# Fundraise Up vs Mesenaatti.me

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Fundraise Up delivers about 9.50 more of every 100 donated than Mesenaatti.me (£93.50 vs €84.00 per 100). Mesenaatti.me stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Fundraise Up does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Fundraise Up | Mesenaatti.me |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £93.50 | €84.00 |
| Platform fee | 4% | 15% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.2% + £0.30 | 0% + €1.00 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 72 | 57 |
| Country coverage | 46 | 1 |
| Data residency | US | EEA |
| Languages | 18 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 12 | 1 |

## Choose Fundraise Up if

> Mid-size and large nonprofits running international online fundraising that want to maximize donation conversion with modern wallets, local payment rails, and multi-currency checkout.

- Conversion-optimized donation checkout adapted from e-commerce best practices.
- Broad payment support: cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, Venmo, bank debits, and cryptocurrency.
- International, multi-currency checkout with local bank-debit rails (SEPA, BACS, BECS, iDEAL).
- Used by large global nonprofits, signalling enterprise-grade reliability.


## 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.