🆚 Amazon Pay vs. PayPal

Type

Online payment service
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.

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.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States
San Jose, California, United States

Website

Pricing

For users Free ✔️
For merchants
Authorization fee $0.30
Processing fee
Domestic 2.9%
Cross-border 3.9%
Domestic personal transactions
From bank accounts $0 (if no currency conversion)
From cards 3.4% + fixed fee based on currency
International personal transactions
From U.S. bank accounts $4.99
From U.S. cards $4.99 + 3.4% + fixed fee
Merchant fees
For receiving domestic transactions 3.40% + fixed fee
For receiving international transactions 4.40% + fixed fee

Categories

Online Payments › Rank #15
Online Payments › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The PayPal online payment service is 32 times more popular than Amazon Pay.
Total websites

Market share

Online Payments

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

PayPal is more popular than Amazon Pay in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Australia
Italy
France
Netherlands
Canada
Spain
Japan

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

PayPal is more popular than Amazon Pay in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Sports
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#2,894
#5,626
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