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title: "Stripe: search popularity and Share of Search worldwide"
description: "Online payment processing, billing, and financial infrastructure for internet businesses. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time."
canonical: "https://gobrandwave.com/demand/global-en/brands/stripe"
publisher: "Brandwave"
---

# Stripe: search popularity and Share of Search worldwide

Online payment processing, billing, and financial infrastructure for internet businesses. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time.

## Key facts

- **Brand**: Stripe
- **Market**: Global
- **Measured month**: Aug 2026
- **Share of Search among online payment platforms**: 80.5%

## Where the brand sits

| Competitive set | Rank | Share of Search | Estimated monthly branded searches |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Online payment platforms | 1 | 80.5% | 3.1M |

- [Online payment platforms](/demand/global-en/categories/online-payment-platforms)

## How has branded search demand for Stripe changed worldwide over the last 12 months?

- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, estimated monthly branded searches for Stripe worldwide held steady, from 3M to 3.1M.
- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, Stripe’s estimated Share of Search among online payment platforms worldwide decreased from 81.1% to 80.5%.
- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, Stripe’s estimated Share of Search among online payment platforms worldwide peaked at 82.7% in March 2026 and was lowest at 77.4% in December 2025.

## How did search popularity change for online payment platforms worldwide in August 2026?

- In August 2026, Braintree overtook Checkout.com to rank 6th among online payment platforms worldwide, at 0.99%.
- In August 2026, Adyen overtook PayPal to rank 3rd among online payment platforms worldwide, at 4.6%.
- In August 2026, PayPal lost estimated Share of Search among online payment platforms worldwide, from 5% to 4.2%.
- In August 2026, Stripe lost estimated Share of Search among online payment platforms worldwide, from 81.3% to 80.5%.
- Estimated monthly branded searches for Airwallex worldwide rose 47.9% over 11 measured months, from 140K to 207K in August 2026.
- Estimated monthly branded searches for Mollie worldwide fell 12.1% over 11 measured months, from 14.4K to 12.6K in August 2026.

## Historical estimated branded-search demand

| Month | Competitive set | Estimated monthly branded searches | Share of Search | Rank |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oct 2025 | Online payment platforms | 3M | 81.1% | 1 |
| Nov 2025 | Online payment platforms | 3M | 81.7% | 1 |
| Dec 2025 | Online payment platforms | 2.5M | 77.4% | 1 |
| Jan 2026 | Online payment platforms | 3M | 79.1% | 1 |
| Feb 2026 | Online payment platforms | 3.1M | 79.1% | 1 |
| Mar 2026 | Online payment platforms | 3.7M | 82.7% | 1 |
| Apr 2026 | Online payment platforms | 3.1M | 80.6% | 1 |
| May 2026 | Online payment platforms | 3.1M | 80.7% | 1 |
| Jun 2026 | Online payment platforms | 3.1M | 80% | 1 |
| Jul 2026 | Online payment platforms | 3.1M | 81.3% | 1 |
| Aug 2026 | Online payment platforms | 3.1M | 80.5% | 1 |
| Sep 2026 | Online payment platforms | — | — | — |

## How is Stripe measured?

Brandwave collects information about searches that people make online using Stripe’s name. When viewed over time, estimated search volumes for these branded terms can be used to understand whether interest in the brand is growing, holding steady, or fading.

- “ach fees stripe”
- “apple pay with stripe”
- “billing stripe”
- “charge for stripe”
- “check out stripe”
- “checkout stripe”
- “checkoutstripe”
- “connect pricing stripe”
- “connected accounts stripe”
- “creating a stripe account”
- “direct debit stripe”
- “fees for stripe”
- “instant payouts stripe”
- “new stripe account”
- “payment stripe”
- “payments stripe”
- “platform stripe”
- “secure payment by stripe”
- “set up stripe”
- “set up stripe account”
- “split payment stripe”
- “stripe”
- “stripe account”
- “stripe ach fees”
- “stripe ach payments”
- “stripe ach pricing”
- “stripe atlas”
- “stripe billing”
- “stripe billing pricing”
- “stripe business”
- “stripe business account”
- “stripe cc processing”
- “stripe charge fee”
- “stripe charges”
- “stripe connect”
- “stripe connect charges”
- “stripe connect fees”
- “stripe connect pricing”
- “stripe connected account”
- “stripe connected accounts”
- “stripe costs”
- “stripe direct debit”
- “stripe ecommerce”
- “stripe fees”
- “stripe fees per transaction”
- “stripe for international payments”
- “stripe for small business”
- “stripe gateway”
- “stripe hosted checkout”
- “stripe instant payouts”
- “stripe international payments”
- “stripe invoicing”
- “stripe invoicing fees”
- “stripe issuing”
- “stripe marketplace”
- “stripe merchant”
- “stripe merchant account”
- “stripe merchant fees”
- “stripe merchant of record”
- “stripe merchant services”
- “stripe nonprofit pricing”
- “stripe online payments”
- “stripe pay”
- “stripe pay by bank”
- “stripe payment”
- “stripe payment app”
- “stripe payment charges”
- “stripe payment company”
- “stripe payment cost”
- “stripe payment fees”
- “stripe payment gateway”
- “stripe payment gateway charges”
- “stripe payment gateway fees”
- “stripe payment platform”
- “stripe payment processing”
- “stripe payment processing fees”
- “stripe payment services”
- “stripe payment terminal”
- “stripe payments”
- “stripe payments company”
- “stripe payments processing”
- “stripe payouts”
- “stripe platform”
- “stripe pricing”
- “stripe processing”
- “stripe processing fees”
- “stripe recurring payments”
- “stripe secure payment”
- “stripe split payments”
- “stripe subscription”
- “stripe subscription management”
- “stripe terminal”
- “stripe transaction charges”
- “stripe transaction fee”
- “stripe usage based billing”
- “stripe website”
- “terminal stripe”

## Which online payment platforms compete with Stripe?

- [Airwallex](/demand/global-en/brands/airwallex): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/airwallex-vs-stripe
- [Adyen](/demand/global-en/brands/adyen): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/adyen-vs-stripe
- [PayPal](/demand/global-en/brands/paypal): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/paypal-vs-stripe
- [GoCardless](/demand/global-en/brands/gocardless): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/gocardless-vs-stripe
- [Braintree](/demand/global-en/brands/braintree): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/braintree-vs-stripe
- [Mollie](/demand/global-en/brands/mollie)
- [Checkout.com](/demand/global-en/brands/checkout-com)

## Methodology

- [How is branded search demand measured?](/demand/methodology): Where the figures come from, what they compare, and how they may be reused.

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