Marketplace — enterprise stack.
For each requirement below, pick the option that fits your build — recommended first, then free and cheaper alternatives — or skip what your project doesn't need. Tap the info icon next to any requirement to see why it matters.
Domain and DNS
Your human-readable address on the web plus the DNS records that point it at your servers. Skipping this is not an option — users need a domain to reach you.Pricing & free-tier limitsCloudflare Enterprise: $5000+/mo custom - unlimited domains, 100% SLA, 24/7, Spectrum, R2 unlimited + Route53 $0.50/zone/mo + $0.40/M queries + NS1 Enterprise $350/mo 10M q/mo + DNSimple Ent $199/mo 25 domains / Business $200/mo / NS1+Dyn bundle $800+/mo 100M queries
SSL/TLS
Encrypts traffic between your users and your servers. Without it browsers flag your site as insecure and you lose trust and search ranking.Pricing & free-tier limitsDigiCert Enterprise $1500+/yr OV/EV unlimited reissues, HSM, ACM Private CA $400/mo/CA, Cloudflare Enterprise SSL custom $5000+/mo bundle / Let's Encrypt $0 / Enterprise SSL included in Ent / Sectigo Enterprise $1200/yr 100 domains
Web Hosting / Backend Hosting
Where your code actually runs and serves requests. Picking the right host affects speed, scaling, and how much ops work you do.Pricing & free-tier limitsAWS EKS Multi-Region Active-Active: $0.10/hr/cluster ($72/mo) + m5.large $0.096/hr ~$70/mo/node x6=$420/mo/region + ALB $22/mo + Vercel Ent $2000+/mo 10TB bw + Fly Ent $500+/mo / Fargate $0.04048/vCPU / DO K8s $12/mo/node / Bundle EKS+GKE+Akamai $5000+/mo
Cloud Platform
The underlying cloud account (AWS, GCP, Azure, or an all-in-one like Vercel+Supabase) that everything else is built on. Choose early — it is hard to change later.Pricing & free-tier limitsAWS Org Multi-Account + Control Tower $0 + GCP Anthos $21k/yr + Azure Enterprise $0, Support Enterprise $15000/mo or 10% bill min, multi-region $2000+/mo infra / Single acct $0 / DO Teams $0 / AWS Enterprise+Anthos+Azure $15000+/mo support + $3000+/mo infra
Database (multi-vendor: buyers/sellers)
Persistent storage for your app’s data — users, products, orders. The single most important architectural decision for most projects.Pricing & free-tier limitsAurora Global $0.24/ACU-hr multi-region ~$175/mo/region + DynamoDB Global $1.25/M WRU + $0.25/M RRU + replication $0.18/GB + Proxy $0.021/vCPU-hr / Single $87/mo / CockroachDB Global $1.15/hr ~$850/mo / Global+Spanner $6/hr ~$4500/mo cluster
File and Object Storage / Image and Media Storage
Where you keep files users upload or you serve — images, videos, documents — and how fast they reach visitors around the world.Pricing & free-tier limitsS3 Multi-Region APs $0.0033/GB routing + CRR $0.023/GB + replication $0.02/GB + R2 Enterprise custom $1500+/mo 100TB + CloudFront $0.085/GB tiered $0.02 high vol / Std $0.023/GB / B2+R2 $0.005+$0.015/GB / Bundle 100TB ~$2300 storage+$8500 egress
Authentication and Identity (Enterprise SSO/SCIM buyer/seller)
How users sign up, log in, and are authorized. Getting roles and access control right early prevents painful rewrites.Pricing & free-tier limitsOkta Workforce $2/user/mo min $4000/yr + Auth0 Enterprise $2400+/mo 10k MAU $0.045/MAU over + WorkOS Ent SSO/SCIM/SAML/OIDC $750/mo + Directory Sync $0.05/MAU over 10k + OPA/Styra Ent $1000/mo / Pro $240/mo / Clerk Ent $200/mo $0.02/MAU / Bundle $6000+/mo 50k users SSO/SCIM ABAC
Split Payout / Marketplace Payments API
