🆚 Gumroad vs. Paddle

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

E-commerce platform
Payment service

About

Gumroad is an e-commerce platform serving as a merchant of record that enables creators and digital entrepreneurs to sell digital products, memberships, and other goods directly to their audience.

It supports digital downloads, online courses, subscriptions or memberships, license keys for software, and global payments while handling payment processing and VAT/tax collection.

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

San Francisco, California, United States
London, United Kingdom

Website

Pricing

Direct transaction fee10% + $0.50
Marketplace transaction fee30%
Payment processing5% + 50¢/transaction
Payout fees
Via PayPalSubject to PayPal fees
Via PayoneerSubject to Payoneer fees
Wire Transfers
In the same currency$0
Via SWIFT$/€/£15

Categories

E-Commerce › Rank #33
Marketplaces › Rank #15
Subscriptions › Rank #9
Subscriptions › Rank #10
Payments › Rank #27
Payments › Rank #28

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Gumroad e-commerce platform is as popular as Paddle.
Total websites

Market share

Subscriptions
Payments

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Gumroad is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam, while Paddle is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Vietnam
Canada
France
India
Italy
Australia
Netherlands

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

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

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#12,160
#12,923
#13,862
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Name
Rank
#1,030
#1,458
#3,975
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See also

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