Updated September 28, 2026

What is APR?

In short

The annual percentage rate is the yearly cost of borrowing written as a single percentage, so two loans can be compared at a glance.

The annual percentage rate, or APR, is the yearly cost of a loan written as one percentage, so a cheap instalment loan and an expensive one can be judged side by side without doing the arithmetic. 1822direkt prices its instalment credit at 5.29%, and the ABA Bank salary loan at 14.4%. ABB Bank quotes 10.9% to 42.2% across its range, the widest spread here, and Abhi lists 0%.

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