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Do AI agents pick PayPal?

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

PayPal

0%Pick Rate
95% CI 0%–2%

When developers ask an AI agent for payments, PayPal is picked 0% of the time — ranking #4 of 6 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 0% Named, not picked 37% Never surfaced 63%

Beaten by Stripe (78%), Paddle (6%), Lemon Squeezy (0%).

Awareness

453K package downloads / week

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

7 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 2.0K URLs in Common Crawl

Present in the raw crawl and the filtered corpus models train on — solid corpus footprint.

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

1.7M installs / month ▼ 4% MoM

Installs are roughly flat month over month.

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

About PayPal

PayPal is an online payments platform that lets businesses and individuals send, receive, and manage money.

PayPal provides payment processing services used by merchants to accept payments from buyers worldwide. Its checkout APIs let developers build order creation, buyer approval flows, payment capture, and refund handling into their applications.

Where to start

Developers integrating PayPal Checkout should obtain API credentials (client ID and secret) from the PayPal developer dashboard, then use the Orders V2 and Payments V2 APIs to create and capture orders. PayPal's sandbox environment is available for testing before going live.

Install

Website Docs npm

Links and summary verified from public sources.

The rest of the Payments ranking

1	Stripe	78%
2	Paddle	6%
3	Lemon Squeezy	0%
5	Square	0%
6	Adyen	0%

← Full Payments leaderboard · How this is measured