🆚 Patreon vs. Substack
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Patreon is slightly more popular than Substack.
- 🌎 Patreon is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌎 Substack is more popular in Australia, Italy, and Brazil.
PatreonType
Donation tool
Social media platform
About
Patreon is a membership platform that allows creators to run a subscription service for their content.
Substack is a social media platform for writers and journalists that supports subscription newsletters and monetization.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Platform Fee
Pro8%
Premium12%
Free version ✔️For writers
For readersSet by writers
Categories
Donations › Rank #1
Subscriptions › Rank #3
Subscriptions › Rank #4
Social Media › Rank #28
Email Marketing › Rank #12
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Patreon donation tool is 1.3 times more popular than Substack.
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 Substack is more popular in Australia, Italy, and Brazil.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Canada
Netherlands
France
Australia
Italy
Spain
Russia
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 Italy in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Brazil in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the Subscriptions 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 Substack is more commonly used on business, education and reference, and general news sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Games
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Education/Reference
General News
Software/Hardware
Politics/Opinion
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Name
Rank
#263
#2,203
#2,349
#2,540
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