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Adobe Commerce vs SAP Commerce Cloud vs Salesforce Commerce Cloud comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the eCommerce Platforms category, the mindshare of Adobe Commerce is 13.8%, up from 12.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Salesforce Commerce Cloud is 15.3%, up from 14.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Commerce Cloud is 14.0%, down from 20.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Vasanth Kumar Sabaapathi - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers real-time data fetching for e-commerce businesses along with effortless maintenance and excellent tech support
The initial setup is not straightforward, as it varies depending on the business use cases. If experienced professionals are handling the deployment then there are not many obstacles. I would rate the initial setup of Adobe Commerce as nine out of ten. At our company, we work with the cloud version of Adobe Commerce. We used a Waterfall model in our organization, deriving standard SDLC life cycle processes to deploy Adobe Commerce. The solution's initial deployment took around eight months in our company. As part of the initial setup, 11 professionals were required from our company team. The product can be maintained effortlessly.
Vijay Subramanyam - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers seamless integrations and effective architecture for retail operations
Salesforce Commerce Cloud offers effective architecture, ease of integration with third-party systems, and environments to test web store functionalities. Users can manage the site independently with the administration panel and benefit from features like easy marketing submissions, discount codes, and integration with Apple Pay and Bazaarvoice for reviews. The platform is also robust, with managed infrastructure by Salesforce.
Saleem Shar - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to set up, and extremely scalable, but is expensive
The solution is complex due to the rapid development of new features in SAP Commerce, which requires the changing of older technologies and migration to new ones. This makes the process quite complex, especially when migrating from one version to another. For example, I have been using SAP Commerce versions 18 and 19.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ease of integration with any upfront platform or CMS solution."
"On the plus side, when you build everything from scratch in Magento, you can do magic with it."
"The product can be maintained effortlessly."
"The customization capabilities of Adobe Commerce are great."
"Magento has changed over the years, but one of the most interesting aspects is that it gets the job done, and a vast community of experts is knowledgeable about the solution."
"Magento provides a strong backing, meaning it can handle the order processing, customer management, configuration, third party payment integration, and shipping matters. There is a standard, very well set up architecture already present in Magento that helps them set up their online shops with much precision. Clients can see their reports, their daily sales, their best selling products, and their best buying customers so that they can target them through mails or just follow up with them. These are the main default features which make Magento so attractive."
"The most valuable feature in this solution I have found to be that I have the ability to find all the analytics that I need. It has very good integrations with social media platforms and other tools."
"Magento is very flexible, and it's one of the biggest e-commerce platforms."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The filters are very useful, and easy to customize. it's very easy to operate."
"Salesforce Commerce Cloud is quite robust and can do many functions. The solution enables extensive personalization. It provides accelerators tailored to your website, simplifying deployment."
"I find the reports to be the solution's most valuable feature."
"The product is easy to use."
"The implementation team can customise the implementation to customer needs."
"The ease of customization is valuable."
"It is a very flexible solution."
"Its dashboards, business features, and user-friendliness of a lot of business interfaces are valuable. We work on B2B projects, and it is the most efficient software solution for B2B. The B2B accelerator is very much appreciated by our customers because it has some use cases that are ready for production. For some projects, we proposed the SAP Hybris solution because it was sufficient for use cases related to product management and data quality. With other e-commerce platforms, we would have needed integration with another product information management software."
"SAP Hybris provides us with all of the e-commerce features that a client could need."
"If you have a client and they want to have an e-commerce project that is based on solid principles, you don't need too much time to develop it."
"We have found the B2B, B2C and D2C very valuable."
"Hybris offers a platform designed for speed."
"We like that this solution gives our B2B clients a lot of functionality straight 'out of the box', meaning that they don't need to carry out a lot of configuration to be able to use it."
"SAP Hybris Commerce is a very advanced e-commerce platform compared to other platforms such as WebSphere Commerce, Oracle Commerce, and others."
"The tool has good performance."
 

