# Adobe Commerce (Magento) vs Swell (slim)

> Adobe Commerce (Magento) scores 63.9 (B) on agent readiness against Swell's 55 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Swell leads on reliability and maintenance & community. Both do commerce products. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Adobe Commerce (Magento) scores 63.9 (B) on agent readiness against Swell's 55 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Swell leads on reliability and maintenance & community. Both do commerce products.

- Adobe Commerce (Magento): B 63.9, rank #290 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-commerce.min.md
- Swell: C 55, rank #520 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/swell.min.md
- Adobe Commerce (Magento), good 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. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 82 against 68; Security & auth, 60 against 35; Payments & pricing, 30 against 25; Transparency & trust, 90 against 50. Also Open source.
- Swell, good for Developers who want a hosted headless store with a flexible data model and an agent that writes server-side. Ahead on Reliability, 63 against 55; Maintenance & community, 82 against 75. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Adobe Commerce (Magento) | Swell |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 63 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 82 | 68 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 60 | 35 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 90 | 50 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Adobe Commerce (Magento) | Swell |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Adobe Inc. | Swell |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.swell.store` |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| 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 |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated |  | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-10-24 | 2026-08-19 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 12k stars, 1.3k npm/wk | 4.5k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |