🆚 Google Pay vs. Stripe

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Payment service
Payment service

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.

Stripe is a payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration.

It supports over 135 currencies, enables direct bank debits and real-time payments, manages subscriptions with smart retry logic, includes machine learning–based fraud detection, and offers the Stripe Connect solution for marketplaces and platforms to route payouts in more than 45 countries.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️
Payment processing, US accounts, per transaction
Domestic cards2.9% + 30¢
Manually entered cards3.4% + 30¢
International cards4.4% + 30¢
Currency conversion1%
Payment processing, EU accounts, per transaction
Standard EU cards1.5% + €0.25
Premium EU cards1.5% + €0.25
UK cards2.5% + €0.25
International cards3.25% + €0.25
Currency conversion2%
Post-payment invoices0.4% on transaction total, max $2
Identity$1.50/verification
Tax Basic0.5%/transaction
Tax Complete$1,080+/year
Custom domain$10/month

Categories

Payments › Rank #6
Payments › Rank #3
Subscriptions › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Stripe payment service is 2.6 times more popular than Google Pay.
Total websites

Market share

Payments

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Stripe is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Google Pay is more popular in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and Poland.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Australia
France
Italy
Netherlands
Spain
Canada
Czech Republic

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Stripe is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and Internet services, while Google Pay is more commonly used on online shopping, fashion and beauty, and real estate sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Internet Services
Travel
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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See also

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