Elastic Path vs Saleor (2026): which should you pick?

Elastic Path

• Engineering teams building a custom storefront on commerce APIs
• B2B sellers needing accounts, price books and promotions
• Enterprises that want a vendor-hosted commerce backend

Saleor

• Growing or high-volume merchants that want a custom headless build
• Teams that want to keep code and data with an option to self-host
• B2B and marketplace sellers who need a flexible API-first core

Elastic Path

• No prices could be read from the vendor's site here: the pages answered with a bot check, so pricing is recorded as unverified.
• It is a developer platform with no theme-based store builder, so a storefront has to be built or bought separately.
• Self-managed (self-hosted) commerce is documented separately from the hosted product, so confirm which one applies.

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.

Elastic Path

Commerce APIs

Documented APIs with OpenAPI specifications cover carts, checkout, orders, catalogs, products, payments and application keys.

Commerce Manager

A web-based interface for merchants to manage products, orders, customers, promotions, subscriptions, analytics and team permissions.

Price books and promotions

Price books define pricing, and both a standard promotions engine and a promotions builder are documented.

Accounts and organizations

Accounts and account members can log in to the store and create orders for their accounts, which suits B2B buying.

Single- and multi-location inventory

Inventory is documented for a single location or for several, alongside subscriptions and single sign-on settings.

Composer integration layer

Composer is described as commerce intelligence IPaaS, with a builder, an integrations hub and monitoring for connecting other systems.

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.

Elastic Path

Pricing could not be confirmed. See elasticpath.com.

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.