Shopware · Costs & Pricing · 2026
What doesShopware cost?
License, development, hosting, maintenance: we break down what really makes up the cost of a Shopware 6 project – with market-typical ranges for 2026 and without sales rhetoric.
The essentials in brief
Shopware itself is free and open source as the Community Edition. Costs arise mainly from implementation (agency or in-house development), from hosting and – for the commercial editions – from the license.
A professional Shopware 6 shop typically ranges, depending on scope, from around €15,000 for a standard B2C shop to €120,000 and more for a complex B2B or headless project. On top come ongoing costs for hosting, licenses and maintenance. For a quick, project-specific orientation, use our Shopware price calculator.
Shopware license costs: Community vs. commercial editions
The license is only part of the total cost – and for many mid-market projects it's even €0. Shopware distinguishes the free Community Edition and the commercial editions (cloud and self-managed).
| Edition | License costs | Best suited for |
|---|---|---|
| Community Edition | Free · open source · self-hosted | Most B2C and B2B shops that are custom-built and self-hosted |
| Commercial editions (cloud) | Price on request · revenue- and feature-based | Merchants who want SaaS operation, support and commercial features without their own hosting |
| Commercial editions (self-managed) | Price on request | Merchants with their own hosting who need commercial plugins (e.g. B2B Components) and contractual SLAs |
Shopware no longer publishes fixed list prices for the commercial editions; they depend on revenue and feature scope. Market-typical orientation, as of 2026 – not binding prices.
What does a Shopware agency cost?
The largest line item in a Shopware project is usually not the license but the implementation. Specialised Shopware agencies in Germany typically charge market-rate day rates of around €800 to €1,400, or hourly rates of roughly €90 to €160 – depending on seniority, region and degree of specialisation.
What drives your budget is therefore not the day rate alone but the effort: how many interfaces (ERP, PIM, payment) need to be connected? How custom are checkout, pricing logic and assortment? How much data is migrated? A serious agency quantifies this effort after a short discovery – not by gut feeling.
As a Shopware agency we work with fixed-price packages for clearly scoped building blocks and with transparent effort estimates for custom development. You get a first range for your project in a few minutes via the Shopware price calculator.
Example project budgets for Shopware 6
The following ranges are market-typical orientation values for complete projects (concept, design, development, interfaces, go-live). They don't replace a quote but give a realistic sense of the order of magnitude.
| Project type | Typical budget range | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Standard B2C shop | approx. €15,000 – €40,000 | 8 – 12 weeks |
| B2B shop with ERP integration | approx. €40,000 – €120,000 | 4 – 6 months |
| Replatforming / migration | approx. €25,000 – €80,000 | 3 – 6 months |
| Headless / composable storefront | from approx. €60,000 | from 4 months |
Market-typical orientation, as of 2026 – not binding prices. Your actual budget depends on interfaces, assortment and data volumes.
Shopware B2B Suite & B2B Components: costs
For B2B trade, Shopware offers native features such as customer-specific pricing, tiered prices, order approvals and quotation processes. Historically these were delivered via the paid B2B Suite; currently the features are moving into the B2B Components of the commercial editions. License costs are therefore part of the respective commercial edition, not a separate fixed price.
More relevant than the license is usually the integration effort: ERP connection, pricing and approval logic, and mapping your real purchasing processes. What the Shopware B2B Suite costs mean in detail – and why the Suite is being phased out in 2026 – we've described at length on the blog.
Ongoing operating and hosting costs
After go-live, ongoing costs arise – independent of the one-off development. The main items are hosting, maintenance and updates, plus optional license and support fees for the commercial editions.
Hosting for a Shopware 6 shop typically ranges from around €50 per month for smaller shops to several hundred euros per month for high-revenue shops under heavy load; specialised managed-hosting partners are clearly preferable to cheap standard web hosting here. For maintenance, security updates and further development, a fixed service or hourly retainer is advisable.
Important: a fast, well-maintained shop is not a pure cost factor but a prerequisite for conversion and revenue. Whoever saves here pays elsewhere – through slow load times, security gaps or missed sales.
What does your Shopware project cost?
Instead of blanket prices, you get a solid orientation from us. Calculate a first range with the price calculator or talk to us directly about your project.
Shopware costs – frequently asked questions
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