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Medusa

Open-source commerce platform for building, customizing, and operating commerce with AI

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Medusa is an open-source commerce platform for building and operating B2C and B2B commerce stacks. It provides advanced commerce logic modules, a customizable admin dashboard, and cloud infrastructure that deploys from GitHub, addressing the need for flexible, developer-oriented commerce systems that can be customized and operated with AI agents.

Core capabilities include product management with bundles and bulk editing, multiple sales channels, inventory and multi-warehousing, multi-regional currencies and tax rules, and an advanced promotion engine. The platform integrates with payment providers (Stripe, PayPal, Mollie, Braintree), fulfillment services (ShipStation, Printful, Shiprocket), search (Algolia, MeiliSearch), CMS tools (Contentful, Sanity, Strapi), analytics (PostHog, Segment), authentication providers, ERP systems, and file storage services. Agentic tooling includes MCP, a CLI, Skills, Agent Previews, and a Development Agent.

Medusa is suited for developers and teams building custom commerce experiences. The open-source platform can be self-hosted, while Medusa Cloud offers managed infrastructure with plans including Develop, Launch, Scale, and Enterprise editions. Cloud plans are billed monthly with usage-based add-ons for compute, storage, search, emails, preview environments, and seats; admin dashboard users are free and unlimited. Enterprise plans add SLAs, RBAC, SSO, audit logs, dedicated support, and bring-your-own-cloud options.

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