🆚 Apple Pay vs. Stripe

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Stripe is three times more popular than Apple Pay.
🌎 Stripe is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Apple Pay is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic.

Apple Pay

Stripe

Type

Payment service

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.

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.

Headquarters

Cupertino, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

apple.com/apple-pay #8

stripe.com #1,004

Pricing

Free ✔️

Payment processing, US accounts, per transactionDomestic cards2.9% + 30¢
Manually entered cards3.4% + 30¢
International cards4.4% + 30¢
Currency conversion1%

Payment processing, EU accounts, per transactionStandard EU cards1.5% + €0.25
Premium EU cards1.5% + €0.25
UK cards2.5% + €0.25
International cards3.25% + €0.25
Currency conversion2%

Post-payment invoices0.4% on transaction total, max $2

Identity$1.50/verification

Tax Basic0.5%/transaction

Tax Complete$1,080+/year

Custom domain$10/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Stripe payment service is 3 times more popular than Apple Pay.

Total websites

Market share

Payments

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Stripe is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Apple Pay is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Australia

France

Italy

Spain

Netherlands

Canada

Switzerland

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Payments category.
🥉 Third most popular in Belarus in the Payments category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Payments category.
⭐ 5th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Payments category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Slovakia 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.

Stripe is more popular among sites focused on marketing and merchandising, business, and Internet services, while Apple Pay is more commonly used on online shopping, fashion and beauty, and finance and banking sites.

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Business

Fashion/Beauty

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Travel

Sports