🆚 Mercado Libre vs. Taobao

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Online marketplace
Online marketplace

About

Mercado Libre is a Latin American online marketplace platform that connects buyers and sellers while offering integrated e-commerce and financial services.

Operating in 18 countries, it provides a multi-service ecosystem that includes a marketplace, the Mercado Pago payment system, the Mercado Envios logistics network, and additional services such as advertising, storefront tools, and credit solutions.

Taobao is a Chinese online consumer-to-consumer e-commerce marketplace where individual sellers and small businesses list a massive assortment of products for buyers to browse and purchase.

It hosts over a billion product listings across diverse categories, integrates personalized recommendations, live-stream shopping, user reviews and direct seller communication, and leverages Alipay payments with buyer protection.

Headquarters

Montevideo, Uruguay
Hangzhou, China

Website

Categories

Marketplaces › Rank #20
Marketplaces › Rank #6

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Taobao marketplace is 2.5 times more popular than Mercado Libre.
Total websites

Market share

Marketplaces

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Taobao is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and the United States, while Mercado Libre is more popular in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.
China
Hong Kong
Argentina
Brazil
United States
Mexico
Chile
Indonesia
Peru
Korea

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Taobao is more popular among sites focused on business, blogs and wiki, and Internet services, while Mercado Libre is more commonly used on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Fashion/Beauty
Internet Services
Portal Sites
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Education/Reference
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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