{ "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": "Shopify API + MCP scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Adobe Commerce (Magento)'s 63.9 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "shopify", "name": "Shopify API + MCP", "vendor": "Shopify", "vendorUrl": "https://www.shopify.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "commerce", "summary": "Hosted commerce platform for online stores.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shopify", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shopify.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shopify.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shopify.json", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@shopify/shopify-api" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@shopify/admin-api-client" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@shopify/dev-mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Admin API takes an access token in the X-Shopify-Access-Token header, issued to a custom app in the store or through OAuth for public apps, limited by access scopes such as read_products and write_orders. Storefront API uses a public or private storefront token. UCP MCP requests carry an agent profile, and Checkout MCP requests must be authenticated or signed. The Dev MCP server needs no auth.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Basic $39 a month or $29 billed yearly, Grow $105 or $79, Advanced $399 or $299, Plus from $2,300 a month on a 3-year term. Online card rates on Shopify Payments start at 2.9% + 30 cents on Basic, 2.7% on Grow and 2.5% on Advanced. Using a third-party payment provider adds 2% on Basic, 1% on Grow, 0.6% on Advanced and 0.2% on Plus. 3-day free trial, then a promotional $1 a month for 3 months. Development stores for building apps are free. US prices (https://www.shopify.com/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$39 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402. Agent checkout runs through UCP and Shopify checkout, paid with the buyer's normal payment methods.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 656603, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://shopify.dev/docs/api", "capabilities": [ "commerce.products", "commerce.cart", "commerce.checkout", "commerce.orders", "commerce.headless" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "mcp", "typescript", "webhooks", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 75, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 52, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 40, "reliability": 73, "schema": 92, "security": 71, "transparency": 88 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Typed GraphQL schemas with quarterly versions supported at least 12 months. Closed platform. You can't self-host or change checkout internals.", "bestFor": "Agents that shop on real stores or automate a merchant's back office at scale.", "strengths": [ "Typed GraphQL schemas with quarterly versions supported at least 12 months", "UCP on every store, 13 tools for catalogue, cart, checkout and orders, with idempotency keys on checkout", "Granular read and write access scopes per app", "security.txt with a HackerOne programme, and a published subprocessor list", "Free development stores for testing agent flows without real payments" ], "weaknesses": [ "Closed platform. You can't self-host or change checkout internals", "Agent surface changes often. Storefront MCP tools moved to UCP, and AI Toolkit skills were consolidated on 25 September 2026", "Checkout calls need signing or authentication, more setup than a plain key", "No Shopify server in the official MCP registry", "Third-party payment providers cost 0.2 to 2 per cent extra per order" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pin an API version in the URL and plan to move at least once a year. Old versions fall forward to the oldest supported one", "Read the throttle status in each response's cost extension and back off one second when throttled", "Send an agent profile in `meta` on every UCP call, and an idempotency key on every checkout write", "Check `userErrors` on every mutation. A 200 response can still carry a failed write", "Add @shopify/dev-mcp while writing code so the agent checks queries against the current schema" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 8, "avgRating": 3.6, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 75 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 40, "reliability": 73, "schema": 92, "security": 71, "transparency": 81 }, "provenanceScore": 95 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST \"https://$SHOPIFY_STORE.myshopify.com/admin/api/2026-07/graphql.json\" \\\n -H \"X-Shopify-Access-Token: $SHOPIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"query\":\"{ products(first: 5) { edges { node { id title } } } }\"}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport stdio shopify-dev-mcp -- npx -y @shopify/dev-mcp@latest", "config": { "mcpServers": { "shopify-dev-mcp": { "args": [ "-y", "@shopify/dev-mcp@latest" ], "command": "npx" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/commerce.products", "tool": "https://letme.dev/shopify" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Basic", "unit": "month", "usd": 39, "note": "$29 a month billed yearly" }, { "item": "Grow", "unit": "month", "usd": 105, "note": "$79 a month billed yearly" }, { "item": "Advanced", "unit": "month", "usd": 399, "note": "$299 a month billed yearly" }, { "item": "Plus", "unit": "month", "usd": 2300, "note": "from, on a 3-year term" }, { "item": "Online card rate on Basic", "unit": "pct", "usd": 2.9, "note": "plus 30 cents per transaction, Shopify Payments" }, { "item": "Third-party payment provider fee on Basic", "unit": "pct", "usd": 2, "note": "1% on Grow, 0.6% on Advanced, 0.2% on Plus" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Shopify Inc.", "domain": "shopify.com", "domainRegistered": "2005-03-11", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://www.shopifystatus.com", "changelog": "https://shopify.dev/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "Store APIs run on each store's myshopify.com domain or the merchant's own domain", "security.txt has no Expires field" ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shopify.json", "live": { "slug": "shopify", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.shopifystatus.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:06:25.95662115Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@shopify/admin-api-client", "version": "2.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:29:15.076510204Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@shopify/dev-mcp", "version": "1.16.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:29:16.488925973Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@shopify/shopify-api", "version": "15.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:29:14.188150277Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 718971, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://shopify.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:57.151806983Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "shopify.com", "registered": "2005-03-11", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/shopify.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:03:35.145970721Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://shopify.dev/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:24:17.511862947Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:24:17.511862947Z", "fingerprint": "a259e12e9c74" }, { "url": "https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:24:20.349159664Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:12:30.174116492Z", "fingerprint": "d77297d69086" }, { "url": "https://www.shopify.