Mercur vs Mirakl
Mercur and Mirakl are both marketplace platform software. Mercur is open source under MIT, with 1.9k GitHub stars. Mirakl is a commercial product from Mirakl.
Which to pick
- 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.
- Pick Mirakl when
- A large retailer or distributor wants to add third-party sellers to its existing site to widen range.
Side by side
A multi-vendor marketplace platform on top of Medusa, with vendor onboarding, offers, commissions, payouts, storefront, vendor panel and admin.
Enterprise platform for retailers and B2B distributors to run third-party seller marketplaces and dropship programs alongside their own catalogue.
Two years old and tied to Medusa's release cycle, so upgrades depend on both projects.
Enterprise pricing and onboarding sellers is an operational job in its own right.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
TypeScript, Medusa, Node.js and PostgreSQL
Not published
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source, sold by Mirakl
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
1.9k GitHub stars
120 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v2.4.0.
Not known
Other comparisons
More multi-vendor marketplace platforms
Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.