Overview
Hyperswitch: Open-Source Payments Platform by Juspay
Hyperswitch is an open-source payments platform from Juspay, designed to simplify global payments for digital businesses. Juspay has been a global leader offering payment infrastructure solution for banks and merchants for 12+ years, processing over 300 Mn+ daily transactions and an annualized total payment value of $1 Tn+.
We offer two distinct solutions:
Hyperswitch Philosophy: Open Payments Infrastructure as a Self-Hostable System Framework
At Juspay, we believe that payments infrastructure should be transparent, adaptable, and built for merchant control—not vendor lock-in. That’s why we made the bold decision to take our Payment Orchestrator open source.
Enterprise merchants operate in a world where payment agility is a competitive advantage. Traditional closed-loop platforms dictate their own rules, pricing, and pace of innovation. Based on our 12-years of experience building and scaling global payment systems, we decided to take a different approach—giving merchants the power to customize, optimize, and scale payments to fit their unique business needs.
Guided by the learnings from our enterprise go-lives, we have been working on unbundling a range of stand-alone solutions from our broader technology stack to make them more accessible to merchants looking to expand their in-house system engineering capability. These stand-alone solutions range from services for intelligent / dynamic payment routing, payment methods vaulting, cost observability, PSP-agnostic authentication, and an APMs widget that can be embedded anywhere.
Technical Foundation: Open System Architecture with Enterprise-Scale Guarantees
HyperSwitch's technical architecture combines open source innovation with enterprise-grade reliability, built to power modern payment operations.
1. Open-Source Transparency & Extensibility
Complete Transparency & Confidence: Full visibility into payment orchestration with no black boxes, enabling informed decision-making and customization. Hyperswitch is maintained publicly on GitHub
Open Roadmap & Innovation: Collaborative development approach that allows merchants to influence and contribute to the platform's evolution
Speed to Market: Accelerate implementation and changes by building consensus faster through transparent architecture
2. Enterprise-Grade Reliability & Security Model
Built on battle-tested systems by Juspay's 1000+ engineers, the same team that powers 300M+ transactions daily for global enterprises like Amazon, Agoda and Zurich
Comprehensive security framework including PCI compliance, tokenization, and security certifications
Proven reliability at scale, designed for high-performance payment processing
Core System Architecture Principles
1. Modular
Pick only the components you need, without overhauling your stack.
2. Composable
Easily integrate Hyperswitch into any existing payments infrastructure, reducing migration friction. Integrate Hyperswitch alongside:
Existing acquirers
Internal fraud engines
Bank integrations
ERP systems
Vault Services
3. Scalable
Horizontally scalable architecture
Supports peak loads up to ~5K TPS
Stateless service layer with distributed coordination
4. Reliable
Ensuring zero downtime and safe mode for handling exceptions with
Multi-connector redundancy
Smart retries
Graceful degradation patterns
Active-active regional topology
5. Observable
Deep system visibility via:
Logging
Monitoring
Distributed tracing
Audit trails
Cost optimization analytics
Authorization uplift measurement
6. Future-Proof
Without rebuilding your orchestration layer you can swap or upgrade :
PSPs
Internal token systems
Authentication providers
Fraud vendors
Get ready! We welcome you to the future of digital payments!
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