🆚 Patreon vs. Recharge
- 📈 Patreon is noticeably more popular than Recharge.
- 🌎 Patreon is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Recharge is more popular in Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
PatreonType
Donation tool
Payment service
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 payment solution with 
Shopify and BigCommerce integration and powerful APIs.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Santa Monica, California, United States
Pricing
Standard platform fee10%
Legacy platform fees
Pro8%
Premium12%
Payment processing
USD2.9%-3.9% + $0.30
EUR3.4% + €0.35
GBP3.4% + £0.35
Free version ❌Free 60-day trial
Starter
$99/month
Trasaction fee1.49% + 19¢
Pro
$499/month
Trasaction fee1.25% + 19¢
Categories
Donations › Rank #1
Subscriptions › Rank #3
Subscriptions › Rank #5
E-Commerce › Rank #11
Payments › Rank #18
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Patreon donation tool is 1.8 times more popular than Recharge.
Total websites
Market share
Subscriptions
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Patreon is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Recharge is more popular in Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Canada
Australia
France
Netherlands
Spain
Russia
Ukraine
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Donations category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Donations category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Donations category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Donations category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Sweden in the Donations category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in New Zealand in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Australia in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Subscriptions category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Canada in the Payments category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Patreon is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, entertainment, and games, while Recharge is more commonly used on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty sites.
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Marketing/Merchandising
Games
Fashion/Beauty
Business
Education/Reference
Sports
Health
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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.