Mercur vs Sharetribe
Mercur and Sharetribe are both marketplace platform software. Mercur is open source under MIT, with 1.9k GitHub stars. Sharetribe is a commercial product from Sharetribe.
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 Sharetribe when
- A founder wants to launch and test a two-sided marketplace in weeks rather than build one from scratch.
Side by side
A multi-vendor marketplace platform on top of Medusa, with vendor onboarding, offers, commissions, payouts, storefront, vendor panel and admin.
Hosted marketplace software for rental, service and product marketplaces, with listings, bookings, payments via Stripe and a no-code builder plus code-level extension.
Two years old and tied to Medusa's release cycle, so upgrades depend on both projects.
Payments rely on Stripe Connect, and transaction-heavy or unusual marketplace models may hit its limits.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
TypeScript, Medusa, Node.js and PostgreSQL
React and Node.js
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source, sold by Sharetribe
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
No Wikipedia article of its own
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.