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OpenCart pricing
OpenCart publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the e-commerce tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, OpenCart pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open-source
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
OpenCart plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where OpenCart stops being free
Open Source, Free
- Core ecommerce features
- Free support
- Extensions available
- Multi-store support
No paid tier on record
OpenCart lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full OpenCart feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- MIT licensed source
- Self-hosted PHP and MySQL
- No transaction fees
- Multi-store
- Extension marketplace
- Multi-currency and multi-language
- OCMod modification system
- Full data access
People bring OpenCart in for a merchant with volume high enough that a percentage transaction fee costs more than a developer, an agency building client stores where the client must own the code and the data outright, a store with unusual catalogue or pricing logic that a hosted platform will not permit, selling in a market where the local payment gateway is not supported by the mainstream saas platforms. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to OpenCart are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in E-Commerce
Too few e-commerce tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenCart (this page) | Free | open-source | - | |
| BackToMe | €25/month | subscription | - | vs OpenCart |
| UnoPIM | Free | open-source | - | vs OpenCart |
| Instacart | Free | Free to download; item markups plus delivery and service fees per order, optional subscription | - | vs OpenCart |
| Temu | Free | Free to browse and use; pay per order, heavy promotional discounting | - | vs OpenCart |
| Vinted | Free | Free for sellers, no commission; buyer pays a variable Buyer Protection fee at checkout | - | vs OpenCart |
| Shein | Free | Free to browse and use; pay per order, optional paid loyalty tier | - | vs OpenCart |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the OpenCart badges page.
Before you pay for OpenCart
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
OpenCart runs on web, and is published by OpenCart of United Kingdom. The full record is on the OpenCart review, and the rest of the category is under best e-commerce tools.
OpenCart pricing questions
- How much does OpenCart cost?
- OpenCart publishes a single tier, Open Source, at Free.
- Does OpenCart have a free plan?
- Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers core ecommerce features, free support, extensions available.
- Which e-commerce tools can I use without paying?
- 7 of the 8 e-commerce tools listed alongside OpenCart have a free tier: UnoPIM, Instacart, Temu, Vinted, Shein.
- What am I actually paying for with OpenCart?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a merchant with volume high enough that a percentage transaction fee costs more than a developer, an agency building client stores where the client must own the code and the data outright, a store with unusual catalogue or pricing logic that a hosted platform will not permit.
- Does OpenCart charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these OpenCart prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare OpenCart against before paying?
- The closest e-commerce tools in this directory are BackToMe, UnoPIM, Instacart, Temu. Each has a side-by-side comparison with OpenCart covering price, platforms and features.