Medusa vs Sylius

Medusa is an open-source commerce platform for teams building custom commerce features and store operations. Its framework supports custom API endpoints, business logic, data models, workflows, automations and third-party integrations. Commerce Modules cover inventory tracking, cart totals, payments and order management; the product also lists product management, multiple sales channels, multi-warehousing, regional settings and an advanced promotion engine. Merchants use a customizable admin dashboard to configure and operate a store. Listed integrations include Stripe and PayPal for payments, ShipStation for fulfillment, Sanity and Strapi for content management, and Algolia and Meilisearch for search. Medusa can be deployed to a hosting provider or run through the maker’s managed Medusa Cloud. Cloud pricing lists a 0.0% GMV platform fee and unlimited orders, products, sales channels, regions and currencies, with usage allowances for search, email and storefront edge requests before usage charges apply. There is no transaction fee, but abandoned cart recovery is not available. The free plan is available; paid plans start at $29 a month.

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.