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Hyperswitch: Reduce Payment Costs

Name: Hyperswitch: Reduce Payment Costs
Author: juspay

Get a composable payments platform with Hyperswitch, for founders in fintech. With 43k+ GitHub stars, simplify payment ops and uplift authorization.

43,346 stars4,972 forksRustHealth Score 8/10Updated 7/24/2026100% free · open source

What it does

Hyperswitch is an open-source, composable payments platform that enables connectivity to multiple payment providers, reduces payment processing costs, and uplifts authorization with intelligent routing and revenue recovery.

Install / run

git clone https://github.com/juspay/hyperswitch.git && cd hyperswitch

When to use it

•When you need to integrate multiple payment gateways into your application
•When you want to reduce payment processing costs with cost observability and intelligent routing
•When you need to simplify payment operations with automated reconciliation

Quick start

1Run 'cargo build' to build the hyperswitch binary
2Configure the 'config.toml' file to specify your payment providers and settings
3Use the 'hyperswitch' command to start the server, e.g. 'cargo run --bin hyperswitch'
4Test the API using tools like curl or Postman, referencing the API documentation in the README
5Integrate hyperswitch into your application using the provided API clients or SDKs

Ready-to-paste prompt

curl -X POST 'http://localhost:8080/v1/payments' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"amount": 10.99, "currency": "USD", "payment_method": "credit_card"}'

Heads up: Make sure you have Rust and Cargo installed on your system, as hyperswitch is built using Rust and requires these tools to build and run

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Topics

adyen

beginner-friendly

featured

finance

fintech

hacktoberfest

high-performance

open-source

orchestration

payment

payment-gateway

payment-integration

payment-processing

payments

payments-platform

restful-api

rust

sdk

stripe

works-with-react

How Hyperswitch: Reduce Payment Costs works

Codeflow

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Hyperswitch: Reduce Payment Costs is a very large Rust project (~972k lines across 5497 code files, plus 459 test files). It is a full software project: use it through its install path rather than reading it end to end. Last commit this month, Apache-2.0 license, has a test suite.

Size

Very large codebase

~972k lines · 5497 code files · days to read — use, don't read

Setup

Developer setup

A real software project. Use it via its install path; don't expect to read it all.

Runs on

Rust · Node.js · Docker

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Rust 81%JavaScript 17%MDX 1%

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