🆚 Alipay vs. Apple Pay

Alipay is a Chinese mobile payment and digital wallet platform that also provides access to everyday services such as ride-hailing, food delivery, and utility bill payments.

It supports international credit and debit card linking, QR code payments, the contactless Alipay Tap! feature using NFC, palm scanning and facial recognition, and an AI assistant for voice-based service discovery.

Apple Pay is a mobile payment and digital wallet service by Apple that lets users make secure contactless and online payments with iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro devices.

It supports tap-to-pay in stores using NFC, payments in apps and on the web, secure tokenization that hides actual card numbers from merchants, biometric authentication such as Face ID or Touch ID, and storage of credit, debit, and prepaid cards in Wallet.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• ⭐ 8th most popular in China in the Online Payments category.

• 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Online Payments category.
• 🥇 Most popular in New Zealand in the Online Payments category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the Online Payments category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Hong Kong in the Online Payments category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Online Payments category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• Alipay technology profile
• Alibaba Group company profile

• Apple Pay technology profile
• Apple company profile