Hyperswitch
by Hyperswitch · Open-source payments orchestration across multiple processors
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Overview
Hyperswitch is an open-source payments orchestrator that connects one API to multiple payment processors. It ships modules for intelligent routing, a vault for cards and tokens, 3DS authentication, reconciliation, retry-based revenue recovery and cost observability. It can be deployed on cloud or on-premises and self-managed, or consumed as a service hosted by Juspay.
- Best for
- Businesses running multiple payment processors that want to self-host or outsource a modular payments stack
- Pricing
- No figures are published: the Self-Host Community Edition is free to start, while the Self-Host Enterprise Edition and Hyperswitch Cloud are both contact-sales.
- Runs on
- WebSelf-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Open source; self-host on cloud or on-prem, or let Juspay host it
- Single API across 90+ PSP connectors, 210+ on the cloud edition
- Rule-based, volume-based and ML routing to lift authorisation rates
- Vault, 3DS, reconciliation and APM modules plug in separately
Trade-offs
- No prices published for the Enterprise or Cloud editions — contact sales
- Community Edition support is public Slack and GitHub only, with no SLA
- Revenue recovery, cost observability and reconciliation are paid add-ons
- Self-hosting leaves PCI DSS compliance and uptime to you to manage
How Hyperswitch markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Hyperswitch’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Composable, Open Source Payments Platform”
- Angle: Open source / ownership
- Hero: Typography only
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Hyperswitch’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.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
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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