You'd be surprised how little volume of api calls payments companies get compared to advertising companies or consumer internet companies. Stripe aren't especially well placed to own this asset on a technical level. That doesn't make this a bad acquisition per se, but there is no magic stripe can inject here as far as infra/technology is concerned.
Agree, even in the payments space usage-billing metrics providers like Chargebee / Lago etc get order(s) of magnitude more data than payment.
Granted payments and associated ledges require a level of consistency that other systems do not require, but that is orthogonal to high volume.
Stripe also supports usage based billing... If you think Lago gets more volume than Stripe I just don't know what to tell you lol
Lago cloud ? Probably not , lago like sentry is more likely to be self-hosted .
Stripe completed the metronome acquisition their usage billing offering just 8months back , that hardly makes Stripe the largest player in this place when they are not even fully integrated .
Stripe did $1.9T payments in 2025. That's 1.6% of global GDP.
It's take a lot to persuade me that there is another payment provider close to that volume.
Lago did around $10B in total API payment volume for comparison.
Has Stripe announced they were the top payment provider in the world?
That seems like something they would have prominently on their homepage.
Yes exactly and once you factor in that a lot of sites have the Stripe JS code on every single page the total number of requests is quite high... Plus they do outbound webhook requests for dozens if not hundreds of different events so a single end to end customer checkout actually can fire dozens of webhook events (depending on what is set up for the particular merchant - it does for us!)
> once you factor in that a lot of sites have the Stripe JS code on every single page
That's rarely a hit to origin though? That's mostly cached at the browser, if not at the CDN.
It sends analytics events to Stripe constantly...
Adyen and PayPal aren’t far off. Certainly close (~1.6T). That said, the gap is growing, stripe is growing faster.
That’s volume in terms of total payments, but in terms of number of API requests it’s surprisingly little.
I used to work in payments myself and I was shocked by how little the throughout is in terms of actual transactions per second. There simply aren’t that many payments happening globally at any moment, especially when compared to other industries.
A single games company can be doing far more API requests than the total volume of payments happening concurrently in the world, ditto for ads companies or observability companies.
At a payments company, 500 payments per second is considered high throughput and 1000 payments per second is a huge amount of volume. I’ve worked at games companies where 5000 transactions per second is low throughput.
The hard part in payments companies is consistency and reliability and “correctness”, the actual load and volume is embarrassingly small.
> At a payments company, 500 payments per second is considered high throughput and 1000 payments per second is a huge amount of volume.
I realise I live in a strange world when my first thought reading this is "Worldwide? That’s low. Fits in the basic one region, one account concurrent AWS Lambda quota. No need to even ask support for the 10k."
I mean, if you think about it, you can't pay a lot per second, most of people don't have money to throw around that much... How many times do you buy things during a day? Once? twice? Maybe thrice? 6 million payment uniformly in an hour is 1666 transactions per second, overall this tracks.
Lol there is no way that self-hosted Sentry gets more volume than the SaaS version
You are way off here
Would be great if either one would be able to back their claims with some data. But yes, I'd also imagine that SaaS version gets more traffic, but maybe there are some self-hosted enterprise editions that get insane amount of traffic
More expensive API calls though, I imagine. It’s also not that small scale. Sure, it’s no Google, but certainly higher scale than most companies using them
You'd be surprised how antiquainted many of them are. I don't mean Stripe or Braintree but the long tail of terrible terrible credit card processors. If I hear "Chase Payment Gateway" I shudder.
Braintree is antiquated. Sure it’s not Chase payment tech, but it’s closer to them than it is close to Adyen, Checkout and Stripe.
I shudder when I hear Braintree