Picking a Gift Card / Payouts API in 2026

If you've ever been the engineer assigned to "integrate a gift card API" for a marketing or HR team, you already know the painful part isn't the integration. It's the procurement decision your non-technical stakeholders made before they looped you in. So here's a developer-first read on the five gift card / rewards / payouts platforms most B2B teams shortlist in 2026: Tremendous, Tango Card, Runa, Giftbit, and GIFQ (full disclosure: I work at GIFQ, and I'm going to argue we're the best fit for a