🆚 American Express vs. Link

📈 American Express is much more popular than Link.
🌎 American Express is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 Link is more popular in Thailand, Ukraine, and Taiwan.

Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data

American Express

Link

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".

Link is a one-click checkout feature from Stripe that allows shoppers to securely save and reuse their payment and shipping information across participating online merchants.

It increases conversions by providing faster checkout and works with cards, bank accounts, and Klarna.

Headquarters

New York, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

americanexpress.com #1,030

link.com #9,870

Pricing

Payment processing, per transaction Standard 2.9% + 30¢
Instant Bank Payments 2.6% + 30¢
Klarna 5.99% + 30¢

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The American Express online payment service is 6 times more popular than Link.

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 Link is more popular in Thailand, Ukraine, and Taiwan.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Brazil

Netherlands

France

Australia

Argentina

Italy

Spain

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.

⭐ 10th most popular in Indonesia in the Online Payments category.
🔥 14th most popular in India in the Online Payments category.
🔥 20th most popular in the United States in the Online Payments category.
⬆️ 21st most popular in Australia in the Online 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

Software/Hardware

Entertainment

Health

Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#558

#1,030

#1,490

#1,754

Name

Rank

#65

#130

#169

#185

#441