Method Financial
Method (Method Financial) is the infrastructure layer for consumer liability data and payments. Its API lets developers create entities, verify identity, and use Connect to discover a user's complete liability picture across 15,000+ institutions (credit cards, auto loans, student loans, mortgages, personal loans) without credential sharing, then normalize that data and move money via ACH to pay down those liabilities. Additional products include credit scores, card-brand enrichment, financial attributes, transactions, updates/subscriptions for monitoring, reports, and embeddable UI (Opal/Elements). Method powers lending, personal finance management, and commerce/card-linking use cases.
Method Financial publishes 44 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including MethodFi Account Attributes API, MethodFi Account Balances API, MethodFi Account Card Brands API, and 41 more. Tagged areas include Company, Fintech, Liability Data, Payments, and Lending.
The Method Financial catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification, 1 JSON-LD context, and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Method Financial’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, sandbox, changelog, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, and 45 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 4
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
What people ask Method Financial 44
The questions people put to an LLM, and the jobs they hand an agent, that Method Financial's APIs answer — each one linked to the operation that does it. Generated by API Evangelist
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Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Payments | undeclared | - | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 1
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 44
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
MethodFi Account Attributes API
Attribute data for accounts
MethodFi Account Balances API
Balance data for accounts
MethodFi Account Card Brands API
Card brand information for accounts
MethodFi Account Consent API
Consent management for accounts
MethodFi Account Payment Instruments API
Payment instruments for accounts
MethodFi Account Payoffs API
Payoff data for accounts
MethodFi Account Products API
Products associated with accounts
MethodFi Account Sensitive API
Sensitive data for accounts
MethodFi Account Subscriptions API
Subscriptions for accounts
MethodFi Account Transactions API
Transactions for accounts
MethodFi Account Updates API
Update records for accounts
MethodFi Account Verification Sessions API
Verification sessions for accounts
MethodFi Accounts API
Financial accounts (ACH, liability, clearing, debit card)
MethodFi Card Products API
Card product definitions
MethodFi Elements API
Client-side Element endpoints
MethodFi Entities API
Individuals, corporations, and receive-only entities
MethodFi Entity Attributes API
Attribute data for entities
MethodFi Entity Connects API
Account connection sessions for entities
MethodFi Entity Consent API
Consent management for entities
MethodFi Entity Credit Scores API
Credit score data for entities
MethodFi Entity Identities API
Identity verification data for entities
MethodFi Entity Products API
Products associated with entities
MethodFi Entity Subscriptions API
Subscriptions for entities
MethodFi Entity Vehicles API
Vehicle data for entities
MethodFi Entity Verification Sessions API
Verification sessions for entities
MethodFi Events API
Webhook event log
MethodFi Forwarding Requests API
Request forwarding with sensitive data injection
MethodFi Managed Accounts API
Method-managed accounts
MethodFi Merchants API
Merchant directory
MethodFi Opal API
Opal client-side session and token management
MethodFi Payment Reversals API
Reversals for payments
MethodFi Payments API
ACH and clearing payments
MethodFi Ping API
Health check endpoint
MethodFi Public Keys API
Public key discovery endpoints for Message-Level Encryption.
MethodFi Reports API
Downloadable reports
MethodFi Secrets API
Secure secret storage
MethodFi Simulate Accounts API
Sandbox account simulation
MethodFi Simulate Entities API
Sandbox entity simulation
MethodFi Simulate Events API
Sandbox event simulation
MethodFi Simulate Payments API
Sandbox payment simulation
MethodFi Teams API
Team and API key management
MethodFi Webhooks API
Webhook subscriptions
MethodFi Connect API
Liability discovery across Method's institution network.
MethodFi Transactions API
Transaction history for an account.
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Postman Collections 42
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
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Open Collections 46
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Financial API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Account Balances API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Account Card Brands API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Account Consent API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Account Payment Instruments API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Account Payoffs API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Account Products API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Account Sensitive API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Account Subscriptions API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Account Transactions API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Account Updates API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Account Verification Sessions API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Accounts API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Card Products API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Financial Accounts Connect API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Elements API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Entities API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Entity Attributes API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Entity Connects API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Entity Consent API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Entity Credit Scores API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Entity Identities API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Entity Products API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Entity Subscriptions API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Entity Vehicles API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Entity Verification Sessions API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Events API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Forwarding Requests API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Managed Accounts API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Merchants API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Opal API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Payment Reversals API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Payments API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Ping API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Public Keys API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Reports API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Secrets API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Simulate Accounts API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Simulate Entities API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Simulate Events API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Simulate Payments API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Teams API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Financial Accounts Transactions API
OPEN COLLECTIONMethod Account Attributes Webhooks API
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Method API Docs
Method serves a remote MCP server on its own docs host (https://docs.methodfi.com/mcp, Mintlify-hosted). A probed tools/list (2026-10-12, HTTP 200, no auth) returned three DOCUM...
