🆚 Amazon Pay vs. American Express

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Payment service
Payment service

About

Amazon Pay lets Amazon customers to pay on your website using the information already stored in their Amazon accounts.

American Express is a global payment network and card issuer that provides charge, credit, and prepaid cards.

It enables contactless and mobile wallet payments, offers a membership rewards programm, provides purchase protection and extended warranty benefits, and supports a pay-in-installments feature called "Plan It".

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States
New York, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️Customers
Merchants
Authorization fee$0.30
Processing fee
Domestic2.9%
Cross-border3.9%

Categories

Payments › Rank #15
Payments › Rank #8

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The American Express payment service is 2.5 times more popular than Amazon Pay.
Total websites

Market share

Payments

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

American Express is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil, while Amazon Pay is more popular in Germany, Japan, and Austria.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Brazil
Italy
France
Netherlands
Argentina
Spain

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

American Express is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty, while Amazon Pay is more commonly used on games sites.
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Business
Travel
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Sports
Entertainment
Real Estate

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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