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BigCommerce pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

BigCommerce (bigcommerce.com) is a e-commerce platform. Four monthly tiers capped by GMV (gross order value minus 10%): Core and Growth force an upgrade when sales pass their caps, Scale charges 0.9% above its cap, and non-embedded payment providers add a . No free plan.

What BigCommerce costs

  • Starter store: $105/mo (Growth $105/mo on monthly billing. GMV is gross less 10%: $5,000 x 90% x 12 = $54K TTM, above Core's $30K cap and inside Growth's $100K cap. BigCommerce Payments and Stripe are embedded, so no open-provider fee.)
  • Growing store: $399/mo (Scale $399/mo on monthly billing. GMV is $25,000 x 90% = $22,500/mo ($270K TTM): above Growth's $100K cap and under Scale's $33,333/mo cap, so no overage. Staff accounts and abandoned cart saver are included on Scale; embedded processor, so no fee.)

Plan compared: Growth plan, monthly billing ($105/mo); Core's $30K TTM GMV cap is below the scenario. 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.

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).

BigCommerce price hikes

Cheaper alternatives to BigCommerce

At a 50-product store doing $5k a month, BigCommerce costs $105/mo. 2 e-commerce platforms cost less:

  • WooCommerce: free (Free WooCommerce core, self-hosted, with no paid extension needed), covers 93% of BigCommerce; missing or partial: Online store (partly), Marketplace & social selling (partly)
  • Shopify: $39/mo (Basic), covers 100% of BigCommerce

BigCommerce alternatives: 2 e-commerce platforms compared, at every size.

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)

Every change we logged

  • Jun 2026 · Limits cut: Core, the renamed Standard, lost phone support and has chat and email only; phone is a planned add-on with no price given. Growth, Scale and Performance keep phone support.
  • Jun 2026 · Repriced: Plans were renamed (Standard, Plus, Pro, Enterprise to Core, Growth, Scale, Performance), block charges became GMV-based overages, and processing tiers became an Open Payment Provider Fee. The source records no list-price increase in this window, and the old overage and fee amounts are not shown.
  • Apr 20, 2026 · Repriced: Annual plans were shown as monthly rates ($29, $79, $299 a month billed yearly, same yearly totals) and processing rates on the three paid plans were reset, with percentage and fixed fees moving in opposite directions.
  • Mar 16, 2026 · Repriced: Card processing changed from 2.89% + $0.29 to 2.59% + $0.49 per transaction. PricingSaaS calls it a decrease, but the fixed fee rose, so it costs more on orders under about $66.67; processing is outside the yardsticks.
  • Feb 23, 2023 · Price increase: Monthly-billed rates rose to $39 (Standard), $105 (Plus) and $399 (Pro). Annual-billed rates were reset to $29, $79 and $299 a month, from $29.95, $71.95 and $269.95.

Sources

Pricing page: bigcommerce.com/essentials/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Current prices and GMV caps come from BigCommerce's pricing page (checked 2026-10-17), and annual figures match PricingSaaS; there is no free plan, only a 15-day trial. The 2023 hike is from a February 2023 news article, and a September 2026 third-party claim about a BigCommerce Shipping tier was left out as an unconfirmed add-on.