# HelloAsso vs Mesenaatti.me

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, HelloAsso delivers about €16.00 more of every €100 donated than Mesenaatti.me (€100.00 vs €84.00). Mesenaatti.me stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while HelloAsso does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | HelloAsso | Mesenaatti.me |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €100.00 | €84.00 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 15% |
| Payment processing fee | 0% + €0.00 | 0% + €1.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.3 (620) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 92 | 57 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 1 |
| Data residency | France (Microsoft Azure) | EEA |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 5 | 1 |

## Choose HelloAsso if

> French associations, clubs, and nonprofits that want to collect donations, memberships, and event payments with no platform commission and full pass-through of funds.

- Entirely free for associations — zero commission and zero fees.
- Associations receive 100% of the funds they collect.
- Funded by optional voluntary donor contributions rather than mandatory fees.
- HelloAsso absorbs payment-processing costs rather than passing them on.


## 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.