How it compares.

Each one says where the other product is a better fit. Prices change, so they are left out.

Renting compared with owning.

Rented

Owned

The billMonthly, plus a cut of salesOnce

CheckoutStyled, not changedYours to edit

Growth toolsSix app subscriptionsIn the box

Your dataTheir databaseYour Postgres

RoadmapTheirsYours

HostingHandled for youOn you

Last row is the honest one — hosting becomes your problem.

Fair trade for most, wrong for some

Source code

Ongoing cost

Checkout

Data access

A hosted platform you rent, or a codebase you keep.

Data layer

Type safety

Extending it

Ecosystem

Both self-hosted. Different decades of stack.

Storefront

Licence

Extension model

Headless backend, or a store that already has a front.

Operational surface

Storefront

Licence

A GraphQL commerce API, or an application you run.