Adobe Commerce Costs More Than Shopify's Most Expensive Plan
You've heard the hype about brands moving to Shopify. There's a reason for it.
Shopify is taking a lot of market share, and Adobe is adapting a platform built for a different era. Merchants feel it in three places: a licence Adobe won't publish a price for, a shrinking pool of Magento developers, and release cycles that turn a small change into a big job. The brands who've moved aren't going back.
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Brands we've moved to Shopify
What's Adobe Commerce really costing you?
Shopify Plus can look expensive from the outset. But is it? Put in your numbers and see for yourself.
That's a +15% lift
Adobe quotes this per merchant and doesn't publish a price list. Hosting and infrastructure are inside it.
Estimated annual upside of moving
+$619,600
- Your conversion rate2.0% to 2.3% on Shopify (+15%)
- Adobe Commerce costs you’d stop paying+$124,000
- Shopify Plus platform fee (3-year term)-$44,400
- Net running-cost change+$79,600
- Extra revenue from that lift, on the same traffic+$540,000
And these numbers are based on Shopify Plus, the most expensive plan Shopify offers. Most stores don't need Plus, and on a cheaper plan the numbers stack up even better.
And these numbers are based on Shopify Plus, the most expensive plan Shopify offers. Most stores don't need Plus, and on a cheaper plan the numbers stack up even better.
Read the net running-cost line again. Shopify's most expensive plan is still cheaper than what you pay now. And you know what Shopify costs before you talk to anyone. Adobe won't publish a price list at all.
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A rough estimate based on our migrations, where conversion lift ranges from 10% to 24%, not a guarantee. Adobe Commerce licence fees are not published by Adobe. The default shown is the lowest Cloud band reported by agency and partner sources, converted to AUD.
Why merchants are moving to Shopify
001
Total cost of ownership
Adobe doesn't publish Commerce Cloud pricing. You can't compare it until you're already in a sales process.
Add a Magento dev retainer and paid extensions on top of whatever you are quoted.
Shopify publishes its pricing, and rolls hosting, security, checkout and support into one bill.
Potential uplift:A price you can actually check
002
Checkout conversion
Shopify has the highest-converting checkout in ecommerce, built and hosted by Shopify.
An independent study found it converts up to 36% higher than other platforms, and 15% higher on average.
Shop Pay lifts conversion up to 50% more than guest checkout.
Potential uplift:+15% conversion lift, typical
003
Developer dependency
Every Adobe Commerce update needs a specialised Magento developer, and that pool keeps shrinking.
When your one Magento dev leaves, your roadmap stops.
On Shopify, your team ships content, products and campaigns without booking a developer.
Potential uplift:Maintenance dev spend drops to zero
004
Release velocity
Adobe Commerce runs on a multi-module architecture, so even a small change is slow and risky to release.
Shopify ships 150+ platform updates twice a year and you get them without a rebuild.
Your team tests and launches in a day, not a sprint.
Potential uplift:Ship in days, not sprints
005
Peak trading reliability
On Adobe Commerce, staying up under load is your hosting bill and your dev team’s problem.
On Shopify, uptime is Shopify’s responsibility, with a 99.99% SLA on Plus.
Shopify merchants did $14.6b over BFCM 2025, peaking at $5.1m a minute.
Potential uplift:Near-zero downtime at peak
006
Agentic commerce
Orders from AI search on Shopify are up 15x since January 2025.
Agentic Storefronts syndicates your catalogue across AI platforms automatically, in real time.
Adobe Commerce has no equivalent. The gap widens every quarter.
Potential uplift:A new sales channel with zero setup
Benchmarks from Shopify data, third-party research, and stores we've moved across ourselves.
The platform behind the storefront
What the migration includes
- Full data migration: products, customers, orders, content
- Custom module and extension audit, with a Shopify app or custom build mapped to each one
- B2B price lists, customer groups and account-level pricing rebuilt on Shopify
- ERP, warehouse and accounting integrations reconnected
- 301 redirect process to mitigate SEO impact
- Theme build or theme customisation on Shopify
- Third-party app and integration setup
- Testing, QA, and staged launch
- Post-launch support
Timeline: 3 to 5 months for most stores.
A note from the founder
Arkhi is a Shopify Platinum Partner. Top 1% globally. Building on Shopify since 2013.
We've migrated stores from Adobe Commerce and Magento, as well as WooCommerce, BigCommerce and custom-built platforms. Not one of them has looked back. Solid growth, better tools, and a platform that scales with them.
- HiSmile: startup to $40m in 3 years
- Muscle Nation: $10m in 2 days (BFCM 2020)
- Elite Eleven: $40m FY23, 80% YoY growth
- Macro Mike: 7+ year partnership, ROAS up 10x
Flynn McFarlaneFounder, Arkhi
Talk to us about moving to Shopify
Let's have a chat about what a move could look like for your store. We'll walk you through the costs and the process, so you can plan it for the right time.
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The questions every migrating merchant asks
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We audit every one before we scope. Most map to a Shopify app. Some are already native on Shopify, so they just disappear. A small number carry real business logic and get rebuilt properly. You get that map in writing, module by module, so nothing is a surprise at launch.
Thinking about moving to Shopify?
Let's have a chat about what a move could look like for your store. We'll walk you through the costs and the process, so you can plan it for the right time.
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