| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Payment orchestration platforms | Receivables and billing | 2% | 15 of 81 | 0% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by BlueSnap at 18% | |
| Merchants of record | Receivables and billing | 2% | 10 of 45 | 20% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Paddle at 28% | |
| Embedded payments platforms | Receivables and billing | 0% | 20 of 110 | 14% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Stripe Connect at 53% | |
| Invoicing software | Receivables and billing | 0% | 54 of 71 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Zoho Invoice at 24% |
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“For a limited budget, start with Whop if you need global coverage and want predictable transparent pricing.” MiniMax M2.5 · Payment orchestration · budget prompt · first choice
“such as Freemius, Gumroad, Lemon Squeezy, or Whop” Llama 4 Maverick · Merchants of record · budget prompt · first choice
“Whop at 2.7% + $0.30 is the lowest option, though it may have limitations depending on your product type” MiniMax M2.5 · Merchants of record · budget prompt · alternative
“Finix or Whop would be better long-term choices despite slightly higher setup costs” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Embedded payments · budget prompt · alternative
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.
“useful if your business model matches their niche positioning, but they are less clearly presented in the results as the lowest-budget general choice” Perplexity Sonar · Embedded payments · budget prompt · soft negative
“Whop — be cautious if you need a *full* MoR.” GPT-6 Luna · Merchants of record · negative prompt · soft negative
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 36 of the 36 answers that named Whop and are not a share of its labels.
115 of the 142 domain citations in answers naming Whop came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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.
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,572 | 26 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Comparison | 151 | 12 | 2026-09-02 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 82 | 6 | 2026-09-15 | ||
| Report or ebook | 72 | 0 | 2025-12-02 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 45 | 2 | 2026-08-27 | ||
| News or press | 44 | 0 | 2026-05-27 | ||
| Conference or event | 39 | 0 | 2025-09-05 | ||
| Podcast or video | 25 | 0 | 2025-02-06 | ||
| Case study | 6 | 0 | 2025-10-16 |
Every page whop.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.
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.
What Whop's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: whop.com, whop.com/network/pricing, whop.com/network/products/payouts, whop.com/network/product/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 Whop'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 Whop, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Whop by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows: