🆚 Google Pay vs. Mastercard
- 📈 Mastercard is twice as popular as Google Pay.
- 🌎 Mastercard is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Google Pay is more popular in China, Taiwan, and Panama.
Google Pay
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About
Google Pay is a mobile payment and digital wallet service developed by Google that enables users to make contactless and online payments using supported Android phones, tablets, and wearable devices.
It supports NFC-based tap-to-pay, secure tokenization instead of sharing card numbers, storage of payment cards, transit passes, tickets, and loyalty cards, in-app and web payments, biometric authentication, and broad compatibility with banks and payment networks in many countries.
Mastercard is a global payment-network processor that connects merchants, banks and card-holders for debit, credit and prepaid payments.
It supports payments in more than 210 countries and territories, offers contactless and mobile tap-to-pay transactions, provides layered security including tokenisation and real-time fraud monitoring, and gives card-holders travel insurance and extended warranty benefits depending on the card tier.
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Popularity by country
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Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Czech Republic in the Online Payments category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Slovakia in the Online Payments category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Ukraine in the Online Payments category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Poland in the Online Payments category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Denmark in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Croatia in the Online Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Online Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the Online Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Online Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the Online Payments category.
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Revolut🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.