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BigCommerce merchants find Adobe Commerce costs far exceed initial quotes
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Demand — how loud & how many (score)
Willing to payExplicit
Momentum (7d)▼ 1.4%
Cluster24 posts · 16 people
MarketplaceBigCommerce Apps & Integrations
UpdatedSep 21, 2026
The story
The pain
We're outgrowing BigCommerce and every agency points us to Adobe Commerce, but when we actually price it out the licensing, hosting, developer rates, and mandatory upgrade cycle add up to far more than we were told. Merchants who made the switch confirm the real cost is double the initial quote, with ongoing maintenance and security patches requiring a permanent dev team that burns through cash.
Evidence
What people said · 24 complaints, 16 people
The number that usually kills Adobe Commerce at your revenue is not the license, it is everything attached to it. Budget realistically: license tied to GMV, cloud hosting on top, a retained dev team or agency at senior Magento rates, plus roughly two upgrade projects a year that produce zero new features. All in, merchants your size usually land in the mid six figures annually.
When we started pricing it out, it came back a lot more than what they'd been telling us, between the licensing base before you add hosting, the developer rates in the Magento talent market, the security patch overhead that's non-negotiable, and the upgrade cycle if you want to stay on a supported version, and I'm not sure that's a materially better position than where we are on BigCommerce today.
We moved from BigCommerce to Adobe Commerce at around $15M GMV with about 50K SKUs and I gotta say the pricing they quote you before implementation is like half of what it actually ends up costing when you factor everything in
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