5 categories · RankedWooCommerce
WooCommerce is an open-source commerce platform for WordPress, used by merchants and developers to build and run online stores · woocommerce.com ↗
Strongest at mid-market. Ranked 69 of 69 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Shopify is first at 34%.
BigCommerce B2B Edition is first at 45%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Shopify is first at 31%.
Why models recommend it
“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-constrained question · first choice
“The Most Cost-Effective Option: WordPress + WooCommerce ... this is the gold standard for low-budget e-commerce.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“The "best" for most limited-budget companies is WooCommerce if you already use WordPress and can handle hosting”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“For absolute minimal budget: Start with WooCommerce if you're comfortable with basic website management”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“frequently called out as poor on-site search”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“WooCommerce without technical capacity: The software may be inexpensive, but hosting, security, updates, plugins, backups, and troubleshooting require ongoing maintenance.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“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 question · warning
“WooCommerce offers maximum flexibility but maximum responsibility... including security exposure, plugin conflicts, and hosting variability.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as WooCommerce, over the 183 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 164 | 67 | Compare → | |
| 92 | 22 | Compare → | |
| 77 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 66 | 0 | View → | |
| 66 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 53 | 5 | View → | |
| 38 | 0 | View → | |
| 31 | 1 | View → | |
| 28 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 23 | 3 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of WooCommerce →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on WooCommerce's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- merchants and developers
- Price stated
- Flexible, transparent pricing puts you in control, with no platform fees or revenue share
- Starting price
- free
- Free plan or trial
- Get started today for free.
- Customers named
- Brodo Broth Co, Grüum, Boost Oxygen, Economy Candy, Nutribullet, House of Malt, Dan-O's Seasoning, gruum
- Headquarters
- United States
- Founded
- 2011
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 146 of the 183 answers that named WooCommerce and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
294 of the 320 domain citations in answers naming WooCommerce came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 525 | 19 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Report or ebook | 180 | 7 | 2026-09-02 | ||
| Template or tool | 39 | 3 | 2026-09-03 | ||
| Case study | 31 | 0 | 2026-02-20 | ||
| Comparison | 24 | 2 | 2026-08-26 | ||
| Conference or event | 14 | 0 | 2026-06-01 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 8 | 0 | 2026-06-10 | ||
| News or press | 6 | 0 | 2024-03-09 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 5 | 1 | 2026-09-01 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 0 | 2024-01-22 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Black friday payment processing fees blog
- 2026-09-14Black friday social media campaign blog
- 2026-09-11Ai product discovery 2 blog
- 2026-09-09B2b ecommerce platform blog
- 2026-09-08Best social media for woocommerce choosing the right platforms blog
- 2026-09-03Customizing the cart page template or tool
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page woocommerce.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.