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Headless commerce engines in 2026

3 commercial products, ranked by how many people read about each, or about its maker, on Wikipedia's mobile site. Of those with an article of their own, commercetools has the most readers, about 86 a month. 9 open-source projects, ranked by GitHub stars and how recently each was worked on. Saleor leads with 23k stars, ahead of Aimeos Laravel. 7 had code pushed in the last three months. Most common licenses: MIT (5), BSD-3-Clause (3) and EUPL-1.2 (1).

Commercial headless commerce engines

  1. 1
    commercetools commercetools

    Enterprise commerce infrastructure for AI agents. Build and operate commerce experiences across online, in-store, in-chat and agent-to-agent channels from one unified engine.

    Building block Production-ready An enterprise with its own engineering team wants to build a custom commerce experience across many channels.

    86 readers a month Commercial
  2. 2
    Elastic Path Elastic Path Software

    Building block Production-ready A midsize or enterprise team wants composable commerce with complex catalogues and less build effort than commercetools.

    Commercial
  3. 3
    Swell Swell

    Swell is the future-proof ecommerce platform that helps you build, sell, and scale your way.

    Building block Usable A small developer-led brand wants headless commerce with subscriptions without enterprise commercetools pricing.

    Commercial

Open-source headless commerce engines

Frameworks and platforms to build on 5

  1. 1
    Saleor saleor

    Saleor Core: the high performance, composable, headless commerce API.

    Framework or platform Production-ready A team builds a custom storefront and wants a scalable, API-first commerce backend.

    ★ 23k BSD-3-Clause Python Active, pushed 7 days ago
  2. 2
    Django Oscar django-oscar

    Domain-driven e-commerce for Django

    Framework or platform Production-ready A Python team needs a shop with complex B2B or domain-specific rules inside Django.

    ★ 6.6k BSD-3-Clause Python Active, pushed 5 days ago
  3. 3
    Framework vanilophp

    The truly Laravel E-commerce Framework

    Framework or platform Production-ready A Laravel developer wants commerce building blocks inside a custom app rather than a finished shop.

    ★ 878 MIT PHP Active, pushed 39 days ago
  4. 4
    Unchained unchainedshop

    High-Performance Headless Node.js ESM E-Commerce Framework

    Framework or platform Production-ready A TypeScript team needs a commerce backend for unusual models such as subscriptions, quotes or tokenized goods.

    ★ 204 EUPL-1.2 TypeScript Active, pushed 5 days ago
  5. 5
    Django-salesman dinoperovic

    Headless e-commerce framework for Django and Wagtail.

    Framework or platform Usable You run a Django or Wagtail site and want to add a shop with your own product models.

    ★ 420 BSD-3-Clause Python Quiet, pushed 13 months ago

Building blocks for your own system 3

  1. 1
    Aimeos Laravel aimeos

    Laravel ecommerce package for ultra fast online shops, scalable marketplaces, complex B2B applications and #gigacommerce

    Building block Production-ready You already run a Laravel application and want to add a shop or marketplace inside it.

    ★ 8.7k MIT PHP Active, pushed 3 days ago
  2. 2
    Lunar lunarphp

    An open-source package that brings the power of modern headless e-commerce functionality to Laravel.

    Building block Usable A Laravel team wants headless commerce inside its own app with a ready admin.

    ★ 3.8k MIT PHP Active, pushed 3 days ago
  3. 3
    Shopper shopperlabs

    Headless e-commerce administration built with Laravel to create and manage online store.

    Building block Usable A Laravel developer needs a store back office and will build the storefront separately.

    ★ 1.3k MIT PHP Active, pushed 10 days ago

Integrations 1

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    Headless eCommerce bagisto

    Laravel Headless eCommerce APIs allow you to experience seamless and easily scalable storefront performance. An open-source and GraphQL based Rest API Laravel platform delivering ultra-fast, dynamic, and personalized shopping experiences.

    Integration Usable You run Bagisto and want to build a headless storefront or mobile app on top of it.

    ★ 111 MIT PHP Slowing, pushed 4 months ago

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Open-source licenses

  • Permissive: 8. Use it anywhere, including in closed products. You keep the copyright notice; Apache-2.0 also grants patent rights.
  • Strong copyleft: 1. If you distribute the program or anything built on it, you must release the whole source under the same license.

Languages

PHP 5, Python 3 and TypeScript 1.

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