For most stores, WooCommerce is the more practical choice.
Magento (now Adobe Commerce) is a powerful enterprise platform – but it’s expensive to licence and host, complex to develop, and heavy to maintain. It earns its keep for large retailers with complex B2B or multi-store needs and the budget and team to run it.
WooCommerce is simpler, far cheaper to build and run, and scales further than most people assume – well into tens of thousands of products and serious revenue when it’s properly engineered.
The honest rule: unless you have genuine enterprise requirements and the team and budget to match, Magento is overkill and its total cost of ownership is hard to justify. WooCommerce gets you the same ownership and flexibility at a fraction of the cost and complexity.
Worried about scale? Gourmet Basket runs 0.2-second page loads at peak revenue on native WooCommerce.
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