Alternatives to Shopify in India
We list 8 alternatives to Shopify. 2 are built in India. 7 have a free plan. The lowest price we state is ₹840 a month for Retool.
Why people look for an alternative to Shopify
- Bills in rupees: “India pricing page shows all plan prices in Indian rupees (₹)”.
Shopify and 8 alternatives at a glance
| Tool | From, a month | Free plan or tier | Our score | Bills in ₹ | Built in India |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shopify (the one you are replacing) | ₹1,499 a month | Yes | 50 / 100 | Yes | – |
| Razorpay | Not stated | No | 40 / 100 | Not checked | Yes |
| Appsmith | ≈ ₹1,430 a month | Yes | 40 / 100 | Not checked | Yes |
| AppSheet | Free plan; paid price not stated | Yes | 40 / 100 | Yes | – |
| Retool | ₹840 a month | Yes | 40 / 100 | No, dollars | – |
| Wix | ≈ ₹1,496 a month | Yes | 40 / 100 | Not checked | – |
| Webflow | Free plan; paid price not stated | Yes | 20 / 100 | No, dollars | – |
| Airtable | ≈ ₹1,906 a month | Yes | 20 / 100 | No, dollars | – |
| WordPress | Free plan; paid price not stated | Yes | 10 / 100 | Not checked | – |
The alternatives, one by one
Razorpay Built in India
Best for: India's full-stack payments platform — gateway, payouts, banking, and capital. Suits All Indian startups and fintech.
Not stated. Built in India. Our score: 40 out of 100 (3 of 8 checks read).
Appsmith Built in India
Best for: Bengaluru-built open-source low-code platform for internal tools. Suits startups.
From ≈ ₹1,430 a month (converted from dollars). Has a free plan. Built in India. Our score: 40 out of 100 (3 of 8 checks read). Vendor pricing page.
AppSheet
Best for: Google's no-code platform — turn your Google Sheets into mobile apps in hours, not months. Suits startups.
Free plan; paid price not stated. Bills in rupees: “Google Cloud and Google Workspace bill local Indian customers directly in Indian Rupees (INR), eliminating foreign exchange card transaction markups (typically 3.5%)”. Gives a GST invoice. Our score: 40 out of 100 (5 of 8 checks read). Vendor pricing page.
Retool
Best for: Build internal admin panels, dashboards, and ops tools in hours, not weeks. Suits Operations teams and Series A+.
From ₹840 a month. Has a free plan. Bills in dollars: “USD billing — 18% GST reverse charge for Indian companies”. Our score: 40 out of 100 (5 of 8 checks read).
Wix
Best for: Drag-and-drop website builder with online store and payment options. Suits solopreneurs and boutiques & retail.
From ≈ ₹1,496 a month (converted from dollars). Has a free plan. Our score: 40 out of 100 (3 of 8 checks read).
Webflow
Best for: The visual development gold standard. Suits startups.
Free plan; paid price not stated. Bills in dollars: “No INR billing or Indian entity; USD only”. Our score: 20 out of 100 (5 of 8 checks read). Vendor pricing page.
Airtable
Best for: Spreadsheet + relational database + Omni AI conversational agent — post-refound. Suits startups.
From ≈ ₹1,906 a month (converted from dollars). Has a free plan. Bills in dollars: “USD billing only, no Indian Pvt Ltd entity, no native GST invoice, no Input Tax Credit pathway”. Our score: 20 out of 100 (5 of 8 checks read). Vendor pricing page.
WordPress
Best for: The world's most popular website builder and CMS platform review. Suits startups.
Free plan; paid price not stated. Our score: 10 out of 100 (3 of 8 checks read).
Before you switch
- Billing: ask each vendor whether it invoices in rupees with GST. Where we have not read the answer, the table says “Not checked”, not “No”.
- Data: exports differ. Try one real export from Shopify into the new tool on a free plan before you pay for a year.
- Price: a monthly figure is for one seat or the entry plan. Work out your own number of users, and read the vendor page linked under each tool.
- Indian-built options are marked on the table and shown first. They are not better for that reason alone; they are easier on rupee billing, GST invoices and support in your time zone.
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How this page is made
This page is built by a script from the same files as our tool pages, so it changes when a price, a score or an India-fit answer changes. Alternatives are picked by what we list for Shopify (its curated alternatives, the same use case and sub-category, shared tags and the compare pages we have), then ordered with Indian-built tools first, then by our score. A tool is left out when we have fewer than five real matches. Prices come from each vendor's own pricing page as read on our tool pages; the dates above are the days we read them. We may earn a commission on some vendor links elsewhere on the site; it does not change the order here. How the score works.