# Betterplace vs Funraise

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Betterplace delivers about 5.70 more of every 100 donated than Funraise (€97.20 vs £91.50 per 100). On the headline numbers, Betterplace and Funraise are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Betterplace | Funraise |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €97.20 | £91.50 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 5% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.8% + €0.00 | 2.9% + £0.60 |
| Trustpilot | 4.8 (851) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 87 | 79 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 0 |
| Data residency | — | US |
| Languages | 2 | 0 |
| Payment methods supported | 6 | 5 |

## 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 Funraise if

> Small and mid-size US nonprofits, especially those under about a million dollars in revenue, that want donation forms, recurring giving, peer-to-peer, events, and a donor CRM in one connected platform.

- All-in-one suite: donation forms, recurring giving, peer-to-peer, events, auctions, and donor CRM.
- Unusually broad donor payment options: cards, ACH, PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, DAFpay, stock, and crypto.
- Built by nonprofit veterans, with workflows tuned to sector needs.
- Optional donor cost-coverage so organizations keep more of each donation.