Comparison
Infinite vs dLocal: how do they compare?
Infinite (infinite.net) is the compliance network that makes stablecoins work for global business: one API for real bank accounts at partner banks, payments across SWIFT, US rails, stablecoins, and FX, and network-wide counterparty review. This page compares Infinite and dLocal across the criteria below; every cell in dLocal’s column was verified against dLocal’s own public site and documentation on August 9, 2026, with its source shown beneath it.
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Cross-border payment infrastructure gets diligenced on the same questions everywhere: who runs KYC/KYB and sanctions screening, what account primitive sits underneath, which rails one integration reaches, when funds actually settle, what engineers integrate against, and where the provider can operate. Those criteria are the rows below.
The Infinite column states only what Infinite publishes on this site and at docs.infinite.dev — see global mass payouts from one account and same-day cross-border payments with stablecoins for the underlying pages. The dLocal column states only what dLocal’s own public materials say: every cell was verified against dlocal.com and docs.dlocal.com on August 9, 2026 and carries its citation. Where something is described as not specified or not published, that means it is absent from dLocal’s public materials as of that date — not that dLocal cannot do it.
| Criterion | Infinite | dLocal |
|---|---|---|
| Compliance modelWho runs KYC/KYB, sanctions screening, and transaction monitoring — and whether counterparty review repeats for every relationship. | KYC/KYB, sanctions screening, and ongoing transaction monitoring run under Infinite’s compliance program. Review is network-wide: a counterparty vetted once is vetted for every business on the network. | dLocal states it handles compliance for cross-border payments by acting as the merchant of record in each country it operates in. Its platform docs describe dLocal-run checks on sub-merchant accounts — automated internal validations, identity validation, and sanctions screening — its KYC Verifications API states dLocal performs the KYC check and returns the final status for the merchant to consume, and for stablecoin products it states Travel Rule controls are integrated wherever they apply.Source: dlocal.com/faqs/faqs-solutions, docs.dlocal.com/docs/kyc-verifications-overview, dlocal.com/payments/stablecoins (verified 2026-08-09) |
| OnboardingHow customers actually get live — who collects what, in whose brand, and how long first-time review takes. | Customers onboard through hosted whitelabel flows in your brand or headless via API — Infinite runs the KYC, KYB, and screening underneath. Full first-time counterparty review closes in 1–2 days, versus the roughly 30 days such review typically takes industry-wide under one-off, per-relationship manual processes. | Merchants self-serve a dashboard account for sandbox testing, and live mode is enabled once, per its docs, the merchant’s KYC and onboarding are complete and the dLocal agreement is signed; platform sub-merchants onboard through the platform’s own flow via API, with dLocal verifying accounts to an approved status before business starts. Merchant-activation and sub-merchant KYC decision timelines are not published in its documentation as of the verification date.Source: docs.dlocal.com/docs/get-started, docs.dlocal.com/docs/enable-live-mode, docs.dlocal.com/docs/onboard-user-accounts-platforms (verified 2026-08-09) |
| Data accessWhat your systems can see about compliance state: review and RFI states, reasons, and the audit trail behind decisions. | Compliance reviews and requests for information are explicit states your systems can query and subscribe to, with webhooks for every state change and every case assembled and documented before an analyst opens it — decisions are auditable. | Six sub-merchant account states are visible to integrating platforms — creating, pending, approved, blocked, canceled, rejected — with pending defined as waiting for documentation or under compliance review, plus webhook notice of any status change. KYC verification cases emit webhooks on each state change (pending, approved, rejected, expired, error), retried hourly for seven days until acknowledged.Source: docs.dlocal.com/docs/account-status-platforms, docs.dlocal.com/reference/verifications-notifications (verified 2026-08-09) |
