Stripe named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Merchant Payment Providers, Q1 2026

Forrester has named Stripe a Leader in merchant payment providers, with its evaluation noting, “Stripe’s strategic strength is vision and innovation—and more specifically, its ability to both continue innovating and make sense of these innovations for merchants.”

Stripe received the highest possible scores in more criteria than any other vendor Forrester evaluated.

The Forrester Wave™ analysis

Why Stripe is a Leader in merchant payment providers

Stripe was named a Leader in merchant payment providers by The Forrester Wave™, with the highest possible scores in 15 criteria, including:
  • Vision
  • Innovation
  • Roadmap
  • Checkout and end-user user interfaces
  • Fraud mitigation and management
  • AI agent-initiated payments
  • Authentication optimization
  • Data, analytics, and insights
Ease of use and speed to value are key strengths of Stripe’s products. The quality of its APIs, documentation, and no-code/low-code capabilities are above par compared with others in this evaluation.
– The Forrester Wave™: Merchant Payment Providers, Q1 2026, Forrester Research, Inc., 2026

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