🆚 Gumroad vs. Paddle
- 📈 Gumroad is as popular as Paddle.
- 🌎 Gumroad is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam.
- 🌍 Paddle is more popular in Germany, Poland, and Bangladesh.
Gumroad
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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.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Marketplaces category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United States in the Subscriptions category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in the United States in the Marketplaces category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in the United States in the E-Commerce category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in the United States in the Online Payments category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Germany in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in the United States in the Subscriptions category.
- ⬆️ 26th most popular in the United States in the Online Payments category.
- ⬆️ 28th most popular in Germany in the Online Payments category.
Popularity by domain category
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Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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PayPro Global🗃️ 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.