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Stripe

Stripe is a suite of APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.

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How much does Stripe cost?

Median buyer pays
$270,833
per year
Based on data from 20 purchases, with buyers saving 14% on average.
Median: $270,833
$1,950
$689,500
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About Stripe

Stripe Overview

Stripe is a suite of APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.

Stripe's 26 Products

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Capital

Stripe Capital offers platforms an end-to-end lending API, allowing access to fast and flexible financing to help customers grow their businesses.

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Issuing: Standard

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Revenue Recognition

Try Revenue Recognition for free for 30 days.

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Stripe Atlas

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Stripe Billing: Billing

A recurring revenue platform that automates subscriptions, invoicing, and usage-based billing with global payments, tax handling, and customer self-service.

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Stripe Checkout

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Stripe Climate: Climate Commitments

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Stripe Climate: Climate Orders

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Stripe Data Pipeline

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Stripe Financial Connections

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Stripe Identity

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Stripe Invoicing: Invoicing: Plus

Includes Invoicing Starter features as well as quotes.

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Stripe Invoicing: Invoicing: Starter

Starter

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Stripe Payment Links

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Stripe Payments: Payments: Custom

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Stripe Payments: Payments: Integrated

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Stripe Radar: Radar for Fraud Teams

Advanced fraud control with real-time scoring, custom ML, a rules engine with backtesting, adjustable risk thresholds, an AI rule assistant, rich analytics, and optimized manual review workflows.

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Stripe Radar: Radar’s Machine Learning

Network-trained fraud ML that screens transactions in real time; provides transaction risk scores, SCA exemption logic, device fingerprinting, proxy detection, and basic analytics.

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Stripe Sigma

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Stripe Tax Complete

https://stripe.com/tax

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Stripe: Custom

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Stripe: Standard

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Terminal: Compact

Process payments on a mobile reader.

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Terminal: Smart

Offer a simple, branded checkout.

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Terminal: Smart Advanaced

Do more with an all-in-one premium device.

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Terminal: Tap to Pay

Accept contactless payments without additional hardware

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Median Contract Value$270,833$57,600
Avg Savings14.3%16.3%

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Vendr community insights for Stripe

Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Stripe will revisit transaction rates if the average monthly transaction volume is greater than $200k"
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Stripe will try to beat out competitive bids for fee schedules when the transaction fee rates of alternative options are made transparent"
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Stripe was proposing large increases to Radar and Adaptive Acceptance (22% and 30%, respectively). We argued at length against these increases, but Stripe declined to provide any kind of relief. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Stripe wanted to consolidate our IC+ tiers upon renewal. The proposed tiers made it more expensive to grow. We pushed back on this and Stripe agreed to provide lower rates with more tiers above our current usage levels in order to facilitate growth. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"When showed direct rate proposals from a competitor, PayPal, Stripe was able to beat out the competitor rate in a new purchase evaluation"
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"We were able to get a better rate by moving from a transaction-based subscription to a flat rate payment subscription."
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"We were able to negotiate a better rate for a flat-rate contract, as opposed to a usage based contract. Stripe's leadership is incentivizing their reps to close flat-rate contracts. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"When bundling Stripe Radar into the fee schedule, Stripe is able to get more competitive with their transaction rates"
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Rep was willing to work within requests for adjusting rate tiers when they were given specific rates to meet from a budget standpoint."
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Stripe has been starting to entertain fee schedules for orgs with less than $250k in monthly transaction volume"
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Stripe is unbundling services in their fee schedules, opening more opportunity to push in negotiations to drive rates lower"
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"This was our first purchase of Stripe. We were able to reduce costs by involving Adyen as a competitor."
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Our previous Stripe contract stated that we would need to renew for a period of 24 months in order to keep our rate the same. We were able to successfully negotiate for a 12 month renewal with the same rate by citing current economic instability."
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Leveraged projected growth on a 3-year term to achieve more favorable transaction rates"
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Pushed on the proposed fee schedule to successfully lower the transaction rates by leveraging forecasted growth over the next 3 years"
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to push for an improved rate proposal by positioning the forecasted growth in monthly transaction volume that would be processed over the next 12-24 months in order to decrease the rates for a 36 month contract"
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Stripe will renegotiate rate tiers when monthly transaction volume is consistently increasing month over month"
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to push back on the proposed rate structure from Stripe by putting together a thorough forecast of growth in monthly transaction volume that would be processed on Stripe to get the rates down significantly. We also made Stripe aware that it was a competitive evaluation which helped bring rates down"
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to successfully push back on the fee schedule proposed by Stripe for renewal by leveraging the forecasted growth and moving to a 3-year term, as well as the mention of competition to get the fee structure in line with best in class rates."
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