KitCommerce vs Bagisto

Both are MIT. The difference is what you run, and what you buy on top.

Bagisto is a Laravel application from Webkul — storefront, admin and APIs in one PHP codebase — with an extension store that sells the marketplace, point of sale and multi-tenant SaaS. GoCommerce is a Go backend with vendors and B2B price lists in its core, and Svelte Commerce is a separate SvelteKit storefront. Neither core has a licence fee. Bagisto has more built and more stores behind it; GoCommerce has less to run.

$449 Webkul’s price for Bagisto’s multi-vendor marketplace extension
₹0 for vendors in GoCommerce — they are part of the core
22/43 Svelte Commerce services wired for Bagisto, cart and checkout among them

KitCommerce is an open-source ecommerce platform. Its packages are GoCommerce, the backend and admin, and Svelte Commerce, the storefront — MIT licensed, used together or either one on its own. On this page, each claim names the package it is about.

Bagisto and GoCommerce, side by side

Bagisto’s side is checked against its own site, developer docs, extension store and GitHub, linked at the foot of this page; ours against the GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce pages on this site.

Bagisto compared with GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce, checked 25 September 2026
Aspect	Bagisto	GoCommerce + Svelte Commerce
What it is	One Laravel application: Blade and Vue storefront, admin panel and a web installer, maintained by Webkul.	An open-source platform in two MIT packages: a Go backend with its admin compiled in, and a separate SvelteKit storefront.
Licence	MIT.	MIT, both packages.
What you run	On Bagisto 2.4, the current stable line: PHP 8.3 or 8.4, Composer, and MySQL or MariaDB behind Nginx, Apache or OpenLiteSpeed. Bagisto 2.5, in beta, needs PHP 8.4 and adds PostgreSQL 16 to MySQL 8.0 and MariaDB 10.11. Elasticsearch 8 and Redis are optional.	One Go binary and one PostgreSQL database. No PHP runtime, no Redis and no message broker required.
API	REST and GraphQL from one Composer package, bagisto/bagisto-api, kept outside the core and installed separately; Shop and Admin surfaces.	REST in the core: 342 documented operations, published as OpenAPI, the same API the admin uses.
Marketplace	A paid extension, $449: seller dashboards, per-seller commission, payouts, product approval and sub-sellers.	In the core: vendors move through pending, approved and suspended, and sell through vendor offers. Commission is recorded per vendor but not settled — payouts are yours to build.
B2B	A free MIT package, the B2B Suite: company accounts and roles, quick order, requisition lists, requests for quote, purchase orders, company catalogues and credit.	Customer groups, price lists, quantity breaks and scoped API keys in the core. No quotes or approval workflow.
Several stores	Channels, locales and currencies in the core; a $1,199 module turns one install into a multi-tenant SaaS.	Channels, with per-channel publishing and price lists. Channels scope publishing and price, not orders.
Extensions	Webkul’s extension store — POS at $249, a B2B marketplace at $499, industry themes at $199 — alongside free packages on GitHub.	44 MIT modules, compiled in when imported: payments, Indian and global shipping, messaging, search, feeds, MCP. Nothing to buy.
Storefront	Themes inside the application, a Next.js headless storefront and an open-source mobile app.	Svelte Commerce, server-rendered SvelteKit with 79 live demo themes. Its GoCommerce connector is early, at 0.1.0 — catalogue, cart, checkout and order lookup; its Bagisto connector exists too.
Agent tooling	22 agent skills for building on Bagisto, storefront actions declared as WebMCP tools, and an MCP server Webkul describes for products, customers and orders.	An MCP module with 19 tools that act on a running store; an AGENTS.md of 18 rules and 16 task guides in the repository.
Hosting	Self-host, or Bagisto Cloud: managed hosting in Starter and Pro packs, advertised from $25 a month.	Self-host only. No hosted offering.
Track record	Case studies from Toyota Thailand, DAAWAT, The Sultan Center, Cartlow and Digikala; 28,000+ GitHub stars.	Svelte Commerce runs arialshop.com in production. No store we know of runs GoCommerce yet.

What each side costs

Both cores are free. Bagisto charges for several of the extensions that make a store a marketplace, a till or a SaaS; GoCommerce charges for nothing, and has less of that built.

