🆚 Castle vs. Plaid
- 📈 Plaid is much more popular than Castle.
- 🌍 Plaid is more popular in all countries.
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Castle is a fraud prevention platform that helps businesses block bad bots, account takeovers, transaction fraud, and spam. It provides device fingerprinting, behavioral analysis, and AI scoring to detect and mitigate fraudulent activities in real time.
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
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Awards
- 🔥 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 3,816,780 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.