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hyperswitch: Scalable Payments Platform for SaaS Founders

Name: hyperswitch: Scalable Payments Platform for SaaS Founders
Author: juspay

hyperswitch lets founders launch a PCI‑compliant, composable payments stack—choose SaaS or self‑host, tap multiple providers, and cut processing costs. 45k+ GitHub stars.

From the repo · “Open source, composable payments platform | PCI compliant | SaaS and Self-host options | Enables connectivity to multiple payment, payout, fraud, vault and tokenization providers | Uplifts authorization with intelligent routing and revenue recovery | Reduce payment processing costs with cost observability | Reduces payment ops with reconciliation”

45,390 stars+73★ this week6,457 forksRustGuide quality 9/10 · reviewed Oct 9Updated 10/21/2026100% 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.

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

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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Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/hyperswitch && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/hyperswitch/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/hyperswitch/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

How hyperswitch: Scalable Payments Platform for SaaS Founders works

Codeflow

Free to inspect

Hyperswitch: Scalable Payments Platform for SaaS Founders 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

No API keys detected

Rust 81%JavaScript 17%MDX 1%

Where to start reading

1
README.md
Start here — what it does and how to install it
2
Cargo.toml
Dependencies and the commands it exposes

What's in each folder

docs/Documentation32 files

postman/Folder9543 files

crates/Folder2221 files

migrations/Folder1038 files

api-reference/Folder382 files

cypress-tests/Folder346 files

v2_compatible_migrations/Folder49 files

cypress-tests-v2/Folder35 files

READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksDocker readyApache-2.0 licenseUpdated this month

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/hyperswitch && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/hyperswitch/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/hyperswitch/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

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Details

Creator

juspay

Language

Rust