Compare Sharetribe vs. Mirakl
What is the best marketplace software, Sharetribe or Mirakl? This article helps you compare things like pricing, features, and scalability – and find the best marketplace builder for you.
Mirakl focuses on helping large retailers add a marketplace to their existing e-commerce offering. Its main competitive advantage is the number of integrations it has to existing e-commerce solutions. Mirakl also offers comprehensive tooling for large enterprises. The pricing reflects this: Mirakl's price point makes the solution inaccessible for most startups and small businesses.
For an entrepreneur (or an intrapreneur) looking to launch a new marketplace, Sharetribe is a better option. Sharetribe Go lets you launch your platform quickly and with an extremely low budget. Meanwhile, Sharetribe Flex allows you to scale your marketplace and add an infinite amount of unique features without breaking the bank.
In terms of marketplace type, Mirakl can be a great Sharetribe alternative if you're building the next Amazon or Alibaba – and if you can afford the price. Mirakl focuses heavily on B2C and B2B e-commerce, where physical products are being shipped and sold. If you're building a peer-to-peer product marketplace like Etsy or eBay, a rental platform like Airbnb, or a platform dealing with complex services like Fiverr or Rover, Sharetribe's functionality likely matches your needs better.
The table below helps you compare Mirakl with Sharetribe Go and Sharetribe Flex.
Mirakl
Sharetribe Go
Sharetribe Flex
- Contact Mirakl by filling a form on their site
- Sign up to Sharetribe Go
- (Buy a custom domain)
- (Set up a Custom Landing Page)
- Sign up to Sharetribe Flex
- Develop your marketplace front end on top of APIs & website template
- Buy a domain
- Buy hosting for your front end
4 months on average
1 day
1–3 months
- Not disclosed*
*Pricing based on subscription and a percentage of GMV
- Plans starting from $79 /mo
- (Custom Landing Page $99 /mo)
- Subscription fee $299 /mo
- (+Transaction fee for transaction volume over $30,000)
Demo available upon request
30 days
Free for the duration of development
Medium to high
- Development skills needed to take Mirakl into use
- Mid- to high-level skills needed for custom-developing features and integrations
- Backend hosting, performance, maintenance, backups, and updates included at any scale
Low
- No coding skills needed
- Easy to customize and setup using Admin panel
- Hosting, performance, maintenance, backups, and updates included at any scale
Medium
- Some development skills needed to take Flex into use
- Mid- to high-level skills needed for custom-developing features and integrations
- Backend hosting, performance, maintenance, backups, and updates included at any scale
Backend hosting included
Backend hosting included
Unlimited
Not possible
Unlimited
Use the tech stack of your choice
Custom coding not possible
Use the tech stack of your choice
No information available*
*The help you need can be specified in Mirakl's contact form
- Sharetribe support
- Sharetribe support +
- Flex developer support
+ Advanced features and services for large companies who want to expand their offering to marketplaces
+ Integrations with other eCommerce solutions
+ Modular architecture
+ Very fast to launch
+ Very easy to use
+ Seamless user experience that keeps improving
+ Effortless to maintain
+ Advanced features for rental marketplaces like Airbnb, service marketplaces like Fiverr, and product marketplaces like Etsy
+ Dedicated support for non-technical founders
+ Fully customizable, yet fast to launch
+ Effortless to maintain
+ Unlimited scalability
+ Enjoyable developer experience
+ Easy to build a mobile app
+ Advanced features for rental, service, and product marketplaces
+ Dedicated support for developers
- Not aimed at startups or small businesses (focus on enterprise marketplaces)
- Significantly more expensive than Sharetribe Go or Flex
- Not suited for building peer-to-peer marketplaces or rental marketplaces
- No no-code alternative; always requires development work or hiring a developer
- Longer average launch time than with Sharetribe Go or Flex (4 months)
- Lowest customizability
- Not possible to build new features
- Limited functionality for "online mall" marketplace types
- Supports fewer payment gateways and business models
- Requires development skills (or hiring a verified Sharetribe Expert)
- No existing integrations with eCommerce tools
- Requires more customization than Mirakl to suit B2C enterprise product-selling
Always included in both Go & Flex
When you create a marketplace with Sharetribe, here's what you can always count on.
All essential marketplace features
+
Listings and profiles. Multiple different transaction flows. Search engine. Availability management. Messaging, reviews, email notifications, and a lot more. Because you don’t have to sweat the basics, you can focus on what counts: your brand and your user community.
Secure online payments
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Sharetribe’s built-in payment system allows you to process payments between your users, delay payouts, and collect your commission automatically. Without compromising user experience or security compliance.
Powerful admin tools
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Have a 360° view of what goes on in your marketplace. User management, content moderation, transaction monitoring, and a lot more – all the tools you need to be in complete control of your platform.
Regular updates & new features
+
Sharetribe makes your business more powerful every day. In addition to keeping your platform up to speed with the latest security and regulatory advancements, our team adds lots of new functionality to your marketplace every month.
Carefree infrastructure
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Wherever your growth takes you, your Sharetribe-powered platform can handle it. You never need to worry about traffic spikes or site performance. Our solutions support your marketplace at any stage of your business lifecycle.
Legal & regulatory compliance
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Local payment regulation? Data security protection? Regulatory changes and updates? With Sharetribe, your payment and data processing is always compliant with the latest regulatory standards such as GDPR and PSD2.
Maintenance & backups
+
Scratch backups off your todo list. Sharetribe keeps your platform and data storage working reliably and securely according to the latest industry best practices. If you ever want to leave, your data is yours to keep.
Expert support 7 days a week
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Sharetribe’s support team consists of marketplace business and platform technology experts – all extremely friendly folks to boot. We’ll help you get the most out of our products and share Sharetribe’s decade-long marketplace experience to support your business.
Launch today with no code or build freely on top of marketplace APIs
Starts from $79/mo
Sharetribe Go:
The fastest way to market
- Set up & launch in one day
- No coding skills needed
- Easy to adapt to your marketplace idea


Starts from $299/mo
Sharetribe Flex:
Custom-building made smarter
- Design & develop your ideal marketplace
- Essential features out of the box
- Unique, headless approach with APIs and templates
Not sure? Compare Go and Flex in more detail or let us help!