables card issuers, merchants, and payment processors to authenticate cardholder identity during online payments.
It is built on the 3-D Secure protocol that Arcot co-created with 
Visa in 2001, and provides fraud scoring based on the Arcot Global Data Consortium, machine learning rules for automated authentication decisions, and exemption handling for Strong Customer Authentication and PSD2 compliance.
Plaid is a financial data aggregator that provides payment processing, identity verification, payment risk reduction, and onboarding solutions.
It verifies identities with document, selfie, phone, email, and device checks, screens against watchlists, and offers risk scoring for bank transfers to predict return risk and ownership mismatches, while also supporting account connection and KYC compliance through a single integration.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Fraud Prevention category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the Fraud Prevention category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Fraud Prevention category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in France in the Fraud Prevention category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Italy in the Fraud Prevention category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in the United States in the Fraud Prevention category.
- ⬆️ 30th most popular in the United States in the Online Payments category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.