Ecommerce Comparisons

BigCommerce is a hosted platform with a plan ladder: Core $39 monthly or $29 billed annually up to $30K in trailing-twelve-month sales, Growth $105 or $79 up to $100K, Scale $399 or $299 against a $33,333 monthly cap, and Performance from $1,499 monthly. WooCommerce is free software: no platform fee, no revenue share, hosting at $25 to $350 a month, extensions at $29 to $299 a year each, and card processing around 2.9% plus 30 cents through WooPayments. The choice is between paying a ceiling or paying for the upkeep.

BigCommerce is a hosted platform with published prices and sales-volume ceilings: Core $29 a month billed annually up to $30K of trailing revenue, Growth $79 up to $100K, Scale $299 with a $33,333 monthly cap and 0.9% charged above it, and Performance from $1,499 a month. Shopware is open-source with commercial editions: Community Edition free to self-host, Rise from EUR 600 a month, Evolve from EUR 2,400 and Beyond by quote. BigCommerce is the faster route to a store; Shopware is the route for teams that want the code and are selling in Europe.

Hostinger sells managed hosting: WordPress or Node.js on a plan you prepay for 48 months at $2.99 a month, renewing at $10.99, with stores possible through WooCommerce. Squarespace sells the whole website: templates, editor, hosting, commerce and analytics in one subscription at EUR 17 a month or EUR 144 a year for Basic, with selling unlocked from Core. The choice is whether you want WordPress plus plugins and a very low headline price, or a closed editor with commerce that works on day one.

Both are open source and free to download: Shopware's Community Edition and WooCommerce's WordPress plugin cost nothing. The divergence is what surrounds them. Shopware's hosted tiers start at EUR 600 a month excluding VAT and go up quickly, aimed at B2B and mid-market stores in Europe. WooCommerce stays cheap because you assemble it yourself from hosting at $25 to $350 a month and extensions at $29 to $299 a year each.

Framer sells a design tool that publishes: Free at $0 with 500 AI credits and 1GB of bandwidth, Basic at $10/mo on yearly billing with 2 CMS collections and 50GB, Pro at $30/mo with 10 collections, 100GB, staging and branching, and editors billed at $20 each on top. Squarespace sells a finished business site: Basic at $25/mo, $19 with the current 20% offer, two contributors and a 2% store transaction fee, then Core at $39 ($29), Plus at $65 ($49) and Advanced at $139 ($99), where store fees drop to zero and card rates fall from 2.9% to 2.5%. Choose Framer when the design is the differentiator and you are comfortable with a canvas; choose Squarespace when the site has to take payments, run inventory and be handed to a non-designer.

Squarespace bundles hosting, CMS, commerce and payments into one bill: Basic $19 a month billed annually ($25 monthly) with a 2% online-store transaction fee and a 7% fee on digital content and memberships, Core $29 ($39) with the store fee at 0%, Plus $49 ($65), Advanced $99 ($139), plus card rates from 2.9% + $0.30 down to 2.5% + $0.30. Webflow bills separately: site plans run Starter free, Basic $15 and Premium $25 billed yearly with Team at $2,500 a month on a required annual contract, while stores buy a separate ecommerce plan - Standard $29 a month billed yearly with 500 items and a 2% transaction fee, Plus $74 with 5,000 items and 0%, Advanced $212 with 15,000 items and 0%. Pick Squarespace to run a business on one invoice; pick Webflow when design control and content operations matter more than a single bill.

Framer sells a design canvas with hosting attached: Free with a framer.app-style subdomain, 1 GB bandwidth and 500 AI credits to try, Basic at $10 a month billed yearly for personal sites, Pro at $30 a month for growing sites, Enterprise by request with unlimited editors and SSO, and extra editors at $20 a month while viewers are free. Webflow sells site plans per site and workspace plans per seat: Starter free on a webflow.io domain with 2 static pages, Basic at $15 a month billed yearly with 300 static pages but no CMS, Premium at $25 a month with the CMS and tiered bandwidth up to 2.5 TB, a Team platform plan at $2,500 a month on an annual contract, plus workspace seats from $16 to $49 a month. Framer is cheaper for a single published site; Webflow costs more but separates the site, the team and the add-ons.