braintreepayments.com
PayPal
Who runs PayPal, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online payments alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Checkout.com
Measured from PayPal’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit PayPal01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs PayPal
PayPal braintreepayments.com
Explore PayPal Braintree and how our end-to-end payment platform can help drive growth. Learn more about PayPal Braintree on the PayPal website.
Wikidata: payment processing service operated by PayPal
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What PayPal tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
7 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to PayPal
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to PayPal, thumbs down if it isn’t.
16 of the 60 sites closest to PayPal match.
- 01
Stripe | Financial Infrastructure to Grow Your Revenue
Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models and manage money movement.
Very close - 02
Adyen: Fintech platform for enterprises - Adyen
Run payments, manage your data, and offer financial products in one platform. Adyen is purpose-built for the world's leading businesses.
Very close - 03
Mollie – the platform for online and in-person payments
One platform to accept payments, manage money, and access funding. Eliminate financial friction and grow your business with Mollie.
Very close - 04
Block
Made up of Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto, Block, Inc. builds technology to increase access to the global economy.
Close - 05
Pay Friends | Payments App | Venmo
Welcome to Venmo! Manage your account balance, send/receive money, split bills, pay friends, and stay connected with your network all in one place.
Very close - 06
Power your entire business | Square
Sell anywhere. Diversify revenue streams. Streamline operations. Manage your staff. Get paid faster. Sign up for Square today.
Close - 07
Launch, monetize, and scale with Xsolla tools and services
Find out how you can launch, monetize and scale your video games worldwide, with no upfront costs, using Xsolla's comprehensive suite of tools and services.
Very close - 08
支付宝
支付宝，全球领先的独立第三方支付平台，致力于为广大用户提供安全快速的电子支付/网上支付/安全支付/手机支付体验，及转账收款/水电煤缴费/信用卡还款/AA收款等生活服务应用。
Close - 09
Personal - Ecopayz
Close - 10
Shopify: The All-in-One Commerce Platform for Businesses - Shopify
Try Shopify free. Build or grow your business fast with AI. Get more than ecommerce software with tools to manage every part of your business.
Very close - 11
Earn your first dollar online with Gumroad
Start selling what you know, see what sticks, and get paid. Simple and effective.
Very close - 12
Shop - Shopping designed around you
Shop from top brands, earn exclusive rewards, and track your packages all in one place. Now available on iOS, Android, and web.
Very close - 13
Payments, tax & subscriptions for software companies • Lemon Squeezy
Sell digital products and SaaS software the easy peasy way with Lemon Squeezy. As your merchant of record, we handle the tax compliance burden so you can focus on more revenue and less headache.
Close - 14
Business Account, Invoicing & Accounting Integrations | Finom
Finom is an online payment solution for entrepreneurs that makes it easy to open a business account and securely manage their finances.
Very close - 15
FedEx
American multinational delivery services company
Very close - 16 picpay.com No trackers
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles PayPal’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones PayPal uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what PayPal adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 34 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to PayPal’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://www.paypalobjects.com/martech/tm/paypal/gtm-bootstrap.js
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 ip4:74.112.67.243 ip4:159.242.240.113 ip4:159.242.240.114 ip4:…
- Payments
- PayPal page source: paypalobjects.com
- Security
- DataDome header x-datadome: protected
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-fra-eddf8230098-FRA, cache-ber1080056-BER, cache-ber1…
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 ip4:74.112.67.243 ip4:159.242.240.113 ip4:159.242.240.114 ip4:…
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms64840644
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 ip4:74.112.67.243 ip4:159.242.240.113 ip4:159.242.240.114 ip4:…
- DNS hosting
- UltraDNS NS pdns100.ultradns.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=Q8BdHlO6NYSN5njfC2rlbPQxksVfADlcxarxq4f…
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 ip4:74.112.67.243 ip4:159.242.240.113 ip4:159.242.240.114 ip4:…
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on braintreepayments.com 20/20
- Atlassian 19/20
- Apple Business · not on braintreepayments.com 17/20
- Microsoft 365 16/20
- DocuSign · not on braintreepayments.com 14/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Cloudflare · not on braintreepayments.com 10/20
- OneTrust · not on braintreepayments.com 10/20
- Google Tag Manager 9/20
- Miro · not on braintreepayments.com 9/20
- OpenAI · not on braintreepayments.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on braintreepayments.com 8/20
- Slack · not on braintreepayments.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on braintreepayments.com 7/20
- Adobe · not on braintreepayments.com 6/20
- Canva · not on braintreepayments.com 6/20