# Betterplace vs Mesenaatti.me

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Betterplace delivers about €13.20 more of every €100 donated than Mesenaatti.me (€97.20 vs €84.00). Mesenaatti.me stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Betterplace does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Betterplace | Mesenaatti.me |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €97.20 | €84.00 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 15% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.8% + €0.00 | 0% + €1.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.8 (851) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 87 | 57 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | EEA |
| Languages | 2 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 6 | 1 |

## 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 Mesenaatti.me if

> Finnish artists, associations, nonprofits, and startups running reward-based or donation crowdfunding in euro who want a domestic platform that handles Finnish fundraising-permit requirements.

- Finland's largest home-grown crowdfunding platform, established since 2012.
- Supports both reward-based and donation-based crowdfunding.
- Handles the Finnish fundraising-permit requirements for donation campaigns.
- All-or-nothing model refunds backers in full if a campaign misses its target.