# Leetchi vs Mesenaatti.me

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Leetchi delivers about 12.85 more of every 100 donated than Mesenaatti.me (£96.85 vs €84.00 per 100). On the headline numbers, Leetchi and Mesenaatti.me are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Leetchi | Mesenaatti.me |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £90.85 | €84.00 |
| Platform fee | 6% | 15% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.9% + £0.25 | 0% + €1.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.2 (50786) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 82 | 57 |
| Country coverage | 36 | 1 |
| Data residency | EEA | EEA |
| Languages | 4 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 3 | 1 |

## Choose Leetchi if

> French-speaking fundraisers, group collections among friends, and EU nonprofits comfortable with a longer-established platform.

- Established European brand with strong recognition in France and Belgium
- Free group-pot product for personal collections (gifts, group events, shared expenses)
- EEA data residency
- High Trustpilot rating across 50,000+ reviews


## 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.