Anedot vs Donorbox Comparison 2026
Anedot charges no monthly fee and takes 3.3 percent plus 30 cents from a registered charity, or 4.0 percent from anyone else, with unlimited pages and no donor database attached. Donorbox is free with fees between 2.95 and 3.95 percent, or $150 a month for a Pro plan that drops fees to 1.75 to 2 percent and adds an API, crypto donations and receipt whitelabeling. The gap is what each one is trying to be. Anedot is collection at the lowest published rate; Donorbox is a paid upgrade path toward donor records and recurring-giving tools.
At a glance
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Anedot | Donorbox | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free | From $150 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing (they differ) | Usage-based | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | None |
| API | Not stated |
Anedot
Donation pages with no monthly fee at all
Anedot charges nothing to run donation pages, event pages and lead forms, and takes its cut from the processing rate instead, which makes it one of the few options where a quiet month costs nothing. Team members, pages and transactions are all uncapped. Registered charities pay a lower rate than everybody else, and both rates are published rather than quoted. Nothing here is a donor database, so an organisation wanting segmentation and reporting will end up paying for that separately.
Our note
Push donors towards ACH if your average gift is large, because 0.3 percent against 3.3 percent is the biggest saving available here and most platforms do not offer the choice. Compare the standard 4.0 percent rate carefully if you are not a registered charity, since that is above what several subscription platforms charge once their monthly fee is spread over real volume.
Donorbox
Donation pages and recurring giving
Donorbox is built for nonprofits and reads that way, which is exactly right for a creator running a fundraiser or a cause and wrong for one collecting tips. Recurring donations, an embeddable form and donor records are the substance. Its free plan charges a higher percentage on each gift than the paid one.
Why people weigh these two
- Donorbox instead of Anedot
- Donorbox covers donation pages and recurring giving with a free tier, with a paid plan at $150 where Anedot never charges a monthly fee.
- Anedot instead of Donorbox
- Anedot charges no monthly fee at all for its donation pages, a way to test recurring giving before a nonprofit takes on Donorbox's $150 plan.
Which one should you pick
Choose Anedot for a registered charity that wants the lowest published rate and nothing else to manage: 3.3 percent plus 30 cents on cards, or 0.3 percent plus 30 cents on ACH for a donor willing to use a bank transfer instead of a card.
Choose Donorbox once recurring giving, donor records and an API matter more than the rate. Its free plan's 2.95 to 3.95 percent is close to Anedot's non-charity rate, but the $150-a-month Pro plan pays for itself around $10,000 a month in giving by dropping fees to 1.75 to 2 percent, and adds stock donations and receipt whitelabeling on top.
Common questions
- Which is cheaper for a non-charity campaign?
- Anedot, on the base rate: 4.0 percent plus 30 cents against Donorbox's free-plan range of 2.95 to 3.95 percent. Donorbox can actually undercut Anedot's non-charity rate at the low end of that range, so it is worth checking which end of the range a given campaign lands on.
- What does Donorbox Pro add for $150 a month?
- Lower fees, at 1.75 to 2 percent instead of the free plan's 2.95 to 3.95 percent, plus an API, crypto and stock donations, and receipt whitelabeling. The plan pays for itself around $10,000 a month in giving. Below that, the free plan is cheaper regardless of the feature list.
- Does Anedot offer a discount for registered charities the way Donorbox does?
- Yes. A 501(c)(3) pays 3.3 percent plus 30 cents on Anedot against 4.0 percent for everyone else. Donorbox does not publish a separate charity rate on its pricing page; its 2.95 to 3.95 percent range on the free plan is the number regardless.
- Can I collect donations in Bitcoin?
- On Anedot, yes, at 1.0 percent, well under its card rate of 3.3 to 4.0 percent. Donorbox's Pro plan at $150 a month adds crypto donations too, but its free plan does not mention them.
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