# Mesenaatti.me vs WhyDonate

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, WhyDonate delivers about 13.85 more of every 100 donated than Mesenaatti.me (£97.85 vs €84.00 per 100). On the headline numbers, Mesenaatti.me and WhyDonate are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Mesenaatti.me | WhyDonate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €84.00 | £98.35 |
| Platform fee | 15% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 0% + €1.00 | 1.4% + £0.25 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | 4.9 (388) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 57 | 77 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 115 |
| Data residency | EEA | EEA |
| Languages | 1 | 19 |
| Payment methods supported | 1 | 24 |

## 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 WhyDonate if

> European nonprofits and individuals who want a transparent, low-fee, GDPR-native crowdfunding platform with broad multilingual and multi-currency support.

- Zero platform fee with a transparent voluntary-tip model
- EEA data residency and GDPR-native compliance
- Broad coverage of local European payment rails (iDEAL, Bancontact, Klarna, Twint, Swish, MobilePay, Vipps, Blik, Cartes Bancaires, Satispay, MultiBanco, EPS) plus global rails (cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Amazon Pay, Link, Revolut Pay)
- 19-language interface and 27 supported currencies for cross-border fundraising