Saleor vs Sylius (2026): which should you pick?

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

Pick Sylius if

• Fits if you have PHP and Symfony developers
• Works for teams that want a headless API and are fine paying for Plus later

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you have no developers, because there is no hosted store builder
• Skip it if you need marketplace, RFQ, RBAC or returns, as those are paid Plus modules
• Watch out: Plus has no published price, and buyers are pointed to a demo and sales
• Tight if you want to launch fast, since the work is engineering

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.

Sylius

• It is a developer framework, so launching a store takes engineering work; there is no hosted store builder.
• The Community Edition lacks marketplace, RFQ, RBAC and returns features, which are paid Plus modules.
• Sylius Plus prices are not published; the site points buyers to a live demo and sales contact.

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.

Sylius

Headless REST API

A REST API built with API Platform lets the framework sit behind the front end or microservices architecture of your choice.

Symfony developer framework

Built for Symfony developers, with automated testing practices and a Behavior Driven Development approach baked into projects.

B2B Suite (Plus)

Plus adds tailored price lists for customer groups, ordering on behalf of customers, wish lists and a request-for-quotation flow.

Marketplace Suite (Plus)

Plus adds vendor onboarding, communication, payment splitting, reports and document handling for multi-vendor stores.

Advanced multi-store and multi-source stock

Plus modules run several stores from one admin and ship from more than one warehouse, with ERP-friendly inventory handling.

Returns, loyalty and subscriptions

Plus modules cover a returns (RMA) process, loyalty rules, partial shipments, a product configurator and subscription sales.

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.

Sylius

• Community Edition$0

  The open-source framework with a REST API, which you host and build on yourself, for example on a VPS, Docker or Kubernetes.

• Sylius PlusCustom

  Subscription modules on top of the core, such as B2B Suite, Marketplace Suite and RBAC. No price is published; sold through sales.