PayPal Customers and Market Share (2026) | TechLeads
PayPal market share and customers
As of October 9, 2026, PayPal is used by 886,419 websites in the TechLeads index: 16.3% of all Payment processors detections, the 1st most-used of 147 Payment processors technologies.
886,419
websites using PayPal
16.3%
share of Payment processors
#1
of 147 in Payment processors
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TechLeads. "PayPal Customers and Market Share." Data as of October 9, 2026. https://techleads.fyi/technology/paypal/market-share
In HTTP Archive's monthly crawl of public websites, PayPal was detected on 2,113,686 pages in September 2026, up 1.3% from a year earlier (peak: 2,234,970). Among the 1,000 most-visited sites, it appeared on 60. HTTP Archive is a separate dataset from the TechLeads index, so its numbers are not added to ours.
Same month, other Payment Processors technologies in HTTP Archive: Apple Pay 1,636,107, Shop Pay 1,473,615, Visa 1,208,099, Mastercard 1,206,776, American Express 1,074,398.
PayPal customers by country
Based on country-code domains (such as .de or .co.uk); websites on .com and other generic domains are not assigned a country.
TechLeads scans public websites and detects PayPal from signals in the page HTML, scripts, cookies, HTTP headers and DNS records. Market share is PayPal's website count divided by the website counts of all Payment processors technologies we track; a site using two Payment processors tools counts for both. Counts were last refreshed on October 9, 2026 and update daily.
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PayPal accounts for 16.3% of Payment processors detections in the TechLeads index (886,419 websites), which makes it the 1st most-used of 147 Payment processors technologies we track.