⚡ Donation Tools in Japan

Donation platforms enable individuals and organizations to raise financial support over the Internet by providing tools for one-time and recurring payments, fundraising campaigns, goal tracking, and customizable donation pages.

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our research, donation tools are used on 0.07% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 171K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top donation tools in Japan in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is GiveWP with a share of 21.9%, followed by Patreon with 21.9% and PayPal.Me with 15.8%.

GiveWP 21.9%
Patreon 21.9%
PayPal.Me 15.8%
GitHub Sponsors 12.3%
Buy Me a Coffee 12.3%
Ko-fi 11.4%
Open Collective 4.4%
PayPal Donate 1.8%
Donorbox 0.9%
Streamlabs 0.9%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top tools that are more popular in Japan than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. GiveWP ^(-2)
3. PayPal.Me ^(-1)
4. GitHub Sponsors ^(-7)
5. Buy Me a Coffee ^(-1)
7. Open Collective ^(-5)
10. Streamlabs ^(-15)

✨ Best Donation Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 10 donation tools used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	GiveWP Lansing, Michigan, United States A WordPress donation plugin that provides you with a full-featured online fundraising platform directly on your website. Free$149+/year	21.9%
2	Patreon San Francisco, California, United States A membership platform that allows creators to run a subscription-based service for their content and sell digital products directly to their most dedicated fans. $$$	21.9%
3	PayPal.Me San Jose, California, United States A personal payment link service that lets individuals and businesses receive money through PayPal by sharing a simple URL. $$$	15.8%
4	GitHub Sponsors San Francisco, California, United States A platform that allows users to financially support open-source software developers and maintainers through one-time or recurring payments. $$$	12.3%
5	Buy Me a Coffee San Francisco, California, United States A creator support platform that lets individuals accept financial support, sell products, and offer services directly to their audience. $$$	12.3%
6	Ko-fi Letchworth Garden City, United Kingdom A creator support platform that enables artists, writers and developers to earn income through donations, memberships, and digital sales. Free$$$	11.4%
7	Open Collective Walnut, California, United States A platform that enables open source projects, communities, and groups to collect and spend money transparently to sustain their work. Free$$$	4.4%
8	PayPal Donate San Jose, California, United States An online donation service that allows organizations and individuals to collect contributions through hosted donation pages, shareable links, and embedded donation buttons. $$$	1.8%
9	Donorbox Alexandria, Virginia, United States An online fundraising platform with features such as recurring donations, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer, memberships and text-to-give. $$$	0.9%
10	Streamlabs San Jose, California, United States A live streaming and crowdfunding platform owned by Logitech. Free$27/month	0.9%

👉 See Also

🌎 Donations in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 171,078 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 27 donation tools across the web.
Of these, 10 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on June 20, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.