If you’re looking to create your own eCommerce site, you might’ve come across Magento. There are currently two Magento products: the Community Edition and the Enterprise Edition. Aside from the fact that one is free and the other is not, you might not be sure what the difference is between them and which one is right for you.
We’ve created a beautiful, simple comparison chart to show that Community and Enterprise Editions are functionally very similar. Community is good for most businesses. Features that aren’t available out-of-the-box with Community can be programmed with extensions available for download or custom-built by Logic experts.
For an in-depth comparison of the two editions, click on the infographic below for a larger version.
But wait, what’s the difference between Magento and other eCommerce software, such as WooCommerce, Shopify, and BigCommerce? We’re working on that comparison chart right now, so stay on the look out for the next infographic!
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Thanks Jennifer; the chart is really very helpful. Looking forward for the other comparisons.
Looking at this chart it seems that the Enterprise edition is not worth the price, unless you get a really good technical support.
Excellent post! Thank you so much for clarifying! I have one more question about magento community. The question is about difference between 1.14.1. and 1.9.1.? I found great explanation of 1.9.1. here http://sam-ecommerce.com/blog/view/magento-community-edition-1.9.1-download but it explains so poor about 1.14.1? Can you tell me what is better? Or maybe it is impossible to compare it?
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The biggest different is that Magento 1.9 is the latest Community version, whereas Magento 1.14 is the latest Enterprise edition. Magento has a great list of features in 1.14.2 that can be found here: https://magento.com/blog/magento-news/introducing-enterprise-edition-1142.
Thanks Jennifer. You saved me lot of work.
I would be keen to see comparison with other eCommerce solutions.
no difference in performance? because Enterprise has self indexing capabilities, it has improved scalability and the code base is architected to handle high volume data
Thanks Jennifer – very helpful.
Thanks for the chart! It’s really obvious that the difference is not that big.
It’s been a year since, has it changed anything?
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Since Magento 1.9 CE and Magento 1.14 EE were first released in 2014, not much has changed in terms of their differences. The biggest change in the past year would be the release of Magento 2.x for both Community and Enterprise. With a lot of great new features that built on top of the already robust platform, Magento 2 is a great new upgrade for both CE and EE. We hope to report on the differences between Magento 2 CE and Magento 2 EE soon!
what’s the difference between Magento and other eCommerce software, such as WooCommerce, Shopify, and BigCommerce? We’re working on that comparison chart right now, so stay on the look out for the next infographic!
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Great blog has shared by you. Thank you so much for clarifying.