🆚 American Express vs. Stripe
- 📈 Stripe is three times more popular than American Express.
- 🌎 Stripe is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌎 American Express is more popular in Brazil, Argentina, and Serbia.
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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".
Stripe is a payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration.
It supports over 135 currencies, enables direct bank debits and real-time payments, manages subscriptions with smart retry logic, includes machine learning–based fraud detection, and offers the Stripe Connect solution for marketplaces and platforms to route payouts in more than 45 countries.
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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 the United States in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Subscriptions 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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PayPro Global🗃️ 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.