Elastic Path vs. Magento 2024 – which is best for you?
Elastic Path delivers the speed and flexibility commerce teams need to tackle todayʼs toughest challenges.
Magento
A microservices based composable commerce solution where you select and assemble best-of-breed commerce components and services tailored to your needs.
Primarily a monolithic solution, offering a comprehensive suite of core commerce functionalities, relying on 3rd party integrations to compliment and interface with the core application.
Best if you’re looking to:
Best if you’re looking for:
Prioritize your investments
Grow and scale your business sustainably
Avoid a massive replatform
Integrate best-of-breed commerce solutions fast
Out-of-the-box feature set
Insistence on open-source platform
Apps and extensions
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Elastic Path vs. Magento
Elastic Path
Magento
BACKEND ARCHITECTURE
Service-based
Elastic Path services feature an elegant set of RESTful APIs for building extraordinary commerce experiences
Monolithic
Magento is a monolithic platform with a retrofitted headless architecture. Bolted-on APIs mean that backend development remains slow, manual, and inefficient.
SCALABILITY
Easy to scale
Commerce components can be developed, deployed, tested, and scaled independently, making for a solution developers can scale over time
Limited to entire application
Typically involves adding more resources to the entire Magento instance
Flexibility / Customization
Greater flexibility
Use modular components and no or low-code integrations to customize in minutes
Limited flexibility
Costly, time-consuming extensions and modules necessary to customize
Performance
Lightning fast
Can achieve extremely high site performance by optimizing individual parts
Known to be slow
Due to monolithic nature and especially for large and complex stores
Reliability
Greater resilience
Single failure can bring down entire system, leading to more downtime
Less resilient
Single failure can bring down entire system, leading to more downtime
Total Cost of Ownership
Less cost and maintenance
A composable, API-first architecture means limited IT work and low maintenance costs
Slow, costly development
Complex customizations and site upkeep results in a TCO that rises and compounds over time
Development Speed
Fast, agile development
Developers can generate high-performing, composable Next.js storefronts in minutes, turbocharging dev velocity
Slow, costly development
Launching storefronts in new markets or business lines can cost thousands of dev hours.
How can Elastic Path Composable Commerce help your business?
Unlock innovation
Scale, innovate at speed, and adapt to market changes with ease by using best-of-breed commerce components.
Reduce TCO & operational costs
Reduce resource costs by working with any developer talent, not just platform specialists. Spend dev hours on innovation, not maintenance.
Avoid a costly replatform
A flexible, modular solution means you can quickly launch and change experiences to meet customer expectations and shifting business requirements - no long, drawn-out migration required.
Merchandise smarter
Boost conversions, AOV, and revenue with dynamic bundles, complex pricing, and other leading merchandising capabilities.
Support demanding B2B and B2B2C use cases
Offer streamlined B2B2C experiences without data replication. Regardless of business model, offer commerce that fulfills the highest D2C-level expectations.
“Compared to other commerce platforms, like WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and Magento, Elastic Path allowed us to get new experiences live and in front of customers fast ... We can make changes and get site experiences live in minutes and days instead of weeks and months.”
Stephen Cope
CIO
“Taking a monolithic approach limits your flexibility and ability to be agile and refine as you go. It’s a more arduous tech stack. Taking a Composable Commerce approach with Elastic Path will allow us to tap into legacy systems with ease but also have the flexibility to integrate with other best-in-class software as our business evolves.”
Rebecca Hicks
eCommerce Product Leader
“With composable commerce, doors open about choosing the best technology to power different areas of the site, as opposed to being locked into some native, monolithic technology.”
Cat Stineman
Vice President, eCommerce
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