🆚 Patreon vs. Stripe

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Stripe is five times more popular than Patreon.
🌎 Stripe is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 Patreon is more popular in Moldova, Liechtenstein, and Palau.

Patreon

Stripe

Type

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.

Stripe is a payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration.

It supports over 135 currencies, enables direct bank debits and real-time payments, manages subscriptions with smart retry logic, includes machine learning–based fraud detection, and offers the Stripe Connect solution for marketplaces and platforms to route payouts in more than 45 countries.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

patreon.com #47

stripe.com #1,004

Pricing

Standard platform fee10%

Legacy platform feesPro8%
Premium12%

Payment processingUSD2.9%-3.9% + $0.30
EUR3.4% + €0.35
GBP3.4% + £0.35

Payment processing, US accounts, per transactionDomestic cards2.9% + 30¢
Manually entered cards3.4% + 30¢
International cards4.4% + 30¢
Currency conversion1%

Payment processing, EU accounts, per transactionStandard EU cards1.5% + €0.25
Premium EU cards1.5% + €0.25
UK cards2.5% + €0.25
International cards3.25% + €0.25
Currency conversion2%

Post-payment invoices0.4% on transaction total, max $2

Identity$1.50/verification

Tax Basic0.5%/transaction

Tax Complete$1,080+/year

Custom domain$10/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Stripe payment service is 5 times more popular than Patreon.

Total websites

Market share

Subscriptions

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Stripe is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Patreon is more popular in Moldova, Liechtenstein, and Palau.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Australia

France

Canada

Italy

Spain

Netherlands

Ireland

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.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Subscriptions category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Subscriptions category.
🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Subscriptions category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Subscriptions category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Subscriptions category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Stripe is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while Patreon is more commonly used on games, humor and comics, and technical, business forums sites.

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Sports

Travel