🆚 Recharge vs. Substack
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Substack is slightly more popular than Recharge.
- 🌎 Substack is more popular in the United States, Canada, and France.
- 🌍 Recharge is more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany.
Type
Payment service
Social media platform
About
Recharge is a subscription payment solution with Shopify and BigCommerce integration and powerful APIs.
Substack is a social media platform for writers and journalists that supports subscription newsletters and monetization.
Headquarters
Santa Monica, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free version ❌Free 60-day trial
Starter
$99/month
Trasaction fee1.49% + 19¢
Pro
$499/month
Trasaction fee1.25% + 19¢
For writers
Platform fee10%
Payment processing
Billing fee0.7%
Credit card fee2.9% + $0.30 per transaction fee
For readers
Free version ✔️
Set by writers
Categories
Payments › Rank #18
Subscriptions › Rank #5
Subscriptions › Rank #4
Social Media › Rank #30
Email Marketing › Rank #10
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Substack social media platform is 1.5 times more popular than Recharge.
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, Canada, and France, while Recharge is more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany.
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Canada
Germany
France
Italy
Spain
Netherlands
Brazil
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Australia in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in New Zealand in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Subscriptions category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Canada in the Payments category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Canada in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in France in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Spain in the Subscriptions category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Substack is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, business, and entertainment, while Recharge is more commonly used on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty sites.
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Fashion/Beauty
Entertainment
Education/Reference
General News
Health
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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