Adyen vs Razorpay Route

Adyen is an online payments platform for businesses that accept, optimize, and settle payments through one integration. It offers access to more than 200 payment methods and supports 136 currencies. Businesses can use ready-made Drop-in checkout components or create a custom flow with the API. Adyen describes AI tools for checkout personalization, authentication, fraud protection, tokenization, and payment cost optimization. Local acquiring through local licenses is presented as a way to improve authorization rates and lower costs. The platform supports recurring and marketplace payments, with payouts in 36 countries. Listed integrations include Adobe Commerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, NetSuite, Shopify, and Microsoft Dynamics 365. It is available through web, Android, iOS, and API. Pricing is transaction-based, with no setup or monthly fees and a fixed processing fee plus a payment-method fee for each transaction. The stated starting price is $0.13. Adyen describes its platform as built for global businesses and enterprise payment volume.

Razorpay Route splits incoming payments among multiple sellers, service providers, or bank accounts. For marketplaces, it can direct parts of a customer payment to chosen sellers and control the amount, recipient, and settlement timing. Businesses can onboard vendors and other payees as linked accounts without physical paperwork, make multiple transfers from one payment, and reverse transfers through APIs. Settlements can be scheduled, deferred, or held until business conditions are met. Route also supports API-driven reconciliation and reporting for transactions, transfers, and settlements. Payments collected through Subscriptions, Payment Links, Invoices, and Smart Collect can be split through Route. It supports webhooks for transfer creation and reversal, with separate test and live URLs. Razorpay describes it as built for 100,000+ sellers and millions of transactions, with Amazon AWS hosting and auto-scaling. Access requires domestic turnover above ₹40 Lakhs or export turnover above ₹5 Lakhs in FY26 or FY25, plus payer-payee transparency information. The Standard Plan is $0.10 as a one-time purchase, with GST applicable; a Customized Plan has no listed price.