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Elastic Path vs commercetools comparison

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Categories and Ranking

commercetools
Ranking in eCommerce Platforms
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
4.5
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Elastic Path
Ranking in eCommerce Platforms
16th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.8
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the eCommerce Platforms category, the mindshare of commercetools is 1.2%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Elastic Path is 1.4%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
eCommerce Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
commercetools1.2%
Elastic Path1.4%
Other97.4%
eCommerce Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

Rachit Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
Structured APIs and flexible customization have simplified building full-stack commerce sites
Regarding how commercetools can be improved, I did not find anything that could be better in terms of features for my use case. However, the resources and documentation of commercetools could be clearer so developers can understand the APIs and build websites accordingly. Whatever is needed for my use case, commercetools provides. If the project scales and certain companies require additional changes, you might need customization in Merchant Centers. Otherwise, all the features that are there provide what I needed. Additionally, commercetools could improve how they handle the customer database and orders by consolidating their two separate collections for carts and orders. Once a cart is ordered, it is converted into an order state, and this process could be improved. Furthermore, they could improve the customer collections. When I was using commercetools, there was no AI analytics, but they could add AI features such as product recommendations for specific customers based on their viewership, cart suggestions, and bundle products. These are improvements they could make.
JG
Team lead at Nulogic
Provides flexible infrastructure and has good stability
I use the solution to create a B2B e-commerce platform The solution provided a flexible infrastructure with ease of use for creating a proposal for the company. The solution's most valuable feature is the ability to create a B2B platform. It has all the essential features, including payment…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"commercetools is very flexible because it is headless, so with the API, you can connect commercetools easily with other platforms such as AWS, for example, with extension and subscription."
"Commercetools has positively impacted our organization as a service company by allowing us to execute multiple projects and bring in a good amount of business for us."
"commercetools fits into my workflow by providing the best feature, which is the structure of the data, with straightforward APIs, simple data we can control, hundreds of useful APIs, and powerful customizations through the Merchant Center that differentiate it from other e-commerce platforms such as Magento or Shopify."
"At this point, the product works flawlessly."
"Using commercetools, very little customization is needed, as everything else is present in commercetools itself."
"commercetools has positively impacted my organization, as we have been using commercetools for more than five years, implementing two productions end to end, getting inquiries for commercetools, and seeing agility, speed, and customer satisfaction because we could deliver things in less time."
"commercetools has positively impacted my organization by improving efficiency, facilitating the integration of new services, and especially development with its microservices architecture, which greatly encourages having new releases and being able to deploy much more frequently and atomically without as many regression errors, because everything is more isolated, which helps significantly."
"Commercetools has positively impacted my organization by providing a great opportunity to increase time to market."
"It is a scalable solution."
 

Cons

"Commercetools can be improved in areas such as order management and the checkout process."
"The main issue is the price."
"I experienced a challenging moment when commercetools had scheduled downtime, impacting user login and operations simultaneously, which caused significant difficulties for our B2B aspects."
"My experience with the documentation and learning resources for commercetools is that it was not very clear."
"Support is also good overall, although they may be a bit slow with our queries at times."
"Sometimes you have to use an API to get to a feature, whereas a UI could make it more user-friendly."
"My advice to others looking into using commercetools is that in 2026, I would go with a simpler solution."
"I have not seen a return on investment, and I do not have that information with me."
"They should provide integration with social networking sites."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution's price is reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Media Company
13%
Healthcare Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise8
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for commercetools?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing has been good, as I use the embedded pricing feature that commercetools offers to attach prices to our product catalog.
What needs improvement with commercetools?
Regarding how commercetools can be improved, I did not find anything that could be better in terms of features for my use case. However, the resources and documentation of commercetools could be cl...
What is your primary use case for commercetools?
While I was working at my previous company, I used commercetools for about one year and built several projects with it. My main use case for commercetools is making an e-commerce website where the ...
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Sample Customers

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Garmin, TimeInc, Agfa, LVMH, Virgin Media, TeliaSonera, Western Union, LifeWay, Kiabi, TIBCO
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