Do AI agents pick Paddle?
How often agents choose Paddle when a developer needs payments — measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.
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.
191K package downloads / week
0 docs in FineWeb · 519 URLs in Common Crawl
743K installs / month ▲ 4% MoM
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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.
The rest of the Payments ranking
| 1 | Stripe | 78% |
| 3 | Lemon Squeezy | 0% |
| 4 | PayPal | 0% |
| 5 | Square | 0% |
| 6 | Adyen | 0% |