Shopify Plus vs KitCommerce

Shopify Plus alternative: GoCommerce vs Shopify Plus

Q: How much does Shopify Plus cost?

Shopify’s help centre lists ₹1,75,000 a month on a three-year term and ₹1,90,000 a month on a one-year term, with a price for each billing currency it supports. More complex, higher-volume businesses can move to a variable platform fee based on revenue and business model. On top of that, Shopify takes 0.2% of each transaction a third-party processor handles — in India, where Shopify Payments is not offered, every one.

Shopify Plus is a contract. GoCommerce is a codebase.

Plus is Shopify’s enterprise plan: a one- or three-year term, a platform fee that can become a share of revenue, higher API limits and the parts of checkout lower plans cannot touch. GoCommerce is MIT source. Run it yourself and there is no term, no revenue share and no limit but your own hardware; a store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order instead. So far, it has no production store to show at any scale.

₹1,75,000US$2,300€2,100£1,800A$3,700CA$3,400 a month for Plus on a three-year term; ₹1,90,000US$2,500€2,250£1,950A$4,000CA$3,650 on one year
1,000 GraphQL Admin API points a second per app on Plus, against 100 on standard plans
9 expansion stores included with Plus, beside the main store

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Shopify Plus publishes no prices in Singapore dollars, so its prices are shown in US dollars, as Shopify Plus publishes them.Shopify Plus publishes no prices in UAE dirhams, so its prices are shown in US dollars, as Shopify Plus publishes them.

KitCommerce is an open-source ecommerce platform. Its packages are GoCommerce, the backend and admin, and Svelte Commerce, the storefront — MIT licensed, used together or either one on its own. Run them yourself for free, or start a store hosted on kitcommerce.store for 1% of every successful order, plus 18% GST on the fee. On this page, each claim names the package it is about.

Shopify Plus and GoCommerce, side by side

Plus is measured against its own pricing page and developer documentation, linked at the foot of this page. GoCommerce’s side is what the code does today, including what it does not do.

Shopify Plus compared with GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce, checked 26 October 2026
Aspect	Shopify Plus	GoCommerce + Svelte Commerce
Contract and platform fee	A one- or three-year term, cancellable when it ends: from ₹1,75,000US$2,300€2,100£1,800A$3,700CA$3,400 a month on three years or ₹1,90,000US$2,500€2,250£1,950A$4,000CA$3,650 on one. More complex, higher-volume businesses move to a variable fee based on revenue and business model.	Run it yourself under the MIT licence: no term, no plan, and nothing rises with your revenue; a store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order.
Fee on third-party gateways	0.2% of each transaction, for security and compliance costs. It is waived only with Shopify Payments as the primary gateway — not available in India, so every Indian Plus store pays it.	None when you run it yourself. A store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order.
Stores	A main store and up to 9 expansion stores in the fee, each live expansion store needing its own theme licence.	Channels: one GoCommerce database serves several storefronts, each with its own publishing and price lists, at no charge per store or per brand. Orders stay in one pool.
API rate limits	GraphQL Admin API: 1,000 cost points a second per app and store on Plus, against 100 on standard plans, 200 on Advanced and 2,000 for Commerce Components. No single query may cost more than 1,000 points.	No limit in the software. The ceiling is the server and PostgreSQL you give it — sized by you, and not yet benchmarked by anyone.
API surface	The GraphQL Admin API — REST Admin has been legacy since October 2024 — plus the Storefront API, Functions and app extensions.	550 documented REST operations, published as OpenAPI. API keys carry a role, so a partner’s key can read orders and not refund them.
Checkout	Checkout UI extensions for the information, shipping and payment steps are Plus-only, and checkout.liquid is no longer supported on those steps.	The checkout is Go code in your repository. You change a step by changing the code — and own the testing that comes with it.
Custom logic	Shopify Functions run your own back-end logic inside Shopify; only Plus stores can use custom apps that contain them.	No extension runtime to fit into: you change the domain code, or write a module that listens to its events.
B2B	Companies with several buyers and locations, customer-specific catalogues, quantity rules, volume pricing, payment terms, and orders submitted for review before approval. Unlimited B2B catalogues on Plus; three on other plans.	Company accounts with buyer roles, payment terms and credit limits, approval over a threshold, quotes, purchase-order numbers, statements and per-company catalogues in the b2b module; customer groups, price lists and quantity breaks in the core. No company locations or quantity rules.
AI agents	Shopping agents reach a store’s catalogue, cart and checkout through the Universal Commerce Protocol, served over MCP.	The MCP module gives your own agent 19 store tools — products, stock, orders, refunds, discounts, reports — through the same services as the REST API. No UCP, ACP or AP2.
Headless storefronts	Up to 25 on Plus, against 1 on other plans, with Shopify’s React-based headless stack at no extra cost.	Svelte Commerce, server-rendered SvelteKit — though its GoCommerce connector is early, at 0.16.0: catalogue, cart, cash-on-delivery checkout and order lookup worked end to end in a test on 28 October 2026 with version 0.14.0; shopper sign-in, the address book and order history need GoCommerce’s identity module.
Support and partners	Priority 24/7 support, Plus Academy, Plus Certified apps, and systems integrators such as Accenture, Deloitte and IBM.	The maintainers, through GitHub issues and Discord. No contract, no priority line, no integrator network.
Proven at scale	Shopify states 99.99% average uptime across the year’s biggest sales events, and a checkout load-tested past 10,000 checkouts a minute.	Not yet. No store we know of runs GoCommerce in production, and there are no published benchmarks.

