PayPal vs Stripe

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

Top sites by authority

PayPal · Stripe · 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

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

United States 223,702

96,928

United Kingdom 90,715

42,510

Germany 96,088

20,959

France 60,591

26,613

Canada 59,067

27,247

Italy 56,496

21,321

Australia 53,661

23,111

India 46,944

26,757

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 PayPal sites · All Stripe sites