OpenCart vs Sylius

Both are self-hosted e-commerce projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

OpenCart and Sylius are closely matched on maintenance health (91 vs 89). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
OpenCartSylius
Health score 91/100 89/100
Commits (11 mo) 2201 1385
Commits (last 3 mo) 1028 504
Stars 8.2k 8.5k
Latest release 11 Aug 2026 2 Sept 2026
Licence GPL-3.0 MIT
Built with PHP PHP
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

OpenCart

Shopping cart solution.

91/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 36/40
Releases 25/25
Community 15/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 90% of tracked projects; popularity more than 75%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 238 commits 2025-11: 79 commits 2025-12: 61 commits 2026-01: 98 commits 2026-02: 25 commits 2026-03: 306 commits 2026-04: 179 commits 2026-05: 187 commits 2026-06: 547 commits 2026-07: 297 commits 2026-08: 184 commits

Sylius

Symfony2 powered open source full-stack platform for eCommerce.

89/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 34/40
Releases 25/25
Community 15/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 85% of tracked projects; popularity more than 76%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 141 commits 2025-11: 128 commits 2025-12: 165 commits 2026-01: 91 commits 2026-02: 182 commits 2026-03: 78 commits 2026-04: 61 commits 2026-05: 35 commits 2026-06: 175 commits 2026-07: 212 commits 2026-08: 117 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted e-commerce.