What Plus costs a brand

At Plus volumes the percentage matters as much as the platform fee. GoCommerce run yourself removes both, and replaces them with infrastructure and engineers that are not cheap either.

Recurring costs, Shopify Plus against GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce
Cost	Shopify Plus	GoCommerce + Svelte Commerce
Platform	₹1,75,000US$2,300€2,100£1,800A$3,700CA$3,400 a month on a three-year term, ₹1,90,000US$2,500€2,250£1,950A$4,000CA$3,650 on one year, or a variable fee based on revenue	Free to run it yourself; 1% of every successful order on a store hosted on kitcommerce.store
Per transaction	0.2% on a third-party gateway	None when you run it yourself; 1% of every successful order on a store hosted on kitcommerce.store
Expansion stores	Up to 9 included, each live one with its own theme licence	None to buy: channels serve several storefronts from one database
Apps and partners	Third-party apps, one-time theme purchases, and Plus Partners for custom development	No app store to buy from; the development is yours to do or to hire
Infrastructure	Included	Servers and PostgreSQL sized for your peak day, and someone on call for them, when you run it yourself

A worked example, in US dollars: US$2,000,000 a month through a third-party gateway pays Shopify 0.2% of it, US$4,000 a month, on top of the term’s plan fee, before tax and before the gateway’s own charge. A business Shopify moves to the variable fee pays whatever that contract says.

Which one fits

Choose Shopify Plus when

You need certainty on your biggest sale day, and a published record at that scale matters more than owning the code.
You want a contract, priority 24/7 support, certified apps and systems integrators you can hire by name.
Your B2B needs company locations or quantity rules — Shopify B2B has them and GoCommerce does not.
Your team would rather build on Shopify’s checkout, Functions and APIs than run a commerce backend of its own.
Shoppers’ AI agents matter to you: Shopify stores are reachable over UCP, and GoCommerce speaks none of the agentic commerce protocols.

Choose GoCommerce + Svelte Commerce when

At your volume, 0.2% of revenue plus the platform fee — or a revenue-based fee — costs more than running GoCommerce yourself with the engineers you already employ.
You run several brands or storefronts and want them on one backend you control, with nothing charged per store.
Your integrations keep hitting throttles, and you would rather size a server than live within a per-app points budget.
You need checkout or pricing logic that no extension point reaches, and a team able to own it.

