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Hyperswitch

Open source, composable payments platform | PCI compliant | SaaS and Self-host options | Enables connectivity to multiple payment, payout, fraud, vault and tokenization providers | Uplifts authorization with intelligent routing and revenue recovery | Reduce payment processing costs with cost observability | Reduces payment ops with reconciliation

Hyperswitch is an open-source payment orchestration project on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 license (permissive), with 46k stars. It is built with Rust, V8, Postgres and Redis. Its last push was today.

Stars
46k
License
Apache-2.0
Activity
Active
Latest release
v1.129.0

Code on GitHub Website

Judgement

What it is
Complete system
What it does
A payments orchestration platform that connects one API to many processors, payout, fraud and vault providers, with routing, retries and reconciliation.
Adopt it when
You process enough payments to benefit from routing across several processors and have engineers to run it.
Watch out
Self-hosting a PCI-scoped payment system is a serious operational and compliance burden.
Ready for
Production-ready
Runs as
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Built with
Rust, PostgreSQL and Redis
How established
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v1.129.0.
What the license allows
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

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Stars, license and activity come from GitHub and refresh on a rolling hourly schedule. The project's own description is quoted as written.