🆚 Venmo vs. Wero

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Wero is slightly more popular than Venmo.
🌍 Wero is more popular in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium.
🌎 Venmo is more popular in the United States and Canada.

Venmo

Wero

Type

Payment service

About

Venmo is a social payments platform owned by PayPal that lets users send, receive, and request money from friends, split bills, pay businesses online, and manage a balance in its mobile app.

It supports peer-to-peer transfers, a social transaction feed, QR code payments, mobile wallet tap-to-pay, and a Mastercard-branded Venmo Debit Card with cash-back rewards.

Wero is a European GDPR-compliant mobile payment system operating in Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, designed for instant account-based payments across borders.

It is backed by a group of major European banks and built on SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst). It is based on iDEAL, a Dutch online bank transfer method, and is scheduled to fully replace iDEAL for all merchants by the end of 2027.

Headquarters

San Jose, California, United States

Brussels, Belgium

Website

venmo.com #7,207

wero-wallet.eu #51,182

Pricing

Sending moneyFrom Venmo, debit cards, bank accountsFree ✔️
From credit cards3%

Receiving moneyPersonal profilesFrom VenmoFree ✔️
For goods and services2.99%
Charity profiles1.9% + $0.10
Business profiles1.9% + $0.10
Tap to Pay2.29% + $0.09

Venmo MastercardIssuance feeFree ✔️
ATM withdrawalsMoneyPass networkFree ✔️
Non-MoneyPass$2.50

Cryptocurrency purchase or sale fee$1.00 - $74.992.2%
$75.00 - $200.002%
$200.01 - $1,0001.8%
>$1,0001.5%

Free ✔️

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Wero payment service is 1.4 times more popular than Venmo.

Total websites

Market share

Payments

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Wero is more popular in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium, while Venmo is more popular in the United States and Canada.

United States

Netherlands

Germany

Belgium

France

United Kingdom

Sweden

Canada

Austria

Spain

Awards

⭐ 9th most popular in the United States in the Donations category.
⬆️ 28th most popular in the United States in the Payments category.

🔥 17th most popular in Belgium in the Payments category.
🔥 18th most popular in the Netherlands in the Payments category.
⬆️ 21st most popular in Germany in the Payments category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Wero is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and business, while Venmo is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, non-profit, advocacy and NGO, and education and reference sites.

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Blogs/Wiki

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Business

Internet Services

Fashion/Beauty

Travel

Recreation/Hobbies

Education/Reference