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+
23
3
Open Page Rank 8+
232
34
Open Page Rank 7+
998
100
Open Page Rank 6+
2,192
171
Open Page Rank 5+
4,575
291
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
189,872
2,677
United Kingdom
70,809
329
Canada
52,232
452
Australia
46,321
211
Germany
46,179
185
France
39,139
180
Italy
31,286
178
India
27,411
491
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Apple Pay | Plaid |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 400 ms | 700 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.