Propel

Propel, Inc. is a Brooklyn-based fintech company, founded in 2014, that builds financial tools for Americans with low income. Its free consumer app, Providers (formerly Fresh EBT), is used by more than five million people each month to check their SNAP/EBT balances instantly across 49 states, Washington D.C., and U.S. territories, secure their benefits card with locking and fraud monitoring, find exclusive offers and discounts on groceries, phone plans, internet, utilities, and healthcare, receive alerts about benefit policy changes, browse local job and gig-work listings, and predict deposit dates. Propel is a consumer-facing mobile product and does not publish a public developer API, SDK, or developer portal; it operates a public status page and a signed RFC 9116 security.txt for coordinated vulnerability disclosure. The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Nyca Partners, Kleiner Perkins, JPMorgan Chase, Salesforce Ventures, the Financial Health Network, and Flourish Ventures.

Propel is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Fintech, Financial-Services, Government Benefits, and SNAP.

Propel’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 9 more developer resources.

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16.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

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Company Fintech Financial-Services Government Benefits SNAPEBTConsumer Finance Mobile AppFinancial Health

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 16.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.2 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Health regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: propel
name: Propel
description: Propel, Inc. is a Brooklyn-based fintech company, founded in 2014, that builds financial tools for Americans
  with low income. Its free consumer app, Providers (formerly Fresh EBT), is used by more than five million people each month
  to check their SNAP/EBT balances instantly across 49 states, Washington D.C., and U.S. territories, secure their benefits
  card with locking and fraud monitoring, find exclusive offers and discounts on groceries, phone plans, internet, utilities,
  and healthcare, receive alerts about benefit policy changes, browse local job and gig-work listings, and predict deposit
  dates. Propel is a consumer-facing mobile product and does not publish a public developer API, SDK, or developer portal;
  it operates a public status page and a signed RFC 9116 security.txt for coordinated vulnerability disclosure. The company
  is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Nyca Partners, Kleiner Perkins, JPMorgan Chase, Salesforce Ventures, the Financial
  Health Network, and Flourish Ventures.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/propel/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://www.propel.app/favicon.ico
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Fintech
- Financial-Services
- Government Benefits
- SNAP
- EBT
- Consumer Finance
- Mobile App
- Financial Health
tags_raw:
- Company
- Fintech
- Financial Services
- Government Benefits
- SNAP
- EBT
- Consumer Finance
- Mobile App
- Financial Health
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.propel.app/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.propel.app/blog/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.propel.app/contact/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.propel.app/propel/en/terms-of-service/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.propel.app/propel/en/privacy-policy/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.propel.app/
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/propel-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/propel-well-known.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/propel-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.propel.app/.well-known/security.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/propel-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 4
  pass: local-v1

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