The Stripe Blog
Applications rely on current Stripe data to fulfill orders, update customer accounts, and manage access to paid features. Until now, developers have had to build and maintain custom integrations to k…
As usage, costs, and customer expectations change, AI companies are moving beyond traditional SaaS pricing. Leaders at Monetize 2026 shared how they’re combining subscriptions with usage-based billin…
Token billing is useful infrastructure, but usually a bad customer-facing pricing model. Your invoice should define the value your product delivers, not break down what it cost you to create it.
Open USD (OUSD), a stablecoin built for global money movement, is now available across Stripe. Businesses can use OUSD to manage funds, make payments, and offer new financial services.
As agents take on more purchases, agent builders have increasingly asked us to help agents navigate checkout and earn consumer trust. Today, we’re sharing three major improvements to support this bro…
At the “great recalibration”-themed travel conference, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky called AI “an existential risk” to his company and “literally the best thing to ever happen” to it in the same discussio…
We analyzed billions of transactions on Stripe from January 2022 to March 2026 to understand how card fraud patterns differ by region and country, what's driving those differences, and how businesses…
Last year, Stripe data shows fraud attempts against travel and leisure businesses hit a four-year high. We analyzed payment activity from more than 200,000 active travel and leisure businesses on Str…
The SaaSpocalypse was a useful warning for the software industry, but SaaS platforms that help businesses run core operations are more deeply embedded. New platform businesses on Stripe are up 182% y…
We analyzed attempted fraud rates and customer abuse patterns on Stripe over the past year and found that AI companies faced 4.3x more fraud attempts than startups overall in Q3 2025.