What you take on

Run it yourself and you host it: a server, a PostgreSQL database, backups and upgrades are yours, or a developer’s you pay. A store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order instead.
No app store. What a module does not cover, somebody writes.
GoCommerce has over 2,000 tests, but no store we know of runs it in production yet.
Svelte Commerce reaches GoCommerce through an early connector, version 0.16.0: catalogue, cart, cash-on-delivery checkout and order lookup work; shopper sign-in, the address book and order history need GoCommerce’s identity module.
At Plus scale you become the platform team: capacity planning, peak-day load tests, security patches and on-call are yours.
Nobody has load-tested GoCommerce in public. Benchmark it against your own peak before you commit a sale day to it.

Leaving Plus, if you do

Time it to your term, and expect some of it to be rebuilt.

Shopify says a one- or three-year Plus subscription can be cancelled when the term expires, so the migration plan starts from that date. GoCommerce’s import-shopify module brings the whole catalogue across, matching on Shopify’s product ids so it can be re-run up to the switch; an order importer loads history without sending emails or moving stock.

What does not come across is anything that lives in Shopify’s runtime: Functions, checkout extensions, B2B companies and catalogues. Those become GoCommerce code, price lists and customer groups; Shopify’s B2B companies become b2b-module companies, with their payment terms and approval threshold set again on each, and its B2B catalogues become b2b-module catalogues.

FAQ

Questions about Shopify Plus and GoCommerce

How much does Shopify Plus cost?

Shopify’s help centre lists ₹1,75,000US$2,300€2,100£1,800A$3,700CA$3,400 a month on a three-year term and ₹1,90,000US$2,500€2,250£1,950A$4,000CA$3,650 a month on a one-year term, with a price for each billing currency it supports. More complex, higher-volume businesses can move to a variable platform fee based on revenue and business model. On top of that, Shopify takes 0.2% of each transaction a third-party processor handles — in India, where Shopify Payments is not offered, every one.

What are Shopify Plus’s API rate limits?

For the GraphQL Admin API, Shopify’s developer documentation gives Plus 1,000 cost points a second per app and store, against 100 on standard plans, 200 on Advanced and 2,000 for Commerce Components, and caps any single query at 1,000 points. The legacy REST Admin API allows 20 requests a second on Plus. GoCommerce has no rate limit in the software; its ceiling is the server and database you give it.

Does GoCommerce do B2B like Shopify Plus?

Much of it. GoCommerce’s b2b module has company accounts with buyer roles, payment terms and credit limits, orders held for approval over a threshold, quotes and per-company catalogues, beside customer groups, price lists and quantity breaks in the core and API keys scoped by role. Shopify B2B also has company locations and quantity rules, which GoCommerce does not.

Can GoCommerce run several stores like Plus expansion stores?

Yes, through channels: one GoCommerce database serves several storefronts, each with its own published catalogue and price lists, and nothing is charged per store. Channels scope what is sold and at what price, not orders, which share one pool. Plus includes up to 9 expansion stores beside the main one.

Is GoCommerce ready to replace Shopify Plus?

Not for most Plus merchants today. It has over 2,000 tests and 550 documented operations, but no store we know of runs it in production, and nobody has published a benchmark. A brand leaving Plus for GoCommerce takes on a platform team’s job — worth it when the fees or the limits cost more than that team, and not before.

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Sources

Shopify Plus’s prices and features were checked on 26 October 2026 against the pages below. Prices change; when one here disagrees with the source, the source is right and this page is out of date. Shopify Plus is a trademark of its owner, named here only to compare; no endorsement or affiliation is implied — see trademarks.

Run it before you decide

The backend + admin quick start runs GoCommerce’s API and admin on your own machine, without a storefront. Load a catalogue and judge it against Shopify Plus yourself.

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