Payments and financial infrastructure for the internet — checkout, subscriptions, invoicing, marketplaces, fraud tools, and tax, in 135+ currencies.
Stripe is payments and financial infrastructure for internet businesses. The core is Payments — online and in person, across 135+ currencies and payment methods — with Billing on top for subscriptions, usage-based pricing, and invoicing, and Connect for marketplaces and platforms that need to pay out to third parties. Around that sit Radar for fraud detection, Tax and Identity for compliance, Issuing for card programs, Payouts for global money movement, and Sigma and Data Pipeline for reporting.
Pricing is per transaction with no subscription. Stripe processed US$1.9 trillion in payments in 2025, reports 99.999% historical uptime and 500M+ API requests a day, and is used by Amazon, Shopify, Figma, Instacart, Uber, and Ford, along with 88% of the Forbes AI 50.
Pricing model: Paid
Common questions about Stripe
Stripe's Endive API release adds recovery for expired customer portal sessions and lets customers pause subscriptions in the portal.
Other useful additions include SeQura payments for invoices and subscriptions, Scalapay Payment Links, and support for submitting evidence to appeal dispute decisions.
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Stripe Treasury lets agents move money within permissions you set. You customize what an agent is allowed to do, then it can pay invoices, transfer funds and convert currencies within those limits.
Stripe's preview API changelog adds archiving and trial end behavior settings to Trial Offers.
The preview also adds recovery for expired customer portal sessions and support for submitting evidence to appeal a dispute decision. Dispute evidence gets page limit validation, too.
If you're updating an integration, check the preview changelog for API changes, including removal of the capture method parameter for PayPay payments.
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Stripe's Endive API release lets you pause and resume Subscriptions on demand and makes trial offers generally available.
It also unifies the billing cycle anchor format across Subscriptions and Invoices. Invoice Items get invoicing rules you can add or clear, and Invoices get a detailed status explaining why they're uncollectable.
There are breaking changes to check before upgrading: the Account Links v2 API removes configurations, and Financial Connections Sessions renames the countries…
Stripe billing portal sessions can now open directly on the customer update screen with a deep link.
Customer Sessions can also query entitlements and launch the customer portal.
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Stripe now redirects new Connect platforms away from unsupported integration patterns during setup.
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Stripe has agreed to buy OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. Stripe declined to comment on the report.
OpenRouter routes requests across 500+ AI models and 80+ providers, and already uses Stripe for its own billing. The reported deal would take Stripe further into AI infrastructure.
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