--- title: Magento Open Source Reviews meta\_title: 'Magento Open Source Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 268 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Magento Open Source works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.0 review\_count: 268 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: E-Commerce url: https://www.g2.com/categories/e-commerce --- # Magento Open Source Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Magento Open Source but has limited features. Are you part of the Magento Open Source team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Magento Open Source is a robust, PHP-based e-commerce platform that empowers businesses to create and manage online stores with flexibility and control. Initially developed by Varien Inc. and now maintained by Adobe Inc., it offers a comprehensive suite of tools for merchants to build customized digital storefronts. With its modular architecture, Magento Open Source supports extensive customization, allowing businesses to tailor their online presence to meet specific needs. The platform's scalability makes it suitable for a wide range of enterprises, from small startups to large multinational corporations. Key Features and Functionality: - Catalog Management: Supports various product types, including simple, configurable, grouped, bundled, and virtual products, enabling merchants to manage extensive inventories efficiently. - Promotions and Pricing: Offers advanced pricing rules and promotions, such as discounts, coupons, and special offers, to enhance customer engagement and boost sales. - Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Provides tools to optimize product pages and content for search engines, improving visibility and driving organic traffic. - Progressive Web Application (PWA) Support: Facilitates the development of PWAs, ensuring fast, responsive, and app-like experiences for users across various devices. - Extension Marketplace: Access to a vast marketplace of third-party extensions and templates allows for further customization and functionality enhancements. Primary Value and Solutions: Magento Open Source addresses the need for a flexible and scalable e-commerce solution that can adapt to the unique requirements of diverse businesses. By offering a customizable platform with a rich set of features, it enables merchants to create engaging and personalized shopping experiences for their customers. The open-source nature of Magento fosters a collaborative community, providing continuous improvements, security updates, and a wealth of resources for users. This ensures that businesses can maintain a competitive edge in the ever-evolving digital marketplace. * * * Seller [Adobe](https://www.g2.com/sellers/adobe) Discussions [Magento Open Source Community](https://www.g2.com/products/magento-open-source/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Craig Peasley (Product Marketing Leader at Magento Commerce) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 4 months ### Return on Investment 15 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/magento-open-source/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Shopify Plus](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shopify Plus") Shopify Plus 4.4/5(872) ](https://www.g2.com/products/shopify-plus/reviews) [ ![Salesforce B2C Commerce](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Salesforce B2C Commerce") Salesforce B2C Commerce 4.3/5(593) ](https://www.g2.com/products/salesforce-b2c-commerce/reviews) [ ![BigCommerce](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "BigCommerce") BigCommerce 4.2/5(580) ](https://www.g2.com/products/bigcommerce/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/magento-open-source/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 268 real user reviews. Implementation Time 4 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Magento Open Source Integrations (17) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. 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Director Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/2/2026 "A Financial Vampire: How Magento Repeatedly Nearly Bankrupted Our Small Business" 0/5 What do you like best about Magento Open Source? The thing I like best about Magento Open Source is that we are finally moving away from it. The absolute highlight of our entire experience with this platform is the upcoming date when we officially migrate to Shopify. Knowing that we will never have to deal with Magento or Adobe Commerce ever again is the only positive feeling I have regarding the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Magento Open Source? I dislike almost everything. It is a catastrophic drain on resources, acting like a blood-thirsty vampire that has nearly killed our business several times. We have been trapped in a cycle of never-ending technical problems and unreliable "security patches" that are both mandatory and ridiculously expensive. These updates frequently break existing functionality, creating a "quicksand" effect where you are constantly paying developers to fix things that shouldn't have broken in the first place. The architecture is needlessly complex, seemingly designed to maximize billable hours for agencies rather than providing a stable environment for a merchant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Magento Open Source solving and how is that benefiting you? It isn't solving problems; it is creating them. We use it for our e-commerce website, and rather than benefiting us, it has functioned as an extractive system designed to funnel our hard-earned revenue directly into the pockets of development agencies. We were originally led to Magento by "experts" who lied to us, claiming only Magento could handle our needs. In reality, they recommended it because it is the most lucrative platform for developers to maintain. It hasn't helped us grow; it has crippled our ability to reinvest in our business because every penny is spent on just keeping the site from crashing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic Review from User Profile ![Lisa K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Lisa K.") LK Lisa K. Head of Ecommerce & Digital Marketing Apparel & Fashion Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/17/2026 "Good Platform for Small Business, But Not User-Friendly" 1/5 What do you like best about Magento Open Source? I find Magento Open Source to be a great eCommerce platform for small businesses. It's pretty straightforward, although a lot of developer support is needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Magento Open Source? It's not as user-friendly as a lot of other platforms and requires a lot of technical support from developers. The initial setup was not easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Magento Open Source solving and how is that benefiting you? It's a great ecommerce platform for small businesses but requires a lot of developer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/30/2025 "Everything went smooth" 0/5 What do you like best about Magento Open Source? An excellent choice for building an online store. What impressed me the most was its flexibility Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Magento Open Source? A bit of technological setup is required Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Magento Open Source solving and how is that benefiting you? Building an e-commerce store without being a dev Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Robert E.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Robert E.") RE Robert E. Operations Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/28/2021 "A very robust but clunky e-commerce system." 