Cons

"The product needs to improve its security. Also, they need to improve B2B features."
"The industry has evolved, and the main focus is composable solutions because of which now SAP and Magento are forced to tackle various aspects of commerce, including commerce tools and pricing strategies, among other things."
"The hardware requirements of the tool should be made better, as it is a solution that is very heavy on the servers, and it makes it expensive to host many servers."
"The data analysis could be improved. The data that you receive whenever you go into the backend of the platform for the analysis is very simple and basic, it could be a little more sophisticated in order to be closer to the client. The data analysis and intelligence of the platform could be better."
"The performance is a bottleneck in Magento and there is a lot of room for improvement in this regard."
"Should have a way to communicate properly with the team that builds the platform"
"Magento 2 is only three to four years old, so it is an evolving technology. In certain areas on the front there were some glitches. For example, you can't do certain kinds of filters on data and you have certain speed issues on category pages due to the way it was written within Magento. Those were a few minor tweaks where we, as a community, found that to be a necessary scope of improvement. But I think they are working on it and hopefully they can solve these issues earlier than later."
"The limited availability of experienced developers can make the product costly to maintain."
"In the next release, Commerce Cloud should add CRM dashboards."
"Salesforce Commerce Cloud should integrate more seamlessly with various systems, providing full order tracking from entry to delivery."
"There is space to have better communication with other kinds of platforms."
"There is always room for improvement with any solution."
"We would like more interaction from Salesforce about new versions."
"Salesforce Commerce Cloud could improve overall customization. Having a template deployment would be a useful feature."
"Pricing is a disadvantage because it is expensive."
"The connection with Marketing Cloud should be improved."
"SAP Commerce needs to have a credit limit like Salesforce. Currently, we have to do the coding and customization and then showcase it to the user."
"They could include additional types of payment implementations. Right now they are just providing CyberSourse."
"We would like to be able to easily add functionality to the CMS, such as instant messaging. This would make is much more usable, especially in B2C scenarios."
"It is very expensive to implement, which is why many companies who can't afford would normally move to Salesforce or Magento."
"The learning curve is high."
"The WCS management or content management is not that great."
"The initial setup was complex because it was a prime migration from the PrestaShop platform to commerce cloud, and it was very, very complex to migrate some data from one side to the other."
"The solution is complex due to the rapid development of new features in SAP Commerce, which requires the changing of older technologies and migration to new ones."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We transitioned from the platform's commercial license to the open-source version, which helped optimize costs without affecting our sales."
"The price of the solution increased after Adobe acquired Magento. At this point, we know the price of Magento and SAP, and while they may have lower entry tickets, they are ultimately comparable."
"The product offers an open-source version, which is free. There are licensing options for Adobe Commerce's cloud version."
"Many implementations were open-source. We also had a couple of enterprise-level implementations, but I didn't have visibility on the licensing cost."
"This solution is cheaper than some of its competitors. However, the price depends on which country you are in. In some countries, such as Greece or some Southeastern European countries, the price for the client can be expensive."
"The cost of implementation is cheap compared to other solutions."
"There are no significant upfront license costs."
"I don't know how much the solution costs per user, but I know it's our biggest cost in the company."
"Salesforce is not a cheap solution."
"I think price-wise, it's a little bit expensive. It can be made cheaper for smaller businesses. I understand that for larger businesses, it can be a payable amount. But for medium to smaller, it is kind of costly, and it might be difficult for them to pay."
"Initially when we installed Salesforce, we thought that it was a bit pricey, but I think for the value that we're getting, it’s suitable."
"The licensing of Salesforce Commerce Cloud is something that will depend on the customer's usability. For us as a company, we are in a position where we will be paying the premium for licensing. If we go to the customer who is seeking a B2C solution quickly, we will definitely look at the pricing when it comes to the user base and receive good discounts. Discount is something that depends on the volume and that is where we need to work on. It is a little sensitive market when it comes to licensing procurement. There are some good competitors."
"The licensing works on a per-user basis."
"The product is expensive."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The product is expensive. I would rate its price a seven out of ten. The solution's licensing is yearly."
"SAP Hybris is expensive, which is why only the large clients use it. At the same time, I think that the return on investment warrants it."
"I don't know the cost, but it can be expensive."
"The price is too high."
"The price is quite high."
"The solution is expensive."
"The solution is very expensive in Turkey."
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Comparison Review

it_user9726 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 5, 2013
WCS vs Hybris vs ATG - Feature Smackdown
They say "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder", so if you are a purist in one of these technologies you would probably never agree to my comparison matrix, However these are my personal opinion, From my experience standpoint I have longest exposure to WCS Commerce Suite and the least with ATG…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
52%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
5%
Manufacturing Company
4%
Educational Organization
48%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Educational Organization
33%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Magento?
The customization capabilities of Adobe Commerce are great.
What needs improvement with Magento?
The limited availability of experienced developers can make the product costly to maintain.
What is your primary use case for Magento?
At our company, we use Adobe Commerce to support a couple of system integrations. The solution is used for real-time ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Salesforce Commerce Cloud?
I am not involved in the pricing or licensing details, so I cannot provide specific insights into the setup costs.
What needs improvement with Salesforce Commerce Cloud?
The extensibility of end-to-end lifecycle management for an order can be enhanced. Salesforce Commerce Cloud should i...
 

Also Known As

Magento, EPiServer Digital Commerce
Demandware
SAP Hybris Commerce, Hybris
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Magento has over 200,000 customers worldwide, including Bjorn Borg, Heath Ceramics, Harper's Bazaar, Kidstuff, International Military Antiques, Gifts That Gives, and Rovio Entertainment Ltd.
Adidas, Amercian Golf, Brooks, Browns, Burton, Butlers, Clarins Paris, ColeHaan, Columbia, Converse, Deckers, Hurley, Kate Spade, Labelux, Lacoste, Lush, Mothercare
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