# commercetools vs Shopware (slim)

> Shopware and commercetools score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 71.4 (BB) and 71.3 (BB). commercetools leads on agent ergonomics and transparency & trust. Both do commerce products. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Shopware and commercetools score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 71.4 (BB) and 71.3 (BB). commercetools leads on agent ergonomics and transparency & trust. Both do commerce products.

- commercetools: BB 71.3, rank #116 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/commercetools.min.md
- Shopware: BB 71.4, rank #112 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shopware.min.md
- commercetools, good for Enterprises that already run or plan a composable commerce stack and want agents working across catalogue, pricing, carts and orders under scoped credentials. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 83 against 78; Transparency & trust, 81 against 76. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where Shopware loses 5 points for them.
- Shopware, good for A merchant already on Shopware, or a team that wants an MIT PHP backend with a built-in MCP server for back-office work. Ahead on Reliability, 83 against 73; Payments & pricing, 50 against 20. Also Open source.

| Category | commercetools | Shopware |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 73 | 83 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 86 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 83 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 70 | 73 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 87 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 81 | 76 |

| Fact (where they differ) | commercetools | Shopware |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | commercetools GmbH | shopware AG |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the commercetools Master Service Agreement. The API specifications are public, the SDKs are MIT (TypeScript, PHP) or Apache 2.0 (Java, .NET) and Commerce MCP is MIT | MIT for the Community Edition core. Paid plans add proprietary extensions under shopware AG's general terms |
| Tools exposed | none | 14 |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-06-10 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 221k npm/wk | 3.4k stars, 31k npm/wk |