🆚 Stripe vs. Wirecard

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

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

Stripe

Wirecard

Type

Online 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 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.

The Stripe online payment service is 8 times more popular than Wirecard.

Total websites

Market share

Online 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 Germany, while Wirecard is more popular in Serbia, Peru, and Panama.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Australia

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.

🔥 12nd most popular in Brazil in the Online Payments category.
🔥 13rd most popular in the United Kingdom in the Online Payments category.
🔥 13rd most popular in France in the Online Payments category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Denmark in the Online Payments category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Poland in the Online Payments category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

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

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Travel

Sports

Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#12

#25

#70

#78

Name

Rank

#4,061

#4,262

#9,557

#9,786

#9,899