🆚 Paddle vs. PayKickstart

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Payment service
E-commerce platform

About

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.

PayKickstart is a multi-featured subscription billing and affiliate management solution that allows you to sell courses, software and other digital products.

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom
Wake Forest, North Carolina, United States

Website

Pricing

Payment processing5% + 50¢/transaction
Payout fees
Via PayPalSubject to PayPal fees
Via PayoneerSubject to Payoneer fees
Wire Transfers
In the same currency$0
Via SWIFT$/€/£15
Free version ❌Free 14-day trial
Starter$99/month
Growth$199/month

Categories

Payments › Rank #28
Payments › Rank #121
Subscriptions › Rank #10
Subscriptions › Rank #33
E-Commerce › Rank #224

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Paddle payment service is 22 times more popular than PayKickstart.
Total websites

Market share

Payments
Subscriptions

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Paddle is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while PayKickstart is more popular in India.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
India
Netherlands
Poland
Canada
Australia
Spain

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Paddle is more popular than PayKickstart in all market segments.
Internet Services
Business
Software/Hardware
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Interactive Web Applications
Games

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,030
#1,458
#3,975
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Name
Rank
#177,551
#254,116
#301,730
#672,415
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