{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "adobe-commerce", "name": "Adobe Commerce (Magento)", "vendor": "Adobe Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://business.adobe.com/products/commerce.html", "kind": "http-api", "category": "commerce", "summary": "Commerce platform from Adobe, built on the open-source Magento core. It runs as Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service, on Adobe's cloud infrastructure or on the merchant's own servers, and agents reach a store through its REST and GraphQL APIs.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-commerce", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-commerce.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-commerce.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/adobe-commerce.json", "repo": "https://github.com/magento/magento2", "license": "Proprietary for Adobe Commerce under Adobe's General Terms and product-specific licensing terms. The Magento Open Source core is OSL 3.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@adobe/aio-commerce-sdk" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access comes from the merchant, with no Adobe review of the caller. On Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service an organisation admin creates an OAuth credential in Adobe Developer Console, and calls carry an Adobe IMS bearer token, from client credentials with the `commerce.accs` scope or from a user flow tied to an Admin role. On Adobe Commerce on Cloud, on-premises and Magento Open Source, the merchant creates an integration limited to chosen ACL resources and requests are signed by OAuth 1.0a. Admin tokens last 4 hours and customer tokens 1 hour by default, and a bare integration token as a bearer token is off by default.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "No price was read. business.adobe.com timed out on every request on 8 October 2026, and the cloud service licensing terms define an account as one opened under a sales order. No sandbox or trial open without a contract was found in the pages we could read. Magento Open Source, the core with the same REST and GraphQL framework, is free under OSL 3.0, so an owner can start on a self-hosted store with no contract. Its Composer install needs keys from a Commerce Marketplace account.", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the web API docs or the Swagger and GraphQL schemas (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 12198, "npmWeekly": 1317, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.adobe.com/commerce/webapi/", "openapi": "https://github.com/AdobeDocs/commerce-webapi/tree/main/src/openapi", "capabilities": [ "commerce.products", "commerce.orders", "commerce.cart", "commerce.checkout", "commerce.headless" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "self-hosted", "enterprise", "open-source", "openapi", "graphql", "oauth", "php", "sales-led", "status-page", "bug-bounty", "b2b" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 290, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 30, "reliability": 55, "schema": 82, "security": 60, "transparency": 90 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Public Swagger files cover 510 REST operations for the cloud service, the GraphQL schema carries cart, checkout and order mutations, and the cloud service authenticates by OAuth 2 through Adobe IMS. No request rate limit or idempotency key was found in the API documentation, Adobe publishes no MCP server for Commerce, and a licence starts with a sales order.", "bestFor": "An agent working for a merchant already on Adobe Commerce or Magento, for catalogue, order and B2B back-office work over REST and for carts and checkout over GraphQL.", "strengths": [ "Swagger 2.0 files for the cloud service (510 operations) and for releases 2.4.6 to 2.4.9 sit in the public docs repository", "The cloud service takes OAuth 2 client credentials or user tokens from Adobe IMS, and older bearer integration tokens are off by default on 2.4 stores", "`?fields=` trims any REST response, and `searchCriteria` filters, sorts and pages every list endpoint", "Cloud service release notes list four production releases between August and 7 October 2026, each naming new endpoints", "A lifecycle policy gives end-of-support dates for every 2.4 release line, and the sub-processor list was updated on 28 September 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "No request rate limit for the REST or GraphQL APIs was found in the reviewed documentation, and 429 handling appears only in a code sample", "No idempotency keys were found, so a retried POST can create a second order or cart item", "status.adobe.com lists three Commerce incidents marked major in September 2026, two of them longer than an hour", "The cloud service drops the customer and guest REST APIs, so shopping flows there go through GraphQL only", "No Adobe MCP server for Commerce was found, and the only official client library is a JavaScript package for App Builder" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask which deployment the store is. The cloud service answers at `https://\u003cserver\u003e.api.commerce.adobe.com/\u003ctenant-id\u003e/` with no `/rest` prefix, and other stores at `https://\u003chost\u003e/rest/\u003cstore-view-code\u003e/`", "On the cloud service, request an IMS token with the `commerce.accs` scope and send the `Store` header to pick the store view", "On a 2.4 store, sign requests with all four integration credentials by OAuth 1.0a. A bare integration token is refused unless the merchant has switched that on", "Add `?fields=` to REST calls and set `searchCriteria[pageSize]`. Stores with input limits on cap a page at 300 items", "Don't retry `placeOrder` or a POST blindly. Read the cart or order back first, because no idempotency key was found" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 63.