🆚 CS-Cart vs. Shopware

📈 Shopware is twice as popular as CS-Cart.
🌍 Shopware is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria.
🌍 CS-Cart is more popular in Russia, Greece, and Ukraine.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

CS-Cart

Shopware

Type

E-commerce platform

About

CS-Cart is a source-available, self-hosted e-commerce platform built on PHP and MySQL for creating single-vendor online stores and multi-vendor marketplaces.

It provides multi-vendor marketplace tools and separate admin and vendor panels, B2B features such as bulk pricing and vendor subscription plans, multi-storefront support in 26 built-in languages, and over 1,600 add-ons.

Shopware is a German open-source e-commerce platform based on PHP that provides both cloud-hosted and self-hosted options along with an API-first, headless architecture.

It supports dynamic product catalogs with filtering and variants, includes a "Shopping Experiences" visual content and page builder, a rule builder for promotions, B2B and multi-store features, and 3,100+ community extensions.

Headquarters

San Diego, California, United States

Schöppingen, Germany

Website

cs-cart.com #179,831

shopware.com #110,219

Pricing

Free version ❌

Store Builder Plus $1,490
Ultimate $3,590
Unlim $7,990

Free version ✔️ Open source

SaaS $600+/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Shopware e-commerce platform is 2.3 times more popular than CS-Cart.

Total websites

Market share

E-Commerce

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Shopware is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria, while CS-Cart is more popular in Russia, Greece, and Ukraine.

Germany

Russia

Greece

Netherlands

Austria

Switzerland

Ukraine

Romania

United States

United Kingdom

Awards

⭐ 5th most popular in Greece in the E-Commerce category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Romania in the E-Commerce category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Russia in the E-Commerce category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Ukraine in the E-Commerce category.
🔥 18th most popular in Japan in the E-Commerce category.

🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the E-Commerce category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Austria in the E-Commerce category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Switzerland in the E-Commerce category.
🔥 16th most popular in the Netherlands in the E-Commerce category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Shopware is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and business, while CS-Cart is more commonly used on games sites.

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Business

Fashion/Beauty

Software/Hardware

Sports

Alcohol

Real Estate

Health

Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#9,507

#11,166

#37,684

#40,682

#42,090

Name

Rank

#38,548

#43,282

#71,696

#83,352

#84,004