What you pay for, Bagisto against GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce
Cost	Bagisto	GoCommerce + Svelte Commerce
Core software	Nothing — MIT	Nothing — MIT
Multi-vendor marketplace	$449 extension, three months’ support included; longer support is extra	In the core; commission recorded, payouts not settled
B2B quotes and company accounts	Free B2B Suite package	Not available; price lists, groups and quantity breaks are in the core
Point of sale	$249 extension	Not available
Multi-tenant SaaS	$1,199 module	Not available
Managed hosting	Bagisto Cloud, advertised from $25 a month	None offered — a server and PostgreSQL of your own
People	A PHP and Laravel developer to deploy and extend it	A developer to deploy it, and Go to extend it

Extension prices are Webkul’s list prices in US dollars on the day checked. Compatibility differs by extension: the marketplace lists Bagisto 2.4.x, the POS 2.4.11, the SaaS module 2.4.1 and the B2B marketplace 2.2.2, so check the one you need against the Bagisto version you run.

Which one fits

Choose Bagisto when

Your team works in PHP and Laravel, or hires from that pool.
You need quotes, purchase orders and company credit now — Bagisto’s free B2B Suite has them.
You want seller payouts, a POS or a multi-tenant SaaS, and would rather buy an extension than build one.
You want managed hosting from the people who make the software, or named production stores behind it.

Choose GoCommerce + Svelte Commerce when

You want vendors and B2B price lists in the core, with no extension to buy or keep compatible.
You would rather run one binary and PostgreSQL than PHP, a web server and optional search and cache services.
You want Razorpay, Shiprocket, Delhivery, India Post and NimbusPost as MIT modules compiled into one binary.
You want the REST API, its OpenAPI description and an MCP module in one repository, rather than in separate packages.

What you take on

You host it: a server, a PostgreSQL database, backups and upgrades are yours, or a developer’s you pay.
No app store. What a module does not cover, somebody writes.
GoCommerce has over 1,000 tests, but no store we know of runs it in production yet.
Svelte Commerce reaches GoCommerce through an early connector, version 0.1.0: catalogue, cart, checkout and order lookup work; customer accounts and a search index do not.
No quotes, purchase orders or company credit — Bagisto’s free B2B Suite has all three.
Vendor commission is recorded, not paid out. Settling with sellers happens outside GoCommerce, or in code you write.

Moving from Bagisto, or keeping it

Two paths, and the second keeps Bagisto.

Move the backend: GoCommerce has no Bagisto importer — its import modules cover Shopify and Amazon only — so a move is a script that reads Bagisto’s REST or GraphQL API and writes to GoCommerce’s documented one. Sellers from the marketplace extension map onto GoCommerce vendors; payout history has nowhere to go, because GoCommerce records commission but does not settle it.

Or keep Bagisto and change only the storefront: Svelte Commerce’s Bagisto connector wires 22 of its 43 services, with cart, checkout and sign-in among them. Coupons, CMS pages, payment-method listing and vendor pages are the gaps, so a marketplace storefront needs that last one written first.

FAQ

Questions about Bagisto and GoCommerce

Is Bagisto free?

The core is: Bagisto is MIT licensed, like GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce. Several extensions are paid — the multi-vendor marketplace is $449, the POS $249 and the multi-tenant SaaS module $1,199 on Webkul’s price list — while the B2B Suite and the REST and GraphQL API package are free.

Is Bagisto’s multi-vendor marketplace included?

No. It is a paid extension from Webkul at $449, with three months’ support. It adds seller dashboards, commission and payouts. GoCommerce has vendors in its core at no cost, but records commission without settling it, so payouts are yours to build.

Which is easier to host?

GoCommerce asks for less: one Go binary and one PostgreSQL database. Bagisto 2.4 needs PHP, Composer, MySQL or MariaDB and a web server, with Elasticsearch and Redis optional. Bagisto also offers managed hosting, Bagisto Cloud, which GoCommerce does not.

Does GoCommerce have B2B quotes like Bagisto?

No. GoCommerce has customer groups, price lists, quantity breaks and scoped API keys, but no quotes, purchase orders or approval workflow. Bagisto’s free B2B Suite has requests for quote, purchase orders and company credit.

Can Svelte Commerce run on Bagisto?

Yes. Its Bagisto connector wires 22 of 43 services, cart, checkout and sign-in included. Coupons, CMS pages, payment-method listing and vendors are not wired yet, and like every Svelte Commerce connector it has not been run against a live production store.

Can I migrate from Bagisto to GoCommerce?

Yes, but by script. GoCommerce imports from Shopify and Amazon only; for Bagisto you read its API and write to GoCommerce’s documented REST API, which is published as OpenAPI.

Sources

Bagisto’s prices and features were checked on 25 September 2026 against the pages below. Prices change; when one here disagrees with the source, the source is right and this page is out of date. Bagisto is a trademark of its owner, named here only to compare; no endorsement or affiliation is implied — see trademarks.

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