What is Magento Open Source?
Open-source software that gives merchants the essential features to build and operate their own fully customizable online retail stores.
Magento Open Source pricing
We don't have Magento Open Source's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Magento Open Source 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
- Self-host OSS
- Open-source
- ✓
- Self-hostable
- ✓
- Free / open tier
- ✓
- Transaction fees beyond plan
- ✗
- Payments model
- Bring-your-own gateway
- Headless / API-first storefront
- -
- PCI-DSS compliance provided
- -
- Multi-currency / multi-language
- -
- B2B / wholesale features
- -
- POS / omnichannel
- -
- App / extension ecosystem size
- Community-maintained with extensive customization and extension capabilities
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Self-hosted
Security & compliance
Known vulnerabilities: 100 (6 in the last 12 months), max severity CRITICAL sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
Magento Open Source alternatives
Other e-commerce platforms we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- ShopifyAn all-in-one platform that lets you build and run an online or physical store for selling products.medium · 72%
- SwellCloud platform for launching and managing online stores with unified commerce capabilitiesmedium · 52%
- BigCommerceA cloud ecommerce platform enabling brands to build custom storefronts with APIs and integrations for any business modelmedium · 55%
- Medusamedium · 68%
- PrestaShopmedium · 65%
- WooCommercemedium · 66%
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 Magento Open Source, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Development activity | 63 | 0.09 | 5.9 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 58 | 0.08 | 4.5 | ✓ |
| Security score | 62 | 0.04 | 2.6 | ✓ |
| Stars | 77 | 0.03 | 2.0 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 19 | 0.06 | 1.2 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Release cadence | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
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.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-08-26 · 65% |
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Free tier: Yes · Open source: Yes · Platform type: self_host · Self hostable: Yes · Payments model: byo · Transaction fees: No | mediumsource · 2026-08-16 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | PHP | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | OSL-3.0 | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 95% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| History | 20 items | mediumsource · 2026-08-26 · 70% |