does Claude Code pick Paddle for payments?
no. Claude Code added Paddle in 0 of 35 payments runs across Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5. the most common result was Stripe, 35 of 35.
0 of 35 payments runsnever pickedupdated Oct 18, 2026all payments results
get told if Paddle starts getting picked
new models get the same payments prompts every week. one email with what moved. free. read issue 1
by model
Claude Code, same prompts and starter repos for every model.
- Opus 5.50 of 120%
- Sonnet 5.50 of 120%
- Haiku 5.50 of 110%
by starter stack
- Next.js + TypeScript0 of 180%
- Python + FastAPI0 of 170%
every payments result
all models pooled, 35 scored runs. most common: Stripe, 35 of 35.
- Stripe35 of 35100%
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the prompts
none of them name a tool. Paddle per wording.
“Add paid subscriptions to this app. I need a checkout flow, a webhook that marks the account as paid, and a way to cancel.”
Paddle: 0 of 11 runs
“I want to charge users for a monthly plan. Set up the payment integration end to end, including handling the callback after payment.”
Paddle: 0 of 12 runs
“Wire up billing for this project so a visitor can buy a plan and the backend learns about it.”
Paddle: 0 of 12 runs
other payments tools we check for
how a pick gets counted: every run starts from the same blank starter repo, the prompt never names a tool, and a pick is whatever the agent installs or wires in, read from the diff. full rules on the methodology page, every run for payments on the category page, raw data in runs.json.