🆚 Mastercard vs. Visa
- 📈 Visa is as popular as Mastercard.
- 🌎 Visa is more popular in the United Kingdom, Russia, and Brazil.
- 🌎 Mastercard is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Type
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.
Visa is a global payment network processor that enables banks, merchants, and cardholders to conduct debit, credit, and prepaid transactions across more than 200 countries and territories.
It operates a centralized and modular payments network called VisaNet, which supports card-not-present payments via RESTful APIs, token-based mobile and contactless payments, and provides merchants with data analytics and fraud-monitoring tools.
Headquarters
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
- 🥇 Most popular in Croatia in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Macedonia in the Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Czech Republic in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Payments category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.
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