| Account primitivesWhat the customer actually holds: a real bank account, a virtual sub-ledger on a pooled account, or a wallet. | Real demand deposit accounts (DDAs) established at Infinite’s partner banks, unique to each customer with their own account and routing numbers — offered as Managed, Deposit (adds yield on balances), and Wallet (adds bank-owned stablecoin custody). | Merchants hold platform balances showing available and pending-to-settle amounts; the Platforms product adds platform, user, and liable accounts with transfers between them, and bank virtual accounts — “a unique identifier, often resembling a bank account number, assigned to specific customers or sub-merchants” — are documented for BRL, MXN, IDR, PHP, NGN, and VND collection.Source: docs.dlocal.com/docs/platforms-overview, docs.dlocal.com/docs/virtual-accounts, docs.dlocal.com/docs/settlements-platforms (verified 2026-08-09) |
| Rails coverageWhich payment rails one integration reaches — US bank rails, SWIFT, stablecoins, and FX. | ACH, Fedwire, RTP, SWIFT, and stablecoin transfers (USDC, USDT, OUSD, USDG) from the same account, plus FX across GBP, EUR, MXN, and BRL — with Transfer Routes selecting the rail per corridor. | One API reaching 60+ countries across Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, and Asia with 1000+ local payment methods — cards, bank transfers, wallets, mobile money, real-time payments its site names including Pix and UPI, cash, and BNPL — plus dynamic FX conversion. Its stablecoin pages document USDT and USDC across chains including Ethereum, Tron, Polygon, Solana, and Base for collection, on/off-ramp, and crypto payouts, with settlement in fiat or stablecoins depending on setup.Source: dlocal.com, docs.dlocal.com/docs/payment-method, dlocal.com/payments/stablecoins, docs.dlocal.com/docs/global-crypto-payouts (verified 2026-08-09) |
| SettlementWhen funds actually arrive, including nights, weekends, and rail cutoffs. | Stablecoin transfers settle in minutes, 24/7 — weekends and bank holidays included. USD payments past the ACH cutoff can route to RTP the same day; most SWIFT wires settle same day to two business days once released. | For collected payins, dLocal publishes a standard 14-day merchant settlement cycle — the schedule on which collected funds are remitted to the merchant, a different clock from payment-rail settlement time — adjustable during the agreement phase per its FAQ, with settlement runs triggered by timeline, balance threshold, or manual request and processed the same day funds are sent to the bank. For platforms, received funds remain in transit until the settlement period elapses, then become available for scheduled or on-demand settlement through its Payouts API.Source: dlocal.com/faqs/faqs-solutions, dlocal.com/our-solution/payouts, docs.dlocal.com/docs/settlements-platforms (verified 2026-08-09) |
| Developer surfaceThe API, webhooks, hosted flows, and dashboard an engineering and operations team works with. | One typed payments API across every rail, webhooks for every state change, hosted onboarding flows (in your brand or headless via API), and an operations dashboard. Developer documentation at infinite.net/docs. | Public guides and a full API reference with a sandbox, simulation endpoints for chargebacks, account-status, and KYC states, webhooks with a documented retry policy, a Postman collection, a status page, and an llms.txt index. Payins integrate via direct API, Smart Fields card tokenization, or a hosted checkout redirect its docs describe as not requiring PCI certification, managed alongside a merchant dashboard.Source: docs.dlocal.com, docs.dlocal.com/docs/smart-fields, docs.dlocal.com/docs/integrate-checkout (verified 2026-08-09) |
| Jurisdiction coverageWhere the provider operates and onboards customers, and under what licensing or partner structure. | Businesses onboard from 156 supported countries, with payment coverage across 40+ countries and identity verification in 200+. Services are not available in OFAC-sanctioned or otherwise restricted countries, and accounts are provided through chartered, FDIC-insured partner banks. | Its regulatory disclosure lists Dlocal Ltd, authorised by the Malta Financial Services Authority for e-money issuance and payment services; Dlocal Corp. LLP, registered as a Money Services Business with FinCEN; and Dlocal OpCo UK Ltd, an FCA-authorised payment institution — alongside a Brazilian payment institution and a Central Bank of Nigeria-regulated entity, with coverage of 60+ countries stated across its site.Source: dlocal.com/legal/regulatory-disclosure, dlocal.com/company/about-us, dlocal.com (verified 2026-08-09) |
Infinite Agents, Inc. is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank; banking services are provided by partner banks.
dLocal is a trademark of its respective owner; Infinite is not affiliated with or endorsed by dLocal. Statements about dLocal quote or closely paraphrase its public site and documentation as of August 9, 2026.
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