SaaS · Evaluation
Stripe
Compliance Index score
61.099999999999994/100 · D
↓ 7.7 pts since last week (68.8 → 61.099999999999994)
Per-category breakdown
Each category is scored independently. The cohort average shows how this site compares to the 30-site cohort in each dimension.
Evaluation
Stripe scores 61.099999999999994/D on the Designesy Compliance Index — 18 of 40 checks passed, 3 failed, 14 warned, 2 skipped. The cohort mean is 62.2/D across 30 scored sites. Stripe sits 2% below the cohort mean.
Strongest category: Poise at 100.0%. Weakest scored category: Accessibility at 50.0%. The gap between best and worst is the finding — most systems are strong in one dimension and absent in another.
Since last week's score, Stripe dropped by 7.7 points — moving from 68.8 to 61.099999999999994.
The engine detected 713 custom properties at :root — a rich token layer. The question is whether those tokens are structured (primitive → semantic → component) or flat.
This evaluation is deterministic — no LLM, no human judgment, no survey. The same 40-check engine that scored Stripe scores every site on the leaderboard. Re-score stripe.com live to see if anything has changed since 2026-08-03.
Scored 2026-08-03 against contract v0.4.0 (40 checks, 14 weighted categories). Re-scored weekly via GitHub Action.
Compared to SaaS peers
Stripe ranks #5 of 6 in the SaaS category.
Cohort context
This site
61.099999999999994/100
Cohort mean
62.2/100
Cohort median
62.6/100
Delta from mean
-1.1
Why this site is scored
Frontier reference — mature design system