Magento Commerce and Shopify Plus are two most mainstream mid-market eCommerce platforms in the world – with both offering very different feature-sets and propositions to brands and retailers.
Pricing Overview
**This is just a rough estimate on basis of scalable business to run on different platforms with required integrations and a good traffic.
| Magento Open Source | Magento Commerce (Cloud) | Shopify Plus | CommerceUp |
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| Average Build Cost | $50K - $200K | $100K - $500K | $60K - $250K | $10K - $60k |
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| Average annual hosting fees | Hosted by your developers | $24K - $48K | $24K + 0.25% transaction fees | $12K - $25k |
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| Average annual maintenance retainer | Technical team salaries | $24K - $72K | Agencies Dependant | $12K - $20K |
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| BAU Development Cost | - | $36K - $120 | $36K - $80K | - |
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| App Costs (Avg Uses for basic integrations) | Plugins Purchase on demand | Plugins Purchase on demand | $6K - $12K | On Demand or Pre integrated |
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| First Year Commerce Cost | $80K - $500K | $264K - $820K | $123K - $287K | $25K - $100K |
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Native Features
| Magento Open Source | Magento Commerce (Cloud) | Shopify Plus | CommerceUp |
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| Native Product Types | Simple & Configurable, Bundle, Virtual | Simple & Configurable, Bundle, Virtual | Simple & Configurable | Simple, Configurable & Variants |
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| Product Attributes | ✔ | ✔ | Shopify uses tags and metafields instead of product attributes and this represents a bit of a different way of working. | Advanced product attribute management with separate images, pricing and details needed to update |
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| Mobile Apps | Thirdparty support | Thirdparty support | Thirdparty Apps | Full support of native mobile apps |
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| SEO | Far more flexible around SEO and allows for heavy customisation | Far more flexible around SEO and allows for heavy customisation | Shopify is very locked down around SEO, although it is relatively strong in places. Shopify doesn’t allow for editing of the robots.txt file | Support on all pages and product with easy support with commerceup seo manager |
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| Faceted Search | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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| Advanced Marketing Tools | - | ✔ | - | ✔ |
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| WYSIWYG Page Builder | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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| Integrated Blog | - | - | ✔ | ✔ |
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| Localization | Manual localization | Manual localization | No proper localization support, reliable on third party apps | Inbuilt localization with manual + automatic conversion |
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| Multi Vendor Support | Additional Module | Additional Module | Add on Apps | Inbuilt support with add on |
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| Complete API | - | - | ✔ | ✔ |
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| Implementation time | 6-8 Months | 4-6 Months | 2-4 Months | 1-3 Months |
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Hosted Cloud
| Magento Open Source | Magento Commerce (Cloud) | Shopify Plus | CommerceUp |
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| Optimized Cloud Commerce for Magento | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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| Global Availability | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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| Fast Page Loading with Content Delivery Network (CDN) | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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| Enhanced Security with Integrated SSL | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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| Easy deployment | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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| Streamlined updates and testing | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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Support
| Magento OpenSource | Magento Commerce (Cloud) | Shopify Plus | CommerceUp |
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| Email Support | Self-support: With Open Source and solely depends on you and your developer | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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| Dedicated Account Manager Support | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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| Whatsapp/Phone Support | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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