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Overview

If you need to collect money from consumers in twenty emerging markets, dLocal is one of a very small number of companies that can actually do it, and it is now doing it at $41 billion a year with real gross profit behind it. That capability is the whole case. The grade sits at B- because the things a merchant should weigh against it are substantial: enterprise pricing is entirely private, emerging-market rates are several times what a domestic processor charges, the support record is dire, and the company has spent four years answering allegations about its disclosures and its Argentine foreign-exchange practices — one case dismissed and affirmed on appeal, one still live.

Best for: Global digital businesses — SaaS, marketplaces, streaming, gaming, advertising platforms, remote-work payroll — that already have demand in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East or Asia and are losing it at checkout because they only accept international cards. It is also strong for payouts: paying sellers, creators or contractors into local rails in markets where a wire is slow, expensive or blocked.

Strengths

  • + Genuine coverage where coverage is hard: 60+ countries across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, and more than 1,000 payment methods, through a single integration and a single settlement relationship.
  • + It carries the local rails that actually convert — Pix and boleto in Brazil, GCash in the Philippines, M-Pesa in Kenya, cash vouchers across Latin America — rather than only international card schemes that a large share of emerging-market consumers do not hold.
  • + Payouts as a first-class product, not an afterthought. For marketplaces and creator platforms, paying local sellers is often the harder half of the problem and dLocal handles it on the same contract.
  • + Real scale and real profit: $41 billion of total payment volume in 2025, up 60%, revenue of $1.09 billion and gross profit of $403 million, up 37%. This is not a company operating on promise.
  • + Publicly listed on Nasdaq since June 2021 and filing with the SEC, so its economics, its risks and its litigation are all documented rather than described.
  • + dLocal Go publishes an actual country-by-country fee list — cards, cash, bank transfer and wallets, with local tax rates spelled out. Very little of the cross-border industry publishes anything.

Trade-offs

  • – Enterprise pricing is entirely private. The only published rates belong to dLocal Go, and a large merchant cannot benchmark a dLocal quote against anything except a competitor's equally private one.
  • – Emerging-market processing is expensive in absolute terms. On the published dLocal Go list, cards cost 2.99% in Brazil, 3.49% in Argentina, 5.50% in Indonesia and Malaysia and 7.99% in Ecuador — before local tax on the fee, which is 21% in Argentina and 22% in Uruguay.
  • – A 1.1-star Trustpilot across 368 reviews, overwhelmingly at one star. Consumer confusion inflates it, but the identifiable merchant complaints — onboarding running six months, rejections with no reason given, abandoned support threads — are consistent.
  • – A federal securities class action, Francis v. DLocal Limited (also docketed as Laurenzi v. DLocal Limited), No. 1:23-cv-07501 in the Eastern District of New York, remains live. It alleges misstatements about Argentine foreign-exchange control risk and about compliance controls.
  • – The company's disclosure history has been challenged repeatedly: two Muddy Waters short reports in November and December 2022, and reporting in May 2023 that the Argentine government was investigating dLocal over transfers abroad, after which the shares fell more than 17%.
  • – Settlement is slow by developed-market standards — T+3 for bank transfers and vouchers and T+7 for cards on dLocal Go, and dLocal states the period may vary with the merchant's risk assessment.

Fees in detail

  • Online rate: Enterprise pricing is negotiated and unpublished. dLocal Go, the self-serve product, publishes a country-by-country list: in Latin America,
  • International: Cross-border is the entire product. dLocal covers 60+ countries across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia and more than 1,000 p
  • Disputes: USD 5 per chargeback on dLocal Go. Enterprise chargeback terms are not published.

Standard published rate for a domestic online card payment. Confirm current pricing on dLocal's pricing page.

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