🆚 Alipay vs. PayPal
- 📈 PayPal is much more popular than Alipay.
- 🌍 PayPal is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Alipay is particularly popular in China.
Alipay
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About
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.
PayPal is an online payment service that allows users to send funds from a credit card, bank account, or PayPal balance to merchants without sharing their financial details.
It includes a digital wallet that links to bank accounts and cards, supports transactions in more than 200 countries and regions and 25 currencies, offers buyer protection on eligible purchases, and enables guest checkout for non-account holders.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 8th most popular in China in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Online Payments category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,816,780 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.