🆚 PayPal.Me vs. Venmo

Type

Donation tool
Payment service

About

PayPal.Me is a personal payment link service that lets individuals and businesses receive money through PayPal by sharing a simple URL.

It allows users to request fixed or custom amounts, supports payments from PayPal balances or linked cards and bank accounts, operates in over 200 markets, and applies standard PayPal transaction fees based on payment type and region.

Venmo is a social payments platform owned by PayPal that lets users send, receive, and request money from friends, split bills, pay businesses online, and manage a balance in its mobile app.

It supports peer-to-peer transfers, a social transaction feed, QR code payments, mobile wallet tap-to-pay, and a Mastercard-branded Venmo Debit Card with cash-back rewards.

Headquarters

San Jose, California, United States
San Jose, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Domestic personal transactions
From bank accounts$0 (if no currency conversion)
From cards3.4% + fixed fee based on currency
International personal transactions
From U.S. bank accounts$4.99
From U.S. cards$4.99 + 3.4% + fixed fee
Merchant fees
For receiving domestic transactions3.40% + fixed fee
For receiving international transactions4.40% + fixed fee
Sending money
From Venmo, debit cards, bank accountsFree ✔️
From credit cards3%
Receiving money
Personal profiles
From VenmoFree ✔️
For goods and services2.99%
Charity profiles1.9% + $0.10
Business profiles
1.9% + $0.10
Tap to Pay2.29% + $0.09
Venmo Mastercard
Issuance feeFree ✔️
ATM withdrawals
MoneyPass networkFree ✔️
Non-MoneyPass$2.50
Cryptocurrency purchase or sale fee
$1.00 - $74.992.2%
$75.00 - $200.002%
$200.01 - $1,0001.8%
>$1,0001.5%

Categories

Donations › Rank #3
Donations › Rank #13
Payments › Rank #55

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The PayPal.Me donation tool is 8 times more popular than Venmo.
Total websites

Market share

Donations

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

PayPal.Me is more popular than Venmo in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Italy
France
Canada
Spain
India
Netherlands
Indonesia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

PayPal.Me is more popular than Venmo in all market segments.
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Business
Education/Reference
Software/Hardware
Games
Online Shopping

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
#13,488
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See also

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