Magento vs Wix

Magento can be understood as an e-commerce platform which helps its users to create online stores for selling their products and services. It was founded by Roy Rubin and it was initially launched in 2008. It was built using the PHP programming language. It is an open-source platform. In 2018 Adobe Incorporation purchased it for $1.68 billion. MySQL and MariaDB are used as databases to store information.

Wix can be understood as a website builder which helps the users to make websites or web applications for different platforms like mobiles, desktops, tablets etc. It comes packed with a large number of tools which allow users to build a website by drag and drop functionality. Along with website building, it also provides hosting features at a reasonable price. Wix was launched in the year 2006.

Below is a table of differentiation between Magento and Wix:

	Magento	Wix
1.	It is an e-commerce platform which was designed to help the users in building their online stores for business activities.	It is an online platform used for building websites and web applications in an easy and efficient manner.
2.	It is an open-source platform.	It is not an open-source platform.
3.	Magento was founded by Roy Rubin.	It was founded by Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami and Giora Kaplan.
4.	It comes with better SEO features.	It does not provide good SEO options.
5.	Support system of Magento is wider due to its open-source nature.	It has little document support.
6.	It provides less number of templates or themes as compared to Wix.	Wix provides more than 800 templates to start website building.
7.	It uses Magento business intelligence tool for analyzing customer information.	It uses google analytics for analyzing customers’ activities.
8.	It is best for large enterprises that want to develop complex online stores.	It is best for small, medium and big companies.