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Payments: October 2026
The final October 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 · October 2026
734 sampled answers · 10 models
- 1Stripe▲ 0.10.3%GPT · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731—
- 2Lemon Squeezy▲ 0.10.1%GPT—
- 3Paddle▲ 0.10.1%GPT—
- 4PayPal▼ 0.10.1%DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731—
- 5Adyen±00%not named this month—
- 6Square▼ 0.20%not named this 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 0.3% of answers about payments (2 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; 734 answers across 5 probe runs fed this month.