🆚 American Express vs. Google Pay

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Payment service
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".

Google Pay is a mobile payment and digital wallet service developed by Google that enables users to make contactless and online payments using supported Android phones, tablets, and wearable devices.

It supports NFC-based tap-to-pay, secure tokenization instead of sharing card numbers, storage of payment cards, transit passes, tickets, and loyalty cards, in-app and web payments, biometric authentication, and broad compatibility with banks and payment networks in many countries.

Headquarters

New York, United States
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️

Categories

Payments › Rank #8
Payments › Rank #6

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Google Pay payment service is 1.2 times more popular than American Express.
Total websites

Market share

Payments

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Google Pay is more popular in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands, while American Express is more popular in the United States, Brazil, and Argentina.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Netherlands
Brazil
France
Italy
Australia
Czech Republic
Spain

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Google Pay is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and business, while American Express is more commonly used on travel, Internet services, and entertainment sites.
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Fashion/Beauty
Travel
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Sports
Real Estate
Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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