Magento2 vs Wix eCommerce
Magento2 and Wix eCommerce are both e-commerce software. Magento2 is open source under OSL-3.0, with 12k GitHub stars. Wix eCommerce is a commercial product from Wix.com.
Which to pick
- Pick Magento2 when
- A mid-size or large merchant needs deep customisation and has access to experienced Magento developers and hosting.
- Pick Wix eCommerce when
- A small business wants a drag-and-drop website that also sells a modest range of products.
Side by side
Magento Open Source, Adobe's PHP ecommerce platform for large catalogues, multi-store and extensive customisation through modules.
Online store features added to the Wix website builder: products, cart, checkout, payments and bookings.
Heavy to host and expensive to develop and upgrade; Adobe steers advanced features to paid Adobe Commerce.
Large catalogues and complex selling outgrow it, and sites cannot be exported.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
PHP, MySQL, Elasticsearch and Redis
Not published
Open source, OSL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Wix.com
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
12k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 15 years ago, latest release 2.4.10-alpha1.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.