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Each of these started with a real client decision rather than a keyword. The figures are checked at source and carry a date, because a year-old price list leads to a wrong conclusion more reliably than no price list at all. Every piece also has a section on when to stay where you are.
Platform comparisons are usually read from the feature table, which is the worst place to start, because almost everyone has the features. The four questions below settle the choice faster, and they decide which comparison is worth your time.
If the answer to the first question is "nothing is blocking me", the other three do not matter. None of these comparisons is for you then, and that is also a result.
Three comparisons of the same decision seen from three systems clients arrive from. The common thread: the licence is the smallest line on the bill, and the build and the upkeep make the difference.
Eleven dimensions side by side: licence, cost to implement, cost to change after launch, checkout, API quotas and lock-in.
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Shopify wins on time to launch and operational simplicity. Medusa wins where the sales model does not fit the standard.
Both free to licence, both paid to maintain. Where the WooCommerce bill actually arrives.
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Without a team or a partner on retained care, Medusa is the wrong answer. With them, it wins on predictable upkeep.
A free licence and a paid decision: stack requirements, end-of-support dates and a B2B module gated behind an Adobe licence.
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On the Polish market a Magento Open Source build is not cheaper than a Medusa build. The question is not which is cheaper but which invoice you prefer.
Two headless platforms from the same shelf. Licence, cloud pricing and stack compared on files and price lists checked at source.
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Saleor has the cleaner licence: the whole codebase on BSD. Medusa carves RBAC and SSO into a paid Enterprise edition, but its cloud is sixteen times cheaper at entry and takes no cut of revenue.
Shoper and IdoSell are the two dominant Polish SaaS platforms. Useful reading if you sell into Poland, or if you are comparing a local vendor against a global one.
A subscription against a per-order fee, the basket size at which both bills meet, and what both vendors leave out of their own comparisons.
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Shoper charges a per-transaction fee too, 0.39 zloty in the gateway, so the "subscription versus per-order" framing is untrue on both sides.
A different decision from the ones above, because the starting point differs: you have a working store, growing revenue and a growing commission line.
Seven routes and one test that settles whether changing platform will solve your problem at all.
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If the problem is cost, changing platform helps. If it is functional, it helps only where the new platform removes a specific ceiling.
A comparison of two purchasing models rather than two technologies, because the model decides more often whether a project closes.
Two routes to the same store, costed over three years, along with what each one moves onto your side of the table.
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These are not two products to line up in a table but two different splits of responsibility between you and your supplier.
We build platforms on Medusa and we earn from implementations, so we are not impartial and we do not pretend to be. Instead every comparison carries a section on when to stay where you are, and every figure carries a source and a date, so you can check it without trusting us. Where a vendor publishes no price, we write that there is no public data rather than estimate.
Start from what is blocking you today. If the bill grows with revenue, start with the Shopify comparison or the Shopify alternatives. If the platform cannot handle your sales model, start with Medusa vs Magento for B2B. If nothing is blocking you, none of them is for you.
No, and we say so plainly, because we earn from Medusa implementations. That is why every piece has a section on when not to move, and why every figure carries a source and a date. Impartiality cannot be declared; the data a conclusion rests on can be shown.
We re-check vendor price lists quarterly and record the date of the last verification in the text. When we query only some of the sources, we bump the date only on those rather than across the whole piece. An out-of-date comparison does more harm than good.
Performance under load, because we hold no comparative measurements of our own for these platforms. Also the cost of your build, because the published bands describe a market rather than a quote: the real figure depends on the catalog, the number of integrations and how many processes move with the store.
Blueprint is the stage where this decision gets settled on your data rather than somebody else’s table: we cost three years for your catalog and your integrations, and we say plainly when the answer comes out on the SaaS side.
