🆚 PayPal vs. Stripe
- 📈 PayPal is four times more popular than Stripe.
- 🌎 PayPal is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Stripe is more popular in Taiwan, Cambodia, and Armenia.
PayPal
StripeType
About
PayPal is an online payment service that allows users to send funds from a credit card, bank account, or PayPal balance to merchants without sharing their financial details.
It includes a digital wallet that links to bank accounts and cards, supports transactions in more than 200 countries and regions and 25 currencies, offers buyer protection on eligible purchases, and enables guest checkout for non-account holders.
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.
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Pricing
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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 United States in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Payments 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.
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.