Open source · Rust core
Commerce, grown as a network.
Open-source commerce you host yourself, on a server that costs about €5 a month. Extend it with apps and plugins, and let AI agents help run it.
Own your store. Don't rent it.
Hypha on a VPSany Linux VPS
€5/mo
Hypha on serverless edgeentry paid plan
$5/mo
Shopify Basic$39 + 2% of sales
$439/mo
Shopify Plusfrom
$2,300/mo
You keep the code, the data and the servers.Shopify Basic costs $5,208 more a year
List prices in October 2026. Shopify's 2% applies when you don't use Shopify Payments; card fees apply everywhere.
A small core. Everything plugs in.
Hypha coreRustSporesRust plugins
Appsany language, via API
StoragePostgres · S3-compatible
HostingVPS · serverless edge
Frontendsany framework
AI agentsover MCP
Built for merchants, developers and agents.
- merchants
- Run the store from one admin.
- developers
- Extend it in Rust or any language.
- agents
- Propose the busywork. A person approves.
AI
pricing-agentproposes 3 price changes
Needs approvalWhy: these sold 90% of stock in 14 days, and comparable kits sell for 8–12% more.
Oyster grow kitLarge
€26.00+8.3%
Lion's mane grow kitMedium
€20.50+7.9%
Shiitake logSmall
€12.90+7.5%
Nothing changes until a person approves.
Catalogues as complex as your products.
Only the variants that exist10 of 12 · species × size
SpeciesSML
Oyster
€14OYS-S
€19OYS-M
€24OYS-L
Shiitake
not sold
€21SHI-M
€27SHI-L
Lion's mane
€16LIO-S
€20LIO-M
€25LIO-L
King trumpet
€18KTR-S
€23KTR-M
not sold
Custom fields everywhereproduct · variant · order
Harvest window10–14 days
StorefrontDifficultyEasy
StorefrontSupplier lotLT-2210-B
Staff onlyLanded cost€6.40
Staff onlyRuns on what you already use.
hostingAny Linux VPS
hostingServerless edge
databasePostgres
databaseServerless Postgres
storageS3-compatible
emailTransactional email
paymentsPayment providers
searchSearch engine
Hosting or database company? Sponsor Hypha to fund the open core and reach the developers who build on it.
Where it grows next.
Nowshipping
- Rust core and admin
- Spores and apps
- Agents over MCP
Nextin progress
- Agentic shopping with ucphub.ai
- Suppliers and purchase orders
- Discounts
- Analytics
Laterexploring
- Multiple stores per deployment
- B2B accounts and quotes
- Accounting and carrier spores
- Spore directory
Commerce doesn't have to be expensive.
Open source. Self-hosted. About €5 a month.
Questions, or want to sponsor? Write to hello@hyphacommerce.com.