🆚 American Express vs. Mastercard
- 📈 Mastercard is twice as popular as American Express.
- 🌎 Mastercard is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 American Express is more popular in China, Uruguay, and Bolivia.
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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".
Mastercard is a global payment-network processor that connects merchants, banks and card-holders for debit, credit and prepaid payments.
It supports payments in more than 210 countries and territories, offers contactless and mobile tap-to-pay transactions, provides layered security including tokenisation and real-time fraud monitoring, and gives card-holders travel insurance and extended warranty benefits depending on the card tier.
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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
- 🥈 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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Croatia in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Macedonia in the Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the 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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- 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.