Moves money — charges, payouts to sellers, taxes, fraud checks. Highest-stakes integration: get it wrong and you break compliance or lose revenue.Pricing & free-tier limitsStripe Connect Enterprise custom $2000+/mo platform + 2.5%+25c +0.20% Connect +$1/active acct + Mangopay Ent 1.2%+15c +$0.10/transfer + Adyen MarketPay Ent $0.10/txn +$0.25/payout + PayPal Ent 2.59%+49c / Express $5/acct / Pro $0.18/transfer / Enterprise bundle $5000+/mo + per-txn
Transactional Email API / Email Delivery
Where you keep files users upload or you serve — images, videos, documents — and how fast they reach visitors around the world.Pricing & free-tier limitsSendGrid Enterprise custom $2000+/mo 2.5M dedicated IP $30/mo/IP + SES Ent $0.10/1k + IP $25/mo + Postmark Ent $75/mo 100k +$0.00075 over + Mailgun Ent $550/mo 500k +$0.00066 over / Pro $89.95 / SES $0.10/1k / Bundle $3000+/mo 5M emails
Source-code Repository
Where your source code lives and is collaborated on. Non-negotiable for any team or serious project.Pricing & free-tier limitsGitHub Enterprise Server $21/user + Adv Security $49/user + self-managed $6k/yr license + GitLab Ultimate $99/user self-managed / Cloud $21/user / Premium $29/user / Bitbucket Data Center $3k/yr 50 users +$100/user
CI/CD and Deployment Automation
Automates testing and deploying your code. Saves enormous time and prevents “works on my machine” releases.Pricing & free-tier limitsHarness Enterprise $1000+/mo 50k build mins + GitHub Actions Ent $21/user 50k mins + Spinnaker OSS free + ArgoCD Ent $500/mo / Team $21/user 50k mins / Enterprise $30k/yr CircleCI Scale / Harness+Jenkins Ent $2000+/mo custom
Database Backups
Persistent storage for your app’s data — users, products, orders. The single most important architectural decision for most projects.Pricing & free-tier limitsAWS Backup Vault Lock WORM $0.20/rule + Aurora Global Backtrack 90 days $0.012/100k I/O + PITR 90d $0.095/GB-mo + Cross-Region 100GB $2.30/mo + WORM S3 Object Lock / 30 days $9.5/mo / 90 days Pro $19/mo / Ent+Veeam $8k/yr+Rubrik $15k/yr
CDN and Edge Delivery
Where you keep files users upload or you serve — images, videos, documents — and how fast they reach visitors around the world.Pricing & free-tier limitsAkamai Enterprise $3500/mo min $0.03/GB + CF Enterprise $5000+/mo unmetered + Fastly Ent $1000/mo +$0.08/GB + Imperva $3000/mo / Business $200/mo / Fastly $50/mo / Bundle Akamai+CF+Imperva+Edgio Ent $15000+/mo custom SLA 24/7
Image Optimization Service
Where you keep files users upload or you serve — images, videos, documents — and how fast they reach visitors around the world.Pricing & free-tier limitsCloudinary Enterprise custom $1000+/mo 1M credits SLA + Imgix Ent $500+/mo 5TB + Akamai Image Mgr $0.10/10k trans + Fastly IO $0.007/1k req / Advanced $224/mo / Pro $9.50/mo / Bundle $3000+/mo 10M transforms
Secrets Management / Environment Management (Enterprise)
Stores API keys and credentials safely, separate from your code. Leaking secrets is one of the most common breaches.Pricing & free-tier limitsVault Enterprise $0.03/hr ~$22/mo HCP + self-host custom $1.5k+/mo license + AWS Secrets $0.40/secret 100 secrets $40/mo + CloudHSM $1.60/hr/HSM ~$1168/mo x2=$2336/mo + CyberArk $500/mo / Team $10/user / Enterprise $20/user Infisical / Bundle $4000+/mo
Staging Environment / Preview Deploys
Stores API keys and credentials safely, separate from your code. Leaking secrets is one of the most common breaches.Pricing & free-tier limitsVercel Ent Previews $2000+/mo custom unlimited + AWS Multi-Account Staging $400/mo/acct + Shipyard $500/mo 20 envs + Env0 $400/mo 100 envs / Pro $20/seat / Render $19/mo / Bundle $3000+/mo 100 ephemeral SLA
