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Do AI agents pick Paddle?

How often agents choose Paddle when a developer needs payments — measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Paddle

#2 of 6 payments
6%Pick Rate
95% CI 4%11%

When developers ask an AI agent for payments, Paddle is picked 6% of the time — ranking #2 of 6 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 6% Named, not picked 14% Never surfaced 79%

Beaten by Stripe (78%).

Awareness

191K package downloads / week

Thin presence in the data models learn from — an awareness problem. Get into more code, docs, and developer discussion.

0 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 519 URLs in Common Crawl

In the raw web crawl, but thin in the filtered corpus models actually train on — an awareness gap at the source.

AdoptionDid the pick convert to installs? Public Adoption = npm downloads of your packages. The proof half of the funnel.

743K installs / month ▲ 4% MoM

Installs are roughly flat month over month.

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The per-model and per-surface breakdown for Paddle — where it wins, where it loses, and to whom — plus an alert when the Pick Rate moves.

About Paddle

Merchant of record platform handling payments, tax, subscriptions, and billing for digital product businesses.

Paddle Billing is a payments and subscription management platform aimed at SaaS, AI, mobile app, and digital product companies. As a merchant of record, Paddle takes on responsibility for payment processing, sales tax compliance, and subscription lifecycle management through a single API. It supports both a server-side API and a frontend JavaScript library for building checkouts and pricing pages.

Where to start

Create a Paddle account, generate an API key under Developer Tools > Authentication, and use the Node.js SDK to make authenticated API calls against either the sandbox or production environment.

Install

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The rest of the Payments ranking

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