Stripe: Radar restructured to Pay Monthly/Pay As You Go plans + Radar Lite
What happened
Between the Jul 27, 2026 and Aug 3, 2026 captures of Stripe's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: Radar fraud protection changed from Included ($0.05/txn) + Radar for Fraud Teams ($0.02/$0.07 per txn, 30-day trial) tiers to a Choose a Plan model: Pay monthly (from $10/mo) or Pay as you go (from $0.05/txn); Payments overview bullet renamed from generic 'ML optimisations' copy to name the bundled 'Radar Lite' AI fraud protection feature. In detail: Payments product overview bullet updated from generic 'ML optimisations' fraud/revenue language to explicitly name a bundled product, 'Radar Lite', for AI-powered card payment fraud protection; Radar fraud protection restructured: the free 'Included' base tier plus separate 'Radar for Fraud Teams' per-transaction tier ($0.02/$0.07 per screened transaction, 30-day free trial) were replaced with a 'Choose a plan' model offering Pay monthly (from $10/month) or Pay as you go (from $0.05/screened transaction). Pulse files it as a packaging change (feature change, package change) with a neutral direction. Pulse's latest capture (Oct 19, 2026) lists Standard at 1.5% surcharge for international cards + $0.3 per successful transaction.
It lands 15 days after Stripe's previous change, "Stripe: Meters API footnote now discloses 100M events/month quota" (Jul 20, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Stripe: Meters API basic billing now includes up to 100M events/month" (Jul 16, 2026). Stripe has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
In the same window Squarespace also changed their Finance & Accounting pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- — · FeatureChanged
Beforegeneric 'ML optimisations' fraud/revenue language
Afterexplicitly name a bundled product
- — · PackagingPackage change
Radar fraud protection restructured: the free 'Included' base tier plus separate 'Radar for Fraud Teams' per-transaction tier ($0.02/$0.07 per screened transaction, 30-day free trial) were replaced with a 'Choose a plan' model offering Pay monthly (from $10/month) or Pay as you go (from $0.05/screened transaction).
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Feature | generic 'ML optimisations' fraud/revenue language | explicitly name a bundled product | Changed |
| — | Packaging | Radar fraud protection restructured: the free 'Included' base tier plus separate 'Radar for Fraud Teams' per-transaction tier ($0.02/$0.07 per screened transaction, 30-day free trial) were replaced with a 'Choose a plan' model offering Pay monthly (from $10/month) or Pay as you go (from $0.05/screened transaction). | Package change | |
Values as written on Stripe's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Stripe's pricing page (stripe.com) from Jul 27, 2026 and Aug 3, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where "generic 'ML optimisations' fraud/revenue language" becomes "explicitly name a bundled product".
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Stripe, the last 90 days
Full history- Aug 31, 2026packagingStripe: Metronome pricing restructured + new T600 reader ($329)
- Aug 28, 2026packagingStripe launches T600 hardware reader at $329, joining M2, S710, S700 lineup
- Aug 27, 2026packagingStripe kills Metronome Startup's included allotment, adds Data export pricing
- Aug 4, 2026improvedStripe: Radar restructured to Pay Monthly/Pay As You Go plans + Radar Lite · this change
- Jul 20, 2026improvedStripe: Meters API footnote now discloses 100M events/month quota
- Jul 16, 2026improvedStripe: Meters API basic billing now includes up to 100M events/month
Across Finance & Accounting in the same window
All Finance & Accounting changes- SquarespaceJul 13Squarespace hikes Basic/Core/Plus pricing up to 25%, rebrands AI feature label
- SquarespaceJun 2Squarespace slashes prices up to 30% across all subscription tiers
- SquarespaceMay 25Squarespace cuts mid-tier plan prices by up to 10%
- SquarespaceMay 11Squarespace slashes website builder pricing by up to 21 percent
Questions about this change
Did Stripe raise prices in August 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Jul 27, 2026 and Aug 3, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: feature change, package change.
What changed on Stripe's pricing page between Jul 27, 2026 and Aug 3, 2026?
Feature: generic 'ML optimisations' fraud/revenue language → explicitly name a bundled product, changed; Radar fraud protection restructured: the free 'Included' base tier plus separate 'Radar for Fraud Teams' per-transaction tier ($0.02/$0.07 per screened transaction, 30-day free trial) were replaced with a 'Choose a plan' model offering Pay monthly (from $10/month) or Pay as you go (from $0.05/screened transaction). Pulse compared the captures it took on Jul 27, 2026 and Aug 3, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Stripe change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 2 other pricing-page changes for Stripe in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Stripe: Meters API footnote now discloses 100M events/month quota" on Jul 20, 2026; Stripe has been tracked since 2023-11-14.