Ever Demand vs Mercur
Ever Demand and Mercur are both marketplace platform software. Ever Demand is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 1.9k GitHub stars. Mercur is open source under MIT, with 1.9k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Ever Demand when
- A developer wants a reference for a delivery marketplace built with Angular and MongoDB.
- Pick Mercur when
- A company wants to run a B2C or B2B marketplace on its own infrastructure instead of paying a share of sales to a SaaS.
Side by side
An on-demand commerce platform for ordering and delivery, with shop, merchant, driver and admin apps.
A multi-vendor marketplace platform on top of Medusa, with vendor onboarding, offers, commissions, payouts, storefront, vendor panel and admin.
No releases, demos are offline, and it runs on an older Angular and Ionic stack.
Two years old and tied to Medusa's release cycle, so upgrades depend on both projects.
Experimental
Usable
Self-hosted server and mobile app
Self-hosted server
TypeScript, Angular, Node.js and MongoDB
TypeScript, Medusa, Node.js and PostgreSQL
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
1.9k GitHub stars (both)
Established: started 8 years ago, no tagged release yet.
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v2.4.0.
Other comparisons
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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.