⚡ Donations 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 162K+ 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 Patreon with a share of 22.2%, followed by GiveWP with 22.2% and PayPal.Me with 16.7%.

Patreon 22.2%
GiveWP 22.2%
PayPal.Me 16.7%
GitHub Sponsors 13%
Buy Me a Coffee 12%
Ko-fi 11.1%
Open Collective 4.6%
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.

4. GitHub Sponsors ^(-6)
7. Open Collective ^(-4)
9. Streamlabs ^(-15)

✨ Best Donation Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 9 donation tools used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	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. $$$	22.2%
2	GiveWP Lansing, Michigan, United States A WordPress donation plugin that provides you with a full-featured online fundraising platform directly on your website. Free$149+/year	22.2%
3	PayPal.Me San Jose, California, United States A personal payment link service that lets individuals and businesses receive money through PayPal by sharing a simple URL. $$$	16.7%
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. $$$	13%
5	Buy Me a Coffee San Francisco, California, United States A creator support platform that lets individuals accept financial support, sell products, and offer services directly to their audience. $$$	12%
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$$$	11.1%
7	Open Collective Walnut, California, United States A platform that enables open source projects, communities, and groups to collect and spend money transparently to sustain their work. Free$$$	4.6%
8	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%
9	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 162,380 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 26 donation tools across the web.
Of these, 9 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on May 6, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.