🆚 GitHub Sponsors vs. Ko-fi
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Ko-fi is five times more popular than GitHub Sponsors.
- 🌎 Ko-fi is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 GitHub Sponsors is more popular in China, Serbia, and Greece.
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About
GitHub Sponsors is a platform that allows users to financially support open-source software developers and maintainers through one-time or recurring payments.
It enables sponsorship of individual developers or organizations, supports up to 10 sponsorship tiers, displays sponsorship badges to highlight supported projects, charges no platform fees on personal sponsorships, and sends payouts in over 100 regions.
Ko-fi is a creator support platform that enables artists, writers and developers to earn income through donations, memberships, and digital sales.
It supports one-time contributions and monthly memberships, integrates with PayPal and Stripe, offers goal and milestone tracking, supporter-only posts, and a built-in shop for digital products.
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- ⭐ 8th most popular in Germany in the Donations category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Donations category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Philippines in the Donations category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the Donations category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Donations category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Donations category.
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