Shopify is SaaS-based and does not require any setup fees. In fact, it provides users a 14-day free trial before asking for a paid version., Magento 2 has a free Community Edition that demands a fee on the basis of specific needs and store size. However, users need to pay for hosting services as it is not included in the package.
• Because of the multi-lingual functionalities Magento 2 is more advanced than Shopify. While Shopify based stores requires to embrace third-party apps during the development of multi language store.
• Magento 2 has strong community support too as it is backed by a better community of developers, merchants, testers, scholars and partners.
• Both Shopify and Magento 2 comes with a huge number of templates and themes for the development of responsive websites.
• Magneto 2 and Shopify possess great SEO compatibility that enable them to get top rankings and generate more traffic for the ecommerce stores.