Compare/Commerce/Magento vs. Litium

Magento
vs.
Litium

Without a doubt, there's no product like Crystallize on the market today, one that seamlessly combines PIM, commerce, and CMS functionality, providing everything you need to showcase your product across all channels and screens.

Magento

Established ecosystem
Comprehensive features
Global platform

Performance overheads
Complex order editing
High maintenance costs

What is Magento

Adobe Commerce, previously known as Magento Commerce, is a robust and scalable ecommerce platform designed for both B2C and B2B businesses. It provides an integrated solution for creating, managing, and optimizing online stores with extensive customization options and a rich ecosystem of extensions and integrations.

Usecases for Magento

Large retailers, multinational brands, leverage Adobe Commerce to handle complex, large-scale ecommerce operations.

Litium

A well-designed webshop UI that’s “easy to adjust” once you’re familiar with it
Bundles strong marketing and customer-engagement tools—campaigns, email, CMS
Solid commerce stack

PIM channel limitations
Integration hiccups. Compatibility issues can arise
Steep learning curve

What is Litium

Litium is a full-stack, cloud-native commerce suite—“Litium Commerce Cloud”—that bundles e-commerce, PIM, CMS, campaigns, personalization, and order management into one platform, with optional headless decoupling via GraphQL or REST APIs.

Usecases for Litium

B2B and manufacturing portals, as well as DTC and brand-focused growth.

Full

None

Partial

Integration

Magento

Litium

Crystallize

Tech

Architecture

Monolithic / Modular

Serverless multi-tenant SaaS

Event based architecture with horizontal scaling

Cloud infrastructure

Adobe Cloud

Fastly CDN and Elasticsearch

AWS

API coverage

REST / GraphQL

Open REST / GraphQL

GraphQL

Built with

PHP / XML

Microsoft .NET 6 core backend, Angular-based back-office UI

TypeScript / GraphQL

Security features

2FA / CAPTCHA / WAF

ISO 27001-certified hosting / SAML/OAuth support

OAuth / JWT

Scalability

Maintenance

Requires upkeep

Managed

Customization level

Frontend integration

Flexible

Frontend agnostic

AI/Machine learning

Via extensions

Via third-party

Multitenancy

Via customization

Features

Headless commerce

Product information management (PIM)

Extensible via Modules

Built-in

Digital asset management (DAM)

Add-on/Extension

Built-in

Order management

Content management system (CMS)

Intergration

Built-in

Multichannel selling

Via extensions

SEO optimization tools

Via extensions

Customization and theming

Internationalization

Multi-language / multi-currency

API-First Design

Ecosystem and integrations

Vast

Expanding

Checkout customization

High with Extensions

Out-of-the-box add-ons + headless supported

High flexibility

Subscription services

Supported with Extensions

Built-in

CRM integration

Via Extensions

Via API

Analytics and reporting

Marketplace

User experience

Complex

Business-user friendly

Intuitive / Dev focused

Pricing

Pricing model

Free Community Edition / Paid Enterprise Edition

Growth-based subscription

Subscription-based

Free Tier availability

Community Edition

Not limited on features

Entry-level price

Custom

Enterprise-level price

Custom

Support

Support options

Community Support / Professional Support (Paid)

24/7 partner network / email helpdesk / Litium Dev Forum

Slack / Community / Dedicated account manager (Enterprise)

Documentation quality

Extensive / Detailed

Comprehensive docs with tutorials, guides, API references

Comprehensive, well-organized

Additional resources

Developer Docs / Tutorials / User Guides

Webinars / Livestreams / guides / case studies

Livestream videos / API Reference / Developer guides

Community

Community and forums

Very Large and Active

Active Litium Dev Forum for Q&A, ideas and bug reports

Growing and Active (Slack)

Professional training

Certification programs

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