PayPal vs Stripe
Front door check counts, what each vendor’s status page recorded and SLA terms for these vendors.
30-day window ending
Front door checks
Every 15 minutes we send a request to a documented endpoint for each vendor from a single CheckUpstream location and count the answers. A reachable front door does not confirm that a customer action worked.
| Last 30 days | PayPal | Stripe |
|---|---|---|
| Front door reachableOut of checks with a clear answer |
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Checks 15 minutes apart cannot see disruptions shorter than that. Each vendor is checked at its own endpoints, so the counts cover different things.
PayPal · check scope
api-m.paypal.comapi · No vendor region
Front door reachable in 2,879 of 2,879 checks with a clear answer, last 30 days, checked every 15 minutes from a single CheckUpstream location.
- First check in this window
- Latest clear answer
Stripe · check scope
api.stripe.comapi · No vendor region
Front door reachable in 2,879 of 2,879 checks with a clear answer, last 30 days, checked every 15 minutes from a single CheckUpstream location.
- First check in this window
- Latest clear answer
What each vendor’s status page says
Recorded starts in the same 30-day window, excluding maintenance. Vendors report incidents differently; fewer posts don’t prove better reliability.
| Last 30 days | PayPal | Stripe |
|---|---|---|
| Incidents recorded | 0 | 13 |
| Recorded incident durationMedian | Too few dated records 0 valid durations | 1h 26m 13 valid durations |
Duration uses at least 5 incidents with vendor-supplied starts and recorded closure times. First-observed starts are excluded. A record may close when a post disappears or our tracking period expires; this does not confirm recovery. A missing closure time does not mean an outage is ongoing.
PayPal says
No incidents recorded in this window. That does not establish an incident-free month.
Stripe says
Elevated API errors
- Started
- Closed in record
Visa authorization errors
- Started
- Closed in record
Elevated API Errors
- Started
- Closed in record
Check the terms for your plan
An SLA applies to specific products and plans. Credit eligibility also depends on exclusions, evidence and filing deadlines.