🆚 RevenueCat vs. Stripe

Statistics for RevenueCat are still being collected and do not yet reflect its full market share.

RevenueCat

Stripe

Type

Subscription management tool

Online payment service

About

RevenueCat is a subscription infrastructure platform that provides a unified service and SDKs for managing in-app purchases and subscriptions across iOS, Android, and web.

It handles server-side receipt validation with the App Store and Google Play, manages entitlements to control access to premium features, supports remote configuration of products and paywalls, provides analytics with metrics such as conversion and churn, and includes an MCP server for AI assistants.

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

Brandon, Florida, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

revenuecat.com #57,810

stripe.com #985

Pricing

Free tier ✔️ Up to $2,500 in monthly tracked revenue

1% of gross MTR for revenue exceeding $2,500

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.

Total websites

Market share

Subscriptions

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Germany

France

Italy

Canada

Spain

Netherlands

Ireland

Awards

🥇 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.

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Travel

Entertainment

Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#2,539

#18,778

#57,810

#132,019

#295,834

Name

Rank

#17

#20

#65