Ecommerce platform

Adobe Commerce

Also covers Magento Open Source and Mage-OS.

Choose it when your pricing rules, catalog structure or ERP data are the actual product. Skip it when they are not, because you will pay for depth you never use.

Adobe Commerce is the most capable B2B ecommerce platform we work on, and the most expensive way to sell simple things. Those two facts are the same fact.

Magento Open Source is the same engine without the licence and without the native B2B modules. Mage-OS is a community-run distribution of Magento Open Source. Everything below applies to all three unless we say otherwise.

Reviewed August 22, 2026.

What it is good at

B2B is native, not bolted on
Company accounts, buyer hierarchies, negotiable quotes, shared catalogs and customer-specific pricing ship with Adobe Commerce. On most other platforms these are apps, and apps disagree with each other at checkout.
The data model bends to your catalog
Attribute sets, configurable products and per-website scoping handle catalogs that break simpler platforms: thousands of SKUs with deep specs, units of measure, and availability that differs per customer.
You can own the code
Magento Open Source and Mage-OS are open source. If the vendor relationship ends, the store keeps running. Very few hosted platforms can say that, and it matters more than it sounds when you are five years in.

Where it falls short

Three-year cost is the highest of the mainstream platforms

Licence, hosting, build and maintenance stack up. On our own cost model a B2B replatform lands well into six figures over three years before anyone has sold anything.

Wrong for:
A store under roughly $1M in revenue with a simple catalog and no ERP. The platform will not pay for itself and the maintenance alone will hurt.
What helps:
Magento Open Source or Mage-OS removes the licence line entirely, and most of what a smaller B2B store needs is in Open Source.

Upgrades are real projects, not a button

Every minor release can break extensions and custom code. Two or three planned upgrade windows a year is normal, and skipping them compounds until the upgrade becomes a migration.

Wrong for:
A team with nobody who owns the platform and no budget line for maintenance.
What helps:
Budget upgrades as recurring work from the start rather than as an emergency, and know your version dates before they arrive.

It is slow unless somebody makes it fast

Out of the box, a large catalog with full page cache misconfigured is a slow store. Performance is achievable and it is work: caching layers, indexers, image handling, a front-end budget somebody defends.

Wrong for:
Anyone expecting platform-default speed with no performance owner.
What helps:
Full page cache in front of the application, sized correctly, does most of it.

Who should choose it

Right for

  • B2B sellers whose pricing differs per customer or per contract
  • Distributors and manufacturers with large, attribute-heavy catalogs
  • Stores where the ERP, PIM or punchout integration is business-critical
  • Teams that want to own the source and avoid platform lock-in

Wrong for

  • Small catalogs with flat pricing and no integrations
  • Teams with no budget for ongoing platform maintenance
  • Businesses that need to be live in six weeks

Version support today

Support status computed from Adobe's lifecycle policy, transcribed 2026-07-18. Source.
Version Status Patches end Months left
2.4.9 Fully supported May 31, 2029 33
2.4.6 Extended support May 31, 2028 21
2.4.5 Security patches only May 31, 2027 9

Check your own version for the full support timeline.

What it costs

Build
$60k–200k
Platform / year
$40k–120k
Per integration
$8k–25k
Maintenance / year
$18k–45k

These are planning estimates, not quotes. Real costs depend on your data, custom features, integrations, and team. Use the ranges to budget and compare, then talk to us for a scoped number.

Model your own numbers against your revenue and catalog size.

Our record with it

Hours
12,364
Clients
31
Since
2018

It is where most of our work has happened, which is why we are comfortable telling you when it is the wrong answer.

A Magento build we shipped

Questions about Adobe Commerce

Is Adobe Commerce the same as Magento?

They share a codebase. Magento Open Source is the free, open-source edition. Adobe Commerce is the paid edition, adding B2B modules, business intelligence and, on the cloud plan, managed hosting. Mage-OS is a community-run distribution of Magento Open Source.

When should I not choose Adobe Commerce?

When your catalog is small, your pricing is the same for every customer, and you have no ERP to integrate. The platform is built for complexity you would be paying for and not using.

What is the difference between Magento Open Source and Mage-OS?

Mage-OS is a community-led distribution of Magento Open Source. It tracks the same codebase with independent governance and its own release cadence. Modules built for Magento Open Source generally work on it, and we test ours against both.

Is my version still supported?

Support dates differ per version line and several have already passed. The current dates are on this page, computed from Adobe lifecycle policy rather than typed in by hand.

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