BigCommerce vs Elastic Path (2026): which should you pick?

BigCommerce

• Stores that want many built-in features without adding paid apps
• Sellers who list on Amazon, eBay and Walmart from one catalog
• Brands that run several storefronts from one account

Elastic Path

• Engineering teams building a custom storefront on commerce APIs
• B2B sellers needing accounts, price books and promotions
• Enterprises that want a vendor-hosted commerce backend

BigCommerce

• Each plan caps sales over the past twelve months (gross order value minus 10%); passing $30K on Core or $100K on Growth moves the store up a plan.
• Orders paid through providers outside BigCommerce's embedded list carry a fee of 2% on Core, 1% on Growth and 0.6% on Scale.
• Scale covers $33,333 of sales a month and charges 0.9% on sales above that.
• Customer groups, abandoned-cart emails and stored cards need Growth or higher, and product filtering needs Scale.

Elastic Path

• No prices could be read from the vendor's site here: the pages answered with a bot check, so pricing is recorded as unverified.
• It is a developer platform with no theme-based store builder, so a storefront has to be built or bought separately.
• Self-managed (self-hosted) commerce is documented separately from the hosted product, so confirm which one applies.

BigCommerce

Checkout and payment partners

A single-page checkout with Apple Pay, Google Pay and Amazon Pay, and more than 100 currencies through the payment provider you choose, such as Stripe, PayPal, Adyen or Klarna.

Discounts and promotions

More than 70 discount options, coupons and gift cards come built in on every plan, without a third-party app.

Shipping quotes and rules

Real-time shipping rates from carriers such as UPS, USPS and FedEx, with the ShipperHQ shipping rules engine available as well.

Inventory across locations

Track stock and fulfil orders from 4 locations on Core up to 8 on Scale, including in-store pickup and curbside collection.

Marketplaces, ads and point of sale

Connect the store to Amazon, eBay and Walmart, send product feeds to Google, Meta and TikTok through Feedonomics Surface, and link POS systems such as Square or Clover.

Several storefronts in one account

Run extra storefronts for other brands or regions from one dashboard, for $30 a month each on Core (up to 3) and more on higher plans.

Elastic Path

Commerce APIs

Documented APIs with OpenAPI specifications cover carts, checkout, orders, catalogs, products, payments and application keys.

Commerce Manager

A web-based interface for merchants to manage products, orders, customers, promotions, subscriptions, analytics and team permissions.

Price books and promotions

Price books define pricing, and both a standard promotions engine and a promotions builder are documented.

Accounts and organizations

Accounts and account members can log in to the store and create orders for their accounts, which suits B2B buying.

Single- and multi-location inventory

Inventory is documented for a single location or for several, alongside subscriptions and single sign-on settings.

Composer integration layer

Composer is described as commerce intelligence IPaaS, with a builder, an integrations hub and monitoring for connecting other systems.

BigCommerce

• Core$29

  per month for up to $30K sales a year, billed annually ($39 monthly)

  For new stores: up to 4 inventory locations and 24/7 chat and email support, with a 2% fee on orders through payment providers outside BigCommerce's list.

• Growth$79

  per month for up to $100K sales a year, billed annually ($105 monthly)

  Adds customer groups, abandoned-cart emails, stored cards and phone support, with 5 inventory locations and a 1% fee on orders through other providers.

• Scale$299

  per month up to $33,333 sales a month, billed annually ($399 monthly)

  Adds product filtering and 8 inventory locations, charges 0.9% on sales above the monthly cap and 0.6% on orders through other payment providers.

• Performance$1,499

  per month and up, billed annually

  Custom pricing for high-volume stores, sold through sales, with a dedicated customer success manager and no fee on other payment providers under contract.

Elastic Path

Pricing could not be confirmed. See elasticpath.com.

BigCommerce

• Annual discount

  Pay annually to save 25%

  Core costs $29 a month billed annually against $39 billed monthly, Growth $79 against $105 and Scale $299 against $399.

Elastic Path

No public discounts listed.