Medusa offers a modern, TypeScript-first headless framework for custom commerce builds, while Magento provides a mature, full-featured monolith with enterprise tooling. This comparison helps technical teams choose based on architecture, customization needs, and operational trade-offs.
The Medusa showcase
Discover the best projects built with Medusa
A hand-curated, daily-updated gallery of open-source projects. Browse the ecosystem, ranked by GitHub stars.
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45 projects
Blogs
API Support for your favorite torrent trackers. Maintained by Jackett on GitHub, where it has earned 16,021 stars from the community.
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3w agoDevTools
A simple, modular seedbox solution. Maintained by swizzin on GitHub, where it has earned 2,388 stars from the community.
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8mo agoE-commerce
The complete open source platform to run your entire marketplace. Storefront, vendor panel, admin console, and integrations in one enterprise-grade platform you own. Maintained by mercurjs on GitHub, where it has earned 1,759 stars from the community.
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3w agoDevTools
Easy automated vulnerability scanning, reporting and analysis. Maintained by seccubus on GitHub, where it has earned 711 stars from the community.
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7y agoDevTools
K8ssandra is an open-source distribution of Apache Cassandra for Kubernetes including API services and operational tooling. Maintained by k8ssandra on GitHub, where it has earned 463 stars from the community.
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4w agoDevTools
An Archive of Ransomware Notes Past and Present Collected by Zscaler ThreatLabz. Maintained by ThreatLabz on GitHub, where it has earned 430 stars from the community.
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7w agoE-commerce
Medusa on steroid, take your medusa project to the next level with some badass features. Maintained by adrien2p on GitHub, where it has earned 350 stars from the community.
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3y agoE-commerce
An Uber Eats-style food delivery platform, running Medusa 2.0 and Next.js 14. Maintained by medusajs on GitHub, where it has earned 262 stars from the community.
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1y agoDevTools
Thoradia Add-ons Repository. Maintained by thoradia on GitHub, where it has earned 247 stars from the community.
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5y agoE-commerce
Agent skills and commands for Medusa best practices and conventions. Maintained by medusajs on GitHub, where it has earned 215 stars from the community.
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3w agoDevTools
Smart Contract Property-Based Testing Framework. Maintained by Recon-Fuzz on GitHub, where it has earned 165 stars from the community.
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6mo agoDevTools
convert your dynamic django site to a static one with one line of code. Maintained by fabiocaccamo on GitHub, where it has earned 130 stars from the community.
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4w agoDevTools
A list of public fuzzing campaigns. Maintained by perimetersec on GitHub, where it has earned 129 stars from the community.
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8mo agoE-commerce
Astro + Medusa starter for e-commerce. Optimized to the core. Maintained by digity-studio on GitHub, where it has earned 112 stars from the community.
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1d agoMobile
Open source react native mobile app for your medusa ecommerce store with custom themes and plugins. Maintained by bloomsynth on GitHub, where it has earned 97 stars from the community.
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11mo agoAI & ML
Medusa AI Assistant admin widget that turns human language into returns within seconds. Maintained by VariableVic on GitHub, where it has earned 66 stars from the community.
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2y agoE-commerce
A performant frontend ecommerce starter template with Nuxt 3 and Medusa V2. Maintained by OlivierBelaud on GitHub, where it has earned 64 stars from the community.
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12mo agoDevTools
General purpose unopinionated Solidity fuzzing library for stateful and stateless fuzzing. Maintained by perimetersec on GitHub, where it has earned 60 stars from the community.
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9mo agoSaaS
Open Source Medusa.js Subscription Plugin. Maintained by reorder-js on GitHub, where it has earned 54 stars from the community.
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4w agoE-commerce
Official Medusa B2B Starter template. Features common B2B ecommerce requirements and can be easily adapted and extended. Maintained by medusajs on GitHub, where it has earned 49 stars from the community.
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3w agoDevTools
Seamless deployment of Medusa v2 using Coolify. Maintained by nexthis on GitHub, where it has earned 48 stars from the community.
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1y agoTemplates
medusa-starter - Starter templates for Medusa.js e-commerce development with Docker and Docker Compose. Maintained by u11d-com on GitHub, where it has earned 41 stars from the community.
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10mo agoDevTools
Meridian: Production-ready Medusa + Payload CMS + Next.js 16 on Cloudflare Workers. Run a full e-commerce stack for $5/month. Maintained by casualchic on GitHub, where it has earned 33 stars from the community.
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6w agoDevTools
Medusa Plugin Ultimate is a plugin made for medusa that give super powers to your entities. Maintained by raideno on GitHub, where it has earned 32 stars from the community.
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2y agoDevTools
Public resources on fuzzing services, methodologies, and benefits for protocol security. Maintained by perimetersec on GitHub, where it has earned 28 stars from the community.
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3mo agoDashboards
Get actionable insights into your store's performance and make data-driven decisions right from the Medusa Admin dashboard. Maintained by Agilo on GitHub, where it has earned 27 stars from the community.
