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commercetools

MACH-style headless commerce APIs engineered for sub-25ms responses at huge scale

Munich, Germany · Founded 2006 · Paid
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A European alternative to ↓ Shopify → BigCommerce → Wix → Squarespace → Adobe Commerce (Magento) → WooCommerce →

About commercetools

commercetools is a Munich-headquartered headless e-commerce platform founded in 2006 by Dirk Hörig and Denis Werner, with the cloud SaaS launched in 2013. Built on MACH principles (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless), the platform exposes APIs for catalog, cart, checkout, payments, inventory and personalisation and is engineered for very high throughput (sub-25 ms responses, 100,000+ orders/minute). It is sold to large enterprises on quote-based subscriptions and is named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce, with over USD 75B GMV processed.

Quick facts

Pricing model Paid
Free trial —
Open source —
Self-hostable No
Public API No
Target audience B2B
Company size fit All
DPA available Yes
Data stored in EU Yes

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