Adobe Commerce to Mage-OS
Keep the store. Drop the license.
Adobe Commerce is Magento you rent. Mage-OS is Magento you own. We migrate stores from one to the other with nothing lost but the invoice.
Mage-OS is a community-governed distribution of Magento, maintained by the non-profit Mage-OS Association. Because it is the same platform under an open license, an Adobe Commerce store can move to Mage-OS without changing its theme, extensions, or integrations. A recent migration we completed took under 200 hours and saves the merchant roughly $80,000 every year.
Adobe Is Still Building Magento Open Source
There is no honest case for pretending otherwise. Adobe released Magento Open Source 2.4.9 in May 2026, supports that release line through May 2029, and continues to publish security fixes. Adobe is also still publicly making the case for open source commerce.
Adobe maintains the upstream
Mage-OS benefits directly from Adobe's Magento Open Source releases, security research, and patches. That work matters, and we are grateful for it.
Mage-OS moves it forward
Mage-OS incorporates Adobe's upstream fixes, typically within days, then adds community-led improvements and a roadmap shaped in the open.
The community protects the future
If Adobe's open source strategy ever changes, Mage-OS gives the community the governance and release infrastructure to carry Magento forward. That is resilience, not a prediction.
See Adobe's current release schedule, Adobe's case for open source commerce, and the Mage-OS release roadmap.
Continued support does not make open source the center of Adobe's strategy. Watch where Adobe's own energy goes: this year's Summit announcements were entirely about the cloud service and AI agents, with the open source platform not mentioned once. That is not a scandal. It is a roadmap. There is a third option: keep the platform and drop the license.
Still on Magento Open Source 2.4.6? Upgrade now.
Its regular support ended August 11, 2026. That is a version-management problem, not evidence that Adobe is abandoning open source. We expect the stores we manage to stay within six to twelve months of the current supported release line, no matter how customized they are.
A Real Migration, by the Numbers
A large US commercial printing company ran its B2B commerce on Adobe Commerce. We migrated it to Mage-OS. We're happy to share more detail, including the client's name, in a conversation.
~$80K
saved every year in license and hosting fees
<200
hours of migration work, start to cutover
Zero
functionality lost. Same features, same integrations
- Annual platform cost went from over $80,000 a year in license and hosting to about $2,000 a year in hosting
- The work was packaged into maintenance capacity the client already had, so the migration required no new budget line
- The store is a closed B2B marketplace serving enterprise customers, the workload profile usually cited as requiring a commercial license
The License Math
Adobe Commerce licensing typically starts in the low tens of thousands of dollars per year and scales with your revenue. Mage-OS has no license fee. The store, the team, and the standard stay the same. What changes is where the money goes.
A mechanism worth understanding: Adobe does not publish pricing. Every quote is custom and tied to gross merchandise value brackets, so crossing a revenue threshold steps the price up. Ranges reported across the ecosystem run from roughly $22,000 a year at the low end past $125,000 for larger merchants, and because no price list exists, how your bracket gets computed is itself negotiable. We have watched a renewal negotiation where ERP-imported back-office orders were about to be counted as storefront revenue. A published number cannot be quietly reinterpreted. An unpublished one can.
What you pay Adobe for
- A license that reprices as you grow
- Cloud hosting on Adobe's terms
- Enterprise features many stores never switch on
- Adobe's commercial product roadmap and vendor support
What you pay for on Mage-OS
- Hosting you choose, sized to your store
- The development work that actually improves your store
- Nothing else. No license, no per-revenue repricing
- Code on your server, yours outright
Every dollar that stops going to a license becomes budget for the store itself.
What You Gain, Not Just What You Keep
Most of this page argues that a migration costs you nothing. That understates it. The community distribution now ships capabilities Adobe reserves for paid Commerce, or does not offer at all. This is the part of the story that changed in 2026.
Returns management
Built-in RMA: customers request returns from their account, attach photos or paperwork, and your team approves and communicates from the admin. Historically this was Adobe Commerce only, or a paid extension.
Admin activity log
A built-in audit trail of who changed what, when, and from which IP. The answer to a PCI or internal-audit question that used to require buying a module.
Storefront performance
Back/forward cache, speculative preloading of links, and view transitions. These move Core Web Vitals directly, and they matter most for Luma stores that are not ready to move to Hyvä.
Content translation
AI translation for products, categories, and CMS content, wired to DeepL, OpenAI, or Gemini, with safeguards so human-edited copy is not overwritten. Engine-agnostic and open source.
Page Builder portability
Move Page Builder templates between instances, which is absent from every Adobe edition. Native CMS widgets inside Page Builder with live preview come with it.
