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Adobe Commerce vs Sana Commerce comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 2, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Adobe Commerce
Ranking in eCommerce Platforms
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Sana Commerce
Ranking in eCommerce Platforms
14th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the eCommerce Platforms category, the mindshare of Adobe Commerce is 6.2%, down from 13.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sana Commerce is 1.5%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
eCommerce Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Adobe Commerce6.2%
Sana Commerce1.5%
Other92.3%
eCommerce Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

Andrew Christodoulou - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Product Manager at Swoon
Customization supports complex needs, though speed challenges persist
We don't use the reporting tools from Adobe Commerce as we have our own reporting infrastructure. Adobe Commerce can be complex in terms of ease of use, as it's such a large platform. From the development side, you can customize everything, but that does require substantial resources. When working on Adobe Commerce, I would want Adobe Commerce specialist developers. Although it's all built in PHP, and there are many PHP developers, I would want Adobe Commerce specialist developers working on it because they have knowledge about what to customize and more importantly, what's best not to touch. There are always site speed issues with Adobe Commerce. It seems to be an ongoing issue with performance. When comparing it to Shopify, you don't tend to need to worry about that, but with Adobe Commerce, it remains an ongoing issue. Additionally, there are all the upgrades, which can be quite painful, including the regular patches, both on the open-source and licensed version, on-premises. The initial setup for migrating to Adobe Commerce from another e-commerce platform is not straightforward; it's a very big job. The pricing for Adobe Commerce varies dramatically. Quite often, you see their list prices and then you are able to negotiate very hefty discounts. My understanding is that they're moving away from heavily discounting. Although our license where I am at the moment is heavily discounted, I'm hearing that they're trying to move away from that practice.
MB
ERP Enterprise Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 201-500 employees
Reduced the customer care team's time, got us new customers, and required no third-party integrations
Their support should have more in-depth knowledge about different ERP solutions that they connect to. There could also be more support about everything that is related to website management, which is not strictly related to the B2B tool. These are the things like knowing about GDPR regulations, knowing about digital consents, and in general, all the laws that go with having a website. Sometimes, we would have liked more support in that area. There could also be more features coming out on the platform, but I know they are already working on that. I know they're changing the way they manage that.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Now with the website, all of their offline orders have been converted into the store business and their sales are improving 60% year on year and now they are one of the premium brands selling gym equipment across Australia."
"The platform provides an easy way to customize its features."
"Magento is generally considered to be the most advanced e-commerce program available in the market."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ease of integration with any upfront platform or CMS solution."
"The open-source PHP code allows our developers to customize pretty much anything on the platform, including allowing us to add some of the most complex shipping and inventory features for clients who have very specific, industry-related business specifications."
"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, and it has very good integrations with social media platforms and other tools."
"The customization capabilities of Adobe Commerce are great."
"The platform allows us to easily integrate with service vendors, such as delivery services and payment systems."
"This product is highly customizable. We use the standard system but we have extended it quite a bit."
"The site saves us the time we used to spend on emails and phone calls with customers, has helped reduce manual work because we're not entering in phone orders or email orders, and has driven a 10 to 15 percent increase in new customers along with strong adoption by existing customers."
"The most valuable feature is the direct ERP integration, as it allows us to provide product availability and specific pricing in real-time. Customers can also order themselves in real-time."
"I found it surprisingly easy from both the admin side and the customer side. The admin side has a limited set of features, but they are very well explained. They are very simple to understand. It is very easy to find out what every feature does. It is not really complicated. Sana provides an online university where you can learn everything that you need about it. When we needed to check a new feature or validate how something works, we found solid online information on their website. If there was anything that we couldn't find, or if we really couldn't understand how exactly something was working, their support was always very quick. So, it is quite easy."
"Using Sana Commerce has helped to increase customer engagement online."
"We use Sana Commerce with Microsoft Dynamics on the back end and the native ERP integration works well. The fact that no third-party integrations are needed between our Sana Commerce web store and Microsoft Dynamics is important. It's one less thing to worry about when it comes to troubleshooting."
"Eventually, when we got it up and running, the solution helped to streamline our processes for bridging our ERP and eCommerce systems."
"For us, it is a critical thing to know that all the information is managed within ERP, there is no third-party solution, there are no interfaces, and this is, in our opinion, a critical reason for the existing success."
 

