Migrations and platform comparisons
Comparing Medusa with other commerce platforms and migrating from Magento, Shopify, or WooCommerce.
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- 2026-10-29
Composable commerce platforms for mid-market brands
Composable commerce splits catalog, pricing, cart, orders, and other capabilities into independent parts connected through APIs. Medusa is an open-source composable commerce platform: each domain is an isolated Commerce Module you can extend, replace, or run in a Node.js app. It is free to self-host, and Medusa Cloud starts at $29/month with a 0% GMV fee.
2026-10-29Cheapest way to run a production ecommerce backend
Self-hosting open-source Medusa is the lowest cash cost: Medusa has no license or GMV fee, and a DigitalOcean setup runs about $29 to $59 per month as of October 2026. You pay instead in engineering time for backups, monitoring, and upgrades. Medusa Cloud starts at $29/month, with Launch at $99 for production stores.
2026-10-29How to migrate from Magento to a TypeScript stack
To migrate from Magento to Medusa, move catalog data first with Medusa's Docs MCP migration tool or its Magento plugin tutorial, then customers, orders, extensions, storefront, and 301 redirects. Medusa is TypeScript on Node.js. Customer passwords don't transfer, so customers set new ones, and saved cards move only through your payment provider.
2026-10-29Medusa vs Saleor
Medusa and Saleor are both open-source headless commerce platforms on PostgreSQL. Medusa is TypeScript with REST APIs, and you extend it with modules and workflows inside the application. Saleor is Python and Django with a GraphQL-only API, extended through apps that run as separate services. Choose Saleor for GraphQL-first teams, Medusa for TypeScript teams.
2026-10-29Medusa vs Vendure
Medusa and Vendure are both open-source TypeScript commerce platforms on Node.js. Medusa uses REST APIs, modules and workflows under an MIT license (except Enterprise RBAC and SSO), with Medusa Cloud generally available. Vendure uses NestJS, GraphQL APIs and plugins under GPLv3 or a commercial license, with Vendure Cloud not yet available. Choose Vendure for GraphQL, Medusa for REST.
2026-10-29Best open-source ecommerce platforms (2026), compared
The leading open-source ecommerce platforms in 2026 are Medusa, Saleor, Vendure, WooCommerce, Magento Open Source, PrestaShop, Sylius and Spree. Medusa fits TypeScript teams building custom commerce logic over REST APIs. Saleor and Vendure fit GraphQL-first teams. WooCommerce, Magento, PrestaShop and Sylius fit PHP teams, and Spree fits Ruby on Rails teams.
2026-10-29Outgrown Shopify Plus: what sits between Shopify and a custom build?
Medusa is the in-between option for brands that outgrew Shopify Plus: an open-source commerce framework, not a build from scratch. It ships carts, orders, pricing, payments, and an admin, and you add custom logic in TypeScript with workflows, workflow hooks, custom modules, and API routes, without Shopify Functions limits or a sandboxed checkout.
2026-10-29Switching from WooCommerce to a JavaScript stack
To switch from WooCommerce to a JavaScript stack, move your catalog into Medusa, a TypeScript commerce backend on Node.js, with the WooCommerce guide in Medusa's Docs MCP migration tool. It migrates products, variants, prices, images, inventory, and categories. Then import customers, connect a storefront to the Store API, and add 301 redirects.
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