# Kagnotte vs Mesenaatti.me

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Kagnotte delivers about €14.75 more of every €100 donated than Mesenaatti.me (€98.75 vs €84.00). Mesenaatti.me stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Kagnotte does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Kagnotte | Mesenaatti.me |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €98.75 | €84.00 |
| Platform fee | 1% | 15% |
| Payment processing fee | 0% + €0.00 | 0% + €1.00 |
| Trustpilot | 3.9 (233) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 49 | 57 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | EEA |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 2 | 1 |

## 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).


## 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.