What is Magento?
Magento is e-commerce software: a storefront, product catalog, and checkout that a business installs and runs on its own servers, rather than a hosted service you log into. It started as an independent open-source project, went through eBay and a standalone company, and is now owned by Adobe.
Is Magento free?
Magento Open Source, the version most people mean when they just say "Magento," is free to download and run, though you still pay for hosting, developer time, and any paid extensions. The paid tier that used to be called Magento Commerce came with extra features and support directly from the vendor, and it's now sold by Adobe as Adobe Commerce.
Is Magento the same as Adobe Commerce?
They share the same core codebase. Magento Open Source is the free, self-hosted version anyone can run. Adobe Commerce is Adobe's paid, enterprise edition of it, built on that same foundation but sold with extra B2B and merchandising features, support, and (optionally) Adobe-managed cloud hosting. If a business is evaluating the paid, Adobe-branded tier specifically, that's a different buying decision than running Magento Open Source on its own infrastructure.
Does Magento have an app marketplace?
Yes, the Magento Marketplace, where third-party developers sell extensions for payment gateways, shipping, marketing tools, and more. It covers a lot of common needs, but anything specific to how your business actually operates, a particular ERP, a custom pricing rule, a system with no extension built for it, usually needs custom integration work instead.
Can Magento integrate with other systems?
Yes, through its REST and GraphQL APIs, which is what any integration with Magento, including the ones we build, runs on underneath. Some pairings have a ready-made extension in the Marketplace; anything that doesn't is custom work against those same APIs.