🆚 Apple Pay vs. Stripe

📈 Apple Pay is three times more popular than Stripe.
🌎 Apple Pay is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌎 Stripe is more popular in India, Brazil, and Malaysia.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Apple Pay

Stripe

Type

Online 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 transaction Domestic cards 2.9% + 30¢
Manually entered cards 3.4% + 30¢
International cards 4.4% + 30¢
Currency conversion 1%

Payment processing, EU accounts, per transaction Standard EU cards 1.5% + €0.25
Premium EU cards 1.5% + €0.25
UK cards 2.5% + €0.25
International cards 3.25% + €0.25
Currency conversion 2%

Post-payment invoices 0.4% on transaction total, max $2

Identity $1.50/verification

Tax Basic 0.5%/transaction

Tax Complete $1,080+/year

Custom domain $10/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Apple Pay online payment service is 2.7 times more popular than Stripe.

Total websites

Market share

Online Payments

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Apple Pay is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Stripe is more popular in India, Brazil, and Malaysia.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Australia

Canada

France

Italy

Spain

Netherlands

Japan

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 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.

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

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Business

Sports

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

Travel

Education/Reference

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#35

#49