🆚 Bitrix vs. Shopify

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Shopify is much more popular than Bitrix.
🌎 Shopify is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.
🌍 Bitrix is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.

Bitrix

Shopify

Type

Content management system

E-commerce platform

About

Bitrix is a popular Russian modular content management system based on PHP and MySQL.

It offers more than 40 built-in modules such as e-commerce, blogs, forums, and photo galleries, supports multilingual content, customizable access permissions, and REST APIs.

Shopify is a subscription-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) e-commerce platform that enables businesses to build and manage online stores, process payments, and sell across multiple channels.

It offers 20+ free and 900+ paid customizable themes, integration with 100+ payment providers, and a comprehensive app ecosystem with 8,000+ apps to extend store functionality.

The Shopify Plus plan adds checkout page customization, support for unlimited staff accounts, up to 10 storefronts, higher API limits, B2B and wholesale tools, and dedicated account management.

Headquarters

Kaliningrad, Russia

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Website

1c-bitrix.ru/products/cms/ #19,138

shopify.com #51

Pricing

Free version ❌

Start6,200 RUB

Standard17,900 RUB

Small business40,900 RUB

Business83,900 RUB

Enterprise1,699,000+ RUB

Free version ❌Free 3-day trial

Basic$39/month

Grow$105/month

Advanced$399/month

Plus$30,000+/year

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Shopify e-commerce platform is 6 times more popular than Bitrix.

Total websites

Market share

E-Commerce

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Shopify is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India, while Bitrix is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.

Russia

United States

United Kingdom

India

Australia

Germany

Canada

France

Japan

Italy

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Russia in the E-Commerce category.
🥇 Most popular in Belarus in the E-Commerce category.
🥇 Most popular in Kazakhstan in the E-Commerce category.
🥇 Most popular in Uzbekistan in the E-Commerce category.
🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the CMS category.

🥇 Most popular in Japan in the E-Commerce category.
🥇 Most popular in Pakistan in the E-Commerce category.
🥇 Most popular in the Philippines in the E-Commerce category.
🥇 Most popular in Cambodia in the E-Commerce category.
🥇 Most popular in Laos in the E-Commerce category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Shopify is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty, while Bitrix is more commonly used on education and reference, travel, and general news sites.

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Business

Health

Sports

Entertainment

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki