🆚 FastSpring vs. Lemon Squeezy

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

E-commerce platform
Payment service

About

FastSpring is a merchant-of-record e-commerce platform that provides an all-in-one payment and subscription infrastructure for SaaS, software, and digital-goods businesses.

It handles checkout, global payment processing, subscription billing, VAT/GST and sales-tax calculation and remittance, protects against fraud and chargebacks, and offers APIs and webhooks for integration.

Lemon Squeezy is an all-in-one platform for running SaaS business offering payments, subscriptions, global tax compliance, fraud prevention, and email marketing.

Headquarters

Santa Barbara, California, United States
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Website

Pricing

Payment processing5.9% + $0.95/transaction
Payout fees
Non-USD payouts conversion fee2.5%
Payment processing5% + 50¢/transaction
Additional fees
Non-US transactions+1.5%
PayPal transactions+1.5%
Subscriptions+0.5%
Payout fees
Via Stripe
Free version ✔️US
Non-US1%
Via PayPal
US$0.5
Non-US3%, $30 max
Email marketing
Free version ✔️Up to 500 subscribers
1K subscribers$10/month
3K subscribers$24/month
5K subscribers$35/month
10K subscribers$60/month
100K subscribers$500/month
250K subscribers$1,250/month
Email sending limitX10 of the subscriber limit

Categories

E-Commerce › Rank #74
Payments › Rank #48
Payments › Rank #76
Subscriptions › Rank #13
Subscriptions › Rank #22
Email Marketing › Rank #52

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The FastSpring e-commerce platform is 2.7 times more popular than Lemon Squeezy.
Total websites

Market share

Payments
Subscriptions

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

FastSpring is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Lemon Squeezy is more popular in Canada, Russia, and Ireland.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Romania
India
Poland
Canada
Austria
Bangladesh

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

FastSpring is more popular among sites focused on software and hardware, Internet services, and business, while Lemon Squeezy is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, and finance and banking sites.
Software/Hardware
Internet Services
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Marketing/Merchandising
Technical/Business Forums
Games
Technical Information

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
#13,672
#17,235
#19,456
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Rank
#19,456
#131,247
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See also

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