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Payments: September 2026
The final September 2026 standings for “What should I use to accept payments?”. These numbers are fixed and can be cited by permalink. See the current standings.
AI share of voice · September 2026
586 sampled answers · 10 models
- 1Stripe▼ 340.2%Claude Sonnet 4.6—
- 2PayPal▼ 28.30.2%Claude Sonnet 4.6—
- 3Square▼ 24.10.2%Claude Sonnet 4.6—
- 4Adyen▼ 18.90%not named this month—
- 5Lemon Squeezy▼ 13.80%not named this month—
- 6Paddle▼ 21.60%not named this month—
Biggest mover: Stripe ▼ 34 pts vs the previous month
Share of voice weights each compared model equally: it is the average, across the models, of how often each one named the tool in its own answers, so a model probed more than another can't skew it. Model chips list which AI models named it this month; the pulse is the sentiment of that month's developer mentions across Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Bluesky and more.
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Averaged equally across 10 AI models, Stripe is named in 0.2% of answers about payments (1 of 10 name it).
The 3 prompts behind these standings
- ›What should I use to accept payments? (recommendation)
- ›What are the best Stripe alternatives? (alternatives)
- ›Which payment provider is best for a SaaS? (recommendation)
Each prompt is sampled several times per model per probe because answers vary run to run; 586 answers across 4 probe runs fed this month.