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E-Commerce & Payments

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MIT core
Medusa

Composable commerce backend for custom storefronts, products, carts, orders, and integrations

Tradeoff: It is a developer platform, not a turnkey hosted store; storefront, hosting, payments, tax, operations, and upgrades need owners.

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Apache-2.0
Hyperswitch

Self-hostable payment orchestration across multiple processors with routing, retries, vault, reconciliation, and checkout components

Tradeoff: It does not remove processor fees, merchant accounts, PCI scope, compliance, fraud, reconciliation, or production operations; verify each connector and payment flow.

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