Finch
Unified APIs software
Financial data APIs
Financial services software
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$65 per connection per month
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What is Finch
Finch is an API platform that provides a unified interface to connect with employment and payroll systems to access and update workforce data. It is used by software teams building HR, benefits, lending, or financial services workflows that require verified income and employment information. The product focuses on normalizing data models across many payroll providers and handling authentication and connectivity so developers can integrate once and support multiple systems.
Unified payroll data model
Finch standardizes common employment and payroll objects (for example, company, directory, individual, employment, and pay statements) behind a single API. This reduces the need to build and maintain separate integrations for each payroll system. It also helps teams keep downstream business logic consistent when adding new payroll connections.
Developer-first integration workflow
Finch provides API-based connectivity designed for application developers, including documentation and sandbox-style testing patterns typical of API platforms. A single integration can be extended to additional payroll providers without rewriting core integration code. This is particularly useful for products that need to support many employer payroll systems with limited engineering capacity.
Employment and income use cases
The platform is oriented around payroll-sourced data that supports income verification, employment verification, and payroll-linked workflows. This makes it relevant for financial services and adjacent products that need payroll-derived signals rather than bank-transaction data. It can complement broader financial data strategies by covering a different source of truth (payroll systems).
Coverage varies by provider
As with unified API platforms, supported fields and capabilities can differ across underlying payroll systems. Some endpoints may return partial data or have provider-specific constraints depending on what the source system exposes. Buyers typically need to validate provider coverage for their target employer base before committing.
Not a full financial data stack
Finch focuses on payroll and employment systems rather than bank connectivity, card data, or payment initiation. Organizations needing a single solution for broad consumer financial data may require additional vendors or internal integrations. This can increase overall architecture complexity for teams seeking an all-in-one financial data platform.
Operational dependencies on third parties
Data freshness, authentication flows, and error rates depend on the reliability and policies of connected payroll providers. Changes in provider APIs or access rules can require updates and may affect customer experience. Teams should plan for monitoring, retries, and exception handling around payroll connectivity.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $65/month per connection | Access 24 providers; Up to 15 connections; Organization & payroll data; Read-only; month-to-month available. |
| Pro | Volume discounts (contact sales) | Access all 220+ providers; Benefits & W-4 data; Deductions management; Support SLAs; write-back capabilities; talk to sales for pricing. |
| Premier | Custom pricing (contact sales) | Enterprise onboarding & SLAs; Higher volume discounts; High-touch account management; Priority support; Uptime SLAs; talk to sales for pricing. |
Notes: Finch offers a free Sandbox for testing (developer sandbox with mock data) and Provider Sandboxes (test up to 5 live provider connections for free).
Seller details
Finch, Inc.
San Francisco, CA, USA
2020
Private
https://finch.com
https://x.com/FinchAPI
https://www.linkedin.com/company/finchapi/
