Adobe Commerce delivers personalized shopping at scale. Delivered as Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service (ACCS), it boosts conversion with an AI-powered storefront, built-in merchandising, and GenAI-driven content. ACCS supports rapid expansion through multi-site, multi-language, and multi-brand capabilities, handling millions of SKUs, complex catalogs, and custom pricing. Always-on SaaS innovation lowers total cost of ownership by removing upgrade overhead and minimizing…
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BigCommerce
Score7.9 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
BigCommerce is a SaaS platform that allows SMBs to develop eCommerce sites. Features include the capabilities to design the storefront, configure products, manage payments, generate traffic, and optimize conversion.
$39
per month
Pricing
Adobe Commerce
BigCommerce
Editions & Modules
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Standard
$39
per month
Plus
$105
per month
Pro
$399
per month
Enterprise
Custom
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Commerce
BigCommerce
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
Must contact sales team for pricing.
A discount is offered for annual billing.
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Verified User
Chose Adobe Commerce
Shopify has the bad habit of charging transaction fees unless you use Shopify Payments, and this aspect only is usually a no-go if you have a big eCommerce to handle. Salesforce has very similar capabilities and probably has a better ecosystem, but it's customization capability …
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Verified User
Chose Adobe Commerce
Shopify and BigCommerce are great if you are a small business that is creating your first business and don't have many Skus or complex pricing. For us, having over 2 million Skus and a very complex inventory management of those Skus, Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce) being …
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Vice President of Ecommerce in Marketing at MyBinding.com (Retail, 51-200 employees)
Chose Adobe Commerce
Magento is a great mid market product. It give you the ability to customize and can handle more complex business needs than both Shopify and BigCommerce. The ability to host the platform yourself and have full access to the source code allows for larger more complex catalogs, …
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Verified User
Chose Adobe Commerce
Magento scales much better than any of the other software when it comes to very large e-commerce websites. But all the other options are more user-friendly for smaller sites as there is a bit of a learning curve in learning to manage Magento. Customization is better along with W…
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Senior Support Engineer in Engineering at Windsor Circle, Inc. (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Chose Adobe Commerce
The only platform listed above that competes with Magento in full functionality is Demandware, in my opinion. However, Demandware is even more development resource intensive than Magento. NetSuite has several realms of customization, but their API is quite limited. Shopify, BigC…
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Verified User
Chose Adobe Commerce
BigCommerce offers strong saas simplicity and lower maintenance, but it lacks the customisation and multi store flexibility., WooCommerce is cost effective and easy to use and come with a huge extension directory most of them freely available, but it is suited for smaller …
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
Verified User
Chose Adobe Commerce
Magento was far superior in terms of its global abilities... It excels in offering multi-currency/language/warehouse/credit card payments.
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Product Manager in Product Management at Atkore International (Building Materials, 501-1000 employees)
Chose Adobe Commerce
Magento is not technically a master of any portion of building an ecommerce webpage but it certainly is very good at a lot of things which ultimately was the deciding factor. Primarily its versatility was above that of the other choices. Wordpress created beautiful content …
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CTO, Partner in Engineering at Zero Gravity Marketing (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees)
Chose Adobe Commerce
Magento is a more enterprise level solution. It is viable for smaller businesses, however requires a higher upfront investment while others have lower upfront but more maintenance.
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Verified User
Chose Adobe Commerce
They are both very well designed. They both have their own pros and cons. For example, Magento is very easy to manage and simple, where Brightpearl is very complicated and hard to learn. On the other hand, Brightpearl has a lot more options and modification possibilities than …
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Verified User
Chose Adobe Commerce
Shopify, BigCommerce, oscommerce, etc - Magento, provides merchants with lower budgets and less manpower, the ability to have a fully-featured web storefront without the cost of flexibility. Magento allows merchants the ability to fully customize their platform as they see fit
We…
Verified User
Chose Adobe Commerce
Shopify is also a great solution for the customers that comes with different set of benefits and limits when comparing with Adobe Commerce. Shopify provided very limited b2b support, limits in the integration with third party, checkout and theme custimization is limited, …
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info
CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) in Marketing at Hi-Tech Car Audio (Retail, 11-50 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
BigCommerce combines the ease-of-use that you get form Shopify, with the ability to handle large numbers of Sku's like a custom Magento site might have.
But unlike a custom site like Magento, you don't need a coder or developer for every little change you want to make to the …
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E-Commerce Development in Information Technology at Unique Lift Parts Inc (Retail, 1-10 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
Integrations with Shopify were inadequate, and we felt the overall impression was too informal, without the backend flexibility our catalog requires. As for Magento, I had experience at a previous company with Magento and was never very satisfied with any part of it. I took a …
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IT Programmer in Information Technology at Pneudart (Medical Device, 51-200 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
BigCommerce simply blows them out of the water. Magento took a nosedive in security and reliability, and their support team "assured" us the issue was fixed on 3 separate occasions. BigCommerce took the opportunity to be crystal clear about how they manage and store our server …
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Verified User
Chose BigCommerce
Open source platforms require a separate developer.
