# Medusa

The world's most flexible commerce platform for agents and developers

Repository: https://github.com/medusajs/medusa
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/medusa
Homepage: https://medusajs.com
Language: TypeScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: nodejs, medusa, commerce, e-commerce, react, ecommerce, javascript, typescript, framework, ai-coding, ai-tools
Last push: 2026-08-26T23:15:17+00:00
Link (homepage): https://medusajs.com
Link (site_page): https://docs.medusajs.com/
Link (site_page): https://medusajs.com/integrations
Link (site_page): https://docs.medusajs.com
Link (site_page): https://medusajs.com/changelog

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 94/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 85, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2419, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 20, "gap_med": 6, "n_releases_24m": 80}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 36020, forks 5139 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:00.950836+00:00)

## What it is
Medusa is an open-source (open-core) digital commerce platform with a built-in customization framework, offering modular commerce primitives like products, orders, inventory, promotions, and multi-region support. It targets developers and AI agents building B2B, DTC, marketplace, and POS commerce applications, with a Next.js storefront starter and integrations for payments, fulfillment, and notifications.

## Use cases
- build a headless ecommerce store
- create a multi-vendor marketplace
- set up a B2B ordering portal
- manage multi-warehouse inventory across sales channels
- build a subscription or digital products store
- let an AI agent scaffold and deploy an ecommerce backend
- add multi-currency regional pricing to a store

## When to choose
- you need a customizable open-source commerce backend with modular commerce logic
- you want to build marketplaces, B2B portals, or POS systems on commerce primitives
- you prefer owning your code and self-hosting or deploying to Medusa Cloud
- you want AI-agent-friendly tooling like MCP, CLI, and agent skills

## When to avoid
- you want a fully hosted turnkey SaaS store with no development
- you need a simple storefront with minimal customization (Shopify-style)
- your stack is not JavaScript/TypeScript based
- you require all enterprise features under a permissive open-source license

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: web-framework, api-framework, plugin-system, cli, workflow-automation, sdk
- domain: e-commerce, web-development, backend, apis, developer-tools
- platform: self-hosted, cloud
- tags: e-commerce, headless-commerce, open-core, storefront, marketplace, b2b, nextjs-starter, ai-agents, mcp, admin-dashboard, nodejs, typescript, javascript, docker

## Member repositories
- medusajs/medusa (main) score 94
- medusajs/nextjs-starter-medusa (frontend) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:00.950836+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:26:44.009417+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/medusajs/medusa (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:00.950836+00:00, sha 2e5a5ea82eea)
  - homepage: https://medusajs.com (fetched 2026-08-29T07:48:37.425864+00:00, sha 4a094ecd8d92)
  - site_page: https://docs.medusajs.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T07:48:37.433105+00:00, sha bd62d699cdd9)
  - site_page: https://docs.medusajs.com (fetched 2026-08-29T07:48:37.440403+00:00, sha bd62d699cdd9)
  - site_page: https://medusajs.com/integrations (fetched 2026-08-29T07:48:37.437891+00:00, sha fc5fdd092947)
  - site_page: https://medusajs.com/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T07:48:37.442823+00:00, sha 16b765af1b05)
  - site_page: https://medusajs.com/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T07:48:37.430097+00:00, sha d13e1f0a50de)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.