What does Plaid use?

As of October 2026, runsonwhat has found 53 tools at Plaid (plaid.com) in public records. Edge & Hosting: Cloudflare, Amazon Web Services and Amazon Route 53. Application: Google Fonts, React and Adobe Fonts. Data & Observability: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Sentry. Go-to-market: Google Ads, Meta Pixel and Microsoft Ads. Company Ops: Google Workspace, Apple Business and Atlassian. Last checked October 7, 2026.

Plaid uses Amazon Web Services for hosting and cloud infrastructure, alongside Google Cloud, Vercel and Heroku, according to runsonwhat (October 2026). runsonwhat found Amazon Web Services through Amazon Web Services code on plaid.com. Amazon Web Services is used by 143,624 companies runsonwhat tracks.

Plaid uses Salesforce for its CRM, alongside 6sense and Qualified, according to runsonwhat (October 2026). runsonwhat found Salesforce through email records that authorize Salesforce and code on plaid.com. Salesforce is used by 32,817 companies runsonwhat tracks.

Plaid uses Google Workspace for email and office software, alongside Apple Business, according to runsonwhat (October 2026). runsonwhat found Google Workspace through email records that authorize Google Workspace and code on plaid.com. Google Workspace is used by 392,629 companies runsonwhat tracks.

Plaid uses Zendesk for customer support and documentation, alongside Drift, according to runsonwhat (October 2026). runsonwhat found Zendesk through a subdomain that points at Zendesk and email records, and Plaid has used it since at least September 2019. Zendesk is used by 39,879 companies runsonwhat tracks.

Plaid uses Google Analytics for analytics, alongside Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and Segment, according to runsonwhat (October 2026). runsonwhat found Google Analytics through Google Analytics code on plaid.com. Google Analytics is used by 795,786 companies runsonwhat tracks.

Plaid has used Zendesk since at least September 2019, going by the first public certificate of the plaid.com subdomain that points at Zendesk. Other long-running tools at Plaid include incident.io (since 2021).

Yes. runsonwhat found Google Fonts at Plaid through Google Fonts code on plaid.com. Google Fonts is a Media & UI tool used by 735,797 companies runsonwhat tracks.

Yes. runsonwhat has found Anthropic at Plaid; Anthropic, for example, through a DNS verification record for Anthropic. AI services called only from servers leave no public trace, so Plaid may use more AI tools than these.

Yes. On runsonwhat's rechecks, Plaid stopped using Lottie (latest on October 7, 2026). A change counts only between two checks of plaid.com done the same way.

The companies with the stacks most like Plaid's are ClickHouse, Gartner, ElevenAPI and Astronomer, according to runsonwhat (October 2026). Each shares 13 to 16 tools with Plaid, and rare tools count for more than common ones like Google Workspace, so the match reflects real stack choices.

runsonwhat reads public records only. Of the 53 tools at Plaid, 24 were found through code on plaid.com, 17 through DNS records, 6 through email records, 4 through subdomains that point at the vendor and 2 through website configuration files. A tool is listed only when a direct record backs it up; DNS is rechecked weekly and plaid.com about monthly.