Choosing a commerce engine is often a choice between "marketing fluff" and reality. I built this repo for eCommerce Platform Comparison tool in Crystallize to move beyond sales decks and create a community-validated, technical comparison of modern platforms like Shopify, Crystallize, commercetools, BigCommerce, etc.

By keeping this data open source, I hope to ensure the specs remain objective, up to date, and useful for architects and founders alike.

I welcome updates to existing platforms or the addition of new ones. To maintain the integrity of the data, please follow these steps:

If you want a platform covered but don't have all the data:

• Open a New Issue.
• Use the title [Request]: Platform Name.
• The community or maintainers will help research the criteria.

If you have the data and want to update the table directly:

1. Fork this repository.
2. Edit the data/comparison.csv file.
3. Requirement: If adding a new platform, you must provide values for all 45+ criteria across our 5 categories:
   • ⚙️ Tech (Architecture, API, etc.)
   • 🧩 Feature (PIM, CMS, etc.)
   • ⚡ Reliability & Guarantees (enterprise trust layer)
   • 🤖 AI & Agentic Commerce (Agentic Commerce, GenAI, etc.)
   • 🛒 Commerce Reliability (enterprise trust layer)
   • 🧱 Platform Engineering Maturity Category (Workflows, enviromets, etc.)
   • 💰 Pricing (Fees, Entry costs, etc.)
   • 🧑‍💻 Support (SLAs, Training, etc.)
4. Submit a Pull Request with the heading feat: add [Platform Name] or fix: update [Platform Name] specs.

This project is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). You are free to share and adapt this data as long as you provide attribution to this repository and the original page from which the project was made, https://crystallize.com/compare.