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Reaction Commerce vs Magento: What are the differences?
Reaction Commerce: API-first, headless commerce platform. It is an API-first, modular commerce stack made for ambitious brands and retailers. It’s service-based architecture is built to deliver flexibility and freedom at scale; Magento: Flexible eCommerce solutions, a vibrant extensions marketplace and an open global ecosystem. Magento Community Edition is perfect if you’re a developer who wants to build your own solution with flexible eCommerce technology. You can modify the core code and add a wide variety of features and functionality.
Reaction Commerce and Magento belong to "Ecommerce" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Reaction Commerce are:
- 1 million+ SKU catalogs
- Millions of price and inventory changes streamed per day
- Tens of thousands of orders processed per day
On the other hand, Magento provides the following key features:
- Analytics and Reporting
- Product Browsing
- Catalog Browsing
Magento is an open source tool with 8.34K GitHub stars and 7.38K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Magento's open source repository on GitHub.
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Pros of Magento
- Open source23
- Robust15
- Powerful13
- Widespread community support11
- E-commerce made easy9
- Mature5
- Flexible5
Pros of Reaction Commerce
- Open source2
- Headless API2
- GraphQL2
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Cons of Magento
- System is too complex2
- Slow2
- Processor hungry1



