# Donorbox vs Kagnotte

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Kagnotte delivers about 4.20 more of every 100 donated than Donorbox (€98.75 vs £94.55 per 100). On the headline numbers, Donorbox and Kagnotte are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Donorbox | Kagnotte |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £94.55 | €98.75 |
| Platform fee | 2.95% | 1% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.2% + £0.30 | 0% + €0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 3.9 (53) | 3.9 (233) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 91 | 49 |
| Country coverage | 23 | 1 |
| Data residency | US | — |
| Languages | 12 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 19 | 2 |

## Choose Donorbox if

> Small-to-medium nonprofits across verticals like churches, healthcare, education, and animal welfare that want recurring-donation tooling, donor fee-cover, and a managed donation-form product without a CRM-scale platform commitment.

- Donor-cover-fees option at checkout — Donorbox frames opt-in as the default, so the recipient can receive the full donation amount.
- Broad payment-rail support: iDEAL, Bancontact, SEPA, BACS, Klarna, PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Amazon Pay, and Link by Stripe.
- Standard plan has no monthly subscription — just per-transaction fees on the 2.95% / 3.95% tier.
- First-class recurring-donation tooling with upsell prompts and donor-management features on the Pro tier.


## Choose Kagnotte if

> French and EEA-based organisers running social group pots or association fundraising who want low, transparent per-contribution pricing and unlimited payouts at no extra cost, and who don't need an English-first international experience.

- Low headline pricing: a small per-contribution commission plus a fixed amount, undercutting many higher-rate rivals.
- Unlimited withdrawals to a bank account at no additional charge.
- No subscription or setup cost to create and manage a pot.
- Regulated fund custody via Lemonway, authorised by France's ACPR (no. 16568).