No platform fees
Open source means no monthly license, no per-transaction cut. You pay for hosting, not rent.
A real example
A Muscat retailer cut platform costs by 60%
A retail business in Muscat was paying monthly Shopify fees plus app subscriptions totalling more than their hosting, and still couldn't get the custom B2B pricing their corporate clients needed. We rebuilt their store on Medusa JS with a Next.js storefront, tiered B2B pricing, and Thawani checkout. Platform fees dropped to hosting costs only — a 60% reduction — and the B2B portal they were told was 'impossible' launched in week nine.