BigCommerce alternatives
At a 50-product store doing $5k a month, BigCommerce costs $105 a month. 2 e-commerce platforms cost less, from $0 (WooCommerce). The closest match, Shopify, covers 100% of what BigCommerce does. Each one shows how much of it it covers, capability by capability, next to the price.
What BigCommerce does
Core: Online store, Product catalog & variants, Built-in checkout, Headless commerce APIs.
Important: Recurring billing (partly), Shipping rates & labels (partly), Sales tax & VAT (partly), Multi-currency pricing (partly), Marketplace & social selling, App & theme marketplace, Built-in marketing tools (partly), B2B & wholesale (partly), Mobile admin app.
Also has: Digital download sales (partly), In-person POS payments (partly), AI store assistant (partly), Inventory tracking (partly).
Alternatives to BigCommerce at a 50-product store doing $5k a month, best match first
- Shopify: $39/mo Card fees excluded; +2% if not on Shopify Payments (Basic). It covers 100% of BigCommerce. Free plan: No free store plan (the 3-day trial does not count); Agentic is $0 but sells only in AI channels.. Last price hike: Oct 2026.
- WooCommerce: free Self-hosted; hosting ($25-$350/mo) not included (Free WooCommerce core, self-hosted, with no paid extension needed). It covers 93% of BigCommerce; missing or partial: Online store (partly), Marketplace & social selling (partly). Free plan: WooCommerce core is free: $0 platform fee, unlimited products, orders and APIs, 0% revenue share; hosting is separate..
Other kinds of products that cover part of BigCommerce
- WordPress.com (Website builders): covers 97% of BigCommerce; missing or partial: Marketplace & social selling (partly)
- Wix (Website builders): covers 88% of BigCommerce; missing or partial: Marketplace & social selling (partly), App & theme marketplace (partly), B2B & wholesale
- Squarespace (Website builders): covers 72% of BigCommerce; missing or partial: Product catalog & variants (partly), Built-in checkout (partly), Headless commerce APIs (partly), Marketplace & social selling (partly), App & theme marketplace (partly)
- Square (Payments & merchant of record): covers 66% of BigCommerce; missing or partial: Product catalog & variants (partly), Built-in checkout (partly), Headless commerce APIs (partly), Multi-currency pricing, Marketplace & social selling (partly)
- Webflow (Website builders): covers 65% of BigCommerce; missing or partial: Built-in checkout (partly), Headless commerce APIs (partly), Recurring billing, Marketplace & social selling (partly), App & theme marketplace (partly)
Prices at every size
- BigCommerce: a 50-product store doing $5k a month $105/mo, a 500-product store doing $25k a month with 5 staff $399/mo (Assumes BigCommerce Payments or Stripe (0% fee))
- Shopify: a 50-product store doing $5k a month $39/mo, a 500-product store doing $25k a month with 5 staff $105/mo (Card fees excluded; +2% if not on Shopify Payments)
- WooCommerce: a 50-product store doing $5k a month free, a 500-product store doing $25k a month with 5 staff $13.25/mo (Self-hosted; hosting ($25-$350/mo) not included)
Prices are USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) and include the platform's own transaction or per-order fees at the stated sales volume, assuming its native payment option where that waives them. Card processing fees, domains, paid themes, third-party apps and, for self-hosted software, hosting are not included.
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