Magento2 vs WooCommerce
Magento2 and WooCommerce are both e-commerce software. Magento2 is open source under OSL-3.0, with 12k GitHub stars. WooCommerce is open source under GPL-2.0, with 11k GitHub stars.
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 WooCommerce when
- A small or mid-size business already on WordPress, or wanting content and shop in one, sells online.
Side by side
Magento Open Source, Adobe's PHP ecommerce platform for large catalogues, multi-store and extensive customisation through modules.
A WordPress plugin that turns a WordPress site into an online store with products, cart, checkout, payments and thousands of extensions.
Heavy to host and expensive to develop and upgrade; Adobe steers advanced features to paid Adobe Commerce.
Many needed features are paid extensions, and performance and security depend on your hosting and plugin choices.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server (both)
PHP, MySQL, Elasticsearch and Redis
PHP, WordPress, TypeScript, React and MySQL
Open source, OSL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Open source, GPL-2.0 (strong copyleft)
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license. (both)
12k GitHub stars
11k GitHub stars
Established: started 15 years ago, latest release 2.4.10-alpha1.
Established: started 15 years ago, latest release 11.2.1.
Other comparisons
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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.