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- Commercial use
- Yes
- MIT. Commercial use, modification and closed-source use are all allowed; keep the copyright notice. The exception is the Enterprise Edition material identified in the repository (role-based access control and single sign-on), which is not under MIT; see the caveat below.
- Maintained
- Active
- Last push on 2026-10-10. The repository is not archived.
- Setup
- Moderate
- You scaffold a project with the create-medusa-app command, which can also install the official Next.js storefront starter. Locally it needs an LTS Node.js at 20.19 or 22.12 or later, Git and a running PostgreSQL. In production you deploy four things: PostgreSQL, Redis, the application in server mode and the application in worker mode.
- Cost
- Low
- The software is free. The deployment guide asks for a host with at least 2 GB of RAM, plus PostgreSQL and Redis. The managed Medusa Cloud has plans from $29, $99 and $299 a month, with no fee on sales volume.
- What to watch out for
- The project is open core: the code for role-based access control (RBAC) and single sign-on (SSO) sits in the same repository but under a separate Enterprise license, and cannot be used without a commercial agreement with MedusaJS, Inc. The license states that enabling an Enterprise feature flag is a representation that you hold such an agreement. On the pricing page both appear only in the Enterprise tier, priced on request. It is also a developer’s engine: the storefront is yours to build.
- Commercial use
- Yes
- BSD-3-Clause. Commercial use, modification and closed-source use are all allowed; keep the copyright notice, and do not use the project’s or contributors’ names to endorse your product. The README says there is a single version, with no feature fragmentation or commercial limitations.
- Maintained
- Active
- Last push on 2026-10-12. The repository is not archived.
- Setup
- Hard
- To try it locally you clone saleor-platform and start everything with Docker Compose, giving Docker at least 5 GB of memory; that repository is stated to be for local development only, not for production. For production the recommended route is the official Docker image, and you assemble the API service, background workers, a task scheduler, PostgreSQL, Redis and object storage yourself, then deploy the dashboard and storefront separately. Installing on Linux without Docker relies on community-maintained scripts that Saleor does not vouch for.
- Cost
- Depends
- The software is free. The docs give no server sizing for production; the only figure is the 5 GB of memory Docker needs to run the full stack locally. On the managed Saleor Cloud, sandboxes are free but for non-commercial use only; the lowest commercial plan is $1,599 a month covering $200,000 in monthly sales, with 0.8% on orders beyond that, and the next plan is $3,999 a month.
- What to watch out for
- The README has a section on tradeoffs: if you are a single developer working with a small business without high traffic or a need for round-the-clock availability, this service-oriented approach may feel more complex than the WordPress style. It is API-only, so you extend it with separately deployed apps and webhooks rather than plugins. Self-hosted instances also send anonymous usage telemetry by default (version, counts of products and similar entities, configured currencies); set SEND_USAGE_TELEMETRY=false to turn it off.
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