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Best Real-Time E-commerce Platforms for self-hosting

The 4 best Real-Time e-commerce platforms you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

Medusa

E-commerce Platforms

Composable commerce engine for developers

Replaces Shopify, commercetools

★ 35.6k Medium setup MIT

Saleor

E-commerce Platforms

GraphQL-first headless commerce platform

Replaces Shopify, commercetools

★ 23.2k Hard setup BSD-3-Clause

Reaction Commerce

E-commerce Platforms

Headless GraphQL commerce microservices platform

Replaces Shopify, commercetools

★ 12.4k Hard setup Apache-2.0

Saleor Storefront

E-commerce Platforms

Next.js reference storefront for Saleor

Replaces Shopify Hydrogen

★ 1.5k Medium setup MIT

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Real-Time within the e-commerce platforms category. Compare them on the individual app pages for setup difficulty and resource requirements.