PayPal Beacon
Verified live by HTTP probe across 34 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.
HTTP liveness
realSignal telemetry
4 families · 2 observed · observed onlypaypal.comedge
direct originserver
not reportedTranco rank
#163
Analyst read
generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrativePayPal Beacon's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 50.0 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 7 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 1 linked rival, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.
Comparable set
curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity| Company | Basis | Overlap | Pulse | 30d Δ | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Payfinance | curated | — | 40.0 | +32.0 | ● live |
| Square Contactless Readerfinance | similar | 63% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| card swipe POS machineecommerce | tag-overlap | 63% | 14.6 | 0.0 | — unverified |
| Square Terminalfinance | similar | 63% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| TinyHardwareFirewallhardware | tag-overlap | 57% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| Insect Fly Catchersother | tag-overlap | 57% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| Bubble Wrap Insulation Material in Delhiother | tag-overlap | 57% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| The Clickproductivity | tag-overlap | 57% | 8.0 | 0.0 | — unverified |
Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.
Structure
observed attributesFunding & team
not in sourceNo disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.