July 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 71% 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. The live-web grounded surface is rolling out across the index. Methodology.

Stripe is the default; everyone else competes for second.

Stripe dominates with a 94% mention rate and wins the first-pick slot 71% of the time, leaving the rest of the field to split scraps. Paddle holds second place largely on Gemini's strength, scoring 80 there against 55 on ChatGPT, which suggests its AI visibility is unevenly distributed across models. Chargebee matches Paddle on mentions but earns zero first picks, meaning it registers as a supporting reference rather than a primary recommendation.

AI-generated analysis of the July 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Stripe	88 ±2.2	94%	2	71%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #1 Gemini #1
2	Paddle	63 ±4.9	78%	3	21%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #3 Gemini #2
3	Chargebee	60 ±3.7	76%	3	0%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #2 Gemini #3
4	Lemon Squeezy	37 ±4.3	49%	3	0%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #5 Gemini #4
5	Zuora	31 ±2	39%	3	8%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #6 Gemini #5
6	Recurly	25 ±4.5	38%	4	0%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #4 Gemini #10
7	Orb	14 ±4.9	26%	6	0%	ChatGPT #7 Claude #12 Gemini #6
8	Maxio	13 ±2.2	25%	6	0%	ChatGPT Claude #7 Gemini #11
9	FastSpring	11 ±2.1	17%	4	0%	ChatGPT #9 Claude #9 Gemini #8
10	Lago	9 ±3.5	21%	7	0%	ChatGPT #13 Claude #8 Gemini #7
11	Metronome	9 ±3.7	17%	5	0%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #14 Gemini #9
12	Gumroad	9 ±2.7	13%	4	0%	ChatGPT #10 Claude #11 Gemini #12
13	Salesforce	4 ±3.8	6%	5	0%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #13 Gemini #13
14	Salesforce Revenue Cloud	3 ±3.1	4%	3	0%	ChatGPT Claude #10 Gemini
15	SAP	3 ±3.2	4%	4	0%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #15 Gemini #14

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: Digital River (2.6), SAP Billing (2.1), TaxJar (1.8), QuickBooks (1.7), Avalara (1.7). 56 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.