Elastic Path vs Vendure (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

Vendure

• Distributors and manufacturers selling to business customers
• Engineering teams that want an open-source framework with paid B2B modules
• Sellers who need customer-specific prices and order approvals

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.

Vendure

• Plans do not include hosting yet; Vendure Cloud is a closed beta and usage above included resources will be billed separately.
• Prices exclude VAT. A no-commitment monthly rate is higher than the 12-month-term price shown, and its amount was not readable.
• Self-serve signup is not available in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Ukraine or sanctioned countries.
• The prices were read in euros; the page offers a USD view that could not be read.

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.

Vendure

Company accounts

One account per customer business with tax ID validation, and on Growth and above an organization hierarchy of branches and departments.

Quotes and reordering

Buyers can request quotes, paste SKUs into quick order, reorder, and keep personal or shared shopping lists and shared carts.

Contract pricing

Scale adds prices set per customer, with volume breaks, so each company sees its own negotiated price instead of the list price.

Approvals and audit log

Orders over a buyer's limit go to an approver before they are placed, and an audit log records changes. Both are on the Scale plan.

No revenue-based fees

Each plan is a flat monthly price with no fee on revenue, orders or users, and a commercial licence is included.

Self-host or Vendure Cloud

You can run Vendure on any cloud or your own hardware. Vendure Cloud is in closed beta, with general availability planned for Q1 2027.

Elastic Path

Pricing could not be confirmed. See elasticpath.com.

Vendure

• Vendure Framework$0

  The open-source GPLv3 framework every plan builds on. You host it yourself and your engineers build the store.

• Starter€199

  per month, 12-month term billed monthly, excl. VAT

  Company accounts with tax ID validation, quotes, quick order and reorder, and catalog search. Community support.

• Growth€599

  per month, 12-month term billed monthly, excl. VAT

  Adds company branches and departments, selling by unit, box or pallet, and shared shopping lists. Direct support from Vendure.

• Scale€2,499

  per month, 12-month term billed monthly, excl. VAT

  Adds order approvals, an audit log, contract prices per customer and a ready-made B2B storefront. Priority support.

• Enterprise€60,000

  per year and up, on contract, excl. VAT

  All 32 capabilities, including PunchOut, quote negotiation and the product configurator, plus custom-built features. Sold through sales.