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PayPal vs Stripe: reliability, measured

Current state and a 12-month uptime record for both, from RealUptime's own independent probes. This is a factual side by side, not a recommendation: it never ranks or scores either service, and states no opinion on which to choose.

Current state

PayPalOperational

We reached PayPal from all 4 regions we check.

No outage recorded in the 24 days we have measured PayPal (since Aug 8, 2026).

Full live status and region detail

StripeOperational

We reached Stripe from all 4 regions we check.

No outage recorded in the 24 days we have measured Stripe (since Aug 8, 2026).

Full live status and region detail

Composed by the same rule each service's own page uses, with the same omission that page's dependency-stack view carries: user reports, public chatter and each vendor's own status-page claim are not read here, only our probes' own readings.

12-month record

PayPal

Tracking PayPal since Aug 8, 2026. In that time our probes detected no outage. Months before that date are not tracked and carry no figure.

MonthUptimeOutagesDowntime
Oct 2025not tracked
Nov 2025not tracked
Dec 2025not tracked
Jan 2026not tracked
Feb 2026not tracked
Mar 2026not tracked
Apr 2026not tracked
May 2026not tracked
Jun 2026not tracked
Jul 2026not tracked
Aug 2026 from Aug 8, 2026100%00 min
Sep 2026100%00 min

Uptime here is the share of each month in which our probes had no outage open for PayPal: two consecutive failed readings from a region opens one, the first clean reading closes it. Any detected outage counts, including one seen from a single region, and an outage that crosses midnight on the first of a month is counted in both months with its minutes split. User reports, public posts and PayPal's own status page contribute nothing to these figures.

Stripe

Tracking Stripe since Aug 8, 2026. In that time our probes detected no outage. Months before that date are not tracked and carry no figure.

MonthUptimeOutagesDowntime
Oct 2025not tracked
Nov 2025not tracked
Dec 2025not tracked
Jan 2026not tracked
Feb 2026not tracked
Mar 2026not tracked
Apr 2026not tracked
May 2026not tracked
Jun 2026not tracked
Jul 2026not tracked
Aug 2026 from Aug 8, 2026100%00 min
Sep 2026100%00 min

Uptime here is the share of each month in which our probes had no outage open for Stripe: two consecutive failed readings from a region opens one, the first clean reading closes it. Any detected outage counts, including one seen from a single region, and an outage that crosses midnight on the first of a month is counted in both months with its minutes split. User reports, public posts and Stripe's own status page contribute nothing to these figures.

Every figure above is read from the same measurement each service's own page and 12-month history publish, never a separate calculation for this page. See PayPal's full record or Stripe's full record, or read how this check works.