🆚 Patreon vs. Recharge
- 📈 Patreon is noticeably more popular than Recharge.
- 🌎 Patreon is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Canada.
- 🌍 Recharge is more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.
Patreon
RechargeType
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.
Recharge is a subscription billing platform for 
Shopify and 
BigCommerce stores that manages recurring payments, subscription plans, and customer retention workflows.
It includes subscription lifecycle tools such as customer self-service portals, prepaid and gift subscriptions, cancellation and pause controls, payment retry and dunning management, and analytics for churn and cohort tracking.
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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.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Australia in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Subscriptions category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Canada in the Online Payments category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Online 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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PayPro Global🗃️ 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.