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title: "Payments market share 2026: Stripe 80.3%, PayPal 19.7%"
description: "Payments market share across 39K+ companies, by company size."
url: https://www.incumbently.com/market-share/payments
---

Market share · Last verified Nov 6, 2026

# Payments market share Across 39K+ companies.

Across the 39K+ company installs we see in Payments, Stripe leads with 80.3%, followed by PayPal at 19.7%. Shares count companies, not revenue.

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39K+ Company installs in Payments

80.3% Stripe share

2 Vendors compared

Share

## Share of companies.

[Stripe](https://www.incumbently.com/companies-using/stripe) 80.3%

[PayPal](https://www.incumbently.com/companies-using/paypal) 19.7%

| Vendor | Companies | Share |
| ------ | --------- | ----- |
| Stripe | 31K+      | 80.3% |
| PayPal | 7,800+    | 19.7% |

By company size

## Share by company size.

51–200 staff

Stripe 92%

PayPal 8%

201–500 staff

Stripe 92%

PayPal 8%

501–1,000 staff

Stripe 92%

PayPal 8%

1,001–5,000 staff

Stripe 94%

PayPal 6%

5,001–10,000 staff

Stripe 97%

PayPal 3%

10,001+ staff

Stripe 96%

PayPal 4%

How we count

## Every signal behind the numbers.

Agent scanning · 01 / 78 **MX records** Domain names `Microsoft 365 behind Mimecast`Shows adoption

Domain names **9**

Subdomains and tenants **7**

Certificates **4**

Website and app **12**

Hiring **8**

People **6**

Company news **7**

Vendors and partners **7**

Public records **6**

Code and infrastructure **8**

Incumbent events **4**

Questions

## Payments market share, answered.

Stripe, with 80.3% of the 39K+ company installs we see in Payments. PayPal is second at 19.7%.

By the number of companies where we see each tool in use, not by revenue or seats. A company that uses two of these tools counts for both.

The vendors

[Companies using Stripe**31K+** ](https://www.incumbently.com/companies-using/stripe)[Companies using PayPal**7,800+** ](https://www.incumbently.com/companies-using/paypal)

Head to head

[Stripe vs PayPal](https://www.incumbently.com/compare/stripe-vs-paypal)

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