# Betterplace vs Les Petites Pierres

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Les Petites Pierres delivers about €2.80 more of every €100 donated than Betterplace (€100.00 vs €97.20). On the headline numbers, Betterplace and Les Petites Pierres are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Betterplace | Les Petites Pierres |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €97.20 | €100.00 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.8% + €0.00 | 0% + €0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.8 (851) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 87 | 52 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | FR |
| Languages | 2 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 6 | 4 |

## 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 Les Petites Pierres if

> French associations and nonprofits running solidarity-housing and anti-poverty projects, who benefit from partner matching that doubles eligible donations and from French tax-deductible giving.

- Partner matching doubles every eligible donation up to the project goal.
- Run as an endowment fund, so associations collect without a platform commission.
- Banking commissions reimbursed by partner Crédit Agricole des Savoie.
- French tax-receipt handling and donor tax deductions supported.