248 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
11 tools · avg $1510/mo
The storefronts everything else plugs into. Carts are easy. App ecosystems, payment rails and Black Friday uptime are not.
3 rebuildable with one prompt →
ERP & Inventory
11 tools · avg $2396/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
2 tools · avg $6600/mo
Routing orders across channels and warehouses. A state machine with a thousand exceptions.
0 rebuildable with one prompt →
Shipping
11 tools · avg $2817/mo
Labels, rates and tracking. You can code the workflow; you cannot code a negotiated carrier contract.
1 rebuildable with one prompt →
Payments
5 tools · avg $632/mo
Regulation wearing a checkout button. Build on the rails, never try to become them.
0 rebuildable with one prompt →
Marketing
33 tools · avg $5224/mo
Popups, automation and attribution. Some of it is a weekend; some of it is a data business.
9 rebuildable with one prompt →
Email & SMS
16 tools · avg $786/mo
Flows are simple. Deliverability, carrier registration and ten years of engagement data are not.
2 rebuildable with one prompt →
Customer Support
16 tools · avg $745/mo
Shared inboxes are solved by open source. Channel APIs and AI on ticket history are the moat.
7 rebuildable with one prompt →
Search
12 tools · avg $3032/mo
Typesense gets you the API in a day. Relevance data and merchandiser tooling take years.
3 rebuildable with one prompt →
Reviews
14 tools · avg $615/mo
Widgets are trivial. Google syndication licences and consumer trust are not for sale to builders.
6 rebuildable with one prompt →
Subscriptions
11 tools · avg $895/mo
Recurring billing looks simple until the first failed payment, proration and tax edge case.
1 rebuildable with one prompt →
Loyalty
6 tools · avg $486/mo
Points ledgers and referral links are buildable. Fraud control and POS sync are the hard half.
6 rebuildable with one prompt →
Analytics
28 tools · avg $1829/mo
First-party tracking is a weekend. Attribution modelling across ad platforms is a company.
3 rebuildable with one prompt →
Returns
10 tools · avg $991/mo
Portals are software. Reverse logistics networks are warehouses, carriers and contracts.
3 rebuildable with one prompt →
Tax
7 tools · avg $685/mo
A rules engine you must maintain forever, with audit liability attached.
0 rebuildable with one prompt →
Fraud
6 tools · avg $4958/mo
Scoring is a model. The model needs a network you cannot bootstrap alone.
0 rebuildable with one prompt →
Marketplaces
9 tools · avg $3695/mo
Listing sync as a permanent engineering department. Policies change monthly.
1 rebuildable with one prompt →
B2B
3 tools · avg $3167/mo
EDI, punchout and approval workflows. Unglamorous, deep, and very defensible.
0 rebuildable with one prompt →
Checkout
7 tools · avg $496/mo
Conversion knowledge earned across millions of sessions, sold as a widget.
3 rebuildable with one prompt →
PIM
4 tools · avg $2523/mo
Attribute models are easy. Channel export mappings are the actual product.
2 rebuildable with one prompt →
Headless
4 tools · avg $6739/mo
Mostly open source already. Fork it before you clone it.
0 rebuildable with one prompt →
Hosting & Infra
5 tools · avg $92/mo
A VPS replaces the hosting. It does not replace being asleep at 3am.
0 rebuildable with one prompt →
Developer Tools
8 tools · avg $214/mo
Self-hostable cores with paid reliability. The bill is for the on-call rota.
1 rebuildable with one prompt →
AI Tools
9 tools · avg $1288/mo
The newest layer, and the most replaceable — until evals and proprietary data enter the picture.
3 rebuildable with one prompt →