Companies Using Ko-fi

Individuals, mostly, which is why a company database struggles with it: only 25.1% of Ko-fi domains match a company record, the lowest in this category. Among the quarter we can see, the leading industries are Computer Games (6.68%), Technology and Internet (5.93%), Entertainment Providers (5.39%) and Software Development (4.64%). Indie developers, artists and technical writers.

We detect 6,393 domains running Ko-fi across our monthly crawl of live business domains. Company data could be matched for 1,606 of them (25.1%), and every company-size, industry and country breakdown on this page describes that matched subset rather than the full detected base. A further 647 domains carried a Ko-fi detection previously and no longer do.

Ko-fi holds 5.69% of the Donations & Fundraising category, ranking #4. 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 Ko-fi include GiveWP (28% market share), Patreon (18.95% market share), Donorbox (5.84% market share), Buy me a coffee (5.16% market share) — measured as a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category.

United States leads with 442 matched Ko-fi domains, followed by United Kingdom (254), Canada (62), Germany (61), Netherlands (44). These are counts within the 1,606 domains we could match to a company record, not the full detected base.

The most common company size is 1-10 employees, representing 92.34% of the Ko-fi domains we could match to a company record and size — a subset of 1,606 matched companies, not of all 6,393 detected domains. This is followed by 11-50 employees (6.23%) and 51-200 employees (0.97%).

Among the Ko-fi domains we could match to a company with a known founding date, most were founded in the 2020s (38.81%), followed by the 2010s (45.99%). That matched subset is drawn from 1,606 companies and is not representative of all 6,393 detected domains. This suggests Ko-fi is most popular among relatively young companies.

The ideal Ko-fi customer is: Company Size: 1-10 employees, Industry: Games, tech and entertainment, Location: US or UK, Founded: 2010s or later, Signal: A link or a widget — based on our analysis of 1,606 enriched companies at TechnologyChecker.io.

We detect Ko-fi on 6,393 active domains as of our August 2026 crawl, fourth in the Donations & Fundraising category at 5.69%. The rule matches either an embedded Ko-fi widget or a link to a ko-fi.com page opening in a new tab, so the count covers both the button and the mention.

Patreon is much larger in our data, 21,307 domains against 6,393, and it is built around recurring membership where Ko-fi started with one-off tips. But they are not an either-or: 10.13% of Ko-fi domains also carry Patreon, the highest overlap between any two technologies in this category. Creators run both.

No. Of the 589 domains that dropped Ko-fi entirely, 25 now carry Patreon. That is 4.24%, against a 10.13% rate among domains that kept Ko-fi, so a leaver is less than half as likely to be on Patreon as a stayer. What we are seeing is buttons being removed, not creators migrating.

Relative to its size, clearly. Among domains we can place, the United States leads with 442 and the United Kingdom is close behind at 254. Compare Patreon, where the same ratio is 3,214 to 648. Ko-fi is a British product and its home market shows.

Personal blogs and portfolios. Google Fonts on 58.96%, Google Analytics 50.48%, RSS on 45.34%, WordPress on 36.09%, Tailwind CSS on 18.47% and Google AdSense on 16.93%. A site with a feed, sometimes carrying ads, with a tip button attached.

Almost not at all, and that is the useful answer. 0.09% of Ko-fi domains carry GiveWP and 0.18% carry Donorbox, the two nonprofit tools in the same category. Donations & Fundraising holds two separate markets and Ko-fi is entirely in the creator one.

45.99% of the entities we can identify were founded in the 2010s and 38.81% in the 2020s, so more than eight in ten are under 15 years old, and younger than Patreon's base.