Elastic Path
Elastic Path provides composable commerce software for businesses selling across multiple channels.
What Elastic Path is
Elastic Path provides composable commerce software for businesses selling across multiple channels. Its modular capabilities are available through APIs and can be adopted individually or together. Listed B2B features include account hierarchies, quoting, pricebooks, rule-based catalogs, buyer tools, and dynamic bundles. Intelligent Commerce capabilities include MCP servers, an AI storefront builder, semantic search, and agents. Composer supports managed no-code integrations, low-code integration building, workflow orchestration, monitoring, and alerts. Named payment providers are Stripe, Adyen, PayPal, and Worldpay; the pricing page states there is no processor surcharge. Entry pricing is $49,500 a year, either for up to $5M GMV per year or up to 15,000 orders per year. Higher-volume tiers are listed without prices. Self-Managed Commerce can run on-premise, in a customer's cloud, or through Elastic Path Managed Hosting. Elastic Path was founded in 2000.
Good
- Commerce capabilities can be adopted individually or together
- B2B tools include quoting and dynamic bundles
- Composer includes workflow orchestration and monitoring
- Named payment providers include Stripe and PayPal
- No processor surcharge is stated
Watch out
- No free plan is listed
- Entry pricing is $49,500 a year
Who it suits
Elastic Path suits commerce businesses that need modular capabilities across multiple sales channels. Its Self-Managed Commerce option is positioned for enterprises such as manufacturers and distributors seeking complex commerce and control over their stack.
Verdict
Elastic Path offers modular commerce capabilities, integrations, and deployment choices for businesses with varied needs. Review the annual Entry price and request details for tiers without listed prices.
Plans and prices
From Elastic Path's own pricing page, checked 20 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Entry — order based | — | Up to 15,000 orders per year |
| Professional — order based | — | 15,000+ orders |
| Enterprise — order based | — | 150,000+ orders |
| Entry — GMV based | — | Up to $5M GMV per year |
| Professional — GMV based | — | $5M+ GMV |
| Enterprise — GMV based | — | $50M+ GMV |
| Subscriptions + Entitlements add-on | $0.50, paid once | Recurring billing · lifecycle workflows · plan promotions · self-service portal APIs · 0.5% per transaction |
| Subscriptions + Entitlements | Priced on request | Added on top of platform pricing when needed · 0.5% per transaction |
| Entry — GMV Based Pricing | $49,500 a year | Includes Search, Visual Builder and CMS, Front End Hosting, Product Experience Manager, Promotions Builder, Composer, Commerce Extensions · Annual minimum; up to $5M GMV per year, all-in |
| Entry (order-based) | $49,500 a year | Search · Visual Builder and CMS · Front End Hosting · Product Experience Manager · Promotions Builder · Composer · Commerce Extensions · Annual minimum; up to 15,000 orders/year |
| Entry (GMV-based) | $49,500 a year | Search · Visual Builder and CMS · Front End Hosting · Product Experience Manager · Promotions Builder · Composer · Commerce Extensions · Annual minimum; up to $5M GMV/year |
| Entry — Order Based Pricing | $49,500 a year | Includes Search, Visual Builder and CMS, Front End Hosting, Product Experience Manager, Promotions Builder, Composer, Commerce Extensions · Annual minimum; up to 15,000 orders per year, all-in |
| Visual CMS | Priced on request | Visual editing · reusable components · live commerce data bindings · Additional fee; contact vendor |
| Enterprise — GMV Based Pricing | Priced on request | Includes Search, Visual Builder and CMS, Front End Hosting, Product Experience Manager, Promotions Builder, Composer, Commerce Extensions · Volume-based rate; $50M+ GMV |
| Enterprise (order-based) | Priced on request | Global enterprise scale · 150,000+ orders/year; volume-based rate |
| Enterprise — Order Based Pricing | Priced on request | Includes Search, Visual Builder and CMS, Front End Hosting, Product Experience Manager, Promotions Builder, Composer, Commerce Extensions · Volume-based rate; 150,000+ orders |
| Professional — GMV Based Pricing | Priced on request | Includes Search, Visual Builder and CMS, Front End Hosting, Product Experience Manager, Promotions Builder, Composer, Commerce Extensions · Talk to us; $5M+ GMV |
