🆚 American Express vs. Link
- 📈 American Express is five times more popular than Link.
- 🌎 American Express is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Link is more popular in Slovakia, Thailand, and Ukraine.
Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this 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".
Stripe
KlarnaHeadquarters
New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Payment processing, per transaction
Standard2.9% + 30¢
Instant Bank Payments2.6% + 30¢
Klarna5.99% + 30¢
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The American Express payment service is 5 times more popular than Link.
Total websites
Market share
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 Link is more popular in Slovakia, Thailand, and Ukraine.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Brazil
Netherlands
Australia
France
Argentina
Italy
Spain
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Uruguay in the Payments category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Serbia in the Payments category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Argentina in the Payments category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Israel in the Payments category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Nepal in the Payments category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Indonesia in the Payments category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Singapore in the Payments category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in India in the Payments category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in the United States in the Payments category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Australia in the Payments category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
American Express is more popular than Link in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Travel
Fashion/Beauty
Internet Services
Entertainment
Software/Hardware
Sports
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Visa
Mastercard
Revolut
Venmo
PayPal
Shop Pay🗃️ 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 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.