⚡ Payments in Saudi Arabia

Online payment services allow businesses to securely accept and process transactions by supporting a variety of payment methods such as credit and debit cards, digital wallets, and Buy Now, Pay Later options.

Saudi Arabia is a Western Asian country with a population of over 37 million people.

According to our data, payment services are detected on 5% of websites from Saudi Arabia.

Statistics based on 3K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top payment services on websites in Saudi Arabia in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Apple Pay with an impressive share of 37.7%, followed by Visa with 37.7% and Mastercard with 33.7%.

Apple Pay 37.7%
Visa 37.7%
Mastercard 33.7%
PayPal 25.6%
Tabby 22.1%
Stripe 11.1%
American Express 9%
Link 5.5%
Samsung Pay 4.5%
Google Pay 4%
PayPal Enterprise Payments 3%
Checkout.com 3%
Klarna 2.5%
Shop Pay 2%
Arcot 1.5%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top services that are more popular in Saudi Arabia than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. Apple Pay ^(-8)
2. Visa ^(-2)
3. Mastercard ^(-2)
5. Tabby ^(-73)
7. American Express ^(-1)
8. Link ^(-14)
9. Samsung Pay ^(-78)
12. Checkout.com ^(-46)
19. NSPK ^(-103)
20. Mollie ^(-5)

✨ Best Payment Services

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 26 payment services used on sites from Saudi Arabia, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Apple Pay Cupertino, California, United States A mobile payment and digital wallet service by Apple that lets users make secure contactless and online payments with iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro devices. Free	37.7%
2	Visa San Francisco, California, United States A global payment network processor that enables banks, merchants, and cardholders to conduct debit, credit, and prepaid transactions across more than 200 countries and territories.	37.7%
3	Mastercard Purchase, New York, United States A global payment-network processor that connects merchants, banks and card-holders for debit, credit and prepaid payments.	33.7%
4	PayPal San Jose, California, United States An online payment service that allows users to send funds from a credit card, bank account, or PayPal balance to merchants without sharing their financial details. $$$	25.6%
5	Tabby Dubai, United Arab Emirates A buy-now-pay-later platform prominent across Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.	22.1%
6	Stripe San Francisco, California, United States A payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration. $$$	11.1%
7	American Express New York, United States A global payment network and card issuer that provides charge, credit, and prepaid cards.	9%
8	Link San Francisco, California, United States A one-click checkout feature from Stripe that allows shoppers to securely save and reuse their payment and shipping information across participating online merchants. $$$	5.5%
9	Samsung Pay Seoul, Korea A mobile payment service integrated into Samsung Wallet that allows users to make purchases using their Samsung smartphones or smartwatches. Free	4.5%
10	Google Pay Mountain View, California, United States A mobile payment and digital wallet service developed by Google that enables users to make contactless and online payments using supported Android phones, tablets, and wearable devices. Free	4%
11	PayPal Enterprise Payments San Jose, California, United States A full-stack payments platform that makes it easy for businesses to accept payments in their apps or websites. $$$	3%
12	Checkout.com London, United Kingdom A global payments platform that includes a gateway, acquirer, and processor.	3%
13	Klarna Stockholm, Sweden A Swedish payment service provider and licensed bank that specializes in Buy Now, Pay Later options for online and in-store purchases. $$$	2.5%
14	Shop Pay Ottawa, Ontario, Canada A Shopify-exclusive accelerated checkout and payment method that lets customers save their billing, shipping, and payment information to complete orders quickly on Shopify stores and in the Shop app. Free$$$	2%
15	Arcot Palo Alto, United States A payment authentication network powered by 3-D Secure (3DS).	1.5%
16	Discover Riverwoods, Illinois, United States A global payment network and card issuer offering credit and debit cards as well as processing services.	1.5%
17	Worldline La Défense, France A European provider of payment and transaction services.	1.5%
18	Wirecard Aschheim, Bavaria, Germany A full-service provider for merchants, offering POS infrastructure, payment processing and acquiring services.	1.5%
19	NSPK Moscow, Russia An operational and payment clearing house for processing bank card transactions within Russia and the operator of the Mir card payment system.	0.5%
20	Mollie Ansterdam, Netherlands A Netherlands-based payment platform for in-person payments, subscriptions, and financing.	0.5%
21	Amazon Pay Seattle, Washington, United States Lets Amazon customers to pay on your website using the information already stored in their Amazon accounts. Free$0.30+	0.5%
22	Gumroad San Francisco, California, United States An e-commerce platform serving as a merchant of record that enables creators and digital entrepreneurs to sell digital products, memberships, and other goods directly to their audience. $$$	0.5%
23	Affirm San Francisco, California, United States A Buy Now, Pay Later financial services platform that lets consumers split online and in-store purchases into scheduled installments. $$$	0.5%
24	Authorize.net San Francisco, California, United States A payment gateway that facilitates the submission and routing of credit card and electronic check payment transactions to the processing networks on behalf of its client merchants. $25+/month	0.5%
25	Worldpay Cincinnati, Ohio, United States A merchant services and payment processing provider serving over one million merchants globally.	0.5%

👉 See Also

🌎 Payments in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 3,961 websites from Saudi Arabia.
We currently track the presence of 136 payment services across the web.
Of these, 26 were detected on websites from Saudi Arabia.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.