| Professional (order-based) | Priced on request | Same platform capabilities as listed for the tier · 15,000+ orders/year |
| Professional — Order Based Pricing | Priced on request | Includes Search, Visual Builder and CMS, Front End Hosting, Product Experience Manager, Promotions Builder, Composer, Commerce Extensions · Talk to us; 15,000+ orders |
| Custom Pricing | Priced on request | Custom pricing model · Priced on ARR, active subscriptions, storefronts, or another growth metric |
The facts
Each one read from Elastic Path's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI catalog release
- On December 9, 2025, Elastic Path announced generally available AI-optimized Product Experience Manager feeds using AGNTCY-compatible outputs for answer engines.checked 19 Oct 2026
- AI commerce
- Listed Intelligent Commerce capabilities include MCP servers, an AI storefront builder, semantic search, and agents.checked 8 Oct 2026
- API documentation
- Elastic Path publishes interactive API references and downloadable OpenAPI specifications covering commerce services such as catalogs, carts, orders, payments and subscriptions.checked 19 Oct 2026
- Architecture
- The platform follows microservices, API-first, cloud-native and headless MACH principles.checked 19 Oct 2026
- B2B features
- The platform lists account hierarchies, quoting, pricebooks, rule-based catalogs, buyer tools, and dynamic bundles.checked 8 Oct 2026
- B2B pricing
- The catalog and pricing tools support contract pricing, volume discounts, multi-currency pricing and customer-specific price rules.checked 19 Oct 2026
- Cart and checkout
- Cart and Checkout includes bulk ordering, quick order, cart merging, cart persistence and custom cart items.checked 19 Oct 2026
- Catalog capability
- Product Experience Manager supports unlimited product attributes, bundles, variations, catalogs and product hierarchies.checked 19 Oct 2026
- CMS limitation
- Elastic Path CMS is commerce-focused and is not intended to replace a broad, general-purpose enterprise CMS.checked 19 Oct 2026
- Commerce Extensions
- Commerce Extensions lets developers create schema-defined custom resources, extend native resources and expose them through REST APIs.checked 19 Oct 2026
- Composer integrations
- Composer offers more than 100 third-party integrations, over 100 reusable components and over 3,000 possible actions.checked 19 Oct 2026
- Funding
- Elastic Path announced a $60 million growth financing round on February 1, 2022, bringing total funding announced by the company to more than $120 million.checked 19 Oct 2026
- Hosting model
- hostedchecked 20 Sep 2026
- Included services
- The pricing page includes 40 expert services hours in Year 1 and says implementation is scoped separately from the platform fee.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Integration monitoring
- Composer Monitor aggregates integration executions, logs and failures in one operational view.checked 19 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Composer provides managed no-code integrations, low-code integration building, workflow orchestration, monitoring, and alerts.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Limit: infrastructure demands
- A G2 reviewer reported that compute and memory requirements were unfriendly to microservices environments and that Kubernetes support was absent during a 2024 migration.checked 19 Oct 2026
- Limit: integration effort
- G2 reviewers say troubleshooting complex multi-service integrations can be time-consuming.checked 19 Oct 2026
The company
- Company founding and headquarters
- LinkedIn lists Elastic Path as founded in 2000 and headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.checked 19 Oct 2026
- Company history
- An Elastic Path press release states that Harry Chemko and co-founders Mark Williams and Jason Billingsley founded Elastic Path Software in 2000.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- Crunchbase lists the legal name as Elastic Path Software Inc.checked 19 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Elastic Path's company size as 201–500 employees.checked 19 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2000checked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
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