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GOAT.tax vs Increase
A side-by-side editorial comparison of GOAT.tax and Increase — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
GOAT.tax vs Increase: at a glance
What is GOAT.tax?
GOAT.tax adds Form 6765 Section G reporting for large R&D credit filers.
GOAT.tax is filling in what Form 6765 requires. The 10/15 release adds a Qualified Activity Type breakdown (direct research, supervision, support) for studies that meet the Section G thresholds, captures EIN and NAICS codes for the report, and extends bulk SME assignment to wage and expense workspaces. Earlier releases added multi-company support, partner white-labeling, a Controlled Group data model and broader state credit coverage.
What is Increase?
A banking-as-a-service API that now sells compliance and blockchain rails, not just payments
Increase ships a quarterly newsletter rather than a running changelog, so each entry bundles a quarter of API work. The last three quarters have moved past core payment rails into the surrounding infrastructure: managed compliance, entity onboarding sessions, 3D Secure, push provisioning and IP-restricted API keys. SDK coverage has widened to C#, PHP and Ruby, and the documentation was reworked to be readable by LLMs.
GOAT.tax vs Increase: editorial side-by-side
GOAT.tax
5.0FINANCE
GOAT.tax adds Form 6765 Section G reporting for large R&D credit filers.
◆ Current state
GOAT.tax is filling in what Form 6765 requires. The 10/15 release adds a Qualified Activity Type breakdown (direct research, supervision, support) for studies that meet the Section G thresholds, captures EIN and NAICS codes for the report, and extends bulk SME assignment to wage and expense workspaces. Earlier releases added multi-company support, partner white-labeling, a Controlled Group data model and broader state credit coverage.
◆ Where it's heading
The product is moving upmarket: Section G applies only to filers above $1.5M in QREs and $50M in gross receipts, and multi-company plus Controlled Group work targets complex corporate structures. A steady UI redesign of workspaces runs alongside, aimed at making large studies manageable.
◆ Prediction
Expect the Controlled Group model to surface as user-facing computations, and Section G output to flow into the generated 6765 report within the next few releases.
Increase
3.8FINANCE
A banking-as-a-service API that now sells compliance and blockchain rails, not just payments
◆ Current state
Increase ships a quarterly newsletter rather than a running changelog, so each entry bundles a quarter of API work. The last three quarters have moved past core payment rails into the surrounding infrastructure: managed compliance, entity onboarding sessions, 3D Secure, push provisioning and IP-restricted API keys. SDK coverage has widened to C#, PHP and Ruby, and the documentation was reworked to be readable by LLMs.
◆ Where it's heading
The arc runs from moving money to operating a bank program end to end. Early quarters added rails (FedNow, Push-to-Card, check transfers); recent ones add the compliance, onboarding and dispute machinery a customer would otherwise build or buy separately. Q2 2026 adds blockchain transfers alongside managed compliance, and flags cross-border payments and lending APIs as next.
◆ Prediction
Expect the cross-border payments and lending APIs named in the Q2 2026 letter to ship as the next quarter's headline, extending the same pattern of absorbing adjacent financial products into the core API.
Alternatives to GOAT.tax and Increase
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Recent activity from GOAT.tax and Increase
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 7d agoGOAT.taxSection G activity breakdown, EIN and NAICS fields for Form 6765
- 29d agoGOAT.taxGOAT.tax Release Notes for 09/24/2026
- 1mo agoGOAT.taxGOAT.tax Release Notes for 09/08/2026
- 1mo agoGOAT.taxGOAT.tax Release Notes for 08/30/2026
- 2mo agoGOAT.taxGOAT.tax Release Notes for 08/20/2026
- 2mo agoGOAT.taxGOAT.tax Release Notes for 08/10/2026
- 3mo agoIncreaseManaged compliance and blockchain transfers land in Q2 ⚡
- 6mo agoIncreaseEntity onboarding, 3D Secure and IP-restricted keys
- 9mo agoIncreaseFedNow, Push-to-Card and a Cards Disputes API
- 1y agoIncreaseEvent log filtering and check transfer work
- 1y agoIncreaseFile links, check deposit images, Apple Pay history
- 1y agoIncreaseOAuth applications, lockboxes and exports
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between GOAT.tax and Increase?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. GOAT.tax is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 3.8), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is GOAT.tax better than Increase?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. GOAT.tax is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 3.8), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Finance products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to GOAT.tax?
Top GOAT.tax alternatives in Finance are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "GOAT.tax alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/goat-tax for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Increase?
Top Increase alternatives in Finance are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Increase alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/increase for the full list with editorial commentary on each.