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 30, "reliability": 55, "schema": 82, "security": 60, "transparency": 80 }, "provenanceScore": 99 }, "connect": { "http": "curl --location 'https://\u003cserver\u003e.api.commerce.adobe.com/\u003ctenant-id\u003e/\u003cendpoint\u003e' \\\n --header 'Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e' \\\n --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n --header 'Store: \u003call | default | \u003cstore_view_code\u003e\u003e'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/commerce.products", "tool": "https://letme.dev/adobe-commerce" }, "sameCompany": [ "adobe-firefly", "adobe-pdf-extract", "adobe-photoshop-api" ], "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Magento Open Source", "unit": "month", "usd": 0, "note": "OSL 3.0 core, you pay for your own hosting. Adobe Commerce prices weren't read" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Adobe Inc.", "domain": "adobe.com", "domainRegistered": "1986-11-17", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.adobe.com/cc-shared/assets/pdf/legal/terms/enterprise/pdfs/generalterms-na-2025v1.pdf", "privacy": "https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html", "statusPage": "https://status.adobe.com", "changelog": "https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/commerce/cloud-service/release-notes", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The privacy policy, last updated 24 October 2025, names Adobe Inc. as controller in the US, Adobe KK in Japan and Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited elsewhere.", "The terms link is Adobe's General Terms 2025v1, effective 3 October 2025, as given on the enterprise licensing page. We read that page and the product-specific terms for Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service (2025v1, 13 October 2025), not the General Terms PDF itself.", "Separate product-specific terms cover Adobe Commerce on Cloud (18 February 2025), on Managed Services (18 March 2025) and on-premise software (9 January 2023).", "The privacy policy says Adobe is the processor for enterprise products and that it doesn't apply to data enterprise customers collect. A data processing addendum is published at www.adobe.com/cc-shared/assets/pdf/legal/terms/enterprise/pdfs/dpa-ww.pdf.", "Cloud service endpoints are on api.commerce.adobe.com. Stores on Adobe Commerce on Cloud, on-premises and Magento Open Source answer on the merchant's own domain.", "security.txt at www.adobe.com is PGP-signed, expires 30 July 2027 and names an Intigriti programme and psirt@adobe.com.", "www.adobe.com and helpx.adobe.com answered curl with 403. The legal pages were read through WebFetch, and the helpx security bulletins weren't read at all.", "Verisign RDAP gives a registration date of 1986-11-17 for adobe.com." ], "score": 99 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-commerce.json", "live": { "slug": "adobe-commerce", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.adobe.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:11.618214553Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:11.618214553Z" } }, "answer": "BigCommerce API + MCP and Adobe Commerce (Magento) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 64.3 (B) and 63.9 (B). Adobe Commerce (Magento) leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "bigcommerce", "name": "BigCommerce API + MCP", "vendor": "BigCommerce (Commerce.com)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.bigcommerce.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "commerce", "summary": "Hosted commerce platform with REST management APIs for catalogue, carts, checkouts, orders and customers, a GraphQL Storefront API, and a beta storefront MCP server that lets an agent search products, build a cart and get a checkout link.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigcommerce", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigcommerce.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigcommerce.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bigcommerce.json", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.bigcommerce.com", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Store-level API accounts give a static access token sent as X-Auth-Token, limited by OAuth scopes chosen at creation. Apps get per-store tokens through OAuth. The GraphQL Storefront API takes a JWT. The storefront MCP URL needs no key for guest shopping, and logged-in shoppers connect through Storefront Session Sync.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Core $39 a month or $29 billed yearly (up to $30K trailing 12-month GMV), Growth $105 or $79 (up to $100K), Scale $399 or $299 (up to $33,333 GMV a month, 0.9% on GMV above that), Performance from $1,499 a month billed yearly. No fee on orders through embedded payment providers. Orders through other providers pay 2.0% of GMV on Core, 1.0% on Growth and 0.6% on Scale. Card processing from 2.89% + $0.29. 15-day free trial with no card needed (https://www.bigcommerce.com/essentials/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "$39 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402. The MCP hands the shopper a checkout URL and payment happens in the store's checkout.