Thought Machine

thoughtmachine.net
Financial Management
Few Days

Core banking and payments technology built natively for the cloud

How to Replace Thought Machine

Overview

Thought Machine provides Vault Core and Vault Payments, cloud-native core banking and payments platforms designed for modern banks. Built from scratch without legacy code, these solutions enable banks to build and run any financial product or payment scheme with complete control, flexibility, and power across any cloud infrastructure.

Features

15 features across 11 categories

Configuration(1)

Smart Contracts System

Used for product creation and configuration within Vault Core

Core Banking Platform(1)

Vault Core

Cloud-native core banking platform built from scratch to run in the cloud, enabling banks to run any product including current accounts, savings accounts, credit cards, loans, and mortgages

Customization(1)

Configurability

All product creation done in Vault Core's configuration layer using smart contracts system, with rich library of pre-integrated solutions and pre-configured smart contracts

Also in: monday.com, Obsidian, Smartsheet

Deployment(1)

Multi-Cloud Deployment

Cloud agnostic platform allowing banks to deploy on any cloud infrastructure provider or as SaaS, giving banks complete choice of hosting options

Also in: Kubernetes Dashboard, Hugging Face, Bitwarden

Infrastructure(2)

Cloud Native Architecture

Developed from scratch without legacy or pre-cloud code, running natively in the cloud with horizontal scaling, continuous deployment, high availability, and self-healing capabilities

Microservices Architecture

Built from the ground up to take full advantage of cloud-native computing, enabling elastic, highly available and flexible core banking system with load-based scaling

Integration(2)

API-First Architecture

Built with API-first design giving banks complete control to connect to services and technologies from other vendors

Integration Library

Growing collection of solutions and integrations with best-in-class technology vendors

Also in: monday.com, Notion, Airtable

Payments Processing(3)

Card Issuing and Processing

Vault Payments launched with card issuing and processing support on the Mastercard network

Instant Payments Support

Enables real-time payment processing capabilities with SEPA instant payments support

Vault Payments

Cloud-native payments processing platform designed to enable banks to run all payment types for every method, scheme, and region in the world with complete control over payment lifecycle

Payments Standards(1)

ISO 20022 Support

Platform engineered for ISO 20022 standard compliance and efficiency in payments

Product Templates(1)

Product Library

Catalogue of more than 200 preconfigured financial products that banks can launch directly

Reliability(1)

Operational Resilience

Enables banks to run any product, payment scheme, or type on a single platform without constraints or dependencies, with complete control over build, test, and launch processes

Support & Training(1)

Enablement Portal

Complete resource for support, knowledge and training on the Vault platform

Cost Calculator

Pricing data not available for Thought Machine. Check their website for current pricing.

Build vs Buy

Should you build a Thought Machine alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 15 features.

Buy Thought Machine

Better Value
Monthly costContact Sales
3-year totalVaries
Time to deployDays

Build Your Own

Development cost$12,000
Maintenance$180/mo
3-year total$18,480
Dev time~1 months

Buying Thought Machine saves ~$18,480 over 3 years vs building.

Estimates based on 15 features and a BuildScore of 4/5. Actual costs vary.

Integrations

4 known integrations

AccentureForm3KubernetesMastercard