Monitoring / Error Tracking / Log Management
Tells you when things break and why. You cannot fix what you cannot see — this is how you keep downtime short.Pricing & free-tier limitsDatadog Ent APM $31/host 100 hosts $3100/mo + New Relic Ent $5000+/mo + Sentry Ent custom $2000+/mo 1M errors + Splunk $150/GB ingest / Pro $31/host / Pro $0 / Bundle $10k+/mo 500 hosts 10M errors SLA
KYC / Identity Verification API + Seller Onboarding
How users sign up, log in, and are authorized. Getting roles and access control right early prevents painful rewrites.Pricing & free-tier limitsPersona Enterprise custom $500+/mo $1.25/vol 10k=$12500/mo + Onfido Ent $0.80/check + Jumio $1.75 + Stripe Ent $1.00 + Middesk KYB $2.50/check / Growth $150/mo / Scale $1.50/check / Bundle $1500+/mo 1k checks SLA
Search Infrastructure (marketplace product search) + Content Moderation
Lets users find things fast. A slow or missing search directly costs engagement and conversions.Pricing & free-tier limitsAlgolia Enterprise custom $5000+/mo 1M rec 10M searches SLA + Elastic Ent $95/mo 4GB RAM + Hive Ent $1000+/mo + Rekognition $0.001/img + Vision $1.50/1k / Growth $1/k rec / Typesense Ent $0.04/hr / Bundle $8000+/mo 10M records
Caching (Redis) for multi-vendor catalog
Stores frequent results in fast memory so you serve less from the database. Big lever for speed and cost.Pricing & free-tier limitsRedis Enterprise Active-Active $500+/mo 10GB + ElastiCache Global $0.15/GB-hr 10GB ~$1080/mo + Momento Ent $3000+/mo 100GB / Serverless $0.125/GB-hr / Pro $20/mo / Enterprise $500+/mo 50GB+$3000 Momento+Dragonfly Ent $1000/mo 20GB
Background Jobs / Scheduled Jobs / Queue (payouts, onboarding)
Runs slow work (emails, exports, payouts) in the background so users don’t wait. Keeps your app snappy.Pricing & free-tier limitsSQS $0.40/M 10M $4/mo+SNS $0.50/M+EventBridge Ent $1/M 10M $10/mo+Temporal Cloud Ent $500/mo base+$500 workers+Trigger.dev Ent $500+/mo / Pro $20/mo 500k runs / FIFO $0.50/M / Bundle $1500+/mo 10M events SLA
Webhooks Infrastructure (Stripe Connect, KYC, moderation)
Moves money — charges, payouts to sellers, taxes, fraud checks. Highest-stakes integration: get it wrong and you break compliance or lose revenue.Pricing & free-tier limitsPersona Enterprise custom $500+/mo $1.25/vol 10k=$12500/mo + Onfido Ent $0.80/check + Jumio $1.75 + Stripe Ent $1.00 + Middesk KYB $2.50/check / Growth $150/mo / Scale $1.50/check / Bundle $1500+/mo 1k checks SLA
API Gateway and Rate Limiting + WAF (per-seller limits)
Controls and protects your APIs — quotas, abuse prevention, and firewalls. Important once you have real traffic or many clients.Pricing & free-tier limitsAPI GW Enterprise $3.50/M+CF Ent WAF $5000+/mo 100 rules 100M req + Apigee Ent $500/mo min $3000/mo 50M + Kong Ent $2500/mo 100M req per-seller quotas / Standard $3.50/M / Ent $2500/mo / Bundle $12000+/mo
Bot Protection and CAPTCHA
Stops bots, scrapers, and spam signups from abusing your service and inflating costs.Pricing & free-tier limitsCF Enterprise Bot Mgmt $5000+/mo 100M req + Arkose Ent $2000+/mo 1M solves + DataDome $3000+/mo 10M req + Kasada $5000+/mo seller fraud / Pro $20/mo / Ent $500/mo / Bundle $15000+/mo 100M bot checks
Escrow / Held Funds + Commission / Fee Calculation + Dispute Management
