🆚 Discover vs. Stripe

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *
Discover
Stripe

Type

Payment service
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.

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

Riverwoods, Illinois, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

discover.com #1,830
stripe.com #1,004

Pricing

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

Categories

Payments › Rank #16
Payments › Rank #3
Subscriptions › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Stripe payment service is 8 times more popular than Discover.
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 Discover is more popular in Croatia, Paraguay, and the Cayman Islands.
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Germany
France
Canada
Italy
Spain
Netherlands
Japan

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Stripe is more popular than Discover in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Travel
Entertainment
Fashion/Beauty

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,095
#1,830
#3,479
#6,303
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Rank
#12
#23
#61
#70
#78
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See also

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