🆚 Alipay vs. Stripe

📈 Stripe is much more popular than Alipay.
🌎 Stripe is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Alipay is more popular in Seychelles and the Cayman Islands.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Alipay

Stripe

Type

Online payment service

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.

Stripe is a payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration.

It supports over 135 currencies, enables direct bank debits and real-time payments, manages subscriptions with smart retry logic, includes machine learning–based fraud detection, and offers the Stripe Connect solution for marketplaces and platforms to route payouts in more than 45 countries.

Headquarters

Hangzhou, China

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

global.alipay.com

stripe.com #1,004

Pricing

Service fee UnionPay cards Free ✔️
Non-UnionPay cards Under 200 CNY 0%
Over 200 CNY 3%

Payment processing, US accounts, per transaction Domestic cards 2.9% + 30¢
Manually entered cards 3.4% + 30¢
International cards 4.4% + 30¢
Currency conversion 1%

Payment processing, EU accounts, per transaction Standard EU cards 1.5% + €0.25
Premium EU cards 1.5% + €0.25
UK cards 2.5% + €0.25
International cards 3.25% + €0.25
Currency conversion 2%

Post-payment invoices 0.4% on transaction total, max $2

Identity $1.50/verification

Tax Basic 0.5%/transaction

Tax Complete $1,080+/year

Custom domain $10/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Stripe online payment service is 37 times more popular than Alipay.

Total websites

Market share

Online Payments

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Stripe is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Alipay is more popular in Seychelles and the Cayman Islands.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Germany

France

Canada

Italy

Spain

Netherlands

Japan

Awards

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

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Subscriptions category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Subscriptions category.
🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Subscriptions category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Subscriptions category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Subscriptions category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Stripe is more popular than Alipay in all market segments.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Travel

Entertainment

Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#1,484

#5,342

#6,930

#7,259

#17,976

Name

Rank

#12

#48

#70