# Spree Commerce vs Vendure (slim)

> Vendure and Spree Commerce score within a point of each other for commerce catalogues, 70.9 and 70.4 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Vendure and Spree Commerce score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 70.9 (BB) and 70.4 (BB). Spree Commerce leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do commerce catalogues.

- Spree Commerce: BB 70.4, rank #155 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/spree-commerce.min.md
- Vendure: BB 70.9, rank #140 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vendure.min.md
- Spree Commerce, good for Teams that want to own a Rails commerce backend with marketplace, B2B and multi-region functions and drive it through REST. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 90 against 68; Payments & pricing, 55 against 45.
- Vendure, good for TypeScript teams that want a typed GraphQL commerce server and will host it. Ahead on Reliability, 89 against 82; Schema & documentation, 91 against 85; Transparency & trust, 67 against 60. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Spree Commerce | Vendure |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 82 | 89 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 91 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 90 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 55 | 45 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 81 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 60 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Spree Commerce | Vendure |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Vendo Connect Inc | Vendure (Elevantiq GmbH) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://readonlydemo.vendure.io/shop-api` |
| Licence | BSD-3-Clause for the backend, MIT for the npm packages. Enterprise Edition code is under a separate commercial licence | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-07-28 | 2026-09-02 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 16k stars, 1.6k npm/wk | 8.5k stars, 30k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |