🆚 Amazon Pay vs. PayPal
- 📈 PayPal is much more popular than Amazon Pay.
- 🌍 PayPal is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Amazon Pay is particularly popular in Germany.
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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.
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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
- ⭐ 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 the United States in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France 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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Technologies with similar characteristics.
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🗃️ About This Data
- 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

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