By a delicate analysis for the Stein’s equation associated with the α -stable law approximation with α∈ (0 , 2) , we prove a quantitative stable central limit theorem in Wasserstein-type distance, which generalizes the results in the series of work (Chen et al. in J Theor Probab 34(3):1382–1407, 2021; Chen et al. in J Theor Probab 35(2):1137–1186 2022; Xu in Ann Appl Probab 29(1):458–504, 2019) from the univariate case to the multiple variate case. From an explicit computation for Pareto’s distribution, we see that the rate of our approximation is sharp. The analysis of the Stein’s equation is new and has independent interest.