Saleor

Saleor is an open-source, headless commerce platform for teams building custom online shopping experiences. Its commerce engine exposes business capabilities through a GraphQL API rather than a fixed storefront.

The platform includes catalog, checkout, payments, shipping, promotions, channels, customer accounts, and order management. Teams can use the open-source core, deploy it independently, or use Saleor Cloud for managed infrastructure.

Saleor’s architecture suits organizations with dedicated engineering resources. It supports B2B, B2C, marketplace, multi-region, digital-product, and omnichannel commerce patterns.

Saleor provides product information management, product variants, collections, attributes, inventory, channels, pricing, promotions, vouchers, checkout, order management, and customer accounts.

The platform uses GraphQL for storefront, administration, and integration access. Webhooks, apps, dashboard extensions, and an app SDK support custom workflows without modifying every core component.

Documented integrations and extensions include Stripe, Adyen, AvaTax, CMS tools, product feeds, search services, customer email services, SMTP, Twilio, and Segment. Payment and external-service capabilities are commonly implemented through apps.

Saleor supports multi-region commerce with currencies, languages, warehouses, channels, and region-specific configuration. Its documentation also covers marketplaces, click and collect, custom shipping, and digital products.

Saleor offers a free open-source edition for self-managed deployments. Saleor Cloud provides a forever-free sandbox for development and prototyping, but production usage requires a paid or negotiated plan.

The published Select plan costs $1,599 per month and includes up to $200,000 in monthly GMV before a 0.8% overage rate. The Volume plan costs $3,999 per month and includes up to $1,000,000 in monthly GMV before a 0.4% overage rate.

Enterprise pricing is negotiated, with the published pricing page stating rates can be as low as 0.2%. Optional Accelerator and Forward Deployed Engineering services cost $6,000 and $12,000 respectively, with credits described on the pricing page.

The forever-free sandbox functions as Saleor’s free trial and development option. It isn’t presented as a time-limited trial of a production plan.

Pros: Open-source core, GraphQL-native API, flexible headless architecture, strong extension model, multi-region support, and a free cloud sandbox for development.

Cons: Implementation generally requires developers, storefront construction is separate from the commerce backend, and production cloud pricing is oriented toward established businesses rather than small shops.

Self-hosted deployments also leave infrastructure, upgrades, security operations, and reliability management with the implementing organization.

Shopify is a more turnkey alternative for businesses prioritizing hosted administration and rapid deployment. Adobe Commerce targets organizations needing extensive traditional commerce customization and enterprise tooling.

commercetools offers another API-first composable commerce platform. Medusa provides an open-source, developer-oriented commerce framework. Sylius is a PHP-based open-source framework for highly customized commerce applications.

Is Saleor open source? Yes. Saleor publishes its core platform under the BSD-3-Clause license and also offers managed cloud services.

Does Saleor have an API? Yes. Its core commerce interface is GraphQL-native, with API documentation, queries, mutations, webhooks, and app-development guidance.

Can Saleor be self-hosted? Yes. Organizations can deploy the open-source platform themselves. Saleor Cloud is the managed alternative.

Does Saleor offer a free trial? Saleor provides a forever-free cloud sandbox for coding and prototyping. The published page does not describe this as a time-limited production trial.

What integrations does Saleor support? Official documentation lists extensions for services including Stripe, Adyen, AvaTax, Twilio, Segment, search, CMS, product feeds, customer emails, and SMTP.

Who is Saleor best suited for? It is best suited to commerce teams with engineering capacity that need custom storefronts, multiple selling channels, regional operations, or complex workflows.