# Steady vs Tribee

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Tribee delivers about £12.90 more of every £100 donated than Steady (£100.00 vs £87.10). Tribee holds the stronger Trustpilot record: 4.7/5 across 2,134 reviews, against 2.6/5 across 4 for Steady. Tribee stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Steady does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Steady | Tribee |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £87.10 | £100.00 |
| Platform fee | 10% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.9% + £0.00 | 0% + £0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 2.6 (4) | 4.7 (2134) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 77 | 62 |
| Country coverage | 32 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | EU |
| Languages | 5 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 4 | 1 |

## 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 Tribee if

> Friends, families, and colleagues in France organising group gifts or money-pots for occasions such as birthdays, weddings, and farewells who want part of every collection to support an environmental, educational, or health cause.

- Combines a familiar online money-pot (cagnotte) with an automatic charitable donation on every collection.
- Card payments handled by Stripe, including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.
- Registered as an Intermédiaire en Financement Participatif (IFP) with ORIAS, number 23000388.
- Personal data hosted exclusively on servers within the European Union.