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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
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 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
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.
17 of the 60 sites closest to PayPal match.
- 01
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 - 02
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 - 03
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.
Very close - 04
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.
Very close - 05
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 - 06
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 - 07
Block
Made up of Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto, Block, Inc. builds technology to increase access to the global economy.
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。
Very close - 09
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 - 10
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.
Very close - 11
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!
Very close - 12
Monzo | Open a Free Account
Your salary sorted into Pots. Your spare change turned into savings. Your money, doing what it should with Monzo.
Very close - 13
Personal - Ecopayz
Very close - 14
Earn your first dollar online with Gumroad
Start selling what you know, see what sticks, and get paid. Simple and effective.
Very close - 15
OnePay | Mobile banking to send, spend, borrow, build credit, earn rewards.
Save, spend, and grow your money — all in one place.
Very close - 16
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.
Very close - 17
online rewards program
Very close
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
- 9,214
- 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
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-
- Payments
- Security
- DataDome cookie datadome
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562f7f1a803444a-HAM
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms95960309
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:pp._spf.paypal.com include:3ph1._spf.paypal.com includ…
- DNS hosting
- UltraDNS NS pdns100.ultradns.net
- 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…
Sitemaps
, 363,957 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on paypal.com 20/20
- Atlassian 16/20
- Microsoft 365 15/20
- Apple Business · not on paypal.com 13/20
- Google Workspace · not on paypal.com 12/20
- DocuSign · not on paypal.com 12/20
- OneTrust · not on paypal.com 12/20
- Google Tag Manager 10/20
- Cloudflare 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on paypal.com 9/20
- OpenAI · not on paypal.com 9/20
- Miro · not on paypal.com 7/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on paypal.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on paypal.com 6/20
- Zendesk · not on paypal.com 6/20
- Stripe 6/20