0/5 What do you like best about Magento Open Source? Magento is a very robust system with almost everything you need right out of the box. In newer versions of magento it does add a random string to the end of the admin url which makes brute force attacks to get into the admin panel more difficult if not impossible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Magento Open Source? While it is robust, it is almost too robust. The system runs extremely slowly, even on our high-performance webserver. Another big issue was with the database. Product information is stored across 50-100 tables which makes querying for a product very slow. The only way around this is to merge your products into a "flat" table that does not bring all the information under one table. Instead of 50-100 tables, you're looking at 25-50 tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Magento Open Source: Use a different system such as Woocommerce or Shopify Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Magento Open Source solving and how is that benefiting you? To be completely honest we did not solve any problems while using Magento. It created more problems for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Omar C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Omar C.") OC Omar C. Head Of Ecommerce Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/14/2020 "Magento the profit drainer" 0/5 What do you like best about Magento Open Source? Is Open Source and you can customize it for you business needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Magento Open Source? You have to pay Magento Special services to be able to have a steady site it is worth like 100k, hire a certified company or developers to maintain the updates, bug free, to check a list of 100 problems of magento, and another list of 10problems of server problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Magento Open Source: if you have money to spend or grows in the trees you are ok with magento I recommend going to Shopify or MIVA Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Magento Open Source solving and how is that benefiting you? the problem i resolve is only the ability to sell online, benefits: not experienced any Benefit at all Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") CI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/11/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Horrible experience" 0/5 What do you like best about Magento Open Source? Solves all the common retail problems - stores, products with variants, etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Magento Open Source? The whole thing. Try to setup Magento 10 times, you'll get 6 different experiences, with different problems each time. The problem extends all the way even when developing it, some parts of the entities has repository API, some don't - resulting in spaghetti codes all around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Magento Open Source: Unless your developers are absolutely sure that they want Magento, don't do it. The whole thing reeks of unsolvable bugs (forcing you to change the core, but then you can't publish the thing if you do it), poor support and just downright poor design decision. Absolutely hate Magento. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Magento Open Source solving and how is that benefiting you? e-commerce solution. The only good thing is I don't have a hard time setting up store, products, promotions, currency and all its relationship. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Marketing and Advertising](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Marketing and Advertising") AM Verified User in Marketing and Advertising Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/9/2019 "Very customizable but Expensive to maintain " 0.5/5 What do you like best about Magento Open Source? You can achieve almost any functionality you wish through custom code or add ons Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Magento Open Source? Complicated to maintain customization. Any update could break your customization and it’s difficult to test Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Magento Open Source solving and how is that benefiting you? Hosting eCommerce platform for business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Magento Open Source? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Magento Open Source ](https://www.g2.com/products/magento-open-source/discussions/new) ![Lwakhe S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Lwakhe S.") LS Lwakhe Sangweni • Last activity over 6 years ago Is there an option to use it on Learner Management System? Currently i know of Moodle. 1 Upvote 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-there-an-option-to-use-it-on-learner-management-system-currently-i-know-of-moodle) ![Juan M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Juan M.") JM Juan Morán • Last activity over 4 years ago How can I use Magento without the burdensome administrative load of keeping it updated? 1 Upvote 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-can-i-use-magento-without-the-burdensome-administrative-load-of-keeping-it-updated) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/magento-open-source/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 4 months ### Return on Investment 15 months ### Average Discount 6% [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/magento-open-source/pricing) Magento Open Source Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_84fd5bd582809f20ff5682d2746ffa82/shopify.png "Product Avatar Image") Shopify 4.4/5(5,128) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/magento-open-source-vs-shopify) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_d7a53e3f1d29e84ae00193a07789a2e4/sap-commerce-cloud.jpg "Product Avatar Image") SAP Commerce Cloud 4.3/5(334) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/magento-open-source-vs-sap-commerce-cloud) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_4b28e3cdd2631bee0e36ddcf3ebd77c3/bigcommerce.png "Product Avatar Image") BigCommerce 4.2/5(580) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-magento-open-source) ##### ##### Magento Open Source Features Merchandising/Marketing Storefront Design Tools Promotions and Discounts SEO Product Catalog Content Management Product Search and Filtering Order Process Checkout Process Shipping Options Tax Display and Processing Platform Customization User Management Security [ View More Features ](https://www.g2.com/products/magento-open-source/features) ##### Categories on G2 [E-Commerce Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/e-commerce-platforms)[Omnichannel Commerce](https://www.g2.com/categories/omnichannel-commerce) ##### Explore More [What's the best virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for mid-market companies based on manager reviews?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-s-the-best-virtual-desktop-infrastructure-vdi-for-mid-market-companies-based-on-manager-reviews)[How can I ensure the security of sensitive documents during M&A?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-can-i-ensure-the-security-of-sensitive-documents-during-m-a)[Which applicant tracking systems are the most reliable based on reviews from recruiting and hiring teams?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-s-the-best-ats-with-built-in-interview-scheduling-and-strong-candidate-communication-tools-in-one-place) [Is SciNote worth committing to long-term as a scientific data management system for pharmaceutical research teams, given the regulatory requirements involved?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-scinote-worth-committing-to-long-term-as-a-scientific-data-management-system-for-pharmaceutical-research-teams-given-the-regulatory-requirements-involved%20)[Which Google Workspace project management solutions integrate directly with Gmail and Google Calendar for seamless workflow?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-google-workspace-project-management-solutions-integrate-directly-with-gmail-and-google-calendar-for-seamless-workflow)[Pros and Cons Details](https://www.g2.com/products/magento-open-source/reviews?qs=pros-and-cons) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)