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 7, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.bigcommerce.com/developer/docs/overview/quick-start", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.bigcommerce.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "commerce.products", "commerce.cart", "commerce.checkout", "commerce.orders", "commerce.headless" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "mcp", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.3, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 277, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 40, "reliability": 62, "schema": 66, "security": 70, "transparency": 76 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Published rate limits per plan, with X-Rate-Limit-Time-Reset-Ms on every 429. Storefront MCP is beta, switched on per store, has no back-office tools and documents no tool annotations.", "bestFor": "Agents working with existing BigCommerce stores, for back-office automation through REST or guest shopping through the MCP.", "strengths": [ "Published rate limits per plan, with X-Rate-Limit-Time-Reset-Ms on every 429", "PCI DSS Level 1, SOC 1, 2 and 3, and ISO 27001, 27017, 27018 and 27701 listed in the trust centre", "Guest shopping through the storefront MCP with no key", "Changelog updated almost daily, ten entries on 29 and 30 September 2026", "15-day free trial with no card, and official API clients for Python, PHP, Ruby and Node" ], "weaknesses": [ "Storefront MCP is beta, switched on per store, has no back-office tools and documents no tool annotations", "Access tokens never expire and can't be rotated in place", "No current public OpenAPI file and no error-format reference. The old spec repo was archived in December 2023", "About 30 status-page incidents between 6 July and 1 October 2026, the longest about 16 hours of degraded search on a subset of stores", "Rate-limit quota is shared by every app on the store" ], "agentNotes": [ "Give the agent a store-level API account with only the scopes the task needs, and delete it when done", "On a 429, wait X-Rate-Limit-Time-Reset-Ms before retrying", "Expect up to 10 minutes after a store owner enables the MCP before the URL answers", "The MCP stops at a checkout URL. Payment happens in the shopper's browser", "Point a coding agent at the docs MCP at https://docs.bigcommerce.com/_mcp/server" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 40, "reliability": 62, "schema": 66, "security": 70, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 87 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://api.bigcommerce.com/stores/$BC_STORE_HASH/v3/catalog/products?limit=5\" \\\n -H \"X-Auth-Token: $BC_ACCESS_TOKEN\" -H \"Accept: application/json\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http bigcommerce \u003cyour-storefront-mcp-url\u003e", "config": { "mcpServers": { "bigcommerce": { "type": "streamable-http", "url": "\u003cyour-storefront-mcp-url\u003e" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/commerce.products", "tool": "https://letme.dev/bigcommerce" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Core", "unit": "month", "usd": 39, "note": "$29 billed yearly, up to $30K trailing 12-month GMV" }, { "item": "Growth", "unit": "month", "usd": 105, "note": "$79 billed yearly, up to $100K trailing 12-month GMV" }, { "item": "Scale", "unit": "month", "usd": 399, "note": "$299 billed yearly, up to $33,333 GMV a month" }, { "item": "Scale GMV overage", "unit": "pct", "usd": 0.9, "note": "on GMV above $33,333 a month" }, { "item": "Open payment provider fee on Core", "unit": "pct", "usd": 2, "note": "1.0% on Growth, 0.6% on Scale, none through embedded providers" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Commerce.com US, Inc.", "domain": "bigcommerce.com", "domainRegistered": "1999-02-08", "domainNote": "bigcommerce.com was registered in 1999, a decade before BigCommerce launched in 2009.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.commerce.com/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.commerce.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://status.bigcommerce.com", "changelog": "https://docs.bigcommerce.com/developer/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "bigcommerce.com terms and privacy pages redirect to commerce.com after the company's rename to Commerce", "Developer docs moved from developer.bigcommerce.com to docs.bigcommerce.com" ], "score": 87 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigcommerce.json", "live": { "slug": "bigcommerce", "probe": { "target": "https://api.bigcommerce.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:05.579037106Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 162, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 179, "p95ms24h": 226, "samples24h": 271, "samples30d": 2157, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 239, "ok": 239 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.bigcommerce.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:05:52.398900364Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://bigcommerce.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:56.327512566Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.bigcommerce.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:08.835519824Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "bigcommerce.com", "registered": "1999-02-08", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/bigcommerce.