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Do AI agents pick Square?

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

Square

#5 of 6 payments
0%Pick Rate
95% CI 0%2%

When developers ask an AI agent for payments, Square is picked 0% of the time — ranking #5 of 6 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 0% Named, not picked 16% Never surfaced 84%

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

Awareness

234K package downloads / week

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

6 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 1.9K 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.

920K installs / month ▲ 9% MoM

Installs are roughly flat month over month.

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

About Square

A payment and business management platform for merchants and developers.

Square provides APIs for accepting payments, managing customers, products, inventory, employees, and orders. It is used by businesses that need to run retail, restaurant, or service operations, and by developers building applications on top of Square's commerce infrastructure.

Where to start

Obtain an access token from the Square Developer Dashboard, then authenticate your API client with that token to start making calls — a common first step is creating a payment or retrieving a location.

Install

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