# Steady vs Teaming

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Teaming delivers about £12.90 more of every £100 donated than Steady (£100.00 vs £87.10). Teaming shows the higher Trustpilot score (2.8/5), but it rests on just 10 reviews — too few to outweigh Steady’s 2.6/5 from 4 reviews.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Steady | Teaming |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £87.10 | £100.00 |
| Platform fee | 10% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.9% + £0.00 | 0% + £0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 2.6 (4) | 2.8 (10) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 77 | 80 |
| Country coverage | 32 | 0 |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | 5 | 0 |
| Payment methods supported | 4 | 0 |

## Choose Steady if

> European creators, independent journalists, podcasters, and publishers who want recurring income from paying members rather than one-off donation campaigns.

- Purpose-built recurring-membership tooling for creators, journalists, and publishers.
- Free to register and create a project; fees apply only once you earn.
- European data handling with multi-currency support (euro, pound, Swiss franc, US dollar).
- Members can pay by card, PayPal, Apple Pay, and SEPA direct debit.


## Choose Teaming if

> European supporters and small NGOs that prefer steady, low-commitment recurring giving - one euro a month per cause through a Teaming Group - over one-off donation campaigns.

- Simple, recurring one-euro-a-month microdonation model that gives causes predictable monthly income.
- Run by the nonprofit Teaming Foundation, which funds platform operations through trustees, partner companies and pro-bono support.
- Collective "Teaming Groups" let companies and communities pool many small contributions behind one cause.
- Recurring-by-design, supporting long-term sustainability for grassroots organizations.