Substack vs Zeffy

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

Substack leads in AI visibility (40 vs 26)

Substack

EmergingMedia & Publishing

General

Substack is the newsletter and publishing platform that reached $1.1B valuation in July 2025 with 5M paid subscribers and $450M+ in annual writer gross revenue, becoming a major media distribution platform.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
C40
Category Rank
#1138 of 1167
AI Consensus
55%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
50
Perplexity
38
Gemini
35

About

Substack is a publishing platform that enables writers, journalists, and creators to publish newsletters and build subscriber communities with integrated payment infrastructure. Founded in 2017 by Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairaj Sethi, Substack popularized the creator-owned newsletter model by making it trivially easy to start a paid newsletter, handling payments, delivery, and subscriber management so writers could focus entirely on their content.

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Zeffy

EmergingNonprofit Tech

Zero-Fee Fundraising

Montreal zero-fee nonprofit fundraising platform with $1B+ processed; 100% donation pass-through via optional donor tips competing with Donorbox and Classy for nonprofit fundraising technology adoption.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
D26
Category Rank
#1 of 1
AI Consensus
68%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
19
Perplexity
26
Gemini
17

About

Zeffy is a Montreal-based fundraising platform for nonprofit organizations that charges zero platform fees on donations — asking donors to optionally contribute a tip to cover Zeffy's operating costs rather than deducting fees from each donation, ensuring 100% of every donated dollar reaches the nonprofit cause. Founded in 2019 by Thibaut Davoult and Nicolas Lafleur, Zeffy has processed $1+ billion in nonprofit donations and provides a comprehensive suite including online donation forms, event ticketing, peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns, recurring donation management, and membership management — giving nonprofits a full fundraising platform at genuinely zero cost.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

40
Overall Score
26
#1138
Category Rank
#1
55
AI Consensus
68
stable
Trend
stable
50
ChatGPT
19
38
Perplexity
26
35
Gemini
17
31
Claude
29
33
Grok
18

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