AI companies are growing their revenue and global footprints far faster than companies in earlier waves of tech innovation. Read our analysis of Stripe payment trends – and what they reveal about winning monetisation strategies.

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We've analysed payment data from the top AI companies on Stripe and uncovered three clear patterns. In this report, you’ll learn how AI companies are:

Reaching revenue milestones faster than ever before
Driving rapid growth and adoption with new pricing models
Building for global growth from day one

Stripe is a flexible, easy-to-partner-with platform. The ease of transitioning to Stripe’s usage-based billing meant we could move quickly and keep focusing on building a great product for our customers.

Barry McCardel, Co-founder and CEO

Stripe is an incredibly important node in our current payment processing ecosystem. A huge amount of our checkout heavy lifting is done by Stripe, which has made our business operations unnaturally simple.

Sanket Shah, Founder and CEO

Stripe has great SDKs, APIs, and documentation. It saved us a lot of hours – we went from being a free platform to a revenue-generating global platform in a matter of weeks.

Chris Gillis, Cofounder and COO

The best way to test customer willingness to pay and find product market fit with Stripe Payment Links and Stripe Invoicing. These two hosted payment options enable you to accept one click payments or get paid via Email.

No matter your business model – SaaS, direct-to-consumer e-commerce, platform, marketplace – the Stripe platform applies intelligent optimisations based on billions in transactions to help block fraud and maximise revenue.

Launch new markets, currencies, and payment methods – with minimal changes to your code. Stripe handles all cross-border money movement and currency conversion so you and your users receive payouts in your local currency.

Set up advanced fraud protection, automate tax and VAT calculation, verify identities, analyse business data, increase conversion, mitigate churn, and much more.

Access a complete payments platform with simple pricing or contact us to design a custom package specifically for your business.

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