Choosing an ecommerce platform means weighing architecture, openness, project health, and delivery signals rather than relying on popularity alone. This September 2026 comparison uses the supplied ToolVitals records for those signals.
The ranking covers open/source-visible tools, ordered by ToolVitals score descending, then health and shipping for equal composite scores. GitHub stars are included as context only and do not determine the ranking.
Rankings
| Rank | Tool | Openness | License | Health | Shipping | GitHub Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shopware | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 98 | 97 | 3430 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 2 | Medusa | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 97 | 96 | 36462 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 3 | Vendure | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 97 | 95 | 8475 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 4 | Spree | OSI-approved OSS | BSD-3-Clause | 96 | 97 | 15723 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 5 | Bagisto | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 96 | 95 | 28173 | 95 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 6 | Mercur | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 95 | 95 | 1786 | 95 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 7 | Saleor | OSI-approved OSS | BSD-3-Clause | 95 | 94 | 23375 | 95 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 8 | UnoPIM | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 95 | 94 | 10999 | 95 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 9 | nopCommerce | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 94 | 92 | 10156 | 93 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 10 | Sylius | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 94 | 91 | 8542 | 93 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 11 | Daffodil | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 93 | 92 | 463 | 93 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 12 | AtroPIM | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 92 | 90 | 207 | 91 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 13 | Smartstore | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 92 | 90 | 1521 | 91 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 14 | GrandNode | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 89 | 87 | 1330 | 88 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 15 | EverShop | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 84 | 91 | 10496 | 87 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 16 | InDM Shop Bot | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 84 | 86 | 33 | 85 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 17 | Open Estate Sales | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 38 | 25 | 0 | 33 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 18 | ShopNex | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 8 | 0 | 357 | 5 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 19 | Scipio ERP | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 4 | 0 | 368 | 3 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 20 | modern-shop-platform | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 3 | 0 | 47 | 2 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 21 | React Storefront | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 0 | 0 | 839 | 0 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 22 | Stelace | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 0 | 0 | 316 | 0 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
Top 3 Highlights
Shopware ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 97, health score of 98, and shipping score of 97. The supplied description presents Shopware 6 as an open commerce platform based on Symfony Framework and Vue, supported by a worldwide community and more than 3.100 community extensions. It is labeled OSI-approved OSS and licensed MIT; its 3430 GitHub stars are context rather than a ranking input.
Medusa ranks second with a ToolVitals score of 97, health score of 97, and shipping score of 96. It is labeled OSI-approved OSS and licensed MIT. Its 36462 GitHub stars provide context about repository visibility, but they do not affect the ranking; Shopware takes the higher position because its health and shipping scores are stronger.
Vendure ranks third with a ToolVitals score of 96, health score of 97, and shipping score of 95. The supplied description identifies it as an open source headless commerce framework built with TypeScript, NestJS, React and GraphQL. It is labeled OSI-approved OSS and licensed GPL-3.0, while its 8475 GitHub stars are context only.
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