Crystallize vs Sylius
Crystallize
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Sylius
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| Figure | Crystallize | Sylius |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $949/mo | €66.67/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 4 |
| Spec score · Headless Ecommerce Platforms | 9.2 (#2) | 8.8 (#6) |
| Spec score · Ecommerce platforms | 9.0 (#27) | 9.3 (#7) |
| App marketplace | Yes | Yes |
| Company history | Crystallize was founded in 2017 and is a New Normal Group company. | The official history says the open-source project began in 2011 after Paweł Jędrzejewski rewrote a family eCommerce platform on Symfony. |
| Digital products | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2017 | 2011 |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Headquarters | Skien, Telemark, Norway | Opole, Poland |
| Hosting model | hosted | self-hosted |
| Integrations | Official integration documentation lists payment gateways including Stripe, Klarna, Vipps, Dintero, Adyen, Mollie, Montonio, Quickpay, Two, and Razorpay. | The API is intended to connect ERP, CRM, PIM and other best-of-breed enterprise systems. |
| Sales channels | omnichannel | omnichannel |
| Support | Particle includes community support and online docs, Atom adds a Pro SLA, and Crystal includes a dedicated engineering Slack channel, Enterprise SLA, professional services, advisory access, and roadmap access. | Community support is available through Slack, Stack Overflow and GitHub, while Sylius Plus offers SLA-backed vendor support. |
Plans
Sylius
- Sylius Plus€800 a year
- Sylius StandardFree
- Sylius StandardFree
- Sylius Plus€800 a year
In their own words
Crystallize
Crystallize is a hosted, composable commerce platform that brings product data, content, media, and commerce into a shared model, admin, and API. Its commerce engine covers product and pricing models, subscriptions, customer hierarchies, fulfillment pipelines, and checkout analytics. APIs and webhooks connect external ERP, CRM, payment, and logistics systems. GraphQL and MCP interfaces let AI agents read catalogs, draft quotes, configure subscriptions, and fill carts. The headless platform supports frontends for web, mobile, kiosks, and other platforms; listed platforms also include API, macOS, and Windows. Crystallize lists integrations with payment gateways including Stripe, Klarna, Vipps, Dintero, Adyen, Mollie, Montonio, Quickpay, Two, and Razorpay. It offers a free plan and paid plans from $949/mo; the Atom plan is $949 a month, billed plus metering. Particle and Atom have one tenant per project, while Crystal includes three. Crystallize says it complies with GDPR and CCPA.
Sylius
Sylius is an open-source headless eCommerce platform for mid-market and enterprise brands building custom commerce solutions. Its framework supports B2C and B2B use cases and provides a customizable REST API built with API Platform for headless frontends and microservice architectures. Sylius Standard is a Symfony application with Sylius core as a dependency; it can be installed with Composer or Docker and run on a standard VPS. Docker and Kubernetes are also deployment options for cloud environments. The Addons marketplace lists plugins and third-party integrations. Sylius Plus adds commercial modules such as advanced multi-store, returns management, multi-source inventory, loyalty, partial shipment and request for quotation. Standard is offered under the MIT license with community support and no response-time guarantee; Plus lists SLA-backed support with a one-day response time. Standard has no native quotation process, so customers cannot start price inquiries online. No Standard price is listed. Sylius Plus starts from €800 per year.