Moves money — charges, payouts to sellers, taxes, fraud checks. Highest-stakes integration: get it wrong and you break compliance or lose revenue.Pricing & free-tier limitsMangopay Ent Escrow custom 1.2%+15c + Adyen MarketPay Ent $0.10/txn + Stripe Custom Ent $2000+/mo platform + Commission Engine Ent custom + Dispute $15 +$25 chargeback / Express $5/acct / Pro $0.18 / Bundle $5000+/mo 1.0% hold fees SLA
Tax Calculation API (Marketplace Facilitator Tax)
Moves money — charges, payouts to sellers, taxes, fraud checks. Highest-stakes integration: get it wrong and you break compliance or lose revenue.Pricing & free-tier limitsAvalara AvaTax Marketplace Ent $2000+/mo +$0.10/txn vol 100k $10k/mo + Anrok Ent $500+/mo $0.12/txn + TaxJar Marketplace Ent $1000+/mo + Vertex $600/mo + Sovos $800/mo / Standard $0.50/txn / Pro $0.15/txn / Bundle $5000+/mo 100k txns
Shipping Rate API + Shipment Tracking API
Rates, labels, and tracking for physical goods. Needed once you actually ship products.Pricing & free-tier limitsShipEngine Enterprise $1500+/mo custom 100k labels $0.03/label + EasyPost Ent $1000+/mo $0.02/label + Shippo Ent $1200/mo + AfterShip Ent $500+/mo 20k + Project44 $5000+/mo + FourKites $4000/mo / Pro $100/mo / Pro $99/mo / Bundle $8000+/mo 100k labels global
Fraud Prevention / Risk Scoring API
Moves money — charges, payouts to sellers, taxes, fraud checks. Highest-stakes integration: get it wrong and you break compliance or lose revenue.Pricing & free-tier limitsSift Ent $3000+/mo 100k events $0.02/event + Forter Ent custom 0.30% Txn $5000/mo min + Kount Ent $2000+/mo $0.07/txn + Riskified Ent 2.5% guarantee + Sardine $3000+/mo collusion / Pro $1000/mo / Essentials $1000/mo / Bundle $10000+/mo 100k txns SLA
Security Scanning / Vulnerability Monitoring + Privacy and Consent
Tells you when things break and why. You cannot fix what you cannot see — this is how you keep downtime short.Pricing & free-tier limitsDatadog Ent APM $31/host 100 hosts $3100/mo + New Relic Ent $5000+/mo + Sentry Ent custom $2000+/mo 1M errors + Splunk $150/GB ingest / Pro $31/host / Pro $0 / Bundle $10k+/mo 500 hosts 10M errors SLA
Feature Flags + Uptime Monitoring + Status Page + Customer Support API
Tells you when things break and why. You cannot fix what you cannot see — this is how you keep downtime short.Pricing & free-tier limitsDatadog Ent APM $31/host 100 hosts $3100/mo + New Relic Ent $5000+/mo + Sentry Ent custom $2000+/mo 1M errors + Splunk $150/GB ingest / Pro $31/host / Pro $0 / Bundle $10k+/mo 500 hosts 10M errors SLA
Multi-region Data & Storage (Aurora Global + S3 CRR)
Where you keep files users upload or you serve — images, videos, documents — and how fast they reach visitors around the world.Pricing & free-tier limitsAurora Global $0.24/ACU-hr per region 4ACU $0.96/hr ~$700/mo/region x2=$1400/mo + S3 Multi-Region APs $0.0033/GB + CRR $0.023/GB + $0.02/GB replication 1TB $20/mo + DynamoDB Global $1.25/M WRU + CockroachDB Global $0.5k/mo / Single $0.12/ACU $87/mo / Global $0.5k/mo / Bundle $1500+/mo+Spanner+Cosmos $4500/mo
Multi-region Deployment / Active-Active Architecture
Automates testing and deploying your code. Saves enormous time and prevents “works on my machine” releases.Pricing & free-tier limitsEKS Global $0.10/hr/cluster $72/mo/cluster x3=$216/mo + EC2 $70/mo/node x12=$840/mo/region x2=$1680/mo + Vercel Ent Multi-Region $2000+/mo 10TB bw + Workers Global $5/mo +$0.50/M req + Fly Ent Multi-Region $500+/mo + ALB Global $22/mo x2 / Single $40/mo / Multi $1.94/vm/mo / Bundle $5000+/mo multi-active global
Enterprise Authentication + Fine-grained ABAC + SCIM Provisioning