MCP SERVERPricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Methodfi Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Methodfi Finops
FINOPSEvent Specifications 1
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Methodfi Webhooks
ASYNCAPISemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Methodfi Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Method Financial API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 45
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
Methodfi Accounts Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDMethodfi Connect Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDMethodfi Elements Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDMethodfi Entities Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDMethodfi Events Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDMethodfi Merchants Api Phrasing Overlay
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UNRECORDEDMethodfi Payments Api Phrasing Overlay
GENERATEDMethodfi Ping Api Phrasing Overlay
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JSON Schema 106
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
AccountAttributeListResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountAttributeResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountBalanceListResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountBalanceResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountCardBrandListResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountCardBrandResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountConsentUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMAAccountCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAAccountListResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountPaymentInstrumentCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAAccountPaymentInstrumentListResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountPaymentInstrumentResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountPayoffListResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountPayoffResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountProductListResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountProductResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountResponse_2
JSON SCHEMAAccountResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountSensitiveCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAAccountSensitiveListResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountSensitiveResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountSubscriptionCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAAccountSubscriptionListResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountSubscriptionResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountTransactionListResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountTransactionResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountUpdateListResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMAAccountUpdateResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountVerificationSessionAmountsResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountVerificationSessionCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAAccountVerificationSessionListResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountVerificationSessionResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountVerificationSessionUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMABalanceResponse
JSON SCHEMACardProductResponse
JSON SCHEMAConnectResponse
JSON SCHEMACreateEntityRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateEntitySubscriptionRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateEntityVerificationSessionRequest
JSON SCHEMAEntityAttributeListResponse
JSON SCHEMAEntityAttributeResponse
JSON SCHEMAEntityConnectListResponse
JSON SCHEMAEntityConnectResponse
JSON SCHEMAEntityCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAEntityCreditScoreListResponse
JSON SCHEMAEntityCreditScoreResponse
JSON SCHEMAEntityIdentityListResponse
JSON SCHEMAEntityIdentityResponse
JSON SCHEMAEntityProductListResponse
JSON SCHEMAEntityProductResponse
JSON SCHEMAEntityResponse_2
JSON SCHEMAEntityResponse
JSON SCHEMAEntitySubscriptionListResponse
JSON SCHEMAEntitySubscriptionResponse
JSON SCHEMAEntityVehicleListResponse
JSON SCHEMAEntityVehicleResponse
JSON SCHEMAEntityVerificationSessionListResponse
JSON SCHEMAEntityVerificationSessionRequest
JSON SCHEMAEntityVerificationSessionResponse
JSON SCHEMAEventListResponse
JSON SCHEMAEventResponse
JSON SCHEMAForwardingRequestCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAForwardingRequestResponse
JSON SCHEMAManagedAccountListResponse
JSON SCHEMAManagedAccountResponse
JSON SCHEMAManagedAccountTransactionListResponse
JSON SCHEMAMerchantListResponse
JSON SCHEMAMerchantResponse_2
JSON SCHEMAMerchantResponse
JSON SCHEMAMethodPublicKeyResponse
JSON SCHEMAMLEPublicKeyCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAMLEPublicKeyListResponse
JSON SCHEMAMLEPublicKeyResponse
JSON SCHEMAObjectResponse
JSON SCHEMAOpalNullResponse
JSON SCHEMAOpalSessionResponse
JSON SCHEMAOpalTokenCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAOpalTokenResponse
JSON SCHEMAPaymentCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAPaymentListResponse
JSON SCHEMAPaymentResponse_2
JSON SCHEMAPaymentResponse
JSON SCHEMAPaymentReversalListResponse
JSON SCHEMAPaymentReversalResponse
JSON SCHEMAPaymentReversalUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMAReportCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAReportResponse
JSON SCHEMASearchEntityVehiclesRequest
JSON SCHEMASecretCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMASecretListResponse
JSON SCHEMASecretResponse
JSON SCHEMATeamCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMATeamEncryptionKeyRequest
JSON SCHEMATeamResponse
JSON SCHEMATransactionListResponse
JSON SCHEMAUpdateEntityConsentRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateEntityRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateEntityVerificationSessionRequest
JSON SCHEMAWebhookCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAWebhookDeleteResponse
JSON SCHEMAWebhookListResponse
JSON SCHEMAWebhookResponse_2
JSON SCHEMAWebhookResponse
JSON SCHEMAWebhookUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMAWellKnownJwksResponse
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Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
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Resources
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 11
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 7
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 6
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
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