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Increase vs Pigment

A side-by-side editorial comparison of Increase and Pigment — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.

Increase vs Pigment: at a glance

FeatureIncreasePigment
SectorFinanceFinance
Velocity score3.87.5
Sparks · 30d11
Top themesbanking-as-a-service, payments, compliance, apiai-agents, financial-planning, modeling, deployment
Last editorial update19d ago13d ago
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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.

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What is Pigment?

Pigment's Agents break out of single applications and start reading your spreadsheets.

The Agents are the story: Modeler and Analyst now launch from the homepage and hold one conversation across multiple Applications, with the Analyst comparing Metrics across them and handling Board search. Days earlier, the Modeler gained the ability to build a Pigment model — data, Blocks, formulas, and Boards — from a dropped XLSX file, with multi-file uploads of PDFs, CSVs, and images. The rest of the run is planning-platform craft: metric diffing, live deployment progress, selective Metric data sync across Test & Deploy environments, and a steady stream of View Template and chart formatting controls.

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Increase vs Pigment: editorial side-by-side

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Increase
FINANCE
3.8

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.

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Pigment
FINANCE
7.5

Pigment's Agents break out of single applications and start reading your spreadsheets.

◆ Current state

The Agents are the story: Modeler and Analyst now launch from the homepage and hold one conversation across multiple Applications, with the Analyst comparing Metrics across them and handling Board search. Days earlier, the Modeler gained the ability to build a Pigment model — data, Blocks, formulas, and Boards — from a dropped XLSX file, with multi-file uploads of PDFs, CSVs, and images. The rest of the run is planning-platform craft: metric diffing, live deployment progress, selective Metric data sync across Test & Deploy environments, and a steady stream of View Template and chart formatting controls.

◆ Where it's heading

Pigment is moving its Agents from assistants scoped to one Application into a workspace-level layer that can see and act across the whole model estate. Pairing that with Excel ingestion targets the actual starting condition of most planning customers, whose current model is a spreadsheet. Meanwhile the environment tooling — deployment visibility and configuration data kept in sync between test and production — reads as a platform maturing for customers who now treat their Pigment models as software.

◆ Prediction

With Agents workspace-wide and able to construct models from files, the next step is putting them inside the change-management path — proposing model edits that flow through Test & Deploy rather than landing directly. Expect the Analyst's cross-Application reach to extend into scheduled or triggered analysis rather than only chat-initiated questions.

Alternatives to Increase and Pigment

Other Finance products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Increase or Pigment.

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Recent activity from Increase and Pigment

Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.

  1. 15d agoPigment🎉 Spot differences between Metrics instantly
  2. 19d agoPigment📢 Know the moment your Agent replies
  3. 21d agoPigment🎉 Track deployment progress in real time
  4. 22d agoPigment✨ Your Agents just went Workspace-wide
  5. 22d agoPigment🎉 Improve your chart readability
  6. 22d agoPigment🎉 Keep Metric data in sync
  7. 26d agoIncreaseManaged compliance and blockchain transfers land in Q2
  8. 3mo agoIncreaseEntity onboarding, 3D Secure and IP-restricted keys
  9. 7mo agoIncreaseFedNow, Push-to-Card and a Cards Disputes API
  10. 1y agoIncreaseEvent log filtering and check transfer work
  11. 1y agoIncreaseFile links, check deposit images, Apple Pay history
  12. 1y agoIncreaseOAuth applications, lockboxes and exports

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Increase and Pigment?

They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Pigment is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 3.8), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 1. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.

Is Increase better than Pigment?

Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Pigment is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 3.8), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 1. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Finance products to evaluate alongside.

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.

What are the best alternatives to Pigment?

Top Pigment alternatives in Finance are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Pigment alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/pigment for the full list with editorial commentary on each.