Available worldwide · Popular in: US, GB
What is BigCommerce?
BigCommerce is a hosted SaaS e-commerce platform offering storefront hosting, payments processing, multi-channel selling, and integrations for businesses from startups to enterprises. Features include headless commerce, B2B capabilities, inventory management, and support for over 1,200 third-party apps.
BigCommerce pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $29/month (annual billing). Free trial available. Embedded payment providers at zero transaction fees.
Core
Startups and small businesses
- gmv_cap
- $30K TTM
- 24/7 chat & email support
- Zero fees with Embedded Payment Providers
Growth
Established businesses scaling toward $100K in annual sales
- gmv_cap
- $100K TTM
- 24/7 live phone & chat support
- Zero fees with Embedded Payment Providers
Scale
Fast-growing businesses with $1M+ in annual sales
- gmv_cap
- $1M+ annual sales
- 24/7 live phone & chat support
- Zero fees with Embedded Payment Providers
Performance
Contact salesHigh-volume businesses with custom requirements
- Custom payment terms
- Dedicated Customer Success Manager
- 24/7 live phone & chat support
What BigCommerce does
The capabilities that matter for e-commerce platforms, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Platform type
- Hosted all-in-one SaaS
- Open-source
- ✗
- Self-hostable
- ✗
- Free / open tier
- ✗
- Transaction fees beyond plan
- ✓
- Payments model
- Built-in payments
- Headless / API-first storefront
- ✓
- PCI-DSS compliance provided
- ✓
- Multi-currency / multi-language
- ✓
- B2B / wholesale features
- ✓
- POS / omnichannel
- ✗
- App / extension ecosystem size
- 1,200+ apps
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (23)
Independently observed- Adyen
- Affirm
- Afterpay
- Amazon Pay
- Bank of New Zealand
- Checkout.com
- Clearpay
- Fortis
- Global Payments
- Klarna
- PayPal
- PayPal Braintree
- PayPal Complete Payments
- PayPal Wallet
- Bluesnap
- Bankful
- Sezzle
- Stripe
- TD Online Mart
- Worldpay
- Zip Money
- Google Cloud Platform
- Recorded Future
BigCommerce alternatives
Other e-commerce platforms we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- WooCommerceThe most flexible ecommerce platformlow · 31%
- SwellNext-level commerce for everyonelow · 48%
- MedusaThe best commerce platform for agents and developerslow · 37%
- Ecwid#1 Ecommerce Shopping Cart & Online Storelow · 48%
- ShopifyThe All-in-One Commerce Platform for Businessesmedium · 63%
- SaleorComposable, Open Source, Headless Ecommerce Platformlow · 39%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for BigCommerce, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integrations | 89 | 0.17 | 15.5 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 0.09 | 9.4 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 90 | 0.08 | 7.4 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 75 | 0.09 | 7.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.08 | 4.1 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 50 | 0.06 | 2.9 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"headless":true,"free_tier":false,"open_source":false,"b2b_features":true,"platform_type":"hosted_saas","self_hostable":false,"payments_model":"built_in","pci_compliance":true,"pos_omnichannel":false,"transaction_fees":true,"extension_ecosystem":"1,200+ apps","multi_currency_language":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 1,200 | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | {"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":["AU","DK","DE","ES","FR","IN","IT","MX","NL","NO","AT","SG","SE","GB","US"],"notAvailableCountries":[]} | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |