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Leading Credit Cards & Payment Processing Brands in AI Search in China

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Stripe leads AI search visibility in Credit Cards & Payment Processing on Perplexity in China with a Goodie visibility score of 77.0, ahead of PayPal (73.3) and Citi (72.9). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 72.4, and a score above 68.3 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is shopify.com at 8.0% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 40.6%.

35k prompts · 2.6m AI answers · 11.2m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Credit Cards & Payment Processing · Perplexity
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
72.4
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 73.0
Score to enter the top 10
68.3
Clearing 68.3 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 4.2 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
6.6
A typical answer names seven brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 8.1
Citation mix
  • UGC 4%
  • Editorial 7%
  • Video 6%
  • Reference 3%
  • Retail 8%
  • Other 72%
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. “Other” covers domains we have not classified into a type yet.
Brand-owned citation share
40.6%
Owned content is unusually strong here, brand domains are a citation source in their own right rather than just the subject of third-party coverage.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
67/100
Mean tone of mentions across the ranked brands that carry a measured value. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
35k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
2.6m
325k in October · ▲ 20.4% vs September
Citations parsed
11.2m
995k in October · ▼ 3.0% vs September
Brands observed
654
10 ranked here · 644 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

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
77.0
10.6%Perplexity▼ 3.375connectpay.com
02PayPal
73.3
10.1%Perplexity—72connectpay.com
03Citi
72.9
10.1%Perplexity▲ 8.667creditkarma.com
04Shopify Payments
72.9
10.1%Perplexity—65connectpay.com
05Ramp
72.5
10.0%Perplexity—71ramp.com
06Brex
72.4
10.0%Perplexity▲ 5.170ramp.com
07Square
72.0
9.9%Perplexity—57connectpay.com
08Wells Fargo
71.8
9.9%Perplexity▲ 5.076nerdwallet.com
09Authorize.Net
71.7
9.9%Perplexity—61shopify.com
10Checkout.com
68.3
9.4%Perplexity—60connectpay.com
10 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Oct with Sep

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Credit Cards & Payment Processing
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01shopify.com
8.0%
▼ 2.1
02youtube.com
5.9%
—
03nerdwallet.com
3.7%
▲ 1.2
04bill.com
3.6%
—
05walletgrower.com
3.6%
—
06thepointsguy.com
3.1%
▼ 1.6
07cnbc.com
2.9%
▼ 1.5
08connectpay.com
2.9%
—
09zapier.com
2.9%
—
10swipesum.com
2.7%
—
Top 10 of 1k domains observedΔ compares Oct with Sep, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Sampled prompts

Prompts sampled for Credit Cards & Payment Processing, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Payment gateways trusted by e commerce brands2138
02Merchant services reliable for online payments1637
03Business credit cards with expense tracking tools2434
04Travel credit cards with rewards that pay off829
05哪家商户收款服务网上用起来比较稳?1516
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
Citiscore 72.9
▲ 8.6
Brexscore 72.4
▲ 5.1
Wells Fargoscore 71.8
▲ 5.0
Falling
Stripescore 77.0
▼ 3.3
4 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±5.5/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
204,473 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Credit Cards & Payment Processing, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States162K
02United Kingdom28K
03Singapore4K
04Germany3K
05Australia3K
06Canada2K
07Japan1K
08United Arab Emirates414
09Egypt381
10Italy274
11Saudi Arabia249
12France146
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Stripe leads Credit Cards & Payment Processing this edition with a visibility score of 77.0, ahead of PayPal at 73.3.

shopify.com is the most-cited source grounding credit cards & payment processing answers, at roughly 8.0% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 40.6% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked credit cards & payment processing brands is 72.4, and a score above 68.3 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 run these prompts across the tracked models and across every market we cover, so each market is scored on its own answers rather than on a global average applied everywhere.

Attribution Mapping

We analyze the generated answers to capture the "Kingmaker" domains: the specific sources models cite most often in the answers that name a brand, so you can see which sources the models lean on where you appear and where you do not.

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FAQ · Credit Cards & Payment Processing

Questions?
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the Answers.

Stripe currently leads AI search visibility in credit cards & payment processing with a Goodie visibility score of 77.0, measured across the tracked AI models.

shopify.com is the most-cited source in credit cards & payment processing AI answers, grounding roughly 8.0% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked credit cards & payment processing brands is 72.4. A score above 68.3 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.