Optimizely Configured Commerce vs Sylius

Optimizely Configured Commerce is a hosted, API-first B2B commerce solution for launching a buyer portal. It supports self-service purchasing, customer-specific pricing and quoting, and omnichannel sales. Merchandising can tailor sorting, search, and recommendations by account, contract, role, and buying behavior. Content tools generate and optimize product descriptions, specifications, and campaign material. The platform supports experiments involving pricing, promotions, offers, and AI-driven experiences, with A/B, multi-page, feature, server-side, multivariate, and multi-armed bandit testing. Feature flags, audience targeting, percentage rollouts, personalization, mobile experiments, and experience analytics are listed capabilities. Integrations are described for ERP, CRM, PIM, and custom frontends, with web and API platforms. Documentation includes user guides, developer material, API references, and release notes. Pricing is individually packaged on request and based on transaction level; resource tiers and premium support may carry separate fees. There is no free plan. Configured products do not support alternate units of measure.

Sylius is an open-source headless eCommerce platform for mid-market and enterprise brands building custom commerce solutions. Its framework supports B2C and B2B use cases and provides a customizable REST API built with API Platform for headless frontends and microservice architectures. Sylius Standard is a Symfony application with Sylius core as a dependency; it can be installed with Composer or Docker and run on a standard VPS. Docker and Kubernetes are also deployment options for cloud environments. The Addons marketplace lists plugins and third-party integrations. Sylius Plus adds commercial modules such as advanced multi-store, returns management, multi-source inventory, loyalty, partial shipment and request for quotation. Standard is offered under the MIT license with community support and no response-time guarantee; Plus lists SLA-backed support with a one-day response time. Standard has no native quotation process, so customers cannot start price inquiries online. No Standard price is listed. Sylius Plus starts from €800 per year.