Stripe
Developer-first payments for internet businesses
40 providers in this category, compared on normalised fees, settlement speed, coverage and licensing.
Developer-first payments for internet businesses
Single platform acquiring for large enterprises and marketplaces
Direct acquiring with granular control for high-volume merchants
Long-established global acquirer with broad scheme membership
Consumer wallet with near-universal recognition
PayPal-owned gateway with native PayPal and Venmo acceptance
Stablecoin infrastructure with fiat settlement
High-risk and regulated-vertical acquiring at scale
Payments and digital wallets for regulated verticals
Cross-border accounts, FX and acquiring in one platform
Crypto acceptance backed by a listed exchange
One of the longest-running crypto processors
Fintech-as-a-service with local methods and payouts
Payment orchestration with no-code routing workflows
Multi-currency accounts with mid-market FX
Non-custodial crypto acceptance across many assets
Merchant of record built for game publishers
European crypto processing with euro settlement
Merchant of record handling sales tax for software sellers
Cloud payment orchestration with per-merchant infrastructure
Vaulting and gateway-agnostic tokenisation
Merchant of record for small digital-product businesses
Licensed crypto payments with fiat settlement in APAC
Merchant of record for global software sales
Subscription-focused acquiring with retry optimisation
Cashier and orchestration layer built for high-risk
Global acquiring with emerging-market and crypto reach
Aggregated alternative methods for higher-risk merchants
Specialist merchant of record for adult and subscription content
Long-standing merchant of record for adult and membership sites