Open Source Alternatives

Alternatives to Shopify

E-commerce platform for building online stores.

2 drop-in replacements

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Updated Apr 2026

Quick Compare

	saleor	medusa
Score	14	12
Overlap	55%	60%
Migration	significant	significant
License	BSD-3-Clause	MIT
Best for	Teams with DevOps	Teams with DevOps

Drop-in Replacements

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saleor

1455% coverage

Saleor Core: the high performance, composable, headless commerce API.

Saleor is a headless e-commerce backend built on Python and Django that speaks exclusively GraphQL. No REST fallback, no monolithic plugin system.

22.8k ★PythonBSD-3-Clause

medusa

1260% coverage

The world's most flexible commerce platform.

Medusa is a headless commerce engine built in TypeScript. You get the full back end: products, orders, carts, payments, fulfillment, as modular building blocks you wire into any front end.

32.5k ★TypeScriptMIT

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