🆚 Stripe vs. Wirecard

📈 Stripe is much more popular than Wirecard.
🌎 Stripe is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Wirecard is more popular in Chile, Serbia, and Peru.

Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Stripe

Wirecard

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.

Wirecard is a full-service provider for merchants, offering POS infrastructure, payment processing and acquiring services.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Aschheim, Bavaria, Germany

Website

stripe.com #1,004

wirecard.com #94,424

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 7 times more popular than Wirecard.

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 Australia, while Wirecard is more popular in Chile, Serbia, and Peru.

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.

⭐ 9th most popular in Chile in the Payments category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Slovenia in the Payments category.
⭐ 10th most popular in Romania in the Payments category.
⭐ 10th most popular in Argentina in the Payments category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Denmark in the Payments category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Stripe is more popular than Wirecard in all market segments.

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Fashion/Beauty

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Sports

Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#12

#23

#61

#78

#88

Name

Rank

#4,061

#4,262

#9,557

#9,899

#10,544