Pricing
Free to download under MIT. 1% of every order when hosted.
Two ways to run a store. Download GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce and use them free under the MIT licence, on your own server: no plan, no fee on your orders. Or have the store hosted on kitcommerce.store and pay 1% of every successful order, plus 18% GST on the fee.
MIT licence
Free
Download it and use it free
- GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce, self-hosted
- 0% of your orders, no plan, no expiry
- Every module, admin screen and theme in the code
- Your server, your database, your payment gateway’s own fee
- Help on GitHub and Discord
Hosted (SaaS)
1%
of every successful order, plus 18% GST on the fee
- Your store runs on kitcommerce.store
- Cash-on-delivery and on-account orders included
- Charged in the store’s own currency
- Stores in India pay 18% GST on the fee
- AI features come with free AI credit to start, and we add more when you ask
Everything is in the MIT code
Run it yourself and you get all of it. There is no higher plan for anything to be missing from.
- GoCommerceThe backend: catalogue, carts, checkout, orders, inventory, discounts, price lists, channels — with 93 admin screens compiled in.
- Svelte CommerceThe storefront: server-rendered SvelteKit, running against 26 commerce backends.
- 54 modulesRazorpay, Stripe, Shiprocket, Delhivery, India Post, MSG91, search, feeds and more — all of them.
- 79 themesLive storefront demos you can open and copy.
- The MCP module19 tools that let an AI agent run the store through the same services as the API.
- Every future commitUpdates are commits to public repositories. Pull them when you choose.
What running it yourself replaces
Shopify’s own price list for Indiathe United StatesIrelandthe United KingdomAustraliaCanadaSingaporethe United Arab Emirates, billed yearly, added up. Shopify charges the fee per order when a payment provider other than Shopify Payments takes the payment.
| Plan | Per month | One year | Three years | Fee per order |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shopify Basic | ₹1,499US$29€24£19A$42CA$37SGD 29US$24 | ₹17,988US$348€288£228A$504CA$444SGD 348US$288 | ₹53,964US$1,044€864£684A$1,512CA$1,332SGD 1,044US$864 | 2% |
| Shopify Grow | ₹5,599US$89€69£49A$114CA$99SGD 99US$69 | ₹67,188US$1,068€828£588A$1,368CA$1,188SGD 1,188US$828 | ₹2,01,564US$3,204€2,484£1,764A$4,104CA$3,564SGD 3,564US$2,484 | 1% |
| Shopify Advanced | ₹22,680US$359€289£259A$431CA$389SGD 399US$299 | ₹2,72,160US$4,308€3,468£3,108A$5,172CA$4,668SGD 4,788US$3,588 | ₹8,16,480US$12,924€10,404£9,324A$15,516CA$14,004SGD 14,364US$10,764 | 0.6% |
| GoCommerce + Svelte Commerce, self-hosted | ₹0US$0€0£0A$0CA$0SGD 0 | ₹0US$0€0£0A$0CA$0SGD 0 | ₹0US$0€0£0A$0CA$0SGD 0 | 0% |
Work out Shopify’s fees on your own sales, against 1% of every successful order hosted.
Sources: Shopify’s price lists for India, the United States (as archived on 24 October 2026), Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, read on 26 October 2026, and Shopify’s third-party transaction fees. The full comparison, with where Shopify is the better choice, is on KitCommerce vs Shopify.
What running it yourself still costs
Free software is not a free store. These are yours, and they are the honest price of owning it.
A server and a database
One Go binary and one PostgreSQL. A small store can start on a small VPS; the bill is your host’s, not ours.
Your payment gateway’s fee
Razorpay, Stripe or whichever you connect charges its own rate. Nothing is added on top of it.
Someone’s time
Deploying, upgrading and extending it is work — yours, or a developer’s. For a store without one, hosting on kitcommerce.store for 1% of every successful order may cost less than that time.
What other platforms charge
Each comparison prices the other platform from its own page, on the date shown, and says where it is the better choice. All comparisons.
- Open-source Shopify alternative: GoCommerce vs Shopify A hosted platform you rent against an open-source one you run: fees per order, code ownership, and what each asks of you.
- WooCommerce alternative: GoCommerce vs WooCommerce WordPress, PHP and a set of yearly-renewed extensions against one Go binary — and a Svelte Commerce storefront if you keep WooCommerce.
- Magento alternative: GoCommerce vs Magento & Adobe Commerce A PHP platform with a long server stack and a licence priced on your sales, against one Go binary and a database.
- Medusa alternative in Go: GoCommerce vs Medusa Engine against engine: Medusa’s TypeScript framework on PostgreSQL and Redis against one Go binary and PostgreSQL — licence, APIs, hosting and maturity.
- Saleor alternative in Go: GoCommerce vs Saleor Engine against engine: Saleor’s mature Python and GraphQL platform against one Go binary with a REST API — maturity, what you run, cost and agent commerce.
FAQ
Questions about the price
What does a store hosted on kitcommerce.store cost?
1% of every successful order, cash-on-delivery and on-account orders included, charged in the store’s own currency. Stores in India pay 18% GST on the fee. Start one with the Start a store button on this page.
Do AI features cost extra?
Not to start. On a hosted store, AI features come with free AI credit to start, and we add more when you ask. They run on our own Claude key, so there is no key to set up. Drafting products from photos, improving a listing, summarising reviews and summarising the ads report draw on the credit, and the AI screen shows what is left. A store that enters its own model key is billed by that provider and draws no credit.
Is running it myself really free?
Yes. GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce are MIT licensed. The licence has no expiry, no seat count and no revenue cap, takes 0% of your orders, and a copy you have downloaded stays MIT whatever happens to the packages later.
Is there a Plus plan, a pro tier or an enterprise edition?
No. A store is either hosted on kitcommerce.store, for 1% of every successful order, or run on your own server for free. The MIT code has every module, every admin screen and every theme in it; nothing is held back for a higher tier because there is no higher tier.
When I run it myself, are there hidden fees: per order, per product, per staff account?
None. Nobody takes a percentage of your sales, counts your products or charges for another admin user. The fees you pay are your payment gateway’s own, on its own terms.
Can I white-label it and sell it to my clients?
Yes. MIT lets you rename both packages, restyle the storefront and the admin, and ship them under your own brand, for yourself or for clients. Keep the copyright notice in the source; that is the only condition.
What will I actually spend running it myself?
Whatever your server, domain and payment gateway cost, plus the time of whoever runs it. A small store can start on one small VPS. For a store with no developer, hosting it on kitcommerce.store for 1% of every successful order may cost less than that time.
Where does help come from?
GitHub issues, discussions and the Discord, where the people who build both packages answer.
Hosted for 1% of every order, or yours to run
Start a store on kitcommerce.store, or bring up the API and the admin on your own machine with one command.