🆚 Faire vs. Taobao

Type

Online marketplace
Online marketplace

About

Faire is a B2B wholesale marketplace that connects independent retailers with brands to discover and order products for resale.

It offers access to over 100,000 brands and millions of products, provides features such as low minimum orders, 60-day payment terms, free returns on first orders, data-driven product recommendations, and a dedicated Shopify app for syncing products and orders.

Taobao is a Chinese online consumer-to-consumer e-commerce marketplace where individual sellers and small businesses list a massive assortment of products for buyers to browse and purchase.

It hosts over a billion product listings across diverse categories, integrates personalized recommendations, live-stream shopping, user reviews and direct seller communication, and leverages Alipay payments with buyer protection.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States
Hangzhou, China

Website

Pricing

Commissions
Faire Direct orders 0%
Marketplace orders 15%
First order from a new customer $10

Categories

Marketplaces › Rank #31
Marketplaces › Rank #7

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Taobao marketplace is 4 times more popular than Faire.
Total websites

Market share

Marketplaces

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Taobao is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Indonesia, while Faire is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
China
United States
Hong Kong
Indonesia
United Kingdom
Korea
Singapore
Taiwan
Canada
Germany

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Taobao is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while Faire is more commonly used on online shopping, fashion and beauty, and health sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Portal Sites
Fashion/Beauty
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Education/Reference
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#27,513
#54,416
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Name
Rank
#1,233
#5,993
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See also

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