🆚 Stripe vs. Visa

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Stripe is slightly more popular than Visa.
🌎 Stripe is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
🌍 Visa is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain.

Stripe

Visa

Type

Payment service

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.

Visa is a global payment network processor that enables banks, merchants, and cardholders to conduct debit, credit, and prepaid transactions across more than 200 countries and territories.

It operates a centralized and modular payments network called VisaNet, which supports card-not-present payments via RESTful APIs, token-based mobile and contactless payments, and provides merchants with data analytics and fraud-monitoring tools.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

stripe.com #1,004

visa.com #6,136

Pricing

Payment processing, US accounts, per transactionDomestic cards2.9% + 30¢
Manually entered cards3.4% + 30¢
International cards4.4% + 30¢
Currency conversion1%

Payment processing, EU accounts, per transactionStandard EU cards1.5% + €0.25
Premium EU cards1.5% + €0.25
UK cards2.5% + €0.25
International cards3.25% + €0.25
Currency conversion2%

Post-payment invoices0.4% on transaction total, max $2

Identity$1.50/verification

Tax Basic0.5%/transaction

Tax Complete$1,080+/year

Custom domain$10/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Stripe payment service is 1.2 times more popular than Visa.

Total websites

Market share

Payments

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 France, while Visa is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France

Australia

Netherlands

Spain

Italy

Russia

Brazil

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.

🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Payments category.
🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Payments category.
🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Payments category.
🥇 Most popular in the Czech Republic in the Payments category.
🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Payments category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Stripe is more popular among sites focused on marketing and merchandising, business, and Internet services, while Visa is more commonly used on online shopping, fashion and beauty, and travel sites.

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Business

Fashion/Beauty

Internet Services

Travel

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

Sports