🆚 Patreon vs. PayPal Donate
- 📈 PayPal Donate is as popular as Patreon.
- 🌎 PayPal Donate is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Patreon is more popular in the Netherlands, Russia, and Sweden.
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About
Patreon is a membership platform that allows creators to run a subscription-based service for their content and sell digital products directly to their most dedicated fans.
It lets creators set up multiple membership tiers or one-time purchases, publish exclusive posts, videos or audio, manage payments and payouts, host media, and offer community tools like chats and polls.
PayPal Donate is an online donation service that allows organizations and individuals to collect contributions through hosted donation pages, shareable links, and embedded donation buttons.
It supports one-time and recurring donations, pop-up checkout overlays, customizable donation pages with logos and images, QR code sharing, card payments without a 
PayPal account, and dynamic integration through the Donate SDK.
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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
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Donations category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Donations category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Donations category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Canada in the Donations category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Donations category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Donations category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Donations category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Donations category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Donations 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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🗃️ 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 3,653,460 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.