🆚 Ko-fi vs. PayPal Donate

📈 PayPal Donate is twice as popular as Ko-fi.
🌎 PayPal Donate is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Ko-fi is more popular in Vietnam, the Philippines, and Japan.

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Ko-fi

PayPal Donate

Type

Donation tool

About

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.

PayPal Donate is an online donation service that allows organizations and individuals to collect contributions through hosted donation pages, shareable links, and embedded donation buttons.

It supports one-time and recurring donations, pop-up checkout overlays, customizable donation pages with logos and images, QR code sharing, card payments without a PayPal account, and dynamic integration through the Donate SDK.

Headquarters

Letchworth Garden City, United Kingdom

San Jose, California, United States

Website

ko-fi.com #1,132

paypal.com #45

Pricing

Ko-fi free Free version ✔️ Donations
Memberships, Shop, Commissions 5%

Contributor Platform Fee 5%

* Payment processor fees also apply

Merchant fees For receiving domestic donations 2.89% + fixed fee
For receiving international donations 2.89% + fixed fee + 1.50%

Charity fees For receiving domestic transactions 1.99% + fixed fee
For receiving international donations 1.99% + fixed fee + 1.50%

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The PayPal Donate donation tool is 2.5 times more popular than Ko-fi.

Total websites

Market share

Donations

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

PayPal Donate is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Ko-fi is more popular in Vietnam, the Philippines, and Japan.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Italy

Canada

France

Spain

Netherlands

Vietnam

Australia

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Donations category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Canada in the Donations category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Italy in the Donations category.
⭐ 5th most popular in the United States in the Donations category.
⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Donations category.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Donations category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Donations category.
🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Donations category.
🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Donations category.
🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Donations category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

PayPal Donate is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, non-profit, advocacy and NGO, and education and reference, while Ko-fi is more commonly used on games sites.

Blogs/Wiki

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Education/Reference

Marketing/Merchandising

Entertainment

Business

Games

Sports

General News

Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#108

#1,228

#2,699

#9,336

Name

Rank

#5,708

#8,444

#11,602

#12,670