Companies Using Patreon

We detect Patreon on 21,307 domains, including TED, Patreon, Inc., Sportskeeda. 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 Entertainment Providers (7.32%).

We detect 21,307 domains running Patreon across our monthly crawl of live business domains. Company data could be matched for 7,039 of them (33.0%), and every company-size, industry and country breakdown on this page describes that matched subset rather than the full detected base. A further 1,739 domains carried a Patreon detection previously and no longer do.

Patreon holds 18.95% of the Donations & Fundraising category, ranking #2. 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 Patreon include GiveWP (28% market share), Donorbox (5.84% market share), Ko-fi (5.69% 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 3,214 matched Patreon domains, followed by United Kingdom (648), Canada (300), Germany (190), Australia (152). These are counts within the 7,039 domains we could match to a company record, not the full detected base.

88.87% of the entities we can size have 10 employees or fewer. But the more informative figure is outside that chart: only 33% of Patreon domains match a company record at all. Most of this base is individuals, and a company database cannot see them.

Among the Patreon domains we could match to a company with a known founding date, most were founded in the 2020s (27.81%), followed by the 2010s (53.45%). That matched subset is drawn from 7,039 companies and is not representative of all 21,307 detected domains. This suggests Patreon is most popular among relatively young companies.

The ideal Patreon customer is: Company Size: 1-10 employees, Industry: Entertainment and media production, Location: US or UK, Founded: 2010s, Signal: A link, not an install — based on our analysis of 7,039 enriched companies at TechnologyChecker.io.

We detect Patreon on 21,307 active domains as of our August 2026 crawl, second in the Donations & Fundraising category at 18.95%. Read it as reach rather than installs: Patreon hosts the membership itself, so a creator's own site normally carries just a link to their Patreon page, or the official WordPress connect plugin.

Not exactly, and the distinction matters. Our rule matches an <a href> pointing at patreon.com, or the Patreon WordPress plugin. A link is a deliberate act and good evidence of a relationship, but it is not a payment widget and it does not tell us whether the page is earning anything. Nothing on this page should be read as revenue.

Publishing sites. WordPress is on 40.39% and RSS on 46.71%, and the top industries are Entertainment Providers (7.32%), Media Production (6.56%), Computer Games (4.63%) and Online Audio and Video Media (4.21%). Podcasts, video channels, games and writing.

By footprint: Patreon 21,307 domains, Ko-fi 6,393, Buy Me a Coffee 5,806. They are not mutually exclusive — 3.06% of Patreon domains also carry Ko-fi and 1.19% carry Buy Me a Coffee, and from the other side 10.13% of Ko-fi domains carry Patreon. Creators stack them. The practical difference is recurring membership (Patreon) against one-off tips (the other two, which also offer memberships).

Our data says no. Of the 1,599 domains that dropped the Patreon link entirely, 26 now carry Ko-fi. That is 1.63%, against a 3.06% rate among domains that kept Patreon, so leaving makes a domain less likely to run Ko-fi. Removing a link usually means a redesign or a creator who stopped asking, not a migration.

Among the third of domains that match a company, the United States leads with 3,214, then the United Kingdom (648), Canada (300), Germany (190) and Australia (152).

Only loosely. Donations & Fundraising also contains GiveWP and Donorbox, which are nonprofit donation software, and the overlap between the two halves is almost nil: 0.37% of Patreon domains carry GiveWP and 0.23% carry Donorbox. Two markets share this table.