🆚 Mastercard vs. PayPal
- 📈 PayPal is five times more popular than Mastercard.
- 🌎 PayPal is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌎 Mastercard is more popular in Brazil, Russia, and the Czech Republic.
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About
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.
PayPal is an online payment service that allows users to send funds from a credit card, bank account, or PayPal balance to merchants without sharing their financial details.
It includes a digital wallet that links to bank accounts and cards, supports transactions in more than 200 countries and regions and 25 currencies, offers buyer protection on eligible purchases, and enables guest checkout for non-account holders.
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Popularity
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Popularity by country
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Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Croatia in the Online Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Online Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the Online Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the Online Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Greece in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Online Payments category.
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🗃️ 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 3,818,804 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.