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:07:08.952554633Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.bigcommerce.com/developer/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:18.140843654Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:18.140843654Z", "fingerprint": "ccac101416ea" }, { "url": "https://www.bigcommerce.com/essentials/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:35.136808922Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "8308d2d7d973" }, { "url": "https://www.commerce.com/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:27:09.734548975Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "97b18b89f031" }, { "url": "https://www.commerce.com/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:27:14.122112427Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e6f9d805efcb" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:05.579037106Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Adobe Inc.", "b": "BigCommerce (Commerce.com)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.bigcommerce.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary for Adobe Commerce under Adobe's General Terms and product-specific licensing terms. The Magento Open Source core is OSL 3.0", "b": "none", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "7", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-07", "b": "2026-09-30", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "", "b": "2026-06-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2025-10-24", "b": "2026-01-28", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "12k stars, 1.3k npm/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "BigCommerce API + MCP and Adobe Commerce (Magento) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 64.3 (B) and 63.9 (B). Adobe Commerce (Magento) leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Adobe Commerce (Magento) or BigCommerce API + MCP?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Adobe Commerce (Magento) and BigCommerce API + MCP need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Adobe Commerce (Magento). BigCommerce API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.bigcommerce.com.", "question": "Can an agent call Adobe Commerce (Magento) and BigCommerce API + MCP without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Adobe Commerce (Magento) is open source (Proprietary for Adobe Commerce under Adobe's General Terms and product-specific licensing terms. The Magento Open Source core is OSL 3.0). No open-source release is listed for BigCommerce API + MCP.", "question": "Are Adobe Commerce (Magento) and BigCommerce API + MCP open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 66", "Agent ergonomics, 67 against 62", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 90 against 76" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "An agent working for a merchant already on Adobe Commerce or Magento, for catalogue, order and B2B back-office work over REST and for carts and checkout over GraphQL.", "slug": "adobe-commerce", "watchFor": "No request rate limit for the REST or GraphQL APIs was found in the reviewed documentation, and 429 handling appears only in a code sample" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 62 against 55", "Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 60", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 75" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "Agents working with existing BigCommerce stores, for back-office automation through REST or guest shopping through the MCP.", "slug": "bigcommerce", "watchFor": "Storefront MCP is beta, switched on per store, has no back-office tools and documents no tool annotations" } ], "job": { "capability": "commerce.products", "name": "Commerce products" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-commerce-layer.json", "title": "Adobe Commerce (Magento) vs Commerce Layer API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-commerce-layer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-commercetools.json", "title": "Adobe Commerce (Magento) vs commercetools", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-commercetools" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-ecwid.json", "title": "Adobe Commerce (Magento) vs Ecwid by Lightspeed", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-ecwid" }, { "json": 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Storefront MCP is beta, switched on per store, has no back-office tools and documents no tool annotations." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-bigcommerce", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-bigcommerce.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-bigcommerce.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-bigcommerce.min.md" }, "markdown": "BigCommerce API + MCP and Adobe Commerce (Magento) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 64.3 (B) and 63.9 (B). Adobe Commerce (Magento) leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do commerce products.\n\n- Adobe Commerce (Magento): grade B, 63.9/100, rank #290 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-commerce.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/adobe-commerce.json\n- BigCommerce API + MCP: grade B, 64.3/100, rank #277 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigcommerce.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bigcommerce.