Shopify vs. Adobe Commerce (Magento)

Shopify costs less to run than Adobe Commerce

Every Shopify plan includes hosting, and Shopify Editions brings what's new across Shopify every six months. Adobe Commerce runs as SaaS, on Adobe-managed cloud infrastructure, or on premises, and Adobe lists manual upgrades and patching for its cloud and on-premises versions.¹

Brands that moved from Adobe Commerce to Shopify

Lulu and Georgia, Bombas, Gymshark, Spanx, and SodaStream moved from Adobe Commerce (Magento) to Shopify.
  • Lulu & Georgia
  • Sennheiser
  • SodaStream
  • LSKD
  • Spanx
  • Bombas
  • Gymshark
  • Rebecca Minkoff
  • Jones Soda
  • Outdoor Research
  • Stanfield's

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  1. 1
    Cost of ownership

    Hosting, SSL, and unlimited bandwidth are included in every Shopify plan.

  2. 2
    Business-user tools

    Teams build no-code automations with Shopify Flow.

  3. 3
    Security and compliance

    Shopify is certified Level 1 PCI DSS compliant.

  4. 4
    Product updates

    Shopify Editions brings what's new across Shopify every six months.

Cost of ownership

Shopify's TCO is 29% better than Adobe Commerce (Magento)

On average, Adobe Commerce's implementation and setup costs are 42% higher than Shopify's, its platform fees and ecommerce stack costs are 42% higher, and its operational and support costs are 24% higher.²

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

Built-in features

Promotions and reporting in the admin

Shopify includes discount codes, gift cards, abandoned checkout recovery, and more than 200 real-time reports in the Shopify admin.

Implementation

Migrate to Shopify 25% faster on average than to Adobe Commerce³

Compared with migrations to Adobe Commerce, migrations to Shopify are 53% more likely to finish on time, have 3% lower budgeted implementation costs, and are 3.3 times more likely to finish on budget.³

Checkout

A checkout you can extend

Shopify Checkout comes with Shopify Payments, and developers customize it with checkout UI extensions and Shopify Functions. Shopify has the best-converting checkout in the world.⁶ Shopify Checkout outperforms Magento by up to 5%.⁶

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On average, Shopify storefronts render two times faster and convert 5% better than Adobe Commerce storefronts. Get a personalized report that compares your site's speed and server speed with industry benchmarks and competitors.

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Business-user tools

Tools for merchandisers

Brands create discount codes, sell gift cards, and send email campaigns from the Shopify admin. Shopify Flow lets teams build no-code automations from trigger, condition, and action blocks.

Automate repeat work

Shopify Flow can flag high-risk orders and hold or release orders for fulfillment based on conditions you set. Shopify Functions let developers customize Shopify's backend logic, such as adding a new discount type.

One platform for every channel

Shopify sells to businesses and consumers from one platform, and every feature works across both.

Apps and extensions

Apps instead of extensions

Merchants install Shopify App Store apps from the Shopify admin. On Adobe Commerce, cloud and on-premises stores use PHP extensions from Magento Marketplace and App Builder apps, while Cloud Service stores use App Builder apps only.¹

21,000+apps in the Shopify App Store as of December 31, 2025⁴

Developers

Build on Shopify's APIs

Shopify hosts the platform and its checkout. For headless builds, teams use the Storefront API with any framework, or Hydrogen with Oxygen hosting at no extra cost.

APIs for every layer

Shopify's Admin and Storefront APIs, webhooks, and Shopify Functions let teams build custom apps and integrations.

Security and compliance

Compliance at the platform level

Shopify is certified Level 1 PCI DSS compliant and has been issued SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 reports. Every plan includes a free SSL certificate.

100msAverage Storefront API response times

99.9%platform uptime during the biggest flash sales and events of the year.

Compliance

PCI DSS Level 1 and SOC reports

Shopify is certified Level 1 PCI DSS compliant, with SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 reports. For Adobe Commerce on Cloud, Adobe lists SOC 2, PCI, and ISO certifications per hosting provider.¹

Scale

Built for global commerce

According to research commissioned by Shopify from EY, 83% of businesses using Managed Markets expand sales into additional countries.

Fraud analysis

Fraud analysis built in

Built-in fraud analysis is included with Shopify Payments.

Product updates

What's new, every six months

Shopify Editions brings what's new across Shopify every six months. In 2025, Shopify invested more than $1.5B in R&D, up from $1.3B in 2024, all dedicated to commerce innovation.⁴

$1.5B+invested in R&D in 2025, up from $1.3 billion in 2024⁴

Every six monthsnew Shopify Editions releases

How updates reach your store

Shopify has thousands of R&D employees, building the future of commerce. On Adobe Commerce on Cloud and on-premises, Adobe lists six patch releases and one minor release a year, applied through manual upgrades, and Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service upgrades automatically.¹

One platform

Shopify sells to businesses and consumers from one platform, and every feature works across both.

What's new across Shopify, every six months.

Explore Shopify Editions

Analyst validation

The experts choose Shopify

Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ report

Gartner® Magic Quadrant™

Shopify was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Commerce.⁸

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Forrester

Shopify has been named a Leader in the 2024 Forrester Wave™: Commerce Solutions for B2B Vendor Assessment.⁹

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IDC MarketScape

Shopify was recognized as a Leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape for Enterprise B2C Digital Commerce Applications.¹⁰

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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

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Migrate from Adobe Commerce to Shopify

Migrate with a Shopify Partner

Shopify Partners plan and run Adobe Commerce migrations, and some build custom migrations with Shopify's API. For a step-by-step plan, read the Magento to Shopify migration guide.

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

How Shopify and Adobe Commerce handle hosting, upgrades, pricing, checkout, apps, B2B, international selling, integrations, security, and migration.
Comparison of Shopify and Adobe Commerce (Magento) across twelve buyer concerns, with sources in the footnotes.
Buyer concernShopifyAdobe 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.