Bagisto vs Magento2
Bagisto and Magento2 are both e-commerce software. Bagisto is open source under MIT, with 28k GitHub stars. Magento2 is open source under OSL-3.0, with 12k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Bagisto when
- A business with PHP developers wants a self-hosted store or marketplace it can customise in Laravel.
- Pick Magento2 when
- A mid-size or large merchant needs deep customisation and has access to experienced Magento developers and hosting.
Side by side
A Laravel and Vue ecommerce platform for single stores, B2B shops and multi-vendor marketplaces, with Docker images ready to run.
Magento Open Source, Adobe's PHP ecommerce platform for large catalogues, multi-store and extensive customisation through modules.
Many features such as the multi-vendor marketplace and B2B suite are paid Webkul extensions.
Heavy to host and expensive to develop and upgrade; Adobe steers advanced features to paid Adobe Commerce.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server (both)
PHP, Laravel, Vue, MySQL, Redis and Elasticsearch
PHP, MySQL, Elasticsearch and Redis
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Open source, OSL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
28k GitHub stars
12k GitHub stars
Established: started 8 years ago, latest release v2.5.0.
Established: started 15 years ago, latest release 2.4.10-alpha1.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.