Anedot vs Zeffy Comparison 2026
Anedot and Zeffy both promise no monthly fee, but only one of them means no fee at all. Zeffy takes nothing, not even a processing cut, and covers card costs from an optional tip it puts in front of your donor at checkout, and the signup checks that you are a registered nonprofit. Anedot charges a published rate, 3.3 percent plus 30 cents for a charity and 4.0 percent for everyone else, and opens an account to any campaign. The choice is between a lower cost that shows your donor a tip screen and a higher cost that does not.
Donation pages with no monthly fee at all
Fundraising with no platform or processing fee
At a glance
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Anedot | Zeffy | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free | Free |
| Pricing model | Free | Free |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Usage-based | Usage-based |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export |
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.
Zeffy
Fundraising with no platform or processing fee
Zeffy takes nothing from a donation, and covers card processing itself out of the optional tips donors leave at checkout. Donations, ticketed events, raffles, auctions, memberships and a donor database are all in the same account. It is built for nonprofits, and the sign-up asks you to be one.
Why people weigh these two
- Zeffy instead of Anedot
- Zeffy goes further on price, charging no platform or processing fee at all, where Anedot takes its cut from the processing rate.
- Anedot instead of Zeffy
- Anedot builds donation pages with no monthly fee either, free to start, a narrower tool than Zeffy's events, raffles and auctions in one account.
Which one should you pick
Zeffy is the better math for a registered nonprofit willing to let its checkout ask donors for a tip. Nothing is taken from the gift itself, and ticketed events, raffles, auctions, memberships and a donor database all sit in the same account, which is more than Anedot offers anywhere.
Anedot is the plainer trade for anyone who is not a nonprofit, or who does not want a tip prompt in front of donors. A charity still pays 3.3 percent plus 30 cents on cards, and 0.3 percent plus 30 cents on ACH, and there is no donor database, so this is a collection tool rather than a management one. Individuals raising money for themselves have no Zeffy option at all.
Common questions
- Is Zeffy really free?
- Yes, for a registered nonprofit. It takes no platform fee and no processing fee, and covers card costs from an optional tip offered to the donor at checkout rather than from the donation.
- Can an individual use either of these to raise money?
- Anedot, yes. Zeffy checks nonprofit status at signup, so somebody raising money for themselves or an unregistered cause has to use Anedot instead.
- Does Anedot offer anything beyond donation pages?
- Yes, event pages and lead forms, all unlimited on any plan. Zeffy goes further, adding ticketed events, raffles, auctions, memberships and a shop, all built on the same no-fee model.
- Which one includes a donor database?
- Zeffy does, along with ticketed events, raffles, auctions and memberships in the same account. Anedot builds pages and takes payments only, with no database, so donor history has to live somewhere else.
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