🆚 Rakuten Pay vs. Stripe

📈 Stripe is much more popular than Rakuten Pay.
🌍 Stripe is more popular in all countries.
⭐ Rakuten Pay is particularly popular in Japan.

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Rakuten Pay

Stripe

Type

Online payment service

About

Rakuten Pay is a Japanese mobile payment and digital wallet platform that allows users to make quick payments by scanning QR codes.

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.

Headquarters

Tokyo, Japan

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

pay.rakuten.co.jp

stripe.com #1,004

Pricing

Free ✔️

Payment processing, US accounts, per transaction Domestic cards 2.9% + 30¢
Manually entered cards 3.4% + 30¢
International cards 4.4% + 30¢
Currency conversion 1%

Payment processing, EU accounts, per transaction Standard EU cards 1.5% + €0.25
Premium EU cards 1.5% + €0.25
UK cards 2.5% + €0.25
International cards 3.25% + €0.25
Currency conversion 2%

Post-payment invoices 0.4% on transaction total, max $2

Identity $1.50/verification

Tax Basic 0.5%/transaction

Tax Complete $1,080+/year

Custom domain $10/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Stripe online payment service is 122 times more popular than Rakuten Pay.

Total websites

Market share

Online Payments

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Stripe is more popular than Rakuten Pay in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Germany

France

Canada

Italy

Spain

Japan

Netherlands

Awards

⭐ 7th most popular in Japan in the Online 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.

Stripe is more popular than Rakuten Pay in all market segments.

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Travel

Entertainment

Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#64

#3,179

#16,814

#19,873

#29,614

Name

Rank

#12

#25

#70

#78