# Mesenaatti.me vs RallyUp

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, RallyUp delivers about 12.80 more of every 100 donated than Mesenaatti.me (£96.80 vs €84.00 per 100). Mesenaatti.me stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while RallyUp does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Mesenaatti.me | RallyUp |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €84.00 | £96.80 |
| Platform fee | 15% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 0% + €1.00 | 2.9% + £0.30 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | 4.1 (9) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 57 | 77 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 0 |
| Data residency | EEA | US |
| Languages | 1 | 0 |
| Payment methods supported | 1 | 4 |

## 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.


## Choose RallyUp if

> US nonprofits running game-based and event fundraising - raffles, sweepstakes, auctions and a-thons - that want multiple campaign types in one platform with no contracts and a free, donor-tip-funded option.

- More than a dozen mix-and-match campaign types, from donation pages to raffles, auctions, sweepstakes, peer-to-peer and a-thons.
- Free plan with no platform fee, funded by optional donor tips; no contracts, setup fees or minimum fees.
- Built-in legal compliance for raffles and sweepstakes, including prewritten rules and a review before going live.
- Reports over 55,000 nonprofits served and more than $1 billion raised.