Enterprise commerce platforms are quietly going cloud-only. Yours doesn't have to.
You've seen the pattern. Incumbent commerce platforms are quietly delisting self-host: some retire it outright, some keep it on paper and stop investing, some price it out of reach.
Vendure refuses the move. Self-host is a first-class deployment, on the same commercial terms as the managed product, with no path that pushes you off your infrastructure later.
The same Vendure that runs on our managed Cloud, built to run inside your boundary
Same Core, same plugins, same admin, same APIs as Vendure Platform on Cloud. Where it runs is your call.
Standard runtime, standard storage, standard ops
Vendure runs on the building blocks your platform team already operates. No proprietary runtime, no exotic dependencies, no separate sidecar services to keep alive.
A SQL database you already run
PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MariaDB. Use your managed RDS instance, your on-prem cluster, or whatever your standard is. No commerce-specific database, no proprietary storage layer.
Anywhere Node.js runs
Vendure is a Node.js application built on NestJS. AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem, Kubernetes, Docker, or a single VM. Air-gapped environments are supported. Standard Redis-compatible cache, standard S3-compatible object storage.
A stack your engineers already know
TypeScript end to end, NestJS, GraphQL. Patterns Java, C#, or modern Node teams already ship in production. No new language to learn, no proprietary SDK, no platform-specific concepts.
Your release pipeline, your schedule
Vendure releases on a predictable cadence. Pin to a version, run the migration in your own staging, and ship through the deployment pipeline your team already uses. No forced upgrade windows.
Self-host as long as it serves you. Move to Cloud whenever it doesn't.
Self-host on Vendure isn't a one-way door. The artifact inside your infrastructure is the one we run on Vendure Cloud: same binary, same plugins, same schema, same APIs.
Moving to Cloud is a runtime change, not a re-platform. Your custom plugins, data model, and integrations keep working. You change where Vendure runs, not what it does.
Core or Platform on your infrastructure?
- License
- Commercial, with IP indemnification
- Enterprise plugins
- All current and future plugins included
- Support
- SLA-backed, direct to engineering
- Hosting
- Your infrastructure, any cloud or on-prem
- Move to Cloud later
- Yes, same artifact, no re-platform
- License
- GPLv3, copyleft obligations
- Enterprise plugins
- Not included; build your own or stay on the OSS surface
- Support
- Community, or paid Core Expert Access
- Hosting
- Your infrastructure, any cloud or on-prem
- Move to Cloud later
- Yes, via Platform or Cloud, same artifact
Trusted by complex B2B commerce and enterprise retail.
What buyers ask before they self-host Vendure
Common questions from engineering, procurement, and security teams scoping Vendure as their next self-hosted commerce platform.
