How the adult web gets paid
Adult payments run through a narrow set of specialist high-risk card billers — and a growing number of sites hedge against being cut off by accepting crypto or gift cards. This maps the money infrastructure the census can observe.
Card billers & processors
Detected on rendered pages — the high-risk billers (CCBill, Segpay, Epoch, Verotel and peers) that dominate adult payments.
| Processor | Sites |
|---|---|
| Epoch | 52 |
| Segpay | 29 |
| CCBill | 18 |
| Verotel | 9 |
| Vendo | 7 |
| Zombaio | 2 |
| PayPal | 1 |
| Probiller | 1 |
| SecurionPay | 1 |
Alternative payment methods
De-risking signals — sites accepting these are harder to cut off via the card networks.
| Method | Sites |
|---|---|
| PayPal | 7 |
| Gift card | 4 |
Processors and methods are detected from each site’s rendered pages; absence of a signal may mean it was on a billing page not scanned, not that it’s unsupported. As of 2026-08-22. This site is in development.