# Shopware vs Spree Commerce (slim)

> Shopware scores 71.4 (BB) to Spree Commerce's 70.4 (BB) for commerce catalogues. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Shopware scores 71.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Spree Commerce's 70.4 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Spree Commerce leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do commerce catalogues.

- Shopware: BB 71.4, rank #129 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shopware.min.md
- Spree Commerce: BB 70.4, rank #155 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/spree-commerce.min.md
- 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 Security & auth, 73 against 65; Maintenance & community, 87 against 81; Transparency & trust, 76 against 60.
- Spree Commerce, good for Teams that want to own a Rails commerce backend with marketplace, B2B and multi-region functions and drive it through REST. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 90 against 78; Payments & pricing, 55 against 50.

| Category | Shopware | Spree Commerce |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 83 | 82 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 90 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 73 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 55 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 87 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 76 | 60 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Shopware | Spree Commerce |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | shopware AG | Vendo Connect Inc |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Licence | MIT for the Community Edition core. Paid plans add proprietary extensions under shopware AG's general terms | BSD-3-Clause for the backend, MIT for the npm packages. Enterprise Edition code is under a separate commercial licence |
| Tools exposed | 14 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-07-28 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-10 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | yes |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 3.4k stars, 31k npm/wk | 16k stars, 1.6k npm/wk |