Every category where a model named Stax Connect for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Embedded payments platforms	Receivables and billing	0%	21 of 110	14%	7	under 10 labels · led by Stripe Connect at 53%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Stax Connect yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Stax Connect across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	0	0	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	2	0	2

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase9 labels2

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained9 labels2

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative28 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“If you're building a SaaS platform and want to embed payments: Finix or Stax” MiniMax M2.5 · Embedded payments · direct prompt · alternative

“Pure cost-cutter: Rainforest or Stax for PFaaS (handles underwriting)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Embedded payments · budget prompt · alternative

“Predictable-volume B2B | Subscription pricing over % markups” Grok 4.1 Fast · Embedded payments · paraphrase prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“it is worth cautioning against if you are looking for "cheap" processing” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Embedded payments · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Stax Connect, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Stax Connect was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Stripe Connect26 of 2815Not among the top eight

Finix24 of 285Not among the top eight

Adyen for Platforms18 of 287Not among the top eight

Tilled11 of 281Not among the top eight

Rainforest8 of 280Not among the top eight

Payrix7 of 280Not among the top eight

Worldpay for Platforms3 of 281Not among the top eight

NMI3 of 280Not among the top eight

Payabli3 of 280Not among the top eight

Sila3 of 280Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Stax Connect. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 28 of the 28 answers that named Stax Connect and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

whop.com23

sourceforge.net19

fintechspecs.com18

finix.com17

guideflow.com15

stripe.com14

zendikt.com14

londonlovesbusiness.com13

fiska.com12

swipesum.com12

157 of the 157 domain citations in answers naming Stax Connect came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

whop.com/blog/embedded-payments-platforms19

fintechspecs.com/blog/embedded-payments-providers-b2b-saas16

guideflow.com/blog/embedded-payments-software15

zendikt.com/top-10-embedded-payments-software14

finix.com/resources/blogs/best-payment-processors-for-saas13

londonlovesbusiness.com/the-10-best-embedded-payment-solutions-for-software-companies13

swipesum.com/insights/best-embedded-payments-payfac-as-a-service-companies11

fiska.com/blog/best-embedded-payment-solutions-for-saas10

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

staxpayments.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Stax Connect takes 0% of first choices and Stripe Connect takes 53%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “embedded payments platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “embedded payments platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 70 a month (“stax connect”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 1 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 23,084 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 11,225 · 115 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 3,644
Paid Google search: 3 searches its ads show for, about 11 clicks and $141 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

72 ads · 59 text, 9 image, 4 video · 34 shown in the last 30 days

First shown April 2022, as Stax Payments, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 55 in the year, 17 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 21 of 110 in embedded payments

Segment leader

53%

Stripe Connect

First choices: 4 across its categories
Named in: 28 answers
Its own site cited: in 28 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on staxpayments.com

474

subdomains included

Content

407

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	362	40	2026-09-23	Revenue recognition, Accounting software
Glossary or explainer	19	2	2026-08-18
Comparison	17	2	2026-08-18
Report or ebook	5	undated
Case study	1	undated
Webinar or virtual event	1	0	2025-05-07
Conference or event	1	0	2024-03-24
News or press	1	0	2024-03-23

Most recent

2026-09-23Retainer billing software blog
2026-09-21B2b payments professional services controller blog
2026-09-16Consulting firm payment processing blog
2026-09-14Legal software payment attachment rate saas integration blog
2026-09-09Accounting firm payment processing fees blog
2026-09-09How to set up a merchant account blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page staxpayments.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as Stax Connect

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Stax Connect; a claim can dispute any of them.

Stax 3

Follow Stax Connect

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Stax Connect is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Embedded payments for SaaS platforms
staxpayments.com
For: SaaS platforms
staxpayments.com
Customers named: Sera
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Stax Connect's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: staxpayments.com, staxpayments.com/pricing, trust.staxpayments.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Stax Connect's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Stax Connect, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Stax Connect by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Stax Connect is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Stax Connect, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.