Craft Commerce vs Saleor (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Craft Commerce if

• Fits if you have a developer building a custom store on Craft CMS
• Works for agencies that run several stores and currencies from one install

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you want a point-and-click store, as it needs a developer
• Pricey if you count the Craft CMS licence, which is bought separately
• Watch out: updates after the first year cost $299 a year per project
• Tight if you grow, as Pro is capped at 5 stores and 5 inventory locations

Pick Saleor if

• Fits if you're a high-volume merchant with engineers and want a custom headless build
• Works for teams that want the option to self-host and keep their data

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you're small: Cloud starts at $1,599 a month, and Volume is $3,999
• Not for you if you want to try it on a real shop free, since Sandboxes are non-commercial
• Watch out: Accelerator is $6,000 and Forward Deployed Engineering $12,000, credited back over 12 months after go-live
• Skip it if you want a finished store, as Saleor Engine is beta and the storefront is yours to build

Craft Commerce

• Pricing excludes the Craft CMS license, which is bought separately.
• Updates after the first year cost $299 a year per project.
• It is built around templates and code, so it needs a developer rather than a point-and-click setup.
• Pro is capped at five stores and five inventory locations; more needs the sales-led Enterprise plan.

Saleor

• Cloud pricing is tied to monthly GMV, and orders above the plan's limit add a percentage fee (0.8% on Select, 0.4% on Volume).
• The free Sandboxes plan is for non-commercial use only.
• Optional add-ons: the Accelerator Plan costs $6,000 and Forward Deployed Engineering $12,000, credited back over 12 months after go-live.
• Saleor Engine is labeled beta, and the Essential Apps run only on Saleor Cloud.

Craft Commerce

Products and variants

The license places no limit on how many products or variants you create, and products use Craft's drafts, versioning and live preview.

Multi-store

Commerce 5 manages separate customer-facing stores in one install, each able to use its own base currency for pricing.

Inventory locations

Track stock and make adjustments across stores, warehouses or other locations; Pro allows up to five.

Payment gateways

First-party gateways cover Stripe, PayPal Checkout and Mollie, and further gateways come from the plugin ecosystem or custom code.

Custom fields and checkout

Custom fields shape product and order management, and the checkout flow can be built to your own design.

Plugin extensions

Plugins from Verbb add events and ticketing, wishlists and gift vouchers on top of the core store.

Saleor

Headless GraphQL core

Customization is done by building Saleor Apps that connect through GraphQL, webhooks and pub/sub, which keeps the core files untouched.

Saleor Engine

A beta feature that runs your storefront, apps and ERP sync alongside Saleor, with deployment, variables and logs managed from the Dashboard.

Essential Apps

Cloud-only apps cover multilingual customer emails, Adyen payments, Google Merchant Center feeds, MCP, ACP/UCP and Ink AI Search.

Pulse dashboard

Dashboard home shows revenue, orders, returns and low stock, and flags anything that looks unusual.

Migration and engineering support

Each Cloud plan includes migration from platforms such as Shopify Plus or Magento, a delivery lead, a Slack channel and 24/7 support with SLAs.

Cloud and self-hosted

Moving between Saleor Cloud and self-hosted open source is supported, though a data migration or version update may be needed.

Craft Commerce

• Pro$1,199

  per project, includes 1 year of updates

  Unlimited products and variants, up to 5 stores and 5 inventory locations, multi-currency and custom checkout. Updates cost $299 a year after year one.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Everything in Pro, plus SAML SSO and a custom number of stores and inventory locations. Sold by request.

Saleor

• Sandboxes$0

  Free forever, for non-commercial use only: prototyping, side projects and trying new features.

• Select$1599

  per month, up to $200,000 monthly GMV

  For new projects and smaller companies; 0.8% charged on orders above the GMV limit, with a fair API usage policy.

• Volume$3999

  per month, up to $1,000,000 monthly GMV

  For high-volume businesses; 0.4% charged on orders above the GMV limit, with a fair API usage policy.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Negotiated pricing with a fair API usage policy. Sold through sales.