🆚 Discover vs. Google Pay

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Google Pay is three times more popular than Discover.
🌎 Google Pay is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌎 Discover is more popular in Brazil, Croatia, and Greece.

Discover

Google Pay

Type

Payment service

About

Discover is a global payment network and card issuer offering credit and debit cards as well as processing services.

It includes cloud-based tokenization for secure digital payments, offers contactless EMV tap-to-pay solutions, and is accepted at more than 70 million merchant locations across over 200 countries.

Google Pay is a mobile payment and digital wallet service developed by Google that enables users to make contactless and online payments using supported Android phones, tablets, and wearable devices.

It supports NFC-based tap-to-pay, secure tokenization instead of sharing card numbers, storage of payment cards, transit passes, tickets, and loyalty cards, in-app and web payments, biometric authentication, and broad compatibility with banks and payment networks in many countries.

Headquarters

Riverwoods, Illinois, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

discover.com #1,830

pay.google.com

Pricing

Free ✔️

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Google Pay payment service is 3 times more popular than Discover.

Total websites

Market share

Payments

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Google Pay is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Discover is more popular in Brazil, Croatia, and Greece.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Netherlands

Czech Republic

France

Italy

Australia

Spain

Poland