Apple Pay vs Plaid
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Apple Pay · Plaid · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
25
3
Open Page Rank 8+
231
35
Open Page Rank 7+
976
105
Open Page Rank 6+
2,135
179
Open Page Rank 5+
4,451
313
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Apple Pay · Plaid · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
204,715
2,828
United Kingdom
76,078
369
Canada
57,717
530
Australia
50,714
220
Germany
48,853
229
France
42,935
239
Italy
31,320
195
India
30,859
556
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Apple Pay | Plaid |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 400 ms | 800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.