Btcpayserver vs Hyperswitch
Btcpayserver and Hyperswitch are both payments software. Btcpayserver is open source under MIT, with 7.9k GitHub stars. Hyperswitch is open source under Apache-2.0, with 46k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Btcpayserver when
- You want to accept Bitcoin directly into your own wallet without a third-party processor.
- Pick Hyperswitch when
- You process enough payments to benefit from routing across several processors and have engineers to run it.
Side by side
A self-hosted Bitcoin and Lightning payment processor with invoices, a point of sale, crowdfunding pages and e-commerce plugins, with no middleman fees.
A payments orchestration platform that connects one API to many processors, payout, fraud and vault providers, with routing, retries and reconciliation.
You run a full node and handle crypto price volatility, accounting and tax yourself.
Self-hosting a PCI-scoped payment system is a serious operational and compliance burden.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Self-hosted server and cloud service
C#, .NET and PostgreSQL
Rust, PostgreSQL and Redis
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice. (both)
7.9k GitHub stars
46k GitHub stars
Established: started 9 years ago, latest release v2.4.7.
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v1.129.0.
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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.