# JustGiving vs Mesenaatti.me

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, JustGiving delivers about 13.80 more of every 100 donated than Mesenaatti.me (£97.80 vs €84.00 per 100). Mesenaatti.me stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while JustGiving does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | JustGiving | Mesenaatti.me |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £97.80 | €84.00 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 15% |
| Payment processing fee | 1.9% + £0.30 | 0% + €1.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.1 (7663) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 91 | 57 |
| Country coverage | 6 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | EEA |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 7 | 1 |

## Choose JustGiving if

> UK charities and individual fundraisers who want a recognised, no-platform-fee donation platform with Gift Aid support and a fully free direct-donation option.

- No platform fee and free to set up a fundraising page.
- Low payment processing: 1.9% + GBP0.30 for charities, 2.9% + GBP0.35 for personal crowdfunding.
- Gift Aid administration for UK charities (5% applied to Gift Aid, not the donation).
- Free Giving Checkout option with no processing fees and 100% to the charity.


## 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.