🆚 American Express vs. Discover

📈 American Express is twice as popular as Discover.
🌎 American Express is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 Discover is more popular in Croatia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.

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

American Express

Discover

Type

Online payment service

About

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".

Discover is a global payment network and card issuer offering credit and debit cards as well as processing services.

It includes cloud-based tokenization for secure digital payments, offers contactless EMV tap-to-pay solutions, and is accepted at more than 70 million merchant locations across over 200 countries.

Headquarters

New York, United States

Riverwoods, Illinois, United States

Website

americanexpress.com #988

discover.com #1,830

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The American Express online payment service is 2.4 times more popular than Discover.

Total websites

Market share

Online 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 Germany, while Discover is more popular in Croatia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Brazil

Netherlands

France

Sweden

Argentina

Italy

Australia

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in Uruguay in the Online Payments category.
🥉 Third most popular in Argentina in the Online Payments category.
🥉 Third most popular in Serbia in the Online Payments category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Brazil in the Online Payments category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Turkey in the Online Payments category.

⭐ 5th most popular in Croatia in the Online Payments category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Greece in the Online Payments category.
⭐ 10th most popular in Sweden in the Online Payments category.
⭐ 10th most popular in China in the Online Payments category.
🔥 11st most popular in India in the Online Payments category.

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 business, while Discover is more commonly used on games sites.

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Business

Fashion/Beauty

Travel

Internet Services

Software/Hardware

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#340

#417

#988

#1,095

#1,380

Name

Rank

#1,048

#1,095

#1,492

#1,830

#2,070