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S-Cart vs Magento Open Source: catalog facts
S-Cart	Magento Open Source
Freemium The core is free under MIT; some pro plugins such as multi-vendor and multi-store are…	Free Free and open source; Adobe Commerce is the separate paid edition.
Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Complete shop with admin panel out of the box Multi-language and multi-currency	Widely used platform with a large contributor community Active development and regular releases
Marketplace and multi-store features need paid plugins Requires PHP 8.3 and a MySQL or MariaDB server	Offers basic features compared with the paid Adobe Commerce edition Official website focuses on the commercial product
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: OSL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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