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Medusa

The best commerce platform for agents and developers

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What is Medusa?

Open-source commerce platform designed for agents and developers, enabling full customization and ownership of commerce workflows with AI-enabling cloud infrastructure.

Independently observed

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.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $29/moSubscriptionFree tier

From $29/mo. Open-source free tier. Usage-based overages for infrastructure beyond plan limits.

Develop

$29/mo with 1 shared server
monthly

Zero-config infrastructure with predictable pricing

email_daily
100
build_minutes
300/mo
compute_hours
150/mo capped
data_transfer
10GB/mo
edge_requests
1M/mo
email_monthly
1,000
object_storage
10GB-mo
database_storage
1GB-mo
preview_environments
1
  • 1 shared server
  • MCP server
  • Development Agent
  • Medusa Cloud CLI
  • GitHub integration
  • Previews
  • Medusa Cache
  • Medusa Emails
  • Global CDN
  • DDoS protection
  • 7-day backup retention
  • SSL/TLS

Launch

$99/mo with autoscaling and custom domains
monthly

Highly performant for when you need to go live

kv_store
250MB/mo
email_daily
1,500
build_minutes
500/mo
compute_hours
800/mo
data_transfer
40GB/mo
edge_requests
5M/mo
email_monthly
10,000
object_storage
10GB-mo
database_storage
5GB-mo
preview_environments
3
  • 2 shared servers
  • Autoscaling infrastructure
  • Custom storefront domains
  • Zero downtime deployment
  • Redis-backed KV store
  • Concurrent previews
  • 14-day backup retention
  • Everything in Develop

Scale

$299/mo with background workers and priority support
monthly · min 3 seats

For scaling stores with growing traffic and teams

kv_store
250MB/mo
cloud_seats
3
email_daily
1,500
build_minutes
1,000/mo
compute_hours
2,800/mo
data_transfer
100GB/mo
edge_requests
10M/mo
email_monthly
25,000
object_storage
10GB-mo
database_storage
10GB-mo
preview_environments
5
  • 2 servers with 1 worker (autoscales)
  • Background workers
  • Priority Cloud support
  • Custom backend domain
  • Everything in Launch

Enterprise

Contact sales
Contact sales

Custom plan with core team support and enterprise features

  • AI storefront builder
  • RBAC
  • SSO
  • Audit logs
  • SLA-backed response times
  • 99.99% uptime guarantee
  • Dedicated support engineer
  • BYOC with Enterprise License
  • Implementation support
  • Custom features
  • Priority issue resolution
  • Performance tuning

Add-ons

  • Edge Requests Overage$0.30 per 1000000 requests
  • Data Transfer Overage$0.13 per GB
  • Compute Hours Overage$0.16 per hour
  • Build Minutes Overage$0.01 per minute
  • Email Overage$0.70 per 1000 emails
  • Object Storage$0.03 per GB-month
  • Database Storage$0.50 per GB-month
  • KV Store Additional$100/mo
  • Long-Lived Environment$60/mo
  • Preview Environment$10/mo

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.

Core
Platform type
Hosted all-in-one SaaS
Licensing
Open-source
✓
Deployment
Self-hostable
✓
Pricing
Free / open tier
✓
Transaction fees beyond plan
✗
Payments
Payments model
Bring-your-own gateway
Architecture
Headless / API-first storefront
✓
Compliance
PCI-DSS compliance provided
-
Reach
Multi-currency / multi-language
✓
Selling
B2B / wholesale features
✓
POS / omnichannel
✓
Extensibility
App / extension ecosystem size
Modular system with customizable modules, framework for agent-driven extensions,
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Hybrid
  • Self-hosted

Medusa alternatives

Other e-commerce platforms we track, ranked by the same independent score.

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The Vioscale 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.

Balanced composite 73 / 100
low · 37%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Package Downloads6726.001737.6✓
Pricing Transparency10016.001600.0✓
Capabilities8716.001387.5✓
Github Activity6318.001135.8✓
Release Cadence9610.00961.1✓
Reliability5014.00693.0✓
Price Level5010.00500.0✓
Github Stars865.00429.2✓
Integrations030.000.0-
Security Posture014.000.0-
Stackoverflow Activity012.000.0-

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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

AttributeValueEvidence
Commits last 30d100mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65%

Adoption

AttributeValueEvidence
Github stars35,512highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90%
Package downloads weekly139,736highsource · 2026-08-01 · 85%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"headless":true,"free_tier":true,"open_source":true,"b2b_features":true,"platform_type":"hosted_saas","self_hostable":true,"payments_model":"byo","pos_omnichannel":true,"transaction_fees":false,"extension_ecosystem":"Modular system with customizable modules, framework for agent-driven extensions,","multi_currency_language":true}mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryTypeScripthighsource · 2026-08-01 · 90%

License

AttributeValueEvidence
SpdxMIThighsource · 2026-08-01 · 99%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Modelcommerciallowsource · 2026-08-01 · 40%
Price levelmidmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Starting gbp29mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Release

AttributeValueEvidence
Cadence days7mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Sla pct99.99mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%