Service comparison

Acquired vs. Alma

Acquired vs. Alma — reliability, API availability, and incident frequency head-to-head.

Last 90 days · 13 incidents total · Data via Pulsetic monitoring

Head-to-head

90-day summary

Uptime over time

Availability across windows

Window Acquired Alma Δ
Last 24 hours
100.00%
100.00%
0.00 pp
Last 7 days
99.81%
100.00%
-0.19 pp
Last 30 days
97.23%
100.00%
-2.77 pp
Last 90 days
98.35%
99.97%
-1.62 pp

Δ is percentage-point difference (Acquired minus Alma). Higher is better.

Incidents 90-day

Severity breakdown

  • Acquired

    11 total

    3 major 8 minor
    • Median resolution

      1h 19m

    • Longest outage

      15h 6m

  • Alma

    2 total

    1 major 1 minor
    • Median resolution

      19m

    • Longest outage

      28m

Recent activity

Last 5 incidents, side-by-side

  • Acquired logo

    Acquired

    • Sep 11

      Elevated Declined Transactions

      19m

      Minor
    • Sep 4

      We are currently investigating elevated failure rates affecting card payments

      1h 19m

      Minor
    • Sep 3

      3DS & Network Token Issue With Mastercard Transactions

      15h 6m

      Minor
    • Aug 27

      Degraded card processing via Trust Payments

      4h 30m

      Minor
    • Aug 18

      Intermittent 3DS issues

      41m

      Minor
  • Alma logo

    Alma

    • Jul 22

      Payment creation issue for Adyen Terminals

      10m

      Major
    • Jun 24

      We are experiencing issues with Shopify

      28m

      Minor
    • Jun 10

      Partial outage

      6m

      Major
    • Mar 2

      Payment 3DS errors

      1h 53m

      Major
    • Feb 27

      General unavailability of our services

      25m

      Major

Bottom line

Alma wins

Alma edges out on 90-day uptime.

Acquired posted 98.35% vs. 99.97% for Alma (Δ -1.62 pp). Incidents: 11 vs. 2 (+9).

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