Bitcart vs OwnPay
Bitcart and OwnPay are both self-hosted payment gateway software. Bitcart is open source under MIT, with 1k GitHub stars. OwnPay is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 204 GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Bitcart when
- You want to accept several cryptocurrencies, not just Bitcoin, on your own server.
- Pick OwnPay when
- You want to test a self-hosted gateway layer over local payment methods and can audit it.
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 payment gateway panel for managing brands, payment gateways and transactions on your own server.
Still pre-1.0 with a small team, and you handle custody, volatility and compliance.
Created in April 2026 and still at version 0.2; handling payments on a young codebase is risky.
Usable
Experimental
Self-hosted server (both)
Python, FastAPI and Docker
PHP and Twig
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
204 GitHub stars
Established: started 7 years ago, latest release 0.11.0.1.
Young: started 6 months ago, latest release v0.2.0.
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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.