Medusa

Platform

Open-source commerce backend for custom stores and inventory workflows

Price: Free core; paid Cloud and enterprise
Access: Publishable or Admin API credentials

About

Modular commerce backend with Store and Admin APIs for products, carts, orders, inventory and fulfillment. Self-host the MIT core or use paid Medusa Cloud. Build the storefront separately and configure payment and fulfillment providers.

What you can do with it

Build a custom online store using product, cart and order APIs
Manage inventory across stock locations and sales channels
Customize commerce workflows and deploy your own backend

Get started

Create and deploy a Medusa application with its database
Add products, stock locations and payment providers
Create a publishable key for your storefront's sales channels

Example

curl "https://$MEDUSA_HOST/store/products?limit=10" \
  -H "x-publishable-api-key: $MEDUSA_PUBLISHABLE_KEY"

Details

Hosting: Hosted service, Self-hosted
Available in: Worldwide
Official SDKs: JavaScript/TypeScript
MCP server: None