Cons

"It would be great to have a way to communicate properly with the team that builds the platform because you can get stuck at certain points, and it's hard to search for solutions on forums and tutorials."
"The product needs to improve its security. Also, they need to improve B2B features."
"Magento 2 is only three to four years old, so it is an evolving technology."
"The price of Adobe Commerce is very high, actually. If it were possible to have a free version or a limited version, that would be good for users."
"At the moment, Magento is stuck in the middle of a nobody-wants-me market."
"One significant drawback of Commerce is its substantial size, which allows for extensive customization but also elongates the development process for an e-commerce website."
"The solution’s performance could be improved."
"The solution takes a huge amount of time to complete the root cause analysis."
"One problem that we encounter is that it's difficult to upgrade as a result of making a large number of customer-specific adaptations."
"We also didn't realize this going into it, but there is an RQS (requirements gathering) phase, which takes about a month. After that, there is a development phase that takes another month. There are also testing and go-live. If you want to introduce any new features or functionality, it's at least a three to four-month process, possibly more, because of the way their structure works. Everything has to be customized. They are resource-challenged as well."
"There could also be more support about everything that is related to website management, which is not strictly related to the B2B tool. These are the things like knowing about GDPR regulations, knowing about digital consents, and in general, all the laws that go with having a website. Sometimes, we would have liked more support in that area."
"I'd rate their customer service a nine out of 10. I think they're in demand and a little overloaded on work. Sometimes it takes a little bit of time for them to get to our work."
"The performance can be improved. Sometimes, the system is really slow because of the ERP integration. I'm not sure whether this is a problem with Sana Commerce or the ERP system but overall, it could be faster. When it comes to usability, if it takes too much time to load, then it's not the best."
"The performance can be improved. Sometimes, the system is really slow because of the ERP integration."
"Their support should have more in-depth knowledge about different ERP solutions that they connect to."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"Many implementations were open-source. We also had a couple of enterprise-level implementations, but I didn't have visibility on the licensing cost."
"The product offers an open-source version, which is free. There are licensing options for Adobe Commerce's cloud version."
"We transitioned from the platform's commercial license to the open-source version, which helped optimize costs without affecting our sales."
"The cost of implementation is cheap compared to other solutions."
"Support costs are in addition to the standard licensing fees, and they vary per month, based on how much we use them. It is not very expensive."
"They have a policy of a price per legal entity. So, if you are a company that operates in one country, that is, if you're just an American company, or you're just a Spanish company or just a British company, then that probably makes sense. We are a global company, and we have operations in 20 to 30 different countries. So, we are interested in implementing Sana in potentially 20 to 30 countries. Right now, the pricing model of Sana has a limitation. They are almost asking for the same price for the new country when in many cases, a new country will just be a new small rollout. That's because it is the same solution that gets implemented everywhere. So, to me, it is not the same price if you are maintaining 10 Sanas that are looking exactly the same and are working exactly the same in 10 different countries. To me, these should not cost 10 times more than one. They don't yet have a good grasp of how to manage global companies like ours. That is something we are talking to them about, and we are in discussions with them about. So, hopefully, they will learn."
"When we got version 9.2, it was a good price. Everything is moving to the subscription-based cloud model, and that's probably a little high when you look at the lifetime cost."
"Sana's pricing is fair. It could be more competitive. It's not so much the licensing cost, it's the additional development."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Construction Company
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
26%
Manufacturing Company
17%
Educational Organization
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise6
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Magento?
An additional feature I would want to see included in the next release relates to integrating or moving data from one environment to another. There is no automated way to do that, so if we have a p...
What is your primary use case for Magento?
My use cases for Adobe Commerce involve projects with specific customers and different industries. Most of them were projects where customers were migrating from either an open-source version of Ad...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Magento?
I have experience regarding pricing and costs. Adobe Commerce is not inexpensive. It is not set up for customers with low budgets. Depending on the version you're implementing, the environment will...
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Also Known As

Magento, EPiServer Digital Commerce
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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.
Akzo Nobel B.V., Atkins, Century Martial Arts, Forbo Flooring Systems, Michelin Group, Ravensburger AG Learn more about our customers.
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