Zero of fourteen models named WooCommerce first on the direct prompt; one named Adobe Commerce. Both were named by all fourteen models and WooCommerce carries 44 labels and Adobe Commerce 56, so the shares are not directly comparable.
United States, founded 2011. Named in five categories this edition.
By Adobe, San Jose, United States, founded 1982. Named in six categories this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the ecommerce platforms page.
Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, WooCommerce and Adobe Commerce were named in the same answer seventy-seven times, of the 183 answers naming WooCommerce and the 228 naming Adobe Commerce. In those answers Adobe Commerce took the first choice zero times and WooCommerce six.
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
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| Claude Haiku 4.5 | ||||||
| GPT-5.4 mini | ||||||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | ||||||
| Perplexity Sonar | ||||||
| Grok 4.20 | ||||||
| Mistral Small | ||||||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | ||||||
| Llama 4 Maverick | ||||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | ||||||
| Kimi K2 | ||||||
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | ||||||
| MiniMax M2.5 | ||||||
| GPT-6 Luna | ||||||
| Muse Glimmer 30B |
Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Five of six in this category shown.
“Good if you want flexibility, but it's self-hosted, so you're responsible for hosting, security patching, compliance, and plugin maintenance.” GPT-5.4 mini · negative prompt · soft negative
“WooCommerce offers maximum flexibility but maximum responsibility... including security exposure, plugin conflicts, and hosting variability.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · negative prompt · soft negative
“For the Absolute Lowest Cost: Start with Big Cartel (free for small stores) or WooCommerce (free plugin, but budget for hosting).” MiniMax M2.5 · budget prompt · first choice
“The Most Cost-Effective Option: WordPress + WooCommerce ... this is the gold standard for low-budget e-commerce.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“The "best" for most limited-budget companies is WooCommerce if you already use WordPress and can handle hosting” Muse Glimmer 30B · budget prompt · first choice
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of seven in this category shown.
“Official support ended in June 2020. Running a Magento 1 store today exposes you to massive security risks” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid: Enterprise options like Adobe Commerce or Magento (too complex/expensive for limited budgets).” Grok 4.20 · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid or be cautious with Adobe Commerce (Magento)... making it a poor choice for small businesses” Mistral Small · negative prompt · hard negative
“the industry consensus for the top three contenders in this specific bracket is Adobe Commerce (Magento), Shopify Plus, and BigCommerce” Qwen 3.7 Flash · direct prompt · first choice
“If you need deep customisation and already have a dev team: *Adobe Commerce (Magento 2)* or *Salesforce Commerce Cloud* give you the most flexibility.” MiniMax M2.5 · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Adobe Commerce is better suited to B2B-heavy operations that justify substantial implementation and maintenance effort” Perplexity Sonar · paraphrase prompt · alternative
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.