Saleor pricing, features, and open-source model explained. Compare self-hosted Saleor Core with managed Saleor Cloud plans for headless commerce.
Saleor is a headless, API-first e-commerce platform built on Python, Django, and GraphQL. Its roots go back to 2013 as an internal project at the Polish agency Mirumee Software, and it was spun out as an independent company, Saleor Commerce, in 2020 by co-founders Mirek Mencel and Patryk Zawadzki, headquartered in Wroclaw, Poland.
The project has become one of the most widely adopted open-source MACH commerce platforms, with over 20,000 GitHub stars and reported use by brands including Lush and Breitling, and the company has raised roughly 10 to 11 million dollars from investors including Cherry Ventures, Target Global, and Zalando.
As a headless platform, Saleor exposes commerce functionality such as product catalogs, checkout, orders, payments, and promotions through a GraphQL API, letting developers build fully custom storefronts on any frontend framework rather than relying on a fixed theme system.
Saleor Core is fully open source under a BSD license, meaning it can be self-hosted and modified for commercial use at no licensing cost, while Saleor Cloud provides a managed, auto-scaling hosted version for teams that do not want to operate their own infrastructure.
Self-hosting Saleor Core is free, since the software is open source; costs in that path come from a team's own hosting, infrastructure, and development time rather than from Saleor itself.
For teams that prefer a managed service, Saleor Cloud starts at 159 dollars per month for the Select plan, covering up to 200,000 dollars in monthly gross merchandise value, with a Volume plan at 399 dollars per month for up to 1 million dollars in monthly GMV, and custom enterprise pricing for larger merchants.
Yes, Saleor Core is open source under a BSD license and free to self-host and modify for commercial use. The managed Saleor Cloud service is a separate paid offering.
Saleor Cloud starts at 159 dollars per month for the Select plan (up to 200,000 dollars in monthly GMV), with a Volume plan at 399 dollars per month for up to 1 million dollars in monthly GMV.
Saleor was formally founded as a company in 2020 by Mirek Mencel and Patryk Zawadzki, building on an internal project their agency Mirumee Software started in 2013.
Saleor's engineering team and headquarters are in Wroclaw, Poland, with marketing, sales, and customer success primarily US-based and remote.
Yes, Saleor is a headless, API-first commerce platform that separates the backend from the storefront, exposing functionality through GraphQL.
Saleor Core is built on Python, Django, and GraphQL.
Saleor has been used by brands including Lush and Breitling, among others, per public reporting.
Saleor has raised roughly 10 to 11 million dollars, including a 2.5 million dollar seed round from Cherry Ventures and an 8 million dollar round led by Target Global with Zalando participating.