Everything Announced at Stripe Sessions 2026

At Sessions 2026, Stripe announced 288 new products and features to an audience of more than 9,000. The core focus is making payments infrastructure more programmable, protecting businesses with the Stripe network, and building the economic infrastructure for the AI era.

• Payments: The Agentic Commerce Suite and Link's agent wallet open up AI agent payments, letting businesses handle catalog uploads and agent access management from the Dashboard. Native checkout within Meta's Facebook ads and integration with Google's UCP also enable purchases through AI Mode and the Gemini app. MPP and Shared Payment Tokens were also unveiled. Checkout studio and embeddable forms help with checkout analytics and optimization, and Link added Brazil's Pix and stablecoins, with India's UPI also announced as coming.

• In-person payments and operations: This includes the Stripe Reader T600, expansion of Terminal to 15 additional markets (including Hong Kong and Mexico), added support for Alipay, Klarna, and UnionPay International, and Managed Payments' merchant of record solution, which handles indirect tax, fraud, disputes, and customer support across more than 80 countries, along with a standalone mode.

• Payments Intelligence: Authorization Boost can now be A/B tested, and Stripe said Data Only authentication and PINless debit retries raise average approval rates by 3.8% and lower processing costs by up to 3.3%. 3DS standalone and a Dashboard assistant were also included.

• Radar: Bot abuse prevention distinguishes legitimate AI agents from fraudulent bots, and detection was expanded to cover free trial abuse, multi-account, account sharing, merchant risk, website fraud, and Issuing authorization fraud. Stripe Signals covers fraud and dispute prediction across bank debits, wallets, BNPL, and stablecoins, and custom Radar models and Smart Disputes' AI recommendations and evidence library were also strengthened.

• Revenue: Metronome strengthens usage-based and hybrid pricing, multi-dimensional pricing, and real-time revenue visibility, and lets businesses manage contracts, customers, and data directly from the Dashboard. It also supports AI-native billing models such as streaming payments.