Shopify vs. Adobe Commerce (Magento)
Shopify costs less to run than Adobe Commerce
Brands that moved from Adobe Commerce to Shopify
Cost of ownership
Shopify's TCO is 29% better than Adobe Commerce (Magento)
Every Shopify plan includes commerce hosting, unlimited bandwidth, and an SSL certificate, so you don't buy hosting separately. Shopify Plus starts at $2,300 USD a month on a three-year term, or $2,500 USD a month on a one-year term, as of October 2026.
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On average:
42%higher platform fees and ecommerce stack costs on Adobe²
24%higher operational and support costs on Adobe²
42%higher implementation and setup costs on Adobe²
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Rolling out new programs like promotions or gift card capabilities has become simple and resource-efficient, compared to the traditional approach of building them ourselves.
Business-user tools
Tools for merchandisers
With Shopify now managing the ecommerce complexities for us, our team is fully dedicated to solving technical challenges, fostering product innovation, and delivering exceptional value to our customers through the Molekule app.
Apps and extensions
Apps instead of extensions
21,000+apps in the Shopify App Store as of December 31, 2025⁴
Developers
Build on Shopify's APIs
Security and compliance
Compliance at the platform level
100msAverage Storefront API response times
99.9%platform uptime during the biggest flash sales and events of the year.
The growth of the company was at risk, and hence we wanted to move to a partner where scale or performance were not an issue.
Product updates
What's new, every six months
$1.5B+invested in R&D in 2025, up from $1.3 billion in 2024⁴
Every six monthsnew Shopify Editions releases
What's new across Shopify, every six months.
Explore Shopify EditionsIn the end, we chose Shopify because the speed of development is significantly faster. Shopify is simply an absolute innovation driver in the field of ecommerce.
Analyst validation
The experts choose Shopify
Gartner® Magic Quadrant™
Shopify was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Commerce.⁸
Forrester
Shopify has been named a Leader in the 2024 Forrester Wave™: Commerce Solutions for B2B Vendor Assessment.⁹
IDC MarketScape
Shopify was recognized as a Leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape for Enterprise B2C Digital Commerce Applications.¹⁰
IDC market share
IDC ranked Shopify #1 in worldwide digital commerce applications market share for 2025, with 21.8% of worldwide digital commerce applications revenue, up from 19.5% in 2024.¹¹
Migrate from Adobe Commerce to Shopify
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Bombassaved $108,000 a year in platform costs after moving from Adobe Commerce to Shopify.¹²
Spanxsaw a 10% increase in conversion rate after moving from Adobe Commerce to Shopify Plus.¹²
SodaStreamgrew direct consumer sales from 2% to almost 20% of total revenue on Shopify Plus.¹²
SANJOreduced total cost of ownership by about 60% and increased conversions by 25% after moving to Shopify.
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Shopify vs. Adobe Commerce (Magento) comparison
| Buyer concern | Shopify | Adobe Commerce (Magento) |
|---|---|---|
Deployment and hosting | Shopify Hosting, SSL, and unlimited bandwidth included in every plan | Adobe Commerce (Magento) SaaS, Adobe-managed cloud (single tenant), or on premises¹ |
Upgrades | Shopify What's new ships through Shopify Editions every six months | Adobe Commerce (Magento) Cloud and on-premises: manual upgrades, six patches and one minor release a year; SaaS: automatic¹ |
Total cost of ownership | Shopify TCO 29% better than Adobe Commerce² | Adobe Commerce (Magento) Adobe's platform fees and ecommerce stack costs are 42% higher; operational and support costs 24% higher; implementation and setup costs 42% higher² |
Implementation timeline | Shopify Migrating to Shopify compared to migrating to Adobe: 25% faster speed of implementation; 53% more likely on-time implementation; 3% lower budgeted implementation costs; 3.3x more likely on-budget implementation³ | Adobe Commerce (Magento) Baseline in Shopify's Time to Value study³ |
Checkout and payments | Shopify Shopify Payments built in; customize with checkout UI extensions and Functions | Adobe Commerce (Magento) Adobe Payment Services on Cloud Service; payment solutions on cloud and on-premises¹ |
Ecosystem and apps | Shopify 21,000+ apps in the Shopify App Store as of December 31, 2025⁴ | Adobe Commerce (Magento) PHP extensions from Magento Marketplace; App Builder apps from Adobe Exchange¹ |
