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Swell

Next-level commerce for everyone

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What is Swell?

Swell is a hosted ecommerce platform offering merchandising, operations, and storefront building tools. It enables subscription sales, wholesale B2B, marketplaces, and multi-channel commerce with no-code integrations.

Independently observed

Swell 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 $5/moSubscriptionFree tier

From $29/month billed yearly. Free tier and trial available. Usage-based API request and data storage overages.

Starter

$29/month billed yearly
annual · min 2 seats

Get started with the essentials to launch your store.

admin_users
2
data_storage_gb
1GB
annual_sales_ceiling
$50K
api_requests_monthly
100K
  • Basic reports
  • Email & chat support

Basic

$79/month billed yearly
annual · min 5 seats

Everything you need to launch and grow a new online store.

admin_users
5
data_storage_gb
3GB
annual_sales_ceiling
$250K
api_requests_monthly
500K
  • Basic reports
  • Email & chat support

Standard

$299/month billed yearly
annual · min 15 seats

Priority support and time-saving features for larger teams.

admin_users
15
data_storage_gb
10GB
annual_sales_ceiling
$1M
api_requests_monthly
2M
  • Advanced reports
  • Priority support
  • Role-based permissions
  • International price lists

Unlimited

$2250/month billed yearly
annual

Unlimited scalability, granular control, and better volume rates.

admin_users
Unlimited
data_storage_gb
Unlimited
annual_sales_ceiling
$5M
api_requests_monthly
Unlimited
  • Advanced reports
  • Priority support
  • Developer support
  • Role-based permissions

Custom

Contact sales
Contact sales

Priority technical support and negotiated pricing for merchants over $10M in annual sales.

What Swell 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
Built-in payments
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
40+ no-code integrations
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS

Integrations (4)

Independently observed
  • marketing platforms
  • payment gateways
  • fulfillment
  • automation services

Swell alternatives

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

Independent · unbought · dated

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 Swell, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 74 / 100
low · 48%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Pricing Transparency10016.001600.0✓
Reliability10014.001400.0✓
Integrations4630.001391.4✓
Capabilities7516.001195.6✓
Price Level8010.00800.0✓
Security Posture014.000.0-

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.

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"headless":true,"free_tier":true,"open_source":false,"b2b_features":true,"platform_type":"hosted_saas","self_hostable":false,"payments_model":"built_in","pos_omnichannel":false,"transaction_fees":true,"extension_ecosystem":"40+ no-code integrations","multi_currency_language":true}mediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count40mediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60%
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60%
Starting gbp5mediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Sla pct100mediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60%
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60%