How users sign up, log in, and are authorized. Getting roles and access control right early prevents painful rewrites.Pricing & free-tier limitsOkta Workforce $2/user/mo min $4000/yr + Auth0 Enterprise $2400+/mo 10k MAU $0.045/MAU over + WorkOS Ent SSO/SCIM/SAML/OIDC $750/mo + Directory Sync $0.05/MAU over 10k + OPA/Styra Ent $1000/mo / Pro $240/mo / Clerk Ent $200/mo $0.02/MAU / Bundle $6000+/mo 50k users SSO/SCIM ABAC
Admin Access PAM + Audit Logs Immutable (WORM) + SIEM
Keeps you secure and compliant with regulations. Required for enterprise customers and handling sensitive data.Pricing & free-tier limitsTeleport Enterprise $20/node/mo 50 nodes $1000/mo $10k/yr min + StrongDM $70/user/mo 20 users $1400/mo 1GW $0 + CloudTrail Lake $0.75/GB ingest 100GB $75/mo + S3 Object Lock WORM $0.023/GB 1TB $23/mo + Splunk SIEM $150/GB-mo 100GB $15k/mo + WorkOS Audit Enterprise $500/mo / Community $0 50 nodes / Free $0 1GW / Bundle $18k+/mo 50 nodes SIEM+PAM+WORM
Secrets Management Enterprise + SIEM Logging
Keeps you secure and compliant with regulations. Required for enterprise customers and handling sensitive data.Pricing & free-tier limitsVault Enterprise $0.03/hr ~$22/mo + CloudHSM $1.60/hr $1168/mo + Splunk Ent $150/GB ingest 100GB $15k/mo + Datadog Security $23/host + SIEM log 100GB $30/mo / Team $10/user/mo / Vault Cloud $0.03/hr / Bundle $18k+/mo
Security Operations + Compliance (SOC2, GDPR, PCI-DSS)
Keeps you secure and compliant with regulations. Required for enterprise customers and handling sensitive data.Pricing & free-tier limitsWAF Ent $5000+/mo + SOC Splunk $15k/mo 100GB + Panther $2000/mo + Drata $8k/yr $667/mo SOC2 auto + Vanta $10k/yr + PenTest Cobalt.io $10k/test x4=$40k/yr $3333/mo + PCI Level1 QSA $50k/yr $4167/mo + DR drills $5k/yr + ISO27001 $15k/yr / Team $25/dev Snyk / Wiz $30k/yr / Bundle Ent $30k+/mo SOC2+GDPR+PCI-DSS WAF+SOC+PenTest
Enterprise Payouts + KYC Enterprise + Escrow Enterprise
Moves money — charges, payouts to sellers, taxes, fraud checks. Highest-stakes integration: get it wrong and you break compliance or lose revenue.Pricing & free-tier limitsPersona Enterprise custom $500+/mo $1.25/vol 10k=$12500/mo + Onfido Ent $0.80/check + Jumio $1.75 + Stripe Ent $1.00 + Middesk KYB $2.50/check / Growth $150/mo / Scale $1.50/check / Bundle $1500+/mo 1k checks SLA
Enterprise Search + Content Moderation + Fraud + Uptime Enterprise
Moves money — charges, payouts to sellers, taxes, fraud checks. Highest-stakes integration: get it wrong and you break compliance or lose revenue.Pricing & free-tier limitsAlgolia Enterprise $5000+/mo 1M rec 10M searches + Hive Enterprise $1000+/mo 500k req + Rekognition Enterprise $0.001/img 100k $100/mo + Sift Enterprise $3000+/mo 100k events + Catchpoint Ent $5000+/mo 100 nodes + ThousandEyes Ent $10k/mo + Statuspage Ent $399/mo / Growth $1/k rec+Growth $50/mo / Typesense Ent+Ent $500/mo / Bundle $20000+/mo enterprise search+moderation+fraud+uptime SLA
How this enterprise marketplace checklist works.
Each requirement below is something a enterprise marketplace build typically needs. Pick one of the four researched options — recommended, free, cheaper or paid — add your own with "Other", or skip the requirement if your project doesn't need it. Nothing is mandatory; the plan on the right tracks what you've decided so nothing gets forgotten.
Your picks are saved in this browser automatically, so you can come back anytime. Options are researched per build level and refreshed as vendors change their plans — always verify details on the provider's page before committing.