Architecture and extensibility | Shopify Admin and Storefront APIs, Shopify Functions, Hydrogen with Oxygen hosting included | Adobe Commerce (Magento) Cloud and on-premises: PHP customization plus App Builder; SaaS: App Builder only¹ |
B2B | Shopify B2B and DTC on one platform; every feature works across both | Adobe Commerce (Magento) Full B2B after installation on cloud and on-premises; core B2B preinstalled on SaaS¹ |
International | Shopify Shopify Markets sets content, currency, duties, and taxes per audience | Adobe Commerce (Magento) Multiple websites, stores, and language store views per installation¹ |
CRM and ERP integration | Shopify Out-of-the-box connectors for Acumatica, NetSuite, Microsoft, and more | Adobe Commerce (Magento) REST and GraphQL APIs plus API Mesh on cloud and on-premises; API Mesh on SaaS¹ |
Security and compliance | Shopify Level 1 PCI DSS certified; SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 reports | Adobe Commerce (Magento) SOC 2, PCI, and ISO per hosting provider on cloud; adds GDPR on SaaS¹ |
Site speed | Shopify On average, Shopify stores are 2x faster than Adobe stores; Shopify's server speed is 3.4x faster than Adobe's server speed⁵ | Adobe Commerce (Magento) 53% of Adobe stores are fast, vs. 93% of Shopify stores⁵ |
Sources are listed in the footnotes. TCO and time-to-value rows use the claims doc and Time to Value figures verbatim.
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¹ Adobe Commerce documentation on Adobe Experience League: "Adobe Commerce SaaS vs PaaS comparison" (last updated September 11, 2026), "Migrate to Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service" (last updated September 24, 2026), and "Site, store, and view scope" (last updated August 20, 2026). Accessed October 7, 2026.
² Study commissioned from a leading independent consulting firm. Research commissioned by Shopify studied total cost of ownership across major ecommerce platforms from December 2023 to January 2024. All values are average (shopify.com/compare/tco).
³ Data from research commissioned by Shopify and published by EY (October 2025). All values are average. Data based on 300+ organizations surveyed with GMVs between $50-$500M+ across global key markets and seven competitor sets that migrated platforms within the past three years. Data from May 2022 to June 2025.
⁴ Shopify investor materials. App count as of December 31, 2025. Research and development investment for fiscal years 2025 and 2024.
⁵ Shopify Enterprise blog, "Fastest Ecommerce Platform: Speed Benchmarks Compared," August 29, 2024. Google Core Web Vitals data for a random sample of over 200,000 sites across revenue bands, verticals, and major ecommerce platforms; homepage performance, with site speed measured as First Contentful Paint and server speed as Time to First Byte.
⁶ Study completed in partnership with a Big Three global management consulting company. Data based on a study completed in April 2023 (shopify.com/enterprise/blog/shopify-checkout).
⁷ Shopify Enterprise blog, "Store Speed and Conversion: What the Data Shows," April 27, 2026. Actively selling Shopify stores over a 28-day window in January and February 2026, with the slowest 5% of stores excluded and each Core Web Vitals metric controlled for the other two. Figures show correlation, not causation.
⁸ Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce, Aditya Vasudevan, Ant Duffin, et al., 3 November 2025. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and MAGIC QUADRANT is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
⁹ 2024 Forrester Wave™: Commerce Solutions for B2B Vendor Assessment (shopify.com/resource/forrester-wave-b2b). Forrester does not endorse any company, product, brand, or service included in its research publications and does not advise any person to select the products or services of any company or brand based on the ratings included in such publications.
¹⁰ IDC MarketScape: 2024 Enterprise B2C Digital Commerce Applications vendor assessment (shopify.com/resources/idc-enterprise-marketscape).
¹¹ IDC Market Share: Worldwide Digital Commerce Applications Shares, 2025, doc #US54603626, June 2026, as reported on the Shopify Enterprise blog, "Shopify Ranked #1 For Worldwide Digital Commerce Applications Market Share" (shopify.com/enterprise/blog/shopify-market-share).
¹² Shopify customer case studies: Bombas, Spanx, SodaStream, and SANJO on shopify.com/case-studies. Accessed October 7, 2026.