🆚 Patreon vs. Substack

Type

Donation tool
Social media platform

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.

Substack is an online publishing and social platform that enables writers and journalists to create subscription-based newsletters, podcasts, and multimedia content delivered directly to subscribers.

It provides email newsletter distribution, a web-based archive, built-in payment processing, and audience analytics, and includes social features such as recommendations, comments, and a Notes feed for short-form posts and discovery.

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Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Standard platform fee 10%
Legacy platform fees
Pro 8%
Premium 12%
Payment processing
USD 2.9%-3.9% + $0.30
EUR 3.4% + €0.35
GBP 3.4% + £0.35
For writers
Platform fee 10%
Payment processing
Billing fee 0.7%
Credit card fee 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction fee
For readers
Most content Free ✔️
Paid subscriptions Varies by writer

Categories

Donations › Rank #2
Subscriptions › Rank #4
Subscriptions › Rank #3
E-Commerce › Rank #11
Social Media › Rank #25
Email Marketing › Rank #9
Blogging Platforms › Rank #4

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Substack social media platform is 1.1 times more popular than Patreon.
Total websites

Market share

Subscriptions

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Substack is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, while Patreon is more popular in Germany, Russia, and Sweden.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Canada
Italy
Spain
France
Netherlands
Australia
Brazil

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Substack is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, marketing and merchandising, and business, while Patreon is more commonly used on entertainment, games, and software and hardware sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Marketing/Merchandising
Games
Business
Education/Reference
General News
Sports
Online Shopping
Politics/Opinion

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,228
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Rank
#1,765
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See also

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