Companies Using Buy me a coffee

We detect Buy me a coffee on 5,806 domains, including Asignar, The Hacker's Choice, Mentoring Club. A detection means the technology is present on that domain, which for large organisations is often a single storefront or subdomain rather than a company-wide deployment. Among domains we matched to a company with a resolved industry, the most common is Software Development (6.93%).

We detect 5,806 domains running Buy me a coffee across our monthly crawl of live business domains. Company data could be matched for 1,689 of them (29.1%), and every company-size, industry and country breakdown on this page describes that matched subset rather than the full detected base. A further 785 domains carried a Buy me a coffee detection previously and no longer do.

Buy me a coffee holds 5.16% of the Donations & Fundraising category, ranking #5. This is a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category — not a share of all websites, and not a share of spending — so it is not directly comparable to figures published on other denominators.

The top alternatives to Buy me a coffee include GiveWP (28% market share), Patreon (18.95% market share), Donorbox (5.84% market share), Ko-fi (5.69% market share) — measured as a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category.

United States leads with 448 matched Buy me a coffee domains, followed by United Kingdom (232), India (76), Canada (60), Australia (51). These are counts within the 1,689 domains we could match to a company record, not the full detected base.

The most common company size is 1-10 employees, representing 92.5% of the Buy me a coffee domains we could match to a company record and size — a subset of 1,689 matched companies, not of all 5,806 detected domains. This is followed by 11-50 employees (6.03%) and 51-200 employees (0.8%).

Among the Buy me a coffee domains we could match to a company with a known founding date, most were founded in the 2020s (42.4%), followed by the 2010s (45.23%). That matched subset is drawn from 1,689 companies and is not representative of all 5,806 detected domains. This suggests Buy me a coffee is most popular among relatively young companies.

The ideal Buy me a coffee customer is: Company Size: 1-10 employees, Industry: Software and IT, Location: US or UK, Founded: 2020s, Signal: A link, not an install — based on our analysis of 1,689 enriched companies at TechnologyChecker.io.

We detect Buy Me a Coffee on 5,806 active domains as of our August 2026 crawl, fifth in the Donations & Fundraising category at 5.16%. The rule matches either its embedded widget or a link to a buymeacoffee.com page opening in a new tab.

Developers and technical writers, more than any other platform in this category. The leading industries are Software Development at 6.93%, Technology and Internet 6.42%, IT Services and IT Consulting 5.65% and Online Audio and Video Media 4.7%. Compare Patreon, whose top rows are entertainment and media production.

Because most of the base is not companies. Only 29.1% of Buy Me a Coffee domains match any company record at all, so 71% of the footprint is invisible to a company database by construction. A coffee button is a personal ask. The industry and age columns on this page are far more informative than the company list.

By footprint: Patreon 21,307 domains, Ko-fi 6,393, Buy Me a Coffee 5,806. Creators combine them rather than choosing — 4.45% of Buy Me a Coffee domains also carry Patreon and 1.77% carry Ko-fi. All three take one-off support; Patreon is the most membership-oriented of the three.

Not measurably. Of the 731 domains that dropped Buy Me a Coffee entirely, 19 now carry Patreon (2.60%, against a 4.45% rate among domains that kept it) and 8 carry Ko-fi (1.09% against 1.77%). Both are below the base rate, so a departing domain is less likely to run a rival than a staying one.

42.4% of the entities we can identify were founded in the 2020s and 45.23% in the 2010s, so nearly nine in ten are under 15 years old. This is the youngest base in the category and one of the youngest we publish anywhere.

Blogs, frequently ad-supported ones. RSS is on 57.02% and WordPress on 47.73%, the highest of the creator platforms here, with Google AdSense on 23.45% and AMP on 20.15%. A tip button underneath the posts, alongside ads.

Essentially never in our data. 0.35% of its domains carry Donorbox and 0.35% carry GiveWP, the two nonprofit tools in the same category. This is a creator platform sharing a category name with nonprofit software, and the two do not meet.