Stripe Link for agents (Link Agent Wallet)

Fact sheet

Type

Protocol

Operator

Stripe

Homepage

docs.stripe.com

Matrix reach

3 live, 0 pilot, 1 announced, 0 not supported, 23 with no statement found

Readiness for merchants

Seven rows, each read from a primary source on 4 Nov 2026. The method page defines every row.

The row in full: every column

What Link for agents does not do

• Is not an open protocol.
• Does not serve consumers outside the US and Canada for agent payments.
• Did not beat saved cards in Ora's October 2026 test.

Sourced facts

• Link Agent Wallet lets an agent create a spend request; the customer approves it and Link returns a one-time-use payment credential. docs.stripe.com, read 4 Nov 2026.
• Agent payments are available to US and Canadian customers; the agent business and the sellers can be elsewhere. docs.stripe.com, read 4 Nov 2026.
• Link Agent Wallet uses api.link.com with a per-customer OAuth token, not a Stripe API key; Stripe ships link-cli and TypeScript, Go and Python SDKs. docs.stripe.com, read 4 Nov 2026.
• On 8 Sep 2026 Stripe said Meta's Muse checks out with Link at more than 1 million Link-accepting businesses and gets a single-use virtual card elsewhere; Link has over 300 million users. stripe.com, read 4 Nov 2026.Vendor claim
• Meta says Muse is "the first AI agent covered by Link's purchase protections". about.fb.com, read 4 Nov 2026.Vendor claim
• Ora's lab found (October 2026) that agents paying through Link got 733 of 794 test checkouts right (92.3 percent) in Stripe test mode on fictional stores; saved cards scored 95.6 percent (cloud browser) and 96.6 percent (local browser). agentready.org, read 4 Nov 2026.Vendor claim
• In the same Ora test, the most common Link miss (27 of 61 failures) was an agent that asked the person to approve and then stopped. agentready.org, read 4 Nov 2026.Vendor claim

In the vendors section

• Stripe, processor profile
• Link (Stripe), wallet profile

Compare and alternatives

• Link for agents vs PayPal