The Adobe Commerce Cloud alternative for stores that stayed open source.
Adobe prices Commerce Cloud for the enterprise — $40K a year and up, on contract. Nautvia hosts the same Magento 2 or Mage-OS codebase with zero-downtime deploys, from $9/month plus infrastructure billed by the hour.
The same platform, two very different ways to run it.
Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce share a core. What differs is what you pay, what you sign, and what a release costs you in downtime.
What it costs
Adobe Commerce Cloud — Licensing tied to your gross revenue — typically $40,000 to $300,000+ a year before you sell anything.
Nautvia — A flat platform plan plus the machines your store actually runs on, billed by the hour. A typical store lands under $100/month, all in.
The contract
Adobe Commerce Cloud — Annual commitment, negotiated through a sales cycle, usually via a solution partner.
Nautvia — No contract. Sign up, deploy, and stop any machine whenever you like — stopped machines cost nothing.
The codebase
Adobe Commerce Cloud — Adobe Commerce — the paid edition, with B2B modules and Adobe-side services layered in.
Nautvia — Magento Open Source or Mage-OS, exactly as it lives in your repository. Your composer.json decides what is installed, not a platform allow-list.
Deploys
Adobe Commerce Cloud — ece-tools builds on the cloud infrastructure; deploy hooks routinely put the store into maintenance mode while they run.
Nautvia — The release is built on a separate machine — composer, di:compile, static content, setup:upgrade — then swapped in atomically. No maintenance page, and one click back.
Infrastructure
Adobe Commerce Cloud — Shared or dedicated cloud arrangements sized during the sales process; changes go through support.
Nautvia — Dedicated machines per role — application, MySQL, Valkey cache, OpenSearch — resized from the dashboard in minutes.
Support
Adobe Commerce Cloud — Enterprise ticket queues, SLAs by tier, and a partner in the middle for most day-to-day work.
Nautvia — Messages go to the engineer who built and runs the platform. Migrations are done together, by hand.
Releases without the maintenance page.
On Commerce Cloud, a deploy routinely takes the store down while hooks run on production. Here the whole build happens on a separate machine, and your store only changes when a symlink moves — a millisecond operation that is just as quick to reverse.
If composer or di:compile fails, the deployment stops and the live release stays exactly where it was. A failed build never reaches customers.
What a typical store actually costs here.
A flat plan for the platform, plus dedicated machines priced by the hour. Every figure comes from the same table your invoice is built from.
When Adobe is the right call.
This comparison is only useful if it is honest. There are stores that should stay on — or move to — the paid edition.
You depend on Adobe Commerce features
B2B company accounts, shared catalogs, Page Builder content staging — if the paid edition’s modules are load-bearing for your business, Open Source cannot replace them and neither can any host.
Procurement wants one throat to choke
Some enterprises need a single vendor contractually responsible for platform, hosting and support together. That is genuinely what Adobe sells.
You are far above mid-market
At the scale where the licence is a rounding error, the calculus changes. This page is for the stores where it is not.
The migration is done with you, not sold to you.
Tell us which host you are on and roughly how big the database is. The store is moved by hand, together with the person who built this platform — DNS cutover last, rollback plan agreed first.