🆚 Amazon Pay vs. Mercado Pago

📈 Amazon Pay is noticeably more popular than Mercado Pago.
🌎 Amazon Pay is more popular in Germany, Japan, and the United States.
🌎 Mercado Pago is more popular in Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico.

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Amazon Pay

Mercado Pago

Type

Online payment service

About

Amazon Pay is an online payment service that allows customers to complete purchases on third-party websites using the payment methods and shipping information stored in their Amazon accounts.

It supports recurring payments, fraud protection, voice payments through Alexa-enabled devices, and integrations with e-commerce platforms such as Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, OpenCart, and PrestaShop.

Mercado Pago is a Latin American digital payment platform developed by Mercado Libre that provides payment processing, digital wallet services, and checkout infrastructure for online stores, mobile apps, and physical merchants.

It offers multiple checkout models, including hosted Checkout Pro, customizable API-based checkout, and modular Checkout Bricks components. The platform also supports subscriptions and marketplace split payments, and provides developer SDKs and plugins for third-party platforms such as WooCommerce, Shopify, Adobe Commerce, and VTEX.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

Montevideo, Uruguay

Website

pay.amazon.com

mercadopago.com.ar #1,856

Pricing

For users Free ✔️

For merchants Authorization fee $0.30
Processing fee Domestic 2.9%
Cross-border 3.9%

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Amazon Pay online payment service is 1.6 times more popular than Mercado Pago.

Total websites

Market share

Online Payments

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Amazon Pay is more popular in Germany, Japan, and the United States, while Mercado Pago is more popular in Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico.

Germany

Brazil

Japan

Argentina

United States

Mexico

United Kingdom

Italy

Chile

Colombia

Awards

⭐ 4th most popular in Japan in the Online Payments category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Germany in the Online Payments category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Austria in the Online Payments category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Italy in the Online Payments category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Spain in the Online Payments category.

🥇 Most popular in Argentina in the Online Payments category.
🥇 Most popular in Colombia in the Online Payments category.
🥈 Second most popular in Mexico in the Online Payments category.
🥈 Second most popular in Chile in the Online Payments category.
🥈 Second most popular in Peru in the Online Payments category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Amazon Pay is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty, while Mercado Pago is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, education and reference, and auctions and classifieds sites.

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Business

Software/Hardware

Sports

Internet Services

Health

Entertainment

Real Estate

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#2,062

#2,263

#2,850

#2,894

#5,626

Name

Rank

#163

#322

#331

#1,638

#1,856