About 200 AI agents are reportedly on Stripe's Link platform

For agent purchases, Link says people choose a payment method, approve the amount before each purchase and can see transactions in one place. Stripe also says an agent never receives the user’s payment credentials. Those controls are central to the pitch: an assistant can prepare a transaction, but the user remains the final approver.

A mix of shopping and work assistants

The Upstarts report names consumer-facing agents including Instinct, Meta’s Muse and Grok Bot, along with work-oriented services such as Skydive and Town. It also points to smaller apps such as Underdog.

The same report says Anthropic and OpenAI use Link, but not yet for agentic commerce. That distinction keeps the roughly 200-agent total from becoming a claim that every company using Link already lets its assistants buy things for users.

AI-driven purchasing remains a small part of Link’s overall reach, according to the report. Still, the expanding roster suggests payment companies are moving beyond checkout pages built only for people. Link’s model gives software agents a way to initiate purchases while keeping the actual payment approval and account controls with the customer.