🆚 PayPal vs. Visa
- 📈 PayPal is five times more popular than Visa.
- 🌎 PayPal is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌎 Visa is more popular in Brazil, Russia, and the Czech Republic.
PayPal
VisaType
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.
Visa is a global payment network processor that enables banks, merchants, and cardholders to conduct debit, credit, and prepaid transactions across more than 200 countries and territories.
It operates a centralized and modular payments network called VisaNet, which supports card-not-present payments via RESTful APIs, token-based mobile and contactless payments, and provides merchants with data analytics and fraud-monitoring tools.
Headquarters
Pricing
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 Russia in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Czech Republic in the Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Payments category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Venmo🗃️ 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.