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Medusa

Open-source headless commerce platform from Copenhagen

Denmark, Copenhagen Founded 2021 medusajs.com ↗

Medusa is an open-source, developer-oriented commerce engine offering product, order, inventory, multi-region and multi-channel management as composable modules, with a managed Cloud offering. It is one of the most popular open-source commerce projects on GitHub and is used by brands such as Heineken, Spar and Eight Sleep. Founded in Copenhagen in 2021, it raised about €8M in seed funding in 2022.

Our reading. Best for retail brands and chains with an in-house development team that want a customisable headless commerce engine; not suitable for a shop without developers.

What is new here
Open-source, composable commerce modules that developers assemble like building blocks, with no revenue-share pricing on the managed cloud.

Strengths

  • Free and highly customisable for developers
  • No revenue-share pricing
  • Active open-source community

Limits

  • Requires developers; not a turnkey shop builder for small merchants
  • Young company
Why rising

Founded 2021, open-source headless commerce with €8M seed and rapid developer adoption

Notable

Seed round of about €7.98M in July 2022; customers include Heineken, Spar, Mitsubishi Motors and Eight Sleep

European alternative to
Shopify (Canada)
Also ranked in E-commerce
Sources consulted
Page generated by AI (Claude) from 2 sources and the news · editorial responsibility Camille POTVIN · reviewed 23 Sep 2026