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Verified User
Chose BigCommerce
Of all the eCommerce platforms we evaluated, only Shopify would compete. Shopify is a better bet with smaller catalogs and less custom business requirements in our experience. While the app store in Shopify is robust, BigCommerce has better native features that were important …
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Verified User
Chose BigCommerce
Open source Magento was a full-time job. Now, I have a lot more freedom giving me the ability to take on more responsibilities and get my job done more efficiently. There were many headaches associated with Magento and depreciating version 1 and forcing users to migrate to …
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Verified User
Chose BigCommerce
BigCommerce is way better than 3dcart, it was comparable to Shopify but with the new product promotions available it is better than Shopify now. It is better than Magento in that you do not need dedicated programmers to make simple changes to your store!!! The best part about …
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Owner at Studio Alice (Consumer Goods, 1-10 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
With BigCommerce you have great support (not with the open-source alternatives) without the high order fee that comes with Shopify. You also never have to worry about server settings or up-time. And you still have a lot of freedom with the design and functionality.
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Verified User
Chose BigCommerce
It is cleaner and easier but sacrifices apps and features. It includes SSL where 3dcart charges. Magento is just too bulky for one person to operate.
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Verified User
Chose BigCommerce
BigCommerce is a much more user friendly, manageable and cost-effective tool than Magento, which we previously used. We struggled to find a decent Magento developer and it was an extremely expensive platform which we didn't really need. Shopify for us was limited with our …
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
Verified User
Chose BigCommerce
We haven't used the other platforms for a site yet, we have only evaluated them as a potential next step. In our evaluations, we have found that BigCommerce has a lower price point than Shopify seems to have for the same level of functionality. As far as the layouts/templates, …
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Verified User
Chose BigCommerce
We very much liked BigCommerce because it was the perfect fit or the best of both worlds as far as our business is concerned. It had a really robust shopping cart experience that comes standard and it allows for a Sandbox environment that we can use for future custom build-outs.
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Owner in Marketing at Backcountry Digital (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
WooCommmerce and Magento are great, provided you have a consistent developer team that can constantly manage it and clients have the budget for that. But most times, the amount of money spent on developer managed sites is better spent on growing the company instead of custom …
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Verified User
Chose BigCommerce
BigCommerce seemed to have all the features I needed, at the price I needed, and had a free trial I could access
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Verified User
Chose BigCommerce
Shopify: BigCommerce has more features at the price point we need. 1ShoppingCart: BigCommerce is far more versatile and can sustain our business for a greater amount of growth than 1ShoppingCart. Magento: While Magento was attractive for its customization, it would have required …
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
Head of IT & Systems in Information Technology at Toymate (Retail, 201-500 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
I have managed to build 2 large websites on BigCommerce and it is fast and reliable. Have managed builds on Magento as well as small website projects on Wix, GoDaddy and Shopify and they all have their pros and cons. This is an ever-changing space and it really comes down to …
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Owner in Corporate at Gameday Sports & Memorabilia (Sports, 1-10 employees)
Chose BigCommerce
Cost and features were better with BigCommerce, plus one of our suppliers uses BigCommerce to run their store. That makes inventory export and import much easier.
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Verified User
Chose BigCommerce
BigCommerce is a great and powerful platform that has lots of upside. We still have a couple basic sites running on BigCommerce, mainly for backing up customer and order data. At this time, we have moved most of our businesses over to Shopify Plus b/c we feel that we get much …
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Features
Adobe Commerce
BigCommerce
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Adobe Commerce and BigCommerce
Feature
Adobe Commerce
7.6
34 Ratings
BigCommerce
7.9
424 Ratings
Product catalog & listings
8.233 Ratings
8.2420 Ratings
Product management
9.034 Ratings
8.1417 Ratings
Bulk product upload
8.829 Ratings
7.4317 Ratings
Branding
6.130 Ratings
7.9368 Ratings
Mobile storefront
5.232 Ratings
8.0408 Ratings
Product variations
7.132 Ratings
8.5394 Ratings
Website integration
9.132 Ratings
8.3348 Ratings
Visual customization
9.034 Ratings
7.7410 Ratings
CMS
6.133 Ratings
6.5302 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Adobe Commerce and BigCommerce
Feature
Adobe Commerce
6.2
33 Ratings
BigCommerce
8.0
410 Ratings
Abandoned cart recovery
5.228 Ratings
7.7368 Ratings
Checkout user experience
7.133 Ratings
8.3405 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Adobe Commerce and BigCommerce
Feature
Adobe Commerce
6.3
33 Ratings
BigCommerce
8.3
406 Ratings
eCommerce security
6.333 Ratings
8.3406 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Adobe Commerce and BigCommerce
Feature
Adobe Commerce
7.3
32 Ratings
BigCommerce
7.9
411 Ratings
Promotions & discounts
7.332 Ratings
7.8387 Ratings
Personalized recommendations
8.129 Ratings
7.4323 Ratings
SEO
6.429 Ratings
8.4382 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Adobe Commerce and BigCommerce