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Leading Credit Cards & Payment Processing Brands in AI Search

The same monthly sample, re-ranked using only AI Mode answers.

August 2026 edition

Across the six months through August 2026, Stripe leads AI search visibility in Credit Cards & Payment Processing on AI Mode with a Goodie visibility score of 76.2, ahead of American Express (73.3) and Ramp (72.5). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 71.1. The most-cited source grounding these answers is airwallex.com at 10.4% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 48.1%.

5k prompts · 1.7m AI answers · 7.8m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

August 2026 · Credit Cards & Payment Processing · AI Mode
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
71.1
Half of the 10 ranked credit cards & payment processing brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 71.9
Score to enter the top 10
—
Fewer than ten brands are ranked in this category, so there is no top-ten bar to report yet.
Brands named per answer
8.2
A typical answer names eight brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 8.8
Citation mix
  • UGC 8%
  • Editorial 4%
  • Video 6%
  • Reference 1%
  • Retail 2%
  • Other 79%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding credit cards & payment processing answers. Brand-owned citations sit in the next cell and are not counted here.
Brand-owned citation share
48.1%
Owned content is unusually strong here — brand domains are a citation source in their own right, not just the subject of third-party coverage.
Index-wide average is 24.2%
Industry sentiment
81/100
Mean tone of mentions across all ranked brands. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
5k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
1.7m
204k in August · ▼ 1.4% vs July
Citations parsed
7.8m
1m in August · ▲ 0.3% vs July
Brands observed
534
10 ranked here · 524 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

All models AI Mode ChatGPT Copilot Perplexity
Brand visibility leaderboard for Credit Cards & Payment Processing, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01Stripe
76.2
10.7%AI Mode▲ 6.283airwallex.com
02American Express
73.3
10.3%AI Mode▲ 16.982money.com.au
03Ramp
72.5
10.2%AI Mode—81use.expensify.com
04PayPal
72.4
10.2%AI Mode▼ 2.181zapier.com
05Brex
72.3
10.2%AI Mode▲ 1.681brex.com
06Shopify Payments
69.9
9.8%AI Mode▼ 14.080zapier.com
07Airwallex
69.3
9.8%AI Mode—80airwallex.com
08Expensify
68.4
9.6%AI Mode—79use.expensify.com
09MONEYME
67.8
9.6%AI Mode▲ 10.179canstar.com.au
10Qantas
67.8
9.5%AI Mode▲ 5.179kredmo.com.au
10 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Aug with Jul

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Credit Cards & Payment Processing
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01airwallex.com
10.4%
▲ 13.6
02cliffsnotes.com
8.7%
—
03youtube.com
6.8%
▲ 5.5
04connectpay.com
5.2%
▼ 0.9
05navan.com
5.0%
▼ 6.4
06wise.com
4.6%
—
07com.au
4.5%
—
08forbes.com
4.5%
—
09apps365.com
4.5%
—
10thecfoclub.com
4.5%
—
Top 10 of 1k domains observedΔ compares Aug with Jul, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Top prompts

Top prompts sampled for Credit Cards & Payment Processing, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Payment gateways trusted by e commerce brands27119
02Business credit cards with expense tracking tools1891
03Travel credit cards with rewards that pay off1862
04Merchant services reliable for online payments1761
05Which cashback cards make sense for daily spending?1948
Top 5 of 5k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Aug vs Jul
Rising
American Expressscore 73.3
▲ 16.9
MONEYMEscore 67.8
▲ 10.1
Stripescore 76.2
▲ 6.2
Falling
Shopify Paymentsscore 69.9
▼ 14.0
PayPalscore 72.4
▼ 2.1
7 ranked brands scored in both Jul and AugIndustry avg ±8.0/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
5,328,986 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Credit Cards & Payment Processing, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States4M
02United Kingdom630K
03Singapore230K
04Australia164K
05Canada127K
06Germany121K
07Japan36K
08Italy13K
09Egypt10K
10France9K
11United Arab Emirates6K
12Saudi Arabia4K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Stripe leads Credit Cards & Payment Processing this edition with a visibility score of 76.2, ahead of American Express at 73.3.

airwallex.com is the most-cited source grounding credit cards & payment processing answers, at roughly 10.4% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 48.1% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked credit cards & payment processing brands is 71.1, and a score above 45.4 reaches the industry top ten.

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Our Methodology

Our Approach to Gathering AI Visibility Data

We process millions of real prompts across AI Mode, ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity, then track which brands, products, and domains show up in the answers. That's the raw data behind every score in the Index.

Real Intent Capture

This data results from processing millions of real user prompts. We use advanced semantic and agentic processing to categorize them and define intent, filtering out noise to focus on high-value queries.

Global Model Interrogation

We execute these prompts across different models, including GPT, Perplexity, AI Mode, and more, and across different regions. This allows us to map model understand exactly "how they think" in each market.

Attribution Mapping

We analyze the generated answers to capture the "Kingmaker" domains; the specific sources the models cite giving you a causal link between source authority and brand visibility.

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Stripe currently leads AI search visibility in credit cards & payment processing with a Goodie visibility score of 76.2, measured across the tracked AI models.

airwallex.com is the most-cited source in credit cards & payment processing AI answers, grounding roughly 10.4% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked credit cards & payment processing brands is 71.1. A score above 45.4 places a brand in the industry top ten.

Each edition samples the same tracked prompt set across the models Goodie follows, then ranks brands by how often they are named in those answers.

Monthly. Each edition re-samples the tracked prompt set so month-over-month figures are directly comparable.