# How far does an AI agent get in a card checkout?

Our agent reached the checkout at 63 of the 148 products it set out to buy from, and the card form at 46.

Drives: 1 Oct 2026 to 1 Nov 2026 · 148 products · Step: [Pay](https://agentdrives.com/access/pay.md) · Subject: Card checkout · Counted 1 Nov 2026. Source: https://agentdrives.com/findings/card-checkout?via=md · CC BY 4.0

## What we found

| How far it got | Products | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Reached the checkout | 63 of 148 | 43% |
| Reached the card form | 46 of 148 | 31% |
| Got to the pay button | under 5 |  |

| On the 63 checkouts it reached | Checkouts | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Card form by Stripe | 44 of 63 | 70% |
| Card form by another company or the product | 16 of 63 | 25% |
| A bot check on the page | 46 of 63 | 73% |
| A bot check a visitor must solve | under 5 |  |
| A 3-D Secure check | under 5 |  |
| A phone number field | 9 of 63 | 14% |
| A wallet next to the card | 37 of 63 | 59% |

- Link was the wallet on offer most often, at 26 of the 63 checkouts.
- 9 of the 148 products also offered an agent payment by x402, next to the card checkout.
- At the other 85, our agent never saw a checkout page.

## For product owners

- Link the checkout of each paid plan from the pricing page, so an agent can open it without a sales call.
- Keep the checkout to the card, the name and the address. Leave the phone number out or make it optional.
- Let a signed agent past the bot check on the checkout page, the same as on sign-up.

## For agent builders

- Expect a bot check on the checkout page, even when none shows.
- Check the pricing page for an x402 option before you go to the card checkout.

## How we tested

- Drives from 1 Oct 2026 to 1 Nov 2026, 201 products. At 148 of them our agent set out to buy the cheapest paid plan.
- It went from the pricing page to the checkout, filled in what it could and stopped before the button that pays.
- On each checkout page it noted who runs the card form, any bot check, a 3-D Secure check, a phone field and the wallets on offer.

## Limits

- Each checkout as it was on the day of its drive.
- One plan per product: the cheapest paid one.
- A check that runs only after the pay button isn't counted.
- Counts under 5 are left out.

## Sources

- [Every number on this page, with its definition](https://agentdrives.com/data/facts.md?via=md#checkout.walked)
- [Agent access: Pay](https://agentdrives.com/access/pay.md)
- [Every payment step, day by day](https://agentdrives.com/data/payments.md?via=md)
- [How we drive](https://agentdrives.com/method.md?via=md)