🆚 Stripe vs. Substack

📈 Stripe is much more popular than Substack.
🌎 Stripe is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Substack is more popular in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Namibia.

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

Stripe

Substack

Type

Online payment service

Social media platform

About

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.

Substack is an online publishing and social platform that enables writers and journalists to create subscription-based newsletters, podcasts, and multimedia content delivered directly to subscribers.

It provides email newsletter distribution, a web-based archive, built-in payment processing, and audience analytics, and includes social features such as recommendations, comments, and a Notes feed for short-form posts and discovery.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

stripe.com #1,004

substack.com #321

Pricing

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

For writers Platform fee 10%
Payment processing Billing fee 0.7%
Credit card fee 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction fee

For readers Most content Free ✔️
Paid subscriptions Varies by writer

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Stripe online payment service is 6 times more popular than Substack.

Total websites

Market share

Subscriptions

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Stripe is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Substack is more popular in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Namibia.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Germany

France

Canada

Italy

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.

🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Blogging Platforms category.
🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Subscriptions category.
🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Blogging Platforms category.
🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the Blogging Platforms category.
🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the Blogging Platforms category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Stripe is more popular than Substack in all market segments.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Entertainment

Sports

Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#12

#25

#70

#78

Name

Rank

#292

#321

#367

#1,382