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Mollie vs PayPal: which is more reliable? (2026)

PayPal is more reliable than Mollie, scoring 80.0 vs 47.2 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Mollie reported 25 incidents and PayPal reported 3, with effective uptime of 98.29% and 99.92% respectively. PayPal resolves incidents faster on average (3h 3m).

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score

Mollie

47.2/100

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PayPal

80.0/100

Operational

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MetricMolliePayPal
Reliability score47.280.0
Rank (payment processors)#12#7
Uptime (90 days)98.29%99.92%
Incidents (90 days)253
Partial / major outages130
Avg time to resolve3h 24m3h 3m
Outages we detected01
Transparency score100/10050/100

Where Mollie and PayPal differ

  • Mollie reported 8.3× as many incidents as PayPal over the last 90 days (25 vs 3).
  • Mollie had 13 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for PayPal.
  • PayPal fixes problems faster: 3h 3m on average, against 3h 24m for Mollie.
  • Mollie's longest outage on record lasted 2d 10h (Sep 4, 2026); PayPal's lasted 4h 20m (Oct 22, 2026).
  • Our own probes detected 0 outages at Mollie and 1 at PayPal, of which 0 and 0 respectively were acknowledged on their status pages.

90-day uptime

Mollie

Aug 5, 2026 – Aug 12, 2026: no incidentsAug 13, 2026: 96.52% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Aug 14, 2026: no incidentsAug 15, 2026: 98.33% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Aug 16, 2026 – Aug 18, 2026: no incidentsAug 19, 2026: 94.78% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Aug 20, 2026 – Aug 23, 2026: no incidentsAug 24, 2026: 98.33% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Aug 25, 2026 – Aug 26, 2026: no incidentsAug 27, 2026: 99.90% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 28, 2026: 99.67% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 29, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026: no incidentsSep 1, 2026: 99.40% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 2, 2026: 98.97% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 3, 2026: no incidentsSep 4, 2026: 92.84% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 5, 2026: 50.00% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 6, 2026: 50.00% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 7, 2026: 86.04% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 8, 2026 – Sep 14, 2026: no incidentsSep 15, 2026: 98.88% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 16, 2026: 97.70% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 17, 2026 – Sep 20, 2026: no incidentsSep 21, 2026: 98.55% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 22, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026: no incidentsSep 29, 2026: 99.90% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 30, 2026 – Oct 5, 2026: no incidentsOct 6, 2026: 98.80% uptime, 3 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 7, 2026: 98.45% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 8, 2026: 97.99% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 9, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026: no incidentsOct 20, 2026: 94.68% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 21, 2026: no incidentsOct 22, 2026: 96.97% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 23, 2026 – Oct 28, 2026: no incidentsOct 29, 2026: 99.93% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 30, 2026 – Nov 2, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago98.297% average daily uptimeToday

PayPal

Aug 5, 2026 – Sep 21, 2026: no incidentsSep 22, 2026: 99.26% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 23, 2026 – Oct 10, 2026: no incidentsOct 11, 2026: 99.59% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 12, 2026: 98.12% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 13, 2026 – Oct 21, 2026: no incidentsOct 22, 2026: 97.29% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 23, 2026 – Oct 31, 2026: no incidentsNov 1, 2026: 98.59% uptime (Outage detected by our probes)Nov 2, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.920% average daily uptimeToday

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