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BigCommerce pricing

BigCommerce is tracked by HelpCompare in the E-commerce Platforms category. This page collects every pricing fact, rating and switching guide we publish about BigCommerce, and links each one back to the comparison it was verified in.

Last verified September 23, 2026 Official site ↗Vendor pricing ↗ Methodology Get this as JSON
Entry price
Core $29/mo (billed annually), up to $30K trailing-12-month GMVPer store per month, billed annually; gated by trailing-12-month GMV, not by user seatsVerified in bigcommerce-vs-shopify
Free plan
Trial onlyNo free plan — 15-day free trial
AI feature
None tracked
How AI is billed
Not trackedThis tool is not yet in The AI Tax dataset.
G2 rating
Not tracked
On HelpCompare
2 comparisons4 migration guides
BigCommerce pricing

Everything we have verified about BigCommerce

Every row was recorded on a HelpCompare comparison page. The Source column links to the page it was verified on and the date it was last checked.

AttributeValueSource & date
Entry price Core $29/mo (billed annually), up to $30K trailing-12-month GMV bigcommerce-vs-shopify
September 23, 2026
Free plan No free plan — 15-day free trial bigcommerce-vs-shopify
September 23, 2026
Growth plan Up to $100K TTM GMV; auto-upgrades to Scale above that bigcommerce-vs-shopify
September 23, 2026
Scale plan $33,333/mo GMV cap, then 0.9% on GMV above it bigcommerce-vs-shopify
September 23, 2026
Performance plan Custom pricing from $1,499/mo, for $1M+ in annual sales bigcommerce-vs-shopify
September 23, 2026
Plan renaming Standard→Core, Plus→Growth, Pro→Scale, Enterprise→Performance, effective June 1, 2026 bigcommerce-vs-shopify
September 23, 2026

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Alternatives in E-commerce Platforms

Other tools we track in the same category, with their entry price.

Where this data comes from

HelpCompare records pricing and feature data from vendor pricing pages and documentation at the time each comparison is researched, then re-checks it on a published schedule. This entity page is generated from those records — it does not introduce any figure that has not already been verified on a comparison page.

  • Vendor pricing and documentation — www.bigcommerce.com, checked September 23, 2026.
  • HelpCompare research — 2 comparison pages listed above, each with its own verification date.
  • G2 — aggregate rating and review count (none recorded for this tool). Review counts change daily; treat them as a snapshot.
  • Machine-readable copy — /data/tools.json, /data/tools.csv, and the open data hub.
Prices change often and vendors do not always announce it. Every figure here carries the date it was last checked — confirm current pricing with the vendor before you buy. If you find something out of date, the comparison page it came from is linked in the table above.
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