📄 markdown🕑 2d ago🚀 PaaS🧱 4 services
Vendure
vendure.io ↗The offering spans an open-source core, a commercial enterprise platform on an annual subscription, and a managed cloud service with custom pricing. While usage meters aren’t listed, the contact-sales gates and annual-only subscription for parts of the platform make total cost discovery dependent on sales engagement across multiple services.
model: gpt-5
0🧾
Pricing clarity
A bit fiddly
0🤖
Agent easiness
Rough for bots
How we scored it 🧮
Every page starts at 100. Each kind of complexity subtracts points — here's the math.
🧾 Pricing clarity
58- Base score+100
- 4 plans to compare-4
- No self-serve pricing — real cost needs a sales call-36
- Spans 4 distinct services to navigate-4
- Plan breadth is reasonable for a 4-service platform+2
- Total58 / 100
🤖 Agent easiness
40- Base score+100
- No concrete pricing to parse-40
- Pricing gated behind interaction-20
- Total40 / 100
The pricing tree 🌳
tap any branch to explore💳 Hybrid🪜 4 tiers
The tiers 🪜
Core
Free
- ✦Open-source commerce framework
- ✦GPLv3 license
- ✦Full commerce framework & admin dashboard
- ✦Plugin model, APIs, multi-channel, multi-region, multi-currency
- ✦Regular releases (monthly patches, quarterly minors)
- ✦Comprehensive documentation
- ✦Community support via Discord & GitHub
Platform
⭐Custom
annual subscription
- ✦Everything in Core
- ✦Production-ready Next.js storefront
- ✦20+ enterprise plugins
- ✦AI tooling: Agent Skills + Enterprise MCP
- ✦Long-term support (LTS)
- ✦Dedicated support from the Vendure team
- ✦Quarterly roadmap calls
Self-hosted
No extra cost
- ✦Run on your own infrastructure
- ✦Works with Core (GPLv3) or Platform (commercial license)
- ✦Move workloads to Vendure Cloud later without rewriting
Cloud
Custom
- AvailabilityDesign partners now; GA Q4 2026
- ✦Managed runtime for any Vendure project (Core or Platform)
- ✦Vendure-tuned managed infrastructure
- ✦Auto-scaling and automatic backups
- ✦Automatic preview deployments per PR and branches
- ✦One-click rollbacks and restore
- ✦Global regions with multi-region deployments
- ✦EU-only data residency option
Watch out for 🕵️
- ⚠️Contact-sales pricing for Platform tier
- ⚠️Contact-sales pricing for Cloud managed runtime
- ⚠️Annual subscription requirement noted for Platform
- ⚠️Multiple distinct services with separate pricing models (open-source core, commercial platform, managed cloud)