MedusaJs vs OpenCart

Both are self-hosted e-commerce projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

MedusaJs and OpenCart are closely matched on maintenance health (94 vs 91). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
MedusaJsOpenCart
Health score 94/100 91/100
Commits (11 mo) 1673 2201
Commits (last 3 mo) 600 1028
Stars 36k 8.2k
Latest release 22 Sept 2026 11 Aug 2026
Licence MIT GPL-3.0
Built with Nodejs PHP
Typical RAM 2 GB 1 GB

MedusaJs

Headless commerce engine that enables developers to create amazing digital commerce experiences.

94/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 35/40
Releases 25/25
Community 19/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 88% of tracked projects; popularity more than 93%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 197 commits 2025-11: 109 commits 2025-12: 163 commits 2026-01: 152 commits 2026-02: 79 commits 2026-03: 54 commits 2026-04: 192 commits 2026-05: 127 commits 2026-06: 194 commits 2026-07: 258 commits 2026-08: 148 commits

OpenCart

Shopping cart solution.

91/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 36/40
Releases 25/25
Community 15/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 90% of tracked projects; popularity more than 75%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 238 commits 2025-11: 79 commits 2025-12: 61 commits 2026-01: 98 commits 2026-02: 25 commits 2026-03: 306 commits 2026-04: 179 commits 2026-05: 187 commits 2026-06: 547 commits 2026-07: 297 commits 2026-08: 184 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted e-commerce.