Stripe says AI agent purchases via Link are growing, without totals
Original title: Stripe says AI agent purchases are adding up, but it won't share the numbers
September Link transactions rose 38-fold and volume 20-fold from a small base, with about 200 agents now.
Upstarts Media reports that AI agents increasingly shop through Stripe's Link. In September, transactions grew 38-fold and payment volume 20-fold, but Stripe has not disclosed the underlying counts or money. Executive Dan Hill says volume is becoming significant and that agents using the service grew from about 70 to around 200, including Meta's Muse and Grok Bot. Most spend about $100 per transaction; some book flights or buy furniture worth thousands.
Unconfirmed: Absolute purchase counts and dollar volume are undisclosed, and the report says growth started from a small base.
- Retail was 36 percent of transactions and 32 percent of volume.
- Travel was next, at 28 percent of payment volume.
- Link issues a separate 16-digit number and supports spending limits.
- Anthropic and OpenAI use Link, but not yet for agent purchases.
- Hill names PayPal and Shopify's Shop Pay as competitors.
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