E-commerce & Payments / Payment Processors Verified 26 Apr 2026

Klarna

Buy-now-pay-later, Pay Now and a shopping app used by 114M consumers

Stockholm, Sweden · Founded 2005 · Paid
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About Klarna

Klarna is a Swedish payments and digital-banking company founded in Stockholm in 2005, with its regulated entity Klarna Bank AB (publ) headquartered at Sveavägen 46, Stockholm. The product line covers buy-now-pay-later (Pay in 3, Pay in 30, Financing), Pay Now, the Klarna app and shopping browser, plus marketing services for retailers. Klarna serves around 114 million consumers and 850,000 merchant partners worldwide; it is free for shoppers who pay on time and charges merchants per transaction.

Quick facts

Pricing model Paid
Free trial
Open source
Self-hostable No
Public API No
Target audience BOTH
Company size fit All
DPA available Yes
Data stored in EU Yes
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