1090 tools · 24 categories
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Every e-commerce software category, with how many tools we analysed, the average monthly price, and how many an AI coding agent could realistically replace.
Platforms
54 tools · avg $659/mo
The storefronts everything else plugs into. Carts are easy. App ecosystems, payment rails and Black Friday uptime are not.
7 rebuildable with one prompt →
ERP & Inventory
61 tools · avg $999/mo
Where stock, purchasing and accounting meet. The maths is public; the connectors and audit trails are the product.
0 rebuildable with one prompt →
Order Management
14 tools · avg $1460/mo
Routing orders across channels and warehouses. A state machine with a thousand exceptions.
1 rebuildable with one prompt →
Shipping
73 tools · avg $997/mo
Labels, rates and tracking. You can code the workflow; you cannot code a negotiated carrier contract.
4 rebuildable with one prompt →
Payments
30 tools · avg $1219/mo
Regulation wearing a checkout button. Build on the rails, never try to become them.
0 rebuildable with one prompt →
Marketing
146 tools · avg $1496/mo
Popups, automation and attribution. Some of it is a weekend; some of it is a data business.
53 rebuildable with one prompt →
Email & SMS
60 tools · avg $509/mo
Flows are simple. Deliverability, carrier registration and ten years of engagement data are not.
15 rebuildable with one prompt →
Customer Support
63 tools · avg $397/mo
Shared inboxes are solved by open source. Channel APIs and AI on ticket history are the moat.
17 rebuildable with one prompt →
Search
42 tools · avg $1533/mo
Typesense gets you the API in a day. Relevance data and merchandiser tooling take years.
6 rebuildable with one prompt →
Reviews
44 tools · avg $285/mo
Widgets are trivial. Google syndication licences and consumer trust are not for sale to builders.
26 rebuildable with one prompt →
Subscriptions
34 tools · avg $569/mo
Recurring billing looks simple until the first failed payment, proration and tax edge case.
5 rebuildable with one prompt →
Loyalty
34 tools · avg $767/mo
Points ledgers and referral links are buildable. Fraud control and POS sync are the hard half.
17 rebuildable with one prompt →
Analytics
107 tools · avg $1062/mo
First-party tracking is a weekend. Attribution modelling across ad platforms is a company.
8 rebuildable with one prompt →
Returns
23 tools · avg $609/mo
Portals are software. Reverse logistics networks are warehouses, carriers and contracts.
6 rebuildable with one prompt →
Tax
24 tools · avg $489/mo
A rules engine you must maintain forever, with audit liability attached.
1 rebuildable with one prompt →
Fraud
24 tools · avg $2070/mo
Scoring is a model. The model needs a network you cannot bootstrap alone.
2 rebuildable with one prompt →
Marketplaces
71 tools · avg $974/mo
Listing sync as a permanent engineering department. Policies change monthly.
4 rebuildable with one prompt →
B2B
25 tools · avg $802/mo
EDI, punchout and approval workflows. Unglamorous, deep, and very defensible.
7 rebuildable with one prompt →
Checkout
45 tools · avg $506/mo
Conversion knowledge earned across millions of sessions, sold as a widget.
20 rebuildable with one prompt →
PIM
18 tools · avg $2502/mo
Attribute models are easy. Channel export mappings are the actual product.
2 rebuildable with one prompt →
Headless
34 tools · avg $1984/mo
Mostly open source already. Fork it before you clone it.
2 rebuildable with one prompt →
Hosting & Infra
6 tools · avg $119/mo
A VPS replaces the hosting. It does not replace being asleep at 3am.
0 rebuildable with one prompt →
Developer Tools
28 tools · avg $305/mo
Self-hostable cores with paid reliability. The bill is for the on-call rota.
5 rebuildable with one prompt →
AI Tools
30 tools · avg $901/mo
The newest layer, and the most replaceable — until evals and proprietary data enter the picture.
9 rebuildable with one prompt →