specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Commerce Layer
providerId: commerce-layer
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Commerce
  - Headless Commerce
  - Composable Commerce
  - Ecommerce
  - Pricing
description: 'Plans and commercial offering for Commerce Layer. Source: commercelayer.io/pricing. Commerce
  Layer markets a Free Developer plan and an Enterprise plan. The Enterprise plan is custom-priced and ships
  with additional capability add-ons (Distributed OMS, Promotion Engine). Pro-bono plans are also offered
  for selected non-profits. Live-order quotas, environment limits, and SLA tiers are negotiated at the
  Enterprise level — captured here as fields rather than fixed dollar amounts.'
sources:
  - https://commercelayer.io/pricing
  - https://commercelayer.io/product
plans:
  - id: commerce-layer-developer
    name: Developer
    type: free
    description: Free developer plan. Free live orders/month for evaluation, prototyping, and small projects.
      Always free for developers.
    entries:
      - label: Subscription
        name: subscription
        type: flat
        metric: organization
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
        description: Free developer plan, single organization.
      - label: Live orders
        name: live-orders
        type: metered
        metric: order
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
        description: Bundled free live orders per month for developer accounts.
    elements:
      - name: Core API access (live + test environments)
        description: Full JSON:API access to the Core API across both environments at developer rate limits.
      - name: Real-time webhooks
      - name: Event Stream Hub (SSE)
      - name: Open-source SDKs, CLI, micro frontends
      - name: Community Discord support
      - name: Public OpenAPI, carrier schema, rules schemas
  - id: commerce-layer-enterprise
    name: Enterprise
    type: enterprise
    description: Custom-priced enterprise plan. Includes Provisioning API access, dedicated support, custom
      user roles, custom identity providers, and enterprise SLAs. Available add-ons include Distributed
      OMS and the Promotion Engine.
    entries:
      - label: Annual contract
        name: annual-contract
        type: flat
        metric: organization
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: year
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: contact
        userMultiplied: false
        description: Annual contract priced per organization and order volume. Contact sales.
    elements:
      - name: Everything in Developer
      - name: Provisioning API access
        description: Programmatic organization, membership, role, API credential, and identity-provider management.
      - name: Higher rate limits
      - name: Custom user roles and permissions
      - name: Custom identity providers (SSO / federation)
      - name: Enterprise SLAs
      - name: Dedicated support
      - name: Distributed OMS add-on
        description: Distributed order management add-on.
      - name: Promotion Engine add-on
        description: Advanced promotion-engine add-on with flex promotions and external promotion hooks.
  - id: commerce-layer-pro-bono
    name: Pro Bono
    type: discounted
    description: Pro-bono plan offered to selected non-profit organizations on a case-by-case basis.
    entries:
      - label: Subscription
        name: subscription
        type: flat
        metric: organization
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
        description: Pro-bono plan for qualified non-profits. Negotiated directly.
    elements:
      - name: Same surface area as Enterprise