September 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Locked up

Subscription Billing: AI Visibility Ranking

Billing, payments, and revenue management platforms for SaaS. Right now, Stripe is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 88 and the #1 spot in 72% of answers. Head-to-head: Stripe vs Paddle →

These rankings are measured from what the three models know from training, not a live web search. When the models DO search the web, see which sources they cite. Methodology.

Chargebee gets considered everywhere, chosen nowhere.

Stripe is close to a lock, appearing in 93% of answers and taking the first-pick slot 72% of the time, which leaves every other brand competing for the remainder. Chargebee's situation is the sharpest anomaly: it surfaces in 74% of answers but earns zero first picks, meaning the models treat it as a credible option they consistently pass over. That considered-but-not-chosen pattern suggests AI systems view Chargebee as a reasonable backup rather than a primary recommendation, which is a weak position when buyers often act on whatever name comes first.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Trend (3 mo)	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Stripe	88 ±2.8	flat	93%	1.6	72%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #1 Gemini #1
2	Paddle	64 ±2.8	flat	78%	2.8	19%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #3 Gemini #2
3	Chargebee	59 ±2.2	▲ 7	74%	3.0	0%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #2 Gemini #3
4	Zuora	39 ±3	▲ 9	51%	3.4	8%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #4 Gemini #5
5	Lemon Squeezy	30 ±1.8	▼ 10	36%	2.7	0%	ChatGPT #7 Claude #7 Gemini #4
6	Recurly	30 ±5.7	flat	44%	4.3	0%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #5 Gemini #7
7	FastSpring	18 ±2.9	▲ 4	26%	4.1	0%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #9 Gemini #6
8	Maxio	17 ±4.1	flat	29%	5.0	0%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #6 Gemini #8
9	Orb	9 ±4	flat	17%	5.4	0%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #11 Gemini #11
10	Lago	7 ±3.4	flat	15%	6.3	0%	ChatGPT Claude #8 Gemini #12
11	SAP	7 ±3	flat	8%	3.2	0%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #12 Gemini #9
12	Metronome	6 ±3.2	flat	13%	6.0	0%	ChatGPT #9 Claude #15 Gemini #13
13	Salesforce	5 ±3.4	flat	8%	4.7	0%	ChatGPT Claude #13 Gemini #10
14	Gumroad	5 ±1.9	flat	7%	4.0	0%	ChatGPT Claude #10 Gemini #14
15	2Checkout	4 ±2.4	flat	8%	6.8	0%	ChatGPT #10 Claude #14 Gemini

The ± under each score is the reliability band: how much the number would move if we re-ran the identical measurement. It is tight because each prompt is sampled multiple times. It is not the same as how much the ranking depends on which prompts we ask — a separate, wider figure shown on hover.

Just below the cutoff: Oracle (3.3), Avalara (3.2), Digital River (3.1), TaxJar (2.9), Braintree (2.4). 52 brands were scored in this category; the leaderboard shows the top 15.

Visibility Score: position-weighted presence across all measured answers, 0 to 100. A score of 100 means the brand was the first recommendation in every answer. Every point in a trend line is a live monthly measurement; there is no modeled or backfilled history. Full methodology.

Openness 12/100: the share of this category's recommendation weight not held by the leader.

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Do the models agree?

Per-model Visibility Scores for the top 10. A long gray bar means the three assistants disagree about the brand. Hover a row for exact values.

ChatGPT Claude Gemini

Where they land in the answer

When a brand is mentioned, where does it appear? Box shows the middle 50% of positions, the thick line is the median, whiskers are the extremes. Hover a row for the detail.