Medusa
Flexible commerce platform designed for developers to build custom e-commerce applications with AI automation capabilities
- Vendor
- MedusaJS, Inc.
- Also known as
- medusa
Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is Medusa?
An open-source commerce platform that enables developers to create fully customized e-commerce applications with built-in commerce primitives and agent-driven automation.
Medusa pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $29/month. Free trial included. Zero platform fees on commerce transactions.
Develop
- Storefront and backend hosting
- Medusa MCP and Cloud CLI
- Search and email services
- Pre-configured cache
Launch
- All Develop features
- Autoscaling infrastructure
- Custom storefront domains
- Automatic backups
- Webhook events
- Redis-backed KV store
- Concurrent previews
Scale
- All Launch features
- Background workers
- Priority Cloud support
- Semantic search
- Extended backup retention
Enterprise
Contact sales- Custom licensing
- 24/7 support
- SLA-backed response times
- RBAC, SSO, audit logs
- Dedicated support engineer
- Bring-your-own-cloud option
- 99.99% uptime SLA
- Data sovereignty and SOC2 compliance
Add-ons
- Preview Environments$50/mo
- Storefront Previews$0.30 per 1000000 requests
- Additional Cloud Seats$30/seat/mo
- Free-text Search$20 per 100000 queries
- Semantic Search$40 per 100000 queries
- Transactional Emails$0.70 per 1000 emails
What Medusa does
The capabilities that matter for e-commerce platforms, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Platform type
- Headless / composable
- Open-source
- ✓
- Self-hostable
- ✓
- Free / open tier
- ✓
- Transaction fees beyond plan
- ✗
- Payments model
- Built-in + BYO gateway
- Headless / API-first storefront
- ✓
- PCI-DSS compliance provided
- -
- Multi-currency / multi-language
- ✓
- B2B / wholesale features
- ✓
- POS / omnichannel
- ✓
- App / extension ecosystem size
- Modular architecture with Workflows, custom modules, API routes, and UI extensio
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- Self-hosted
Integrations (30)
Independently observed- PayPal
- Braintree
- Authorize.net
- Mercadopago
- Mollie
- MakePay
- Slack
- Resend
- Postal
- Klaviyo
- ShipStation
- Apiship
- InPost
- Packeta
- Algolia
- Contentful
- Strapi
- Storyblok
- Tolgee
- PostHog
- Odoo
- 1C
- PunchCommerce
- Avalara
- AWS S3
- Cloudflare R2
- GCP Cloud Storage
- GitHub←•
- Stripe
- Google Analytics
Security & compliance
Independently observed- SOC 2active
Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
Medusa FAQ
Common questions about Medusa, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Medusa?
A modular, extensible commerce platform that enables developers to create custom storefronts, marketplaces, and commerce systems while reusing foundational commerce functionality. Provides comprehensive modules for product management, pricing, inventory, and fulfillment with extensive customization through APIs and workflows. It is indexed under E-commerce Platforms.
Is Medusa free?
Medusa offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $29 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does Medusa support?
Medusa supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Can Medusa be self-hosted?
Yes. Medusa can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
What security certifications does Medusa have?
We have independently confirmed GDPR for Medusa. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Medusa not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Is Medusa open source?
Yes. Medusa is published under the SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE licence, a copyleft licence, so check its terms before embedding it in a closed-source product. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.
Where is Medusa available?
Medusa is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.
Medusa alternatives
Other e-commerce platforms we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- BigCommerceA hosted e-commerce platform enabling multi-channel selling with integrated product feed managementmedium · 70%
- ShopifyPlatform for launching and managing online stores and e-commerce businessesmedium · 72%
- SwellA modern ecommerce platform for building and scaling online stores with subscription and multichannel commerce capabilities.medium · 54%
- commercetoolsAPI-first commerce platform enabling enterprises to rapidly build and scale flexible digital storefronts with AI automationmedium · 56%
- WooCommerceSelf-hosted commerce solution for WordPress that enables customizable online storesmedium · 64%
- EcwidE-commerce platform that removes technical barriers to online sellingmedium · 53%
Compare Medusa
Side by side against other e-commerce platforms, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Medusa, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Package downloads | 69 | 0.14 | 9.3 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.08 | 8.4 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 87 | 0.08 | 7.3 | ✓ |
| Development activity | 63 | 0.09 | 5.9 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 96 | 0.05 | 5.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 42 | 0.09 | 3.9 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.07 | 3.6 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 45 | 0.07 | 3.3 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 43 | 0.06 | 2.7 | ✓ |
| Price level | 50 | 0.05 | 2.6 | ✓ |
| Security score | 57 | 0.04 | 2.4 | ✓ |
| Stars | 86 | 0.03 | 2.2 | ✓ |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 65% |
Adoption
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 7 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 64% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Headless: Yes · Free tier: Yes · Open source: Yes · B2b features: Yes · Platform type: headless · Self hostable: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 28 | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | TypeScript | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 85% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
Pricing
Release
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sla pct | 99.99 | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Scorecard | 5.7 | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 90% |
| Vulnerabilities | Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=%40medusajs%2Fmedusa&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90% |
| Certifications | SOC 2 | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
| Soc2 | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
| Trust center | https://medusajs.com/privacy-policy/ | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
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