🆚 Paddle vs. PayPal
- 📈 PayPal is much more popular than Paddle.
- 🌍 PayPal is more popular in all countries.
Paddle
PayPalType
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.
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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Pricing
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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
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Germany in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in the United States in the Subscriptions category.
- ⬆️ 26th most popular in the United States in the Payments category.
- ⬆️ 28th most popular in Germany in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France 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.
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Wero🗃️ 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 3,511,995 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.