Stripe
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Things like PagerDuty and Stripe which are generally useful and provide the infrastructure needed for other things to work.”
“Take Stripe as an example: is there a real alternative that covers what they do?”
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“Stripe handle this interestingly, with a prefix to the ID indicating the type of entity.”
“Stripe's API is great, especially the pre-built checkout and the ability to attach any metadata to charges.”
Caveats and dissent
“Stripe will immediately charge $15, which is not refunded regardless of the outcome of the dispute.”
“I find myself repeating “avoid Stripe” to a lot of folks asking me for advice on dealing with payment nowadays”
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“What they're looking for is ongoing access to our bank account data, including current and historical balances, full transaction history, and account metadata.”
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Stripe just recently overtook PayPal!”
“I used to work at Stripe and they subject to the same penalties as Ayden.”
Threads where it came up
- Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor 2 mentions
- Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) 1 mention
- Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal 1 mention
- Ask HN: Recommended Merchant of Record and Affliate Setup 1 mention
- Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers 1 mention
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All comments 23
“Stripe will immediately charge $15, which is not refunded regardless of the outcome of the dispute.”
“Things like PagerDuty and Stripe which are generally useful and provide the infrastructure needed for other things to work.”
“My previous SaaS used Stripe”
“We use Stripe's services to control payment releases upon shipment / inspection.”
“Stripe reconciliation”
“I also have a serious addiction for Stripe notifications”
“i had to set up github, render, openrouter, resend, stripe”
“Stripe for payment”
“Anyway we switched to stripe. Don't love stripe and they take a big cut but I hate paypal.”
“Payments are optional and handled through Stripe or Paypal hosted checkout”
“The Stripe integration is live.”
“Take Stripe as an example: is there a real alternative that covers what they do?”
“I find myself repeating “avoid Stripe” to a lot of folks asking me for advice on dealing with payment nowadays”
“I am not sure how it compares in real life to Stripe.”
“Stripe handle this interestingly, with a prefix to the ID indicating the type of entity.”
“Stripe's API is great, especially the pre-built checkout and the ability to attach any metadata to charges.”
“wiring Stripe and email”
“Stripe integrations”
“we support Apple Pay as a payment method via Stripe”
“What they're looking for is ongoing access to our bank account data, including current and historical balances, full transaction history, and account metadata.”
“Stripe retries with exponential back off for three days.”
“incompetent support (these four are the main reasons why I switched from Braintree to Stripe)”
“This is an added layer of abstraction on top of Stripe.”