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#13 in E-commerce PlatformsUpdated 2026-08

Bagisto

by Bagisto · Open source Laravel eCommerce for marketplaces, B2B and headless stores

BenchRank score

39 — BenchRank score out of 100

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Overview

Bagisto is an open source eCommerce platform built on the Laravel framework. It is used to run online stores, multi-vendor marketplaces, B2B shops and headless storefronts, with further options for point of sale, mobile apps and AI agent automation. The code can be downloaded and self-hosted, and extra capability comes from a marketplace of extensions and themes.

Best for
Laravel developers self-hosting a marketplace, B2B shop or headless storefront
Pricing
No prices are shown in the captured text; the platform is offered as a free open source download, with hosting, extensions and development services routed through sales.
Runs on
Self-hosted

Strengths and trade-offs

Strengths

  • Open source and downloadable, built on the Laravel framework
  • One platform for marketplace, B2B, headless and POS setups
  • Extensions for PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net and PayTabs
  • Named customer stories: Toyota Thailand, Digikala, Cartlow

Trade-offs

  • No prices on the captured pages; hosting and services go via Talk to Sales
  • Aimed at developers, so customisation assumes Laravel and PHP skills
  • Much of the range is add-on extensions or paid services, not core
  • AI agent and blockchain claims are stated only at a high level

Pricing

Published plans and prices from Bagisto’s own pricing page.

How this score is made up

Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.

  • MCP support

    Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.

  • API quality

    Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.

  • Documentation

    Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.

  • Agent friendliness

    How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.

  • Changelog

    A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.

  • Marketing site structure

    Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.

  • Page speed

    How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.

  • Operational trust

    Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.

Measured, but not part of the score

Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.

  • Openness

    Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.

  • Maintenance

    Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.

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Where this comes from

The Bagisto pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.

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