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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
Venmo

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs PayPal

PayPal paypal.com

From paying friends to saving money or getting cash back when you shop, explore what the new PayPal app has to offer.

Wikidata: American worldwide online payments system

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 19 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to PayPal

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to PayPal, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than PayPalNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

17 of the 60 sites closest to PayPal match.

  1. 01
    Venmo venmo.com Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Venmo with PayPal →
  2. 02
    Stripe stripe.com Top 1K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Stripe with PayPal →
  3. 03
    Cash App cash.app English No trackers

    Send, Receive, Invest, & Manage Your Money with Cash App

    Download Cash App to send & receive money instantly, spend with the Cash App Card, buy bitcoin, invest in stocks, & manage your finances.

    Compare Cash App with PayPal →
  4. 04
    Wise wise.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Wise: The international account | Money without borders | Wise United Kingdom

    Banks charge a lot for overseas transfers. We don't. Transfer money abroad easily and quickly with our low cost money transfers.

    Compare Wise with PayPal →
  5. 05
    Mollie mollie.com English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Mollie with PayPal →
  6. 06
    Adyen adyen.com Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Adyen with PayPal →
  7. 07
    Block block.xyz English No trackers

    Block

    Made up of Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto, Block, Inc. builds technology to increase access to the global economy.

    Compare Block with PayPal →
  8. 08
    Alipay alipay.com Top 10K No trackers

    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。

    Compare Alipay with PayPal →
  9. 09
    Shop shop.app Top 1K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Shop with PayPal →
  10. 10
    MobilePay mobilepay.dk Danish No trackers

    Vi har gjort betaling meget, meget nemt | MobilePay

    Få mobilbetaling med MobilePay-appen, så du nemt kan betale med mobilen i enhver situation - fra mobilbetaling i fysiske butikker og webshops til mobilbetaling af abonnementer og regninger. Du kan også overføre penge med mobilen til venner og bekendte eller donere penge via mobilen til velgørende organisationer.

    Compare MobilePay with PayPal →
  11. 11
    MobiKwik mobikwik.com English No trackers

    MobiKwik: Bill Payment, Mobile Recharge, Wallet, UPI, Loan & Paylater

    Fast-track your mobile recharge, secure bill payments, and wallet transfers with MobiKwik. Experience convenience and security. Download now!

    Compare MobiKwik with PayPal →
  12. 12
    Monzo monzo.com English No trackers

    Monzo | Open a Free Account

    Your salary sorted into Pots. Your spare change turned into savings. Your money, doing what it should with Monzo.

    Compare Monzo with PayPal →
  13. 13
    Ecopayz ecopayz.com English No trackers

    Personal - Ecopayz

    Compare Ecopayz with PayPal →
  14. 14
    Gumroad gumroad.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Earn your first dollar online with Gumroad

    Start selling what you know, see what sticks, and get paid. Simple and effective.

    Compare Gumroad with PayPal →
  15. 15
    OnePay onefinance.com English No trackers

    OnePay | Mobile banking to send, spend, borrow, build credit, earn rewards.

    Save, spend, and grow your money — all in one place.

    Compare OnePay with PayPal →
  16. 16
    Xoom Corporation xoom.com English No trackers

    Xoom, a PayPal Service | Send Money Online

    Transfer money online securely and easily with Xoom and save on money transfer fees. Wire money to a bank account in minutes or pick up cash at thousands of locations.

    Compare Xoom Corporation with PayPal →
  17. 17
    Swagbucks swagbucks.com English No trackers

    online rewards program

    Compare Swagbucks with PayPal →

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

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
9,214
Vector
384-d
Query
89 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

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CSS & UI
  • Bootstrap asset https://www.paypalobjects.com/martech/tm/paypal/gtm-bootstrap.js
Tag managers
Payments
  • PayPal page source: paypalobjects.com
  • Stripe TXT stripe-verification=549bef27619f14f935a84c6a23492e80f49ff57a341d9ddc7…
Security
CDN
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:pp._spf.paypal.com include:3ph1._spf.paypal.com includ…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=11600efbec96c0e73dd8820cd33ca906ec4302aea…
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=Q8BdHlO6NYSN5njfC2rlbPQxksVfADlcxarxq4f…
  • GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=KXa3jn_dNODlTVQ4eg1Wx3vA-RrHZ2K7iLQN0v…

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