Braintree vs PayPal

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Braintree · PayPal · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Braintree · PayPal · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 2,468

223,702

Germany 841

96,088

United Kingdom 1,385

90,715

France 683

60,591

Canada 1,032

59,067

Italy 609

56,496

Australia 725

53,661

India 969

46,944

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Braintree sites · All PayPal sites