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:29.785746787Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:29.785746787Z", "fingerprint": "c090ad8b30b0" }, { "url": "https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:25.627894256Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:16:55.59409922Z", "fingerprint": "dd0fa2f812e3" }, { "url": "https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:27.813599737Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:16:57.712783971Z", "fingerprint": "c70ea5d08606" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:06:25.95662115Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Adobe Inc.", "b": "Shopify", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "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": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-07", "b": "2026-09-30", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "", "b": "2026-08-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2025-10-24", "b": "2026-07-07", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "12k stars, 1.3k npm/wk", "b": "657k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.6/5 (8)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Shopify API + MCP scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Adobe Commerce (Magento)'s 63.9 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Adobe Commerce (Magento) or Shopify API + MCP?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Adobe Commerce (Magento) and Shopify API + MCP need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Adobe Commerce (Magento). Shopify API + MCP runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.", "question": "Can an agent call Adobe Commerce (Magento) and Shopify 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 Shopify API + MCP.", "question": "Are Adobe Commerce (Magento) and Shopify API + MCP open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "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, 73 against 55", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 92 against 82", "Agent ergonomics, 79 against 67", "Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 60", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 75" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "Agents that shop on real stores or automate a merchant's back office at scale.", "slug": "shopify", "watchFor": "Closed platform. You can't self-host or change checkout internals" } ], "job": { "capability": "commerce.products", "name": "Commerce products" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-bigcommerce.json", "title": "Adobe Commerce (Magento) vs BigCommerce API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-bigcommerce" }, { "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": 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success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "adobe-commerce": 75, "by": 10, "edge": "shopify", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "shopify": 85, "weight": 7 }, { "adobe-commerce": 90, "by": 2, "edge": "adobe-commerce", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "shopify": 88, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Shopify API + MCP scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Adobe Commerce (Magento)'s 63.9 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do commerce products.", "verdicts": { "adobe-commerce": "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.", "shopify": "Typed GraphQL schemas with quarterly versions supported at least 12 months. Closed platform. You can't self-host or change checkout internals." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-shopify", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-shopify.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-shopify.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-shopify.min.md" }, "markdown": "Shopify API + MCP scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Adobe Commerce (Magento)'s 63.9 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. 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- Shopify API + MCP: grade BB, 75/100, rank #52 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shopify.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shopify.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\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### Shopify API + MCP (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents that shop on real stores or automate a merchant's back office at scale.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 73 against 55\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 92 against 82\n- Agent ergonomics, 79 against 67\n- Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 60\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 75\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: Closed platform. You can't self-host or change checkout internals\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Adobe Commerce (Magento) | Shopify API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 73 | Shopify API + MCP +18 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 92 | Shopify API + MCP +10 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 79 | Shopify API + MCP +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 71 | Shopify API + MCP +11 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | Shopify 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 | 85 | Shopify API + MCP +10 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 90 | 88 | Adobe Commerce (Magento) +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **63.9 · B** | **75 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Adobe Commerce (Magento) | Shopify API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Adobe Inc. | Shopify |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\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| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Terms last updated | | 2026-08-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-10-24 | 2026-07-07 |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 12k stars, 1.3k npm/wk | 657k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.6/5 (8) |\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**Shopify API + MCP.** Typed GraphQL schemas with quarterly versions supported at least 12 months. Closed platform. You can't self-host or change checkout internals.\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### Shopify API + MCP\n\n1. Pin an API version in the URL and plan to move at least once a year. Old versions fall forward to the oldest supported one\n2. Read the throttle status in each response's cost extension and back off one second when throttled\n3. Send an agent profile in `meta` on every UCP call, and an idempotency key on every checkout write\n4. Check `userErrors` on every mutation. A 200 response can still carry a failed write\n5. Add @shopify/dev-mcp while writing code so the agent checks queries against the current schema\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Adobe Commerce (Magento) or Shopify API + MCP?\n\nShopify API + MCP scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Adobe Commerce (Magento)'s 63.9 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Adobe Commerce (Magento) and Shopify 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 Shopify API + MCP without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Adobe Commerce (Magento). Shopify API + MCP runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.\n\n### Are Adobe Commerce (Magento) and Shopify 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). No open-source release is listed for Shopify API + MCP.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-shopify.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-shopify.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"adobe-commerce\", \"b\": \"shopify\"}`. 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