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ActiveCampaign vs Magento Open Source

Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.

 
51/100
52/100Higher score
Category rank#5#4
ConfidenceHigh confidenceHigh confidence
External Reputation6655
AI Authority5125
Web Authority3870
Expert Assessment3965
TOP10 User Score
PricingUSD $15.00 per month (Starter, vendor-supplied figure published on G2) · free tier: 14-day free trial ("Try it free for 14 days" per vendor homepage); no free plan verifiedNot published — no licence fee; Adobe publishes no numeric price for any Commerce tier · free tier: Entire platform is a free download with no licence fee; no trial information published (G2 records 'No trial information available')
Pricing modelSubscriptionFree / Open Source (self-hosted; costs shift to hosting, development and extensions)
Best forSMBs and agencies with roughly 500–25,000 contacts that want marketing automation, CRM and email/SMS/WhatsApp messaging in one system and will actually build branching automations rather than simple broadcasts.Merchants with in-house developers or a retained agency, a complex or large catalogue, non-standard business logic SaaS can't express, and a need to own the codebase and avoid per-transaction platform fees — plus agencies building client stores.
Avoid if You need frictionless self-service cancellation, predictable refunds, a fully published price at higher contact volumes, guaranteed support SLAs on lower tiers, or only simple newsletter sending. You are a non-technical founder, have a small or simple catalogue, have no developer on call, need to launch fast, want automatic updates, or need B2B accounts, AI merchandising, experimentation or built-in analytics out of the box.
MarketsSMB, Mid-Market, AgenciesSMB, Mid-Market, Agencies, Developers
Founded
HeadquartersChicago, Illinois, United States (1 N. Dearborn, 5th Floor)

A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.