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5mo agoE-commerce
Cross-platform Point of Sale desktop app built on Medusa and Tauri 2. Maintained by narisolutions on GitHub, where it has earned 26 stars from the community.
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5w agoDevTools
Docker compose dedicated to ARM / x86 / x64 processors, hosting a complete torrent factory, or seedbox. Maintained by ahuh on GitHub, where it has earned 25 stars from the community.
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5mo agoDevTools
Native automation engine for Medusa.js that allows you to create event-driven automations using triggers, conditions, and actions - directly inside the Medusa runtime. Maintained by codee-sh on GitHub, where it has earned 23 stars from the community.
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7mo agoDevTools
Guidelines to Participate in Medusa's 2022 Hackathon. Maintained by medusajs on GitHub, where it has earned 21 stars from the community.
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4y agoE-commerce
Terraform module to deploy Medusa.js e-commerce platform on AWS. Maintained by u11d-com on GitHub, where it has earned 17 stars from the community.
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5mo agoDevTools
It has been developed in order to facilitate the use of ready-made Brute Force tools in Kali-Linux operating systems and is written in Python language. Maintained by tolgaakkapulu on GitHub, where it has earned 16 stars from the community.
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5y agoE-commerce
Medusa Abandoned Cart Plugin. Maintained by luluhoc on GitHub, where it has earned 14 stars from the community.
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7w agoDevTools
Medusa combo files, Hashcat rules and dictionaries, JRT rules. Maintained by redcode-labs on GitHub, where it has earned 14 stars from the community.
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3y agoE-commerce
A complete notification plugin for Medusa.js - React Email templates, Slack Block Kit. Configurable blocks. Maintained by codee-sh on GitHub, where it has earned 13 stars from the community.
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2mo agoE-commerce
Booking system plugin for Medusa. Maintained by RSC-Labs on GitHub, where it has earned 13 stars from the community.
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7mo agoE-commerce
An e-commerce web storefront for Habesha clothing. Winner of the best shop category at Medusa Hackthon 2022. https://medusajs.com/blog/hackathon-winners/. Maintained by earthcomfy on GitHub, where it has earned 13 stars from the community.
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3y agoE-commerce
This is a medusa's new storefront kit built on top of medusa's official next starter kit. Maintained by abdrhxyii on GitHub, where it has earned 11 stars from the community.
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9mo agoDevTools
Medusa Plugin Settings is a plugin made for medusa that will make it easier to add new settings with ui to your admin dashboard. Maintained by raideno on GitHub, where it has earned 11 stars from the community.
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2y agoE-commerce
A Medusa v2.x module for seamless integration with AWS EventBridge, enabling real-time event handling in headless e-commerce applications. Maintained by ikhvost on GitHub, where it has earned 11 stars from the community.
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1y agoE-commerce
Code for How to Add Product Reviews to Your Medusa Server and Next.js Storefront. Maintained by shahednasser on GitHub, where it has earned 11 stars from the community.
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4y agoDevTools
A complete, modern Point of Sale solution built on top of the Medusajs v2 framework. Maintained by luckycrm on GitHub, where it has earned 10 stars from the community.
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7mo agoDevTools
Modified version of the original SendGrid plugin with Typescript and with extra features. Maintained by luluhoc on GitHub, where it has earned 10 stars from the community.
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2mo agoE-commerce
AI Powered Generative Storefront built with Next.js, Medusa and Vercel AI SDK. Maintained by VariableVic on GitHub, where it has earned 10 stars from the community.
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1y agoE-commerce
A tutorial to build a comic store with Medusa. Maintained by shahednasser on GitHub, where it has earned 10 stars from the community.
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What is Medusa?
Medusa is a modular, Node.js commerce engine for customizable headless storefronts. This gallery lists 45 open-source projects built with Medusa, most of them in DevTools, E-commerce and AI & ML, ranked by GitHub stars so the most-adopted repositories come first.
How projects are selected
Projects are public GitHub repositories found with the GitHub search query “topic:medusa” and at least 10 stars. Each repository is checked against Medusa’s languages and ecosystem before it is categorized, and stars, forks and last-commit dates come straight from the GitHub API, refreshed daily (current snapshot: October 6, 2026). Nothing here is paid placement.
Medusa projects: FAQ
- How many open-source Medusa projects are listed?
- 45 open-source projects built with Medusa are listed, sourced from public GitHub repositories as of October 6, 2026.
- What is the most-starred Medusa project on GitHub?
- Jackett leads with 16,021 GitHub stars (16k), followed by swizzin with 2,388.
- What kinds of projects are built with Medusa?
- The largest category is DevTools, with 21 projects (47% of the gallery), followed by E-commerce with 18. Projects span 8 categories in total.
- Which license do most Medusa projects use?
- MIT is the most common license, used by 14 of 45 projects (31%); Apache-2.0 is next with 6. 20 projects declare no recognized license.
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