🆚 FastSpring vs. Paddle

Type

E-commerce platform
Online 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.

Paddle is a software-as-a-service commerce platform that provides payments, tax compliance and subscription infrastructure for software companies.

It acts as the merchant of record, handling global sales tax collection and remittance across 200+ markets, supports hosted and inline checkouts, one-time and recurring billing, offers developer APIs and webhooks for subscription lifecycle events, and provides reporting on MRR, churn, and ARR.

Headquarters

Santa Barbara, California, United States
London, United Kingdom

Website

Pricing

Payment processing 5.9% + $0.95/transaction
Payout fees
Non-USD payouts conversion fee 2.5%
Payment processing 5% + 50¢/transaction
Payout fees
Via PayPal Subject to PayPal fees
Via Payoneer Subject to Payoneer fees
Wire Transfers
In the same currency $0
Via SWIFT $/€/£15

Categories

E-Commerce › Rank #84
Online Payments › Rank #53
Online Payments › Rank #29
Subscriptions › Rank #14
Subscriptions › Rank #11

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Paddle online payment service is 2.8 times more popular than FastSpring.
Total websites

Market share

Online Payments
Subscriptions

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Paddle is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while FastSpring is more popular in Romania, Nepal, and Japan.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Poland
Netherlands
France
India
Bangladesh
Canada
Italy

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Paddle is more popular among sites focused on software and hardware, Internet services, and business, while FastSpring is more commonly used on technical, business forums, public information, and travel sites.
Software/Hardware
Internet Services
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Games
Interactive Web Applications

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#10,106
#13,672
#17,235
#19,456
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Name
Rank
#1,030
#1,458
#3,975
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See also

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