Founded in 2015 as a cloud platform for frontend web development, Vercel expanded its role in the AI era with its broader investments in agentic infrastructure, including AI Gateway, AI SDK, and eve, a framework for building agents. As demand for agentic coding and deployment accelerated, Vercel’s user base more than doubled year over year with Stripe powering its billing and payments infrastructure.

The decade-long partnership between Vercel and Stripe has given Vercel the flexibility to launch new business lines, invest in enterprise sales, and scale internationally.

“Vercel is part of a once-in-a-generation explosion in software creation, and Stripe has enabled us to support this hypergrowth without slowing down. In fact, the customer experience is only getting better,” said Guillermo Rauch, CEO at Vercel.

Creating a global checkout for multiple business lines

Vercel processes the vast majority of its payment volume through Stripe Payments. Today, a significant portion of that volume is international, and customers use the platform for both Vercel’s traditional frontend-as-a-service infrastructure and its v0 AI coding tools.

With multiple business lines and a global customer base, Vercel needed a payments infrastructure that could support many currencies and payment methods at scale. To meet those needs, Vercel adopted Stripe’s Optimized Checkout Suite, including prebuilt payment UIs through Stripe Checkout, access to a broad set of payment methods, and Link, a wallet built by Stripe that enables customers to check out faster.

To serve customer preferences around the world, Vercel uses the payment element to offer cards, ACH, stablecoins, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Link. Stripe’s AI models built into the payment element surface relevant payment methods for different markets, while Adaptive Pricing allows v0 customers to pay in their local currency.

As Vercel expanded across markets and customer types, it also adopted several Stripe products to improve its payment success rate and manage fraud. Vercel uses Stripe Authorization Boost to improve acceptance rates through AI-powered optimizations, including identifying and retrying false declines in real time. It also uses Stripe Radar, which applies AI trained on signals spanning millions of businesses to detect evolving fraud patterns. Radar includes 3D Secure (3DS), which Vercel uses to apply an additional layer of authentication for card transactions when needed.

This sophisticated payments infrastructure has helped Vercel boost conversions and revenue. Today, 28% of Vercel’s total payment volume runs through Link, which, together with Adaptive Pricing, contributed to a 1.5% conversion uplift year over year. Vercel has also seen a 2.6% authorization rate increase from Authorization Boost in one year.

Strategic integrations between Stripe and Vercel

Vercel is also an integration partner in Stripe Projects, Stripe’s CLI-first infrastructure layer that enables developers and AI agents to provision, manage, and pay for third-party developer services. Through Projects, developers and their agents can choose Vercel hosting directly from the Stripe CLI as part of their deployment workflow.

Stripe is also available through Vercel’s Marketplace and through v0. Developers can set up and test payments and checkout workflows within the apps they’re building, without signing up for a Stripe account first. Once they’re ready to go live, Vercel users can simply activate their Stripe accounts to start accepting real payments and integrate SaaS billing from day one.