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Stripe

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Stripe is a payments platform for taking card and other payments online. Pricing is pay-as-you-go: a percentage plus a fixed amount per payment, with no setup or monthly fees.[1]

Stripe is a technology company that provides a comprehensive suite of payment processing solutions for internet businesses. Their services include online payment processing, fraud prevention, invoicing, and subscription management, enabling businesses to easily accept and manage online payments.

Stripe belongs toPayment processorscategory.

Domestic card rate

2.9% + $0.30 per payment[1]

Setup and monthly fees

None[1]

International cards

Add 1.5% to the rate[1]

Dispute received

$15.00 fee each[1]

23websites

use it — 0.9% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months

#2of 27

tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 173)

5public pages

on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing

In short: simple per-payment pricing with no monthly fee. The real cost depends on where your customers' cards come from and which currency they pay in.[1]

1.28% of all websites we track run Stripe▲ 0.01 points since 20 Sep

Should you use Stripe?

The 10-second version, from the vendor’s own pages and what we see in our scans

Stripe fits if…

  • You want to pay only when you take a payment[1]
  • Most of your customers pay with domestic cards[1]That is the lowest rate on its pricing page.

Look elsewhere if…

  • You sell mostly to international customers or in several currencies[1]International cards and currency conversion each add to the rate.
Every dispute you receive costs $15.00, and you pay it again if you respond to the dispute yourself. You get the second fee back only for won disputes.[1]

Stripe next to PayPal

Both take online payments. Rates come from each vendor's own page for the United States, in US dollars.

StripePayPal
What you pay
Standard online rate2.9% + $0.30per successful domestic card payment[1]3.49% + fixed feePayPal Checkout[2]
Setup and monthly feesNone[1]Not stated on this page
International cards+1.5%added to the domestic rate[1]Listed in a separate table
Currency conversion+1%when conversion is required[1]Listed in a separate table
Dispute received$15.00per dispute[1]Listed in a separate table
What we see in our scans
Websites running it230.9% of 2,555 scanned sites582.3% of 2,555 scanned sites

PayPal lists its fixed fee per currency in a separate table; only the percentage is compared here.

  • PayPal: The other widely used way to take online payments[2]

Choose Stripe if…

  • You want one published per-payment rate and no monthly fee[1]

Choose PayPal if…

  • Your customers already pay with PayPal Checkout[2]

Products

Stripe sells several products; this page is about payments

Stripe Payments

This page

A payment processing platform for businesses around the world[3]

Stripe Billing

Handles subscriptions and usage-based billing in one automated flow[4]

Stripe Connect

Payments for platforms and marketplaces[5]

Stripe Terminal

Takes in-person payments alongside online ones[6]

Stripe Radar

Detects fraud on payments[7]

Support and help for Stripe

How the vendor says you can reach it, and the public help community

Phone, email and chat

Help by phone, email and chat around the clock for every customer[8]

Developer chat

Live chat with Stripe developers on Discord[8]

Stack Overflow

12,545 questions[9][10]

57% have an upvoted answer. [stripe-payments] questions

What a $100 payment really costs

The published rates applied to one example payment

Customer pays withFee on a $100 payment
A domestic card2.9% + $0.30$3.20
An international cardadds 1.5%$4.70
An international card and currency conversionadds 1.5% and 1%$5.70

Fee = the percentage of the payment plus the fixed amount. The example payment is a round figure, not a forecast.[1]

How Stripe sites are built

Closest partners. The number says how many times more often the tool runs on Stripe sites than on an average website. Hover a partner for its share of sites.

BitPay56×Google Sign-in5×Lodash4×Sentry3×Nginx2×

Usually installed alongside

The bigger the bubble, the more of the 23 Stripe sites also run the tool. Colour shows what the tool does. Hover or tap a bubble for details.

Google Analytics65%Facebook Pixel30%Cloudflare Browser Insights13%Google Tag Manager52%Microsoft Advertising22%BitPay22%
AnalyticsTag managerAdvertisingPayments

Similar tools in its category

Payment processors: 173 tools known, 27 seen in our scans

PayPal58 sitesAlternativeApple Pay17 sitesAlternativeShop Pay14 sitesAlternativeGoogle Pay9 sitesAlternativeVisa9 sitesAlternativeMastercard8 sitesAlternativeAmerican Express7 sitesAlternativeVenmo7 sitesAlternativeBitPay10 sitesUsed together

How websites combine Stripe with other tools

Relationships found on the websites that use it, from the same map status pages show.

Complements another tool 8Integrates with another 4

Websites using Stripe

23 websites use Stripe: 0.9% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months. A selection is shown below.

Scores are out of 100: P Performance · A Accessibility · B Best practices · S SEO. Green 80+, yellow 65–79, orange 50–64, red below 50. The dot shows whether our last scan found the site failing (red) or not (green); Red, amber or blue: an active incident on the site's status page (outage, degraded, maintenance) or a failing scan; amber also means a certificate ending within 30 days. Hover the dot for details.

Who is behind Stripe

From its own pages and public records, with sources

Operated by

Stripe, LLC[11]

Two headquarters, in San Francisco and Dublin · since 2010[12][13]

Co-founder and CEO

Patrick C.[12]

Co-founder and President

John C.[12]

Chief Financial Officer

Steffan T.[12]

Hiring

719 open roles[14]

On its public job board, read 25 Oct 2026 · Careers page

  • PCI Service Provider Level 1[15]

Questions about Stripe

Does Stripe charge monthly fees?
No. Its pricing page says there are no setup fees, monthly fees or hidden fees; you pay per successful transaction.[1]
What is Stripe's standard card rate?
2.9% + $0.30 per successful transaction for domestic cards.[1]
What do international cards and currency conversion cost?
International cards add 1.5% to the rate, and currency conversion adds 1% when it is required.[1]
What happens when a customer disputes a payment?
A dispute received fee of $15.00 applies for each dispute. Responding to it yourself costs another fee, which you get back only for disputes you win.[1]
How many websites use Stripe?
We found Stripe on 23 of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (0.9%). 5 of them have a public status page.
What is Stripe often used with?
Among the websites we scan, Stripe is often found alongside React (43.5% of its sites), reCAPTCHA (39.1% of its sites), Amazon Web Services (34.8% of its sites).
What are the alternatives to Stripe?
Other payment processors we recognize include PayPal, Apple Pay, Shop Pay, BitPay.

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