# Shopware vs Vendure (slim)

> Shopware and Vendure score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 71.4 (BB) and 70.9 (BB). Vendure leads on reliability and schema & documentation. Both do commerce products. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Shopware and Vendure score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 71.4 (BB) and 70.9 (BB). Vendure leads on reliability and schema & documentation. Both do commerce products.

- Shopware: BB 71.4, rank #112 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shopware.min.md
- Vendure: BB 70.9, rank #123 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vendure.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 Agent ergonomics, 78 against 68; Security & auth, 73 against 65; Payments & pricing, 50 against 45; Transparency & trust, 76 against 67.
- Vendure, good for TypeScript teams that want a typed GraphQL commerce server and will host it. Ahead on Reliability, 89 against 83; Schema & documentation, 91 against 85. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Shopware | Vendure |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 83 | 89 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 91 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 73 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 45 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 87 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 76 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Shopware | Vendure |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | shopware AG | Vendure (Elevantiq GmbH) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://readonlydemo.vendure.io/shop-api` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Licence | MIT for the Community Edition core. Paid plans add proprietary extensions under shopware AG's general terms | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Tools exposed | 14 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-09-02 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-10 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 3.4k stars, 31k npm/wk | 8.5k stars, 30k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |