Bitcart vs Open Payment Host
Bitcart and Open Payment Host are both self-hosted payment gateway software. Bitcart is open source under MIT, with 1k GitHub stars. Open Payment Host is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 243 GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Bitcart when
- You want to accept several cryptocurrencies, not just Bitcoin, on your own server.
- Pick Open Payment Host when
- You sell a few digital products and want to avoid platform commissions on top of Stripe fees.
Side by side
A self-hosted crypto payment processor supporting BTC, LTC, BCH, XMR, ETH, TRX, USDT and more, with a store, invoices and e-commerce plugins.
A self-hosted storefront for selling digital products, subscriptions and files through Stripe, as an alternative to Gumroad or Ko-fi.
Still pre-1.0 with a small team, and you handle custody, volatility and compliance.
One maintainer, no releases, and you take on tax handling that Gumroad-style platforms do for you.
Usable
Experimental
Self-hosted server (both)
Python, FastAPI and Docker
Go, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Stripe
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
1k GitHub stars
243 GitHub stars
Established: started 7 years ago, latest release 0.11.0.1.
Established: started 3 years ago, no tagged release yet.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.