Scoring marketplace platforms: seven criteria, no estimates

Choosing a marketplace platform is a multi-year commitment, and most vendor pages say the same things. Marketplace Platforms exists to make the market comparable: every platform is described with the same fields and scored with the same method.

43 marketplace platforms are scored out of 100 points, from public sources only: the vendor's own website, legal notices, product documentation, press releases, and the review platforms G2 and Capterra. Each platform page lists its sources and the date they were checked.

The basic rule: nothing is estimated. A capability the vendor does not document publicly scores zero, and the page says “not stated” rather than “no”. A strong product can therefore score low if its vendor publishes little; the scores reward what a buyer can verify.

The platforms cover five types of solution: enterprise marketplace platforms, commerce platforms with a marketplace module, marketplace builders and plugins, dropship and supplier networks, and cloud subscription marketplaces. The type, the target customers, the pricing model and the AI capability families are grouped by the editor from what each vendor describes; they are labelled as such on the pages where they appear.

No vendor can pay to be listed, to move up or to be removed. Mirakl is the reference platform of the head-to-head comparison pages: that choice decides which comparison pages exist, not how anyone is scored.

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