🆚 Buy Me a Coffee vs. Patreon

Type

Donation tool
Donation tool

About

Buy Me a Coffee is a creator support platform that lets individuals accept financial support, sell products, and offer services directly to their audience.

It supports one-time contributions styled as virtual coffees, recurring memberships, a built-in shop for digital and physical products, customizable creator pages, supporter messaging, and integration with Stripe and PayPal for payments.

Patreon is a membership platform that allows creators to run a subscription-based service for their content and sell digital products directly to their most dedicated fans.

It lets creators set up multiple membership tiers or one-time purchases, publish exclusive posts, videos or audio, manage payments and payouts, host media, and offer community tools like chats and polls.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Transaction Fee5%
Standard platform fee10%
Legacy platform fees
Pro8%
Premium12%
Payment processing
USD2.9%-3.9% + $0.30
EUR3.4% + €0.35
GBP3.4% + £0.35

Categories

Donations › Rank #5
Donations › Rank #1
Subscriptions › Rank #3
E-Commerce › Rank #11

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Patreon donation tool is 2.8 times more popular than Buy Me a Coffee.
Total websites

Market share

Donations

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Patreon is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Buy Me a Coffee is more popular in the Czech Republic, India, and Singapore.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Canada
France
Netherlands
Australia
Spain
Russia
Ukraine

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Patreon is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, entertainment, and games, while Buy Me a Coffee is more commonly used on Internet services sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Games
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Business
Software/Hardware
Internet Services
Sports
Technical/Business Forums

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#6,740
#21,308
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See also

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