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Adobe Commerce (Magento) (B)\n\nGood for: An agent working for a merchant already on Adobe Commerce or Magento, for catalogue, order and B2B back-office work over REST and for carts and checkout over GraphQL.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 66\n- Agent ergonomics, 67 against 62\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 90 against 76\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No request rate limit for the REST or GraphQL APIs was found in the reviewed documentation, and 429 handling appears only in a code sample\n\n### BigCommerce API + MCP (B)\n\nGood for: Agents working with existing BigCommerce stores, for back-office automation through REST or guest shopping through the MCP.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 62 against 55\n- Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 60\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 75\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: Storefront MCP is beta, switched on per store, has no back-office tools and documents no tool annotations\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Adobe Commerce (Magento) | BigCommerce API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 62 | BigCommerce API + MCP +7 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 66 | Adobe Commerce (Magento) +16 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 62 | Adobe Commerce (Magento) +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 70 | BigCommerce API + MCP +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | BigCommerce API + MCP +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 82 | BigCommerce API + MCP +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 90 | 76 | Adobe Commerce (Magento) +14 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **63.9 · B** | **64.3 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Adobe Commerce (Magento) | BigCommerce API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Adobe Inc. | BigCommerce (Commerce.com) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.bigcommerce.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary for Adobe Commerce under Adobe's General Terms and product-specific licensing terms. The Magento Open Source core is OSL 3.0 | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | 7 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Terms last updated | | 2026-06-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-10-24 | 2026-01-28 |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes |\n| Popularity | 12k stars, 1.3k npm/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Adobe Commerce (Magento).** Public Swagger files cover 510 REST operations for the cloud service, the GraphQL schema carries cart, checkout and order mutations, and the cloud service authenticates by OAuth 2 through Adobe IMS. No request rate limit or idempotency key was found in the API documentation, Adobe publishes no MCP server for Commerce, and a licence starts with a sales order.\n\n**BigCommerce API + MCP.** Published rate limits per plan, with X-Rate-Limit-Time-Reset-Ms on every 429. Storefront MCP is beta, switched on per store, has no back-office tools and documents no tool annotations.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Adobe Commerce (Magento)\n\n1. Ask which deployment the store is. The cloud service answers at `https://\u003cserver\u003e.api.commerce.adobe.com/\u003ctenant-id\u003e/` with no `/rest` prefix, and other stores at `https://\u003chost\u003e/rest/\u003cstore-view-code\u003e/`\n2. On the cloud service, request an IMS token with the `commerce.accs` scope and send the `Store` header to pick the store view\n3. On a 2.4 store, sign requests with all four integration credentials by OAuth 1.0a. A bare integration token is refused unless the merchant has switched that on\n4. Add `?fields=` to REST calls and set `searchCriteria[pageSize]`. Stores with input limits on cap a page at 300 items\n5. Don't retry `placeOrder` or a POST blindly. Read the cart or order back first, because no idempotency key was found\n\n### BigCommerce API + MCP\n\n1. Give the agent a store-level API account with only the scopes the task needs, and delete it when done\n2. On a 429, wait X-Rate-Limit-Time-Reset-Ms before retrying\n3. Expect up to 10 minutes after a store owner enables the MCP before the URL answers\n4. The MCP stops at a checkout URL. Payment happens in the shopper's browser\n5. Point a coding agent at the docs MCP at https://docs.bigcommerce.com/_mcp/server\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Adobe Commerce (Magento) or BigCommerce API + MCP?\n\nBigCommerce API + MCP and Adobe Commerce (Magento) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 64.3 (B) and 63.9 (B). Adobe Commerce (Magento) leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Adobe Commerce (Magento) and BigCommerce API + MCP need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Adobe Commerce (Magento) and BigCommerce API + MCP without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Adobe Commerce (Magento). BigCommerce API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.bigcommerce.com.\n\n### Are Adobe Commerce (Magento) and BigCommerce API + MCP open source?\n\nAdobe Commerce (Magento) is open source (Proprietary for Adobe Commerce under Adobe's General Terms and product-specific licensing terms. The Magento Open Source core is OSL 3.0). 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