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Elastic Path vs. Adobe Commerce (Magento)

Frustrated with Magento’s limitations? Learn how Elastic Path can help you move past Magento’s shortcomings, boost conversions, and drive revenue.

Elastic Path vs. Adobe Commerce (Magento)

Elastic Path and Adobe Commerce, known as Magento, are both popular commerce providers. But retailers, manufacturers, and distributors should know the differences between Elastic Path and Magento.

Adobe Commerce: A Platform in Decline

When we talk to manufacturers, retailers, and distributors still using Adobe Commerce (formerly Magento), the sentiment is clear: the platform is struggling to keep up with the pace of modern commerce. Adobe’s focus has shifted toward enterprise clients, leaving many mid-sized and growth-focused brands frustrated with increasing costs, slow innovation, and technical debt.

The result? Brands on Adobe Commerce face:

  • Slow, underperforming storefronts that fail to meet modern customer expectations.
  • Extensive customization headaches, requiring expensive developer resources.
  • Scaling limitations that make global expansion and new business models prohibitively complex.

Instead of driving innovation, personalization, and growth, teams find themselves trapped in a cycle of maintenance—patching security issues, troubleshooting bugs, and wrestling with an aging architecture. Commerce leaders want to focus on AOV growth, conversion optimization, and omnichannel experiments—but Adobe Commerce forces them to spend time and money just keeping the lights on.

For a growing brand, Adobe Commerce is a bottleneck, not a growth engine. Want to see how much it's holding you back? Get a fast, free commerce site analysis with our Storefront Grader™.

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. Our in-house team hasn’t had to learn complicated, new technology – we can make changes and get site experiences live in minutes and days instead of weeks and months.

AstrakStephen Cope CIO, Astrak Group

Gradually Migrate from Adobe Commerce Toward Composable Commerce

For many businesses, Magento is no longer a viable long-term solution. Adobe has shifted focus to enterprise customers, making Magento costlier and more complex to maintain. Businesses locked into Magento often struggle with slow innovation, high technical overhead, and expensive upgrades.

Yet, a full-scale replatforming to another monolith — whether it’s Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, or Salesforce Commerce Cloud — can be just as risky, costly, and disruptive as staying put. That’s why companies are adopting a gradual transformation to composable commerce instead.

With a composable commerce system like Elastic Path, businesses can replace specific Magento components—like product catalogs, checkout flows, or pricing engines—without disrupting their entire operation. This modular, API-first approach follows the strangler pattern, where legacy systems are replaced step by step until they become obsolete.

Key Benefits of Gradual Composable Migration:

✔ Reduce Risk: Avoid the downtime and failures of big-bang replatforming.

✔ Prioritize Business Needs: Start with high-impact areas like checkout, subscriptions, or product merchandising.

✔ Improve Agility: Make iterative upgrades, future-proofing your commerce stack.

✔ Lower Costs Over Time: Eliminate costly Magento maintenance without a massive upfront investment.

By embracing composable commerce, you can free your business from Magento’s limitations without a costly, all-or-nothing migration. Instead, you can modernize incrementally, unlocking revenue growth without the risk.

eCommerce software solution comparison guide

Learn the pros and cons of various commerce platforms, including Magento, to ensure that your brand has a commerce solution that maximizes conversions and revenue.

What's the cost of staying on Magento?

Some brands that use Magento may figure that continuously delaying a decision about new commerce technology incurs no cost.

Those brands are mistaken. In commerce, no decision means no innovation, and no innovation means no new experiences that drive revenue, conversions, and business growth. A brand that stands pat with Magento is trading today's cost for tomorrow's business success, and will be left behind.

The good news is that Elastic Path gives brands an option for innovation other than a costly rip-and-replace. Choose a commerce experience you want to improve and start there, today, with less cost and the ability to test and experiment. Over time, your commerce experiences will improve, and you will keep pace with (and maybe even get ahead of) the rest of the market.

Elastic Path vs. Adobe Commerce (Magento) FAQs

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