🆚 Arcot vs. Stripe

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Stripe is much more popular than Arcot.
🌎 Stripe is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Arcot is more popular in Chile, Serbia, and Peru.

Arcot

Stripe

Type

Payment service

About

The Arcot Network is a payment authentication network powered by 3-D Secure (3DS). It enables financial institutions, merchants, and payment processors to authenticate the identity of a shopper during an e-commerce payment.

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

Palo Alto, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

arcot.broadcom.com

stripe.com #1,004

Pricing

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 7 times more popular than Arcot.

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 Arcot is more popular in Chile, Serbia, and Peru.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Germany

France

Italy

Canada

Spain

Netherlands

Ireland

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Fraud Prevention category.
🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the Fraud Prevention category.
🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Fraud Prevention category.
🥈 Second most popular in France in the Fraud Prevention category.
🥈 Second most popular in Italy in the Fraud Prevention 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 online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while Arcot is more commonly used on real estate sites.

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Fashion/Beauty

Blogs/Wiki

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Travel

Sports