Stripe: An orchestration layer, not a platform

Stripe Projects is a command-line orchestration tool designed to simplify the early stages of software development by allowing developers to create provider accounts, provision services, manage environment variables, and handle payments across multiple SaaS and infrastructure vendors from one workflow. Built around account, service, and resource objects, its protocol supports account creation, live catalog retrieval, resource provisioning, credential rotation, and removal through standardized provider endpoints, while accommodating varied pricing models. Stripe uses separately tokenized payment credentials for each provider, enabling centralized payment setup, per-provider spending limits, and updates from provider dashboards without replacing providers’ direct billing relationships. Presented as an open ecosystem of roughly 50 providers rather than a platform that owns customer accounts, Stripe Projects keeps developers’ accounts, credentials, and service relationships with the underlying vendors. Its CLI can provision services such as Render databases and hosting, and can be used by coding agents to connect repositories, deploy applications, and add tools including OpenRouter, Exa, Clerk, and PostHog through natural-language requests.

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