🆚 Apple Pay vs. Mercado Pago
- 📈 Apple Pay is much more popular than Mercado Pago.
- 🌎 Apple Pay is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌎 Mercado Pago is more popular in Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina.
Apple Pay
Mercado PagoType
About
Apple Pay is a mobile payment and digital wallet service by Apple that lets users make secure contactless and online payments with iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro devices.
It supports tap-to-pay in stores using NFC, payments in apps and on the web, secure tokenization that hides actual card numbers from merchants, biometric authentication such as Face ID or Touch ID, and storage of credit, debit, and prepaid cards in Wallet.
Mercado Pago is a Latin American digital payment platform developed by 
Mercado Libre that provides payment processing, digital wallet services, and checkout infrastructure for online stores, mobile apps, and physical merchants.
It offers multiple checkout models, including hosted Checkout Pro, customizable API-based checkout, and modular Checkout Bricks components. The platform also supports subscriptions and marketplace split payments, and provides developer SDKs and plugins for third-party platforms such as 
WooCommerce, 
Shopify, 
Adobe Commerce, and 
VTEX.
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Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
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Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in New Zealand in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Hong Kong in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Colombia in the Online Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Mexico in the Online Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Chile in the Online Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Peru in the Online Payments category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Argentina in the Online Payments category.
Popularity by domain category
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🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.