# Betterplace vs WhyDonate

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Betterplace | WhyDonate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €97.20 | C$98.35 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.8% + €0.00 | 1.4% + C$0.25 |
| Trustpilot | 4.8 (851) | 4.9 (388) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 87 | 77 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 115 |
| Data residency | — | EEA |
| Languages | 2 | 19 |
| Payment methods supported | 6 | 24 |

## Choose Betterplace if

> German and Austrian nonprofits and social-cause project owners that want a trusted, charitable, German-run donation platform with low pass-through costs and local data handling.

- Operated by the charitable betterplace.org gGmbH — a nonprofit, mission-aligned platform.
- Roughly 2.8% transaction fee, with the large majority of each donation passing to the project.
- Free for organisations to set up and run campaigns.
- Supports credit card, PayPal, SEPA Direct Debit, and bank wire transfer.


## 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