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Medusa

Open-source commerce platform and managed cloud hosting for developers building custom storefronts, B2B portals and marketplaces, with built-in search, emails and agent tooling.

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Medusa is an open-source commerce platform for developers building custom storefronts, B2B portals and marketplaces. The core covers products and bundles, carts, orders, multi-warehouse inventory, multi-region pricing and tax, sales channels and promotions, with a customisable admin dashboard. Medusa Cloud adds GitHub push-to-deploy hosting, preview environments, built-in search and transactional emails, plus an agent harness with an MCP server, Cloud CLI and Development Agent. Cloud plans start at $29 a month.

Why it stands out

Cloud plans bundle an agent harness: Medusa MCP server, Development Agent, Cloud CLI and preview environments.

What Medusa does

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  • Open-source core with modules developers extend and a customisable admin
  • Multi-region pricing, currencies, local tax rules and unlimited sales channels
  • Multi-warehouse inventory, order reservations and an advanced promotion engine
  • Medusa Search: full-text, typo-tolerant, faceted, semantic and hybrid on Scale
  • Agent tooling on Cloud: MCP server, Development Agent, Cloud CLI, agent previews
  • Cloud from $29/mo, Launch $99, Scale $299, Enterprise custom
  • No GMV platform fee; unlimited orders, products and regions on all plans
  • Enterprise plan adds RBAC, SSO, audit logs, SOC2 and 99.99% uptime

How ecommerce teams could use it

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Illustrative scenarios written by ecommerceguide from the product's documented capabilities. They are not customer case studies.

  1. A direct-to-consumer brand with in-house developers running a custom storefront

    Selling in several countries with local tax rules, currencies and region-specific shipping and discounts

    Intended outcomeMedusa handles multi-region pricing and tax, sales channel rules and promotions, with the storefront and backend deployed from GitHub on Cloud

  2. A distributor running a B2B ordering portal

    Serving business accounts with their own pricing and orders fulfilled from several warehouses

    Intended outcomeMedusa's promotion engine covers B2B and customer-specific pricing, while inventory modules manage reservations and stock across warehouses

  3. A development team building commerce customisations with AI coding tools

    Extending modules and workflows while checking changes before they reach production

    Intended outcomeCloud provides the Medusa MCP server, Development Agent and Cloud CLI, with instant previews on pull requests

Who it suits

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Best for

You have developers who will own an open-source commerce backend and want managed hosting, search, emails and agent tooling from $29 a month.

Probably not for

You need a hosted storefront without developers, since Medusa has no free Cloud plan and lists no Shopify, BigCommerce or Magento integration.

Business size
Any stageCloud pricing runs from $29 a month for development up to custom Enterprise plans with SLAs, SSO and audit logs.
Verticals
Marketplaces, B2B commerce

Medusa pricing

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Model
Paid
Starting price
$29

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