# Betterplace vs EcoCrowd

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Betterplace delivers about €7.45 more of every €100 donated than EcoCrowd (€97.20 vs €89.75). On the headline numbers, Betterplace and EcoCrowd are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Betterplace | EcoCrowd |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €97.20 | €89.75 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 8% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.8% + €0.00 | 1.9% + €0.35 |
| Trustpilot | 4.8 (851) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 87 | 46 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | DE |
| Languages | 2 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 6 | 3 |

## Choose Betterplace if

> German and Austrian nonprofits and social-cause project owners that want a trusted, charitable, German-run donation platform with low pass-through costs and local data handling.

- Operated by the charitable betterplace.org gGmbH — a nonprofit, mission-aligned platform.
- Roughly 2.8% transaction fee, with the large majority of each donation passing to the project.
- Free for organisations to set up and run campaigns.
- Supports credit card, PayPal, SEPA Direct Debit, and bank wire transfer.


## Choose EcoCrowd if

> German environmental and sustainability nonprofits - associations, foundations, and gGmbHs - seeking community-backed funding for SDG-aligned projects through a curated monthly donation pool.

- Operated by the Deutsche Umweltstiftung, an established German environmental foundation.
- Sharp focus on sustainability and UN Sustainable Development Goal-aligned projects.
- Distinctive monthly donation-pool model with a community vote on which project is funded.
- Accepts PayPal and bank transfer, with donations starting from one euro.