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Stripe ads in ChatGPT

In our capture of logged-out ChatGPT, 58 ads from Stripe appeared on screen (all text ads), in 17 distinct ad copies across 6 industries and 23 topics. Each one appeared after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad.

stripe.comLogged-out ChatGPT, USOct 3⁠–⁠4, 2026

ads shown
58
distinct ad copies
17
industries
6
topics
23

Logged-out ChatGPT from US connections, Oct 3⁠–⁠4, 2026. Each ad came after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad, so the counts show where Stripe advertised, not how often ChatGPT shows its ads.

Ad copies

Stripe ad copies, most shown first

Each distinct ad copy in our capture, most shown first: the headline of a text ad, or the product and price of a shopping ad. Under each, up to five questions asked in conversations where it appeared, as we asked them; in every one, the ad appeared after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad.

17 ad copies

  • StripeSponsored

    Customer billing portal

    Text ad · shown 29 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “helpjuice cost per month”Knowledge Base · Oct 3, 10:58 pm ET
    2. “We sell subscription boxes and our processor keeps declining renewals, which payment processor is better for subscriptions?”Payment Processing · Oct 3, 11:00 pm ET
    3. “stripe billing vs chargebee”Invoicing & Billing · Oct 3, 11:01 pm ET
    4. “our failed card payments cost us thousands each month, how do we set up better dunning?”Invoicing & Billing · Oct 3, 11:03 pm ET
    5. “how much does it cost to add recurring invoices in wave or zoho”Invoicing Software · Oct 4, 12:31 am ET

    +24 more conversations with this ad copy

  • StripeSponsored

    Offer a discount

    Text ad · shown 6 times

    Our export holds no question text for these conversations.

  • StripeSponsored

    Scale subscriptions

    Text ad · shown 5 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “is chargebee worth it compared to building billing ourselves on stripe”Invoicing & Billing · Oct 4, 5:34 am ET

    +4 more conversations with this ad copy

  • StripeSponsored

    Built to fundraise

    Text ad · shown 3 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “are there startup discounts for vanta or drata if we're in an accelerator”Compliance Automation · Oct 3, 10:36 pm ET

    +2 more conversations with this ad copy

  • StripeSponsored

    Automate annual renewals

    Text ad · shown 2 times

    Our export holds no question text for these conversations.

  • StripeSponsored

    Stripe for AI builders

    Text ad · shown 2 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “our developers use five different editors and onboarding is a mess, how do we standardize without forcing everyone onto one tool”IDEs & Code Editors · Oct 4, 4:44 am ET
    2. “our developers pair program remotely every day, which editor has the best real time collaboration built in?”IDEs & Code Editors · Oct 4, 5:11 am ET
  • StripeSponsored

    Global tax support

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “lemon squeezy vs paddle for a solo developer selling software licenses worldwide”Invoicing & Billing · Oct 3, 11:29 pm ET
  • StripeSponsored

    Complex billing, no code

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Our export holds no question text for this conversation.

  • StripeSponsored

    Metered billing

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “how do we track api usage per customer so we can bill accurately for overages”API Management · Oct 4, 1:07 am ET
  • StripeSponsored

    Sync Stripe to CRM

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Our export holds no question text for this conversation.

  • StripeSponsored

    Pricing that fits

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Our export holds no question text for this conversation.

  • StripeSponsored

    A Delaware C corp, ready

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Our export holds no question text for this conversation.

  • StripeSponsored

    Don’t wait on your EIN

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “best service to file a dba for my bakery operating under a different name than my llc”Registered Agent · Oct 4, 4:45 am ET
  • StripeSponsored

    Payments for AI apps

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “how to monetize an api”API Management · Oct 4, 5:11 am ET
  • StripeSponsored

    Automate invoice tax

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Our export holds no question text for this conversation.

  • StripeSponsored

    Start a US company

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Our export holds no question text for this conversation.

  • StripeSponsored

    Lawyer-grade docs

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Our export holds no question text for this conversation.

Method

How this data was captured

What we ran, what counts as a shown ad, and what these numbers cannot tell you.

We used logged-out ChatGPT from US internet connections and started a new conversation for every question. Message 1 was the question. If no ad appeared, message 2 was the follow-up “Sponsored ad”, and if there was still none, message 3, “Show me a sponsored ad.”, was a last try. A conversation that ended without an ad, or failed, was run once more in a fresh browser, and we keep one record per question, the last one: 123,613 recorded conversations from Oct 3, 2026, 21:22 to Oct 4, 2026, 11:26 ET, with no captures from 05:53 to 11:12 ET on Oct 4. Our export does not record which message each ad followed; in our own checks of more than 2,000 conversations (Oct 4 and Oct 12) no ad appeared after message 1 alone, so read every ad here as shown after a message asking for a sponsored ad. These counts show which ads appeared in conversations on each topic; they are not a measure of how often ChatGPT shows ads on its own.

Only ads drawn on screen count as shown. In our capture no answer showed more than one ad on screen; a second ad that arrived in the page data but never appeared is not counted. Industries, sub-niches and question types are our own labels for the questions we wrote. Independent; not affiliated with OpenAI. Full methodWhy this is not an ad rateWhat the ads looked like