Hosted Platform Overview

Commerce Gateway is open source and self-hostable. Better Data also operates a hosted platform for teams that want managed operations, multi-tenancy, enterprise workflows, and support.

Hosted plan details: Hosted Plans

The hosted platform architecture

Better Data’s hosted Commerce Gateway is built from three main layers:

1. hosted-gateway-mcp — Multi-tenant MCP HTTP surface. Resolves organization context, applies capability filtering, and exposes the commerce tool set each tenant is entitled to. (Today’s open-source story centers on single-tenant self-host; this component is the managed multi-tenant runtime.)

2. registry-mcp-server — Remote Registry MCP deployed at https://mcp.commercegateway.io. Accepts JSON-RPC MCP over streamable HTTP (POST /mcp). When configured with a database, API keys are resolved to an organization (hashed at rest).

3. Better Data platform — Org directory, entitlements, analytics, billing, and operational tooling (Prisma-backed services in the main product).

API authentication

Hosted MCP API keys use the gw_mcp_ prefix. Keys are stored as SHA-256 hashes; the raw secret is shown once at creation.

Authenticate with:

Authorization: Bearer gw_mcp_your_key_here

or

x-api-key: gw_mcp_your_key_here

Registry MCP

Health

GET https://mcp.commercegateway.io/health

Example response: { "status": "ok", "server": "registry-mcp", "version": "1.0.0" } (version may vary).

MCP (streamable HTTP)

POST https://mcp.commercegateway.io/mcp
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json, text/event-stream
Authorization: Bearer gw_mcp_your_key_here

Use JSON-RPC MCP messages per your client. GET /mcp is not supported — POST only.

For hosted access, onboarding, and keys, contact hello@betterdata.co.

Self-hosted vs hosted

Not sure which path fits? See Self-Host or Hosted?.