🆚 Skype vs. WhatsApp
- 📈 WhatsApp is much more popular than Skype.
- 🌎 WhatsApp is more popular in Brazil, India, and Thailand.
- 🌍 Skype is more popular in Vietnam and French Polynesia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Skype
WhatsAppType
Legacy technology
Instant messaging app
About
Skype was a communications platform for voice and video calls and sending instant messages that was retired on May 5, 2025 in favor of 
Microsoft Teams.
WhatsApp is an instant messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Meta.
It allows users to send text and voice messages, share photos, videos, documents, and locations, make voice and video calls including group calls, supports end-to-end encryption, and provides a Business API for large-scale messaging and automation.
Headquarters
Redmond, Washington, United States
Menlo Park, California, United States
Website
Pricing
Free ✔️
Phone calls
World (unlimited mins)$16.79/month
USA (unlimited mins)$3.59/month
UK (30 mins)$1.79/month
Germany (100 mins)$3.59/month
Free ✔️
WhatsApp Business, US rate per conversation
Free version ✔️1,000 free service conversations/month
Marketing$0.025
Authentication$0.0135
Utility$0.004
Service$0
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The WhatsApp instant messaging app is 10 times more popular than Skype.
Total websites
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
WhatsApp is more popular in Brazil, India, and Thailand, while Skype is more popular in Vietnam and French Polynesia.
Brazil
India
Thailand
Russia
Spain
Turkey
Indonesia
Italy
Argentina
China
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Thailand in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Cambodia in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Belarus in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Instant Messaging category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
WhatsApp is more popular than Skype in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Travel
Education/Reference
Fashion/Beauty
Health
Blogs/Wiki
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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 3,359,906 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.