🆚 FastSpring vs. Paddle
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Paddle is twice as popular as FastSpring.
- 🌎 Paddle is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 FastSpring is more popular in Romania, Austria, and India.
Type
E-commerce platform
Payment system
About
FastSpring is a merchant of record that provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, and digital goods businesses, including VAT and sales.
Paddle is a software-as-a-service commerce platform offering payments infrastructure (payments, tax, and subscriptions) for software companies.
Headquarters
Santa Barbara, California, United States
London, United Kingdom
Pricing
Payments5.9% + $0.95/transaction
Payments5% + 50¢/transaction
Categories
E-commerce › Rank #68
Payments › Rank #43
Payments › Rank #26
Subscriptions › Rank #12
Subscriptions › Rank #9
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Paddle payment system is 2.3 times more popular than FastSpring.
Total websites
Market share
Payments
Subscriptions
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Paddle is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while FastSpring is more popular in Romania, Austria, and India.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Canada
Romania
Poland
Austria
Spain
Australia
Awards
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Germany in the Subscriptions category.
- ⬆️ 29th most popular in Germany in the Payments category.
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in the United States in the Payments category.
- ⬆️ 35th most popular in Germany in the E-commerce category.
- ⬆️ 36th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Payments category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United States in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Germany in the Subscriptions category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in the United States in the Payments category.
- ⬆️ 26th most popular in Germany in the Payments category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Paddle is more popular among sites focused on Internet services, business, and marketing and merchandising, while FastSpring is more commonly used on software and hardware, technical, business forums, and public information sites.
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Games
Interactive Web Applications
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Name
Rank
#7,981
#13,343
#22,310
#23,872
#25,406
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