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Saleor vs Lemon Squeezy

Open-source, GraphQL-first commerce for composable brands
vs. Merchant of record for digital products and SaaS

Saleor website ↗Lemon Squeezy website ↗

Pricing tiers

Saleor

OSS (self-host)
$0. BSD-3-Clause. Self-host Saleor Core + Dashboard.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud — Development
$0. Dev tier for sandbox projects. Shared infra. Community.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud — Staging
$179/mo. Staging tier with dedicated env.
$179/mo
Cloud — Production
$1,999/mo. Production tier with SLA + support.
$1999/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Multi-region, SAML, dedicated clusters, PCI.
Custom
Saleor website ↗

Lemon Squeezy

Pay-as-you-go
No monthly fees. 5% + 50¢ per transaction. Includes tax handling.
$0 base (usage-based)
Lemon Squeezy website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing oss on Saleor vs payg on Lemon Squeezy.

MetricSaleorLemon Squeezy
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Saleor · 17 features

  • Channels — Per-channel pricing/shipping/currency.
  • Checkout — Multi-step checkout mutation set.
  • Customers + B2B — Customer records + B2B permissions.
  • Dashboard — Next.js admin dashboard.
  • Gift Cards — First-class gift-card flow.
  • Orders — Full lifecycle.
  • Permissions + Roles — Granular RBAC.
  • Pricing + Promotions — Rule-based promos, catalog pricing.
  • Products + Attributes — Full PIM features.
  • Saleor Apps — External extensions.
  • Shipping Zones + Methods — Multi-zone shipping rules.
  • Tax Providers — Pluggable tax (Avalara, etc.).
  • Translations — Multi-language product content.
  • Variants + Configurable — Deep variant system.
  • Vouchers — Discount codes + gift cards.
  • Warehouses + Stock — Multi-warehouse inventory.
  • Webhooks — Async subscription to events.

Lemon Squeezy · 12 features

  • Abandoned Cart Recovery — Email retry campaigns (+5% fee on recovered).
  • Affiliate Program — Built-in affiliate/referral program with payouts.
  • Custom Checkout Domain — Checkout at checkout.yourbrand.com.
  • Customer Portal — Self-service subscription + invoice management UI.
  • Discounts / Coupons — Percentage / fixed / trial discount codes.
  • Global Tax (included) — Automatic VAT/GST/sales tax calc + remittance. LS files taxes on your behalf.
  • Hosted Checkout — Hosted + embeddable checkout. Customize color + logo.
  • License Keys — Generate + validate license keys for software sales.
  • One-off Sales — Digital products with license keys, file delivery.
  • Reports & Analytics — Revenue, MRR, churn, LTV.
  • Subscriptions — Recurring billing with trials, proration, discounts.
  • Webhooks — Standard resource events (order_created, subscription_created/updated/cancelled,…

Developer interfaces

KindSaleorLemon Squeezy
CLIsaleor CLI—
SDK@saleor/app-sdk, @saleor/sdk@lemonsqueezy/lemonsqueezy.js
REST—Lemon Squeezy REST API
GRAPHQLSaleor GraphQL API—
OTHERSaleor App Store, Saleor Dashboard, Saleor WebhooksWebhooks
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