Event-driven integration
An open-source port of Adobe's Commerce-only async events and webhooks, with sinks for AWS, GCP, and Azure. Push order and customer events to cloud services without a SaaS dependency.
Two honest notes. Some of these ship switched off and need enabling after an upgrade, and most install on plain Magento Open Source too, so you do not strictly need the full distribution to use them. We will tell you which ones actually earn their place in your store rather than turning all of them on.
Tell us a feature you think you can't get, and we'll show you the option.
How the Migration Works
Assessment and fixed quote
We map every Commerce feature you actually use and depend on against its open-source equivalent, then risk-tier every custom module: breaks the storefront, verify before deciding, or safe to drop. That triage is what makes zero functionality loss a claim we can defend rather than a hope, and it is where most of the estimate is decided. Then you get a fixed price. Complexity comes from custom modules and integration count, not catalog size.
Platform swap on staging
We stand up your store on Mage-OS in a staging environment. Because Mage-OS is Magento, your theme, extensions, and data carry over rather than being rebuilt.
Parallel testing with your real data
Orders, pricing, customers, and every integration get validated side by side with the live store until the two match.
Cutover, then care
We schedule cutover around your trading calendar, and your store lands on a care plan that keeps it patched within 5 days of every security release.
Who Shouldn't Do This
An honest no-list, because the case for Mage-OS only holds if we tell you when it doesn't apply.
- You actively depend on Adobe-only capabilities that are load-bearing for your operation, and replacing them would cost more than the license
- Your procurement or compliance rules require a vendor-backed commercial license behind the platform
- You're mid-contract with Adobe: the math usually says migrate at renewal, not before
- You've decided to leave the Magento family entirely. If that's you, talk to us anyway: we'll give you an honest read on what you'd be trading away, including who controls your store on a hosted platform
Staying on Adobe Commerce? We'll keep running your store at the same standard we always have. This page is about having the choice, not forcing it.
Common Questions
Is Mage-OS production-ready?
Yes. Mage-OS is an independent distribution of Magento governed by the non-profit Mage-OS Association, with releases aligned to the upstream platform and security patches shipped within days. The current distribution is built on Magento Open Source 2.4.9, the newest release line, ships a leaner minimal edition for faster builds, and installs through an interactive installer the community added in May 2026. Real stores run on it today, including a store we migrated and now operate. It is the same platform your team already knows, under community governance instead of a license.
How are security patches handled on Mage-OS?
Adobe continues to develop Magento Open Source and publish security fixes. Mage-OS brings those upstream fixes into its own releases, typically within days and sometimes the same day. In July 2026, for example, Mage-OS ported an Adobe out-of-band patch into a standard Composer release on the day Adobe published it. On our care plans, we apply security patches to Mage-OS and Adobe Commerce stores within 5 days of release. Mage-OS benefits from Adobe's ongoing work today while giving the community the infrastructure and governance to carry the platform forward if that ever changes.
Will we lose features, themes, or extensions?
No, and in several areas you gain. Mage-OS is Magento, so your theme (including Hyvä), your extensions, and your integrations carry over. Our NetSuite Connector, which is going open source under Mage-OS Lab, runs unchanged on Mage-OS. What you replace is Adobe-proprietary cloud tooling, which standard hosting covers, and what you drop is the license invoice. One honest exception: Adobe's gift card feature is Commerce-only and does not trivially survive the move, so stores using it get a replacement planned in the audit rather than discovered later. Going the other way, the community distribution now ships returns management, an admin audit log, storefront performance features, and Page Builder template portability that Adobe either reserves for paid Commerce or does not offer at all.
What does a migration cost?
We quote every migration as a fixed price after an assessment. For scale: a recent migration of a large B2B store took under 200 hours of work, a fraction of one year of the client's former Adobe spend. For care plan clients, we scope the migration against your existing plan's capacity first.
How long does it take?
We build and test the Mage-OS environment alongside your live store, then schedule cutover around your trading calendar to minimize disruption. A recent migration took under 200 hours of work. Your fixed quote comes with a fixed timeline, driven by your extension and integration count.
We're on Magento Open Source, not Adobe Commerce. Does this apply to us?
Yes, but not because Magento Open Source is being abandoned. Adobe is actively releasing and patching current versions. If your store is still on 2.4.6, its regular support ended August 11, 2026, and it needs an upgrade whether you stay on Magento Open Source or move to Mage-OS. We expect actively managed stores to remain within six to twelve months of the current supported release line. Mage-OS is the choice for merchants who want community governance and community-led improvements on top of that current upstream foundation.
"Rocket Web's future is not dictated by investors or stockholders. I want our clients to have the same option: to own their ecommerce solution outright."
Own Your Store's Future
Start with a fixed-quote assessment. If staying on Adobe is genuinely your best move, we'll tell you that too.