⚡ Subscriptions in the United States

Subscription management software is used to manage memberships, recurring payments, and access to premium content or services across websites and other digital platforms.

The United States of America (USA) is a North American country with a population of over 341 million people.

According to our statistics, subscription management tools are used on 2.6% of websites from the United States.

Statistics based on 573K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top subscription management tools in the United States in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Stripe with an impressive share of 44%, followed by Patreon with 12.7% and ProfilePress with 10.9%.

Stripe 44%
Patreon 12.7%
ProfilePress 10.9%
Substack 10%
Paid Memberships Pro 4.8%
Recharge 3.8%
MemberPress 3.6%
Gumroad 2.1%
Beehiiv 1.7%
Paddle 1.6%
Ghost 1.2%
Payhip 1.2%
MemberSpace 0.9%
Chargebee 0.9%
Other 0.6%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Patreon ^(-1)
5. Paid Memberships Pro ^(-1)
8. Gumroad ^(-1)
9. Beehiiv ^(-2)
12. Payhip ^(-1)
13. MemberSpace ^(-5)
16. SimpleCirc ^(-9)
18. Buysub ^(-8)
19. Circle.so ^(-2)
20. Recurly ^(-4)

✨ Best Subscription Management Tools

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 35 subscription management tools used on sites from the United States, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Stripe San Francisco, California, United States A payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration. $$$	44%
2	Patreon San Francisco, California, United States A membership platform that allows creators to run a subscription-based service for their content and sell digital products directly to their most dedicated fans. $$$	12.7%
3	ProfilePress Sheridan, Wyoming, United States A membership and e-commerce WordPress plugin that allows users to build paid membership sites and sell digital downloads and subscriptions. Free$129+/year	10.9%
4	Substack San Francisco, California, United States An online publishing and social platform for writers and journalists that enables creating subscription-based newsletters, podcasts, and multimedia content delivered directly to subscribers. Free$$$	10%
5	Paid Memberships Pro Reading, Pennsylvania, United States A membership plugin for WordPress that allows you to restrict content and manage member subscriptions with recurring payments. FreeOpen source$174+/year	4.8%
6	Recharge Santa Monica, California, United States A subscription payment solution with Shopify and BigCommerce integration and powerful APIs. $99+/month	3.8%
7	MemberPress Cedar City, Utah, United States A commercial WordPress plugin for paywalls, memberships, subscriptions, and learning management that lets site owners control access and monetize content on their WordPress sites. $199.50+/year	3.6%
8	Gumroad San Francisco, California, United States An e-commerce platform serving as a merchant of record that enables creators and digital entrepreneurs to sell digital products, memberships, and other goods directly to their audience. $$$	2.1%
9	Beehiiv New York, United States A newsletter platform that allows creators and brands to publish, distribute, and monetize email publications with integrated website hosting and audience management tools. Free$49+/month	1.7%
10	Paddle London, United Kingdom A software-as-a-service commerce platform that provides payments, tax compliance and subscription infrastructure for software companies. $$$	1.6%
11	Ghost Singapore An open-source content management system built on Node.js that serves as a publishing platform for blogs, newsletters, and membership-based websites. FreeOpen source$18+/month	1.2%
12	Payhip London, United Kingdom An e-commerce platform that enables creators to sell digital downloads, courses, memberships, coaching, and physical products directly to their audience through a hosted storefront or embedded checkout. $$$	1.2%
13	MemberSpace Hoboken, New Jersey, United States A no-code membership site software that works with any website, letting creators paywall content and charge for access. $49+/month	0.9%
14	Chargebee North Bethesda, Maryland, United States A subscription management platform that handles recurring billing, invoicing, and revenue operations for subscription-based businesses. Free$$$	0.9%
15	FastSpring Santa Barbara, California, United States A merchant-of-record e-commerce platform that provides an all-in-one payment and subscription infrastructure for SaaS, software, and digital-goods businesses. $$$	0.7%
16	SimpleCirc Rochester, New York, United States A fully-featured software platform for magazine and newspaper publishers to manage their circulations.	0.5%
17	PressReader Richmond, British Columbia, Canada An online platform that allows users to subscribe to 6,000+ digital newspapers and magazines. Free$29.99/month	0.4%
18	Buysub Des Moines, Iowa, United States A digital subscription management platform that specializes in magazines.	0.4%
19	Circle.so New York, United States A community-focused platform for creating and managing online spaces with discussions, events, and member-only content. $89+/month	0.4%
20	Recurly San Francisco, California, United States A subscription management and recurring billing platform that enables businesses to automate subscription lifecycles, payments, and revenue operations. $249+/month	0.3%
21	Memberstack Wilmington, Delaware, United States A platform that allows you to add user authentication, gated content, and payments to your website with a single line of code. Free$29+/month	0.3%
22	Skool El Segundo, California, United States An all-in-one online community platform that enables creators, coaches, and educators to build private or public groups, deliver structured courses, and monetize expertise through memberships. $9+/month	0.3%
23	Lemon Squeezy Salt Lake City, Utah, United States An all-in-one platform for running SaaS and digital product businesses, now owned by Stripe, that provides payments, subscriptions, and merchant-of-record services. Free$$$	0.2%
24	Hotmart Belo Horizonte, Brazil An all-in-one e-commerce platform for selling digital and physical products online, with a strong focus on e-learning and online course distribution. $$$	0.2%
25	PayPro Global Toronto, Ontario, Canada A platform for digital goods sellers offering online payment processing, invoicing, tax compliance, and subscription management. $$$	0.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 Subscriptions 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 573,357 websites from the United States.
We currently track the presence of 36 subscription management tools across the web.
Of these, 35 were detected on websites from the United States.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.