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Gorgias Reviews: 4.6/5 — Highly Rated
Gorgias is a customer service and helpdesk software designed to streamline communication between businesses and their customers. It integrates with multiple e-commerce platforms and centralizes customer interactions from various channels, such as email, live chat, and social media, into one dashboard. Gorgias enhances customer support efficiency by providing automation tools, customizable templates, and analytics to improve response times and quality of service.
| Capabilities |
AI
API
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|---|---|
| Segment |
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Desktop Chromebook, Desktop Mac, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
Gorgias’s pricing page loads with “Add AI Agent” already toggled on, so the first price you see is not the helpdesk price. Switch it off and Starter drops from $40 to $10, Basic from $77 to $50, and Pro from $471 to $300. The AI Agent is a genuinely good product and Gorgias is not hiding the toggle — but it is on by default, and on the entry plan it quadruples the number in large type.
- What it is: An ecommerce help desk with a built-in AI agent, priced by ticket volume rather than by agent.
- Best for: Shopify and ecommerce brands whose support volume, not headcount, is the thing that grows.
- Pricing: Helpdesk only — Starter $10, Basic $50, Pro $300, Advanced $750 per month. With AI Agent — $40, $77, $471, $1,227. Verified July 2026.
- The honest catch: Exceeding your ticket allowance costs roughly 2.4× the included per-ticket rate.
What Is Gorgias?
Gorgias is a help desk built specifically for ecommerce, and its integration list makes that plain: Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, PrestaShop. Agents see order history, refund buttons, and subscription status inside the ticket, which is the difference between a support tool that knows your store and one that requires a second tab. Gorgias says it powers customer conversations for 40% of Shopify brands.
The commercially interesting decision is the meter. Gorgias states it outright — “never priced per agent” — and charges by tickets handled instead, from 50 a month to 5,000. In a category where Freshchat, Zendesk, and Intercom all bill per seat, that inverts the whole cost model: adding a support agent costs nothing, and a busy month costs money.
The AI Agent is sold on outcomes: you pay when it resolves a conversation, not for access to it.
How Gorgias Works
- Tickets are the meter — 50, 300, 2,000, then 5,000 a month.
- Agents are unlimited. Gorgias states it is never priced per agent.
- AI Agent is a separate line, toggled on by default on the pricing page.
- Overage is published at $0.40 per ticket on the lower tiers, $0.36 on the upper.
- Starter is monthly-only — no annual option on the entry plan.
- Voice and SMS are add-ons, priced by call and text volume.
Gorgias Pricing
Captured from Gorgias’s pricing page in July 2026 in US dollars, reading the annual toggle and both states of the AI Agent switch.
| Plan | Helpdesk only | With AI Agent | Tickets/mo | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $10 | $40 | 50 | $0.40/ticket |
| Basic | $50 ($600/yr) | $77 ($924/yr) | 300 | $0.40/ticket |
| Pro | $300 ($3,600/yr) | $471 ($5,652/yr) | 2,000 | $0.36/ticket |
| Advanced | $750 ($9,000/yr) | $1,227 ($14,724/yr) | 5,000 | $0.36/ticket |
What actually decides your cost:
- Check the AI toggle before you compare anything. The page opens with AI Agent enabled. The add-on works out at $30 a month on Starter, $27 on Basic, $171 on Pro, and $477 on Advanced. If you want a helpdesk and not an AI agent, the entry price is $10, not $40 — and any comparison you make against a competitor from the landing figures will be wrong.
- Not being priced per agent is the real story. A five-person support team pays the same as a one-person team on the same ticket volume. Against Freshchat’s €19 to €79 per agent, or any seat-priced help desk, that changes the arithmetic entirely for teams with many part-time or seasonal agents.
- Overage is expensive relative to the tier. Included tickets work out at $0.20 each on Starter and $0.15 on Pro and Advanced, while overage runs $0.36 to $0.40 — roughly 2.4 times the included rate. Gorgias publishes both numbers, which is to its credit, but it means running consistently over allowance is the costliest way to buy.
- The upgrade points follow from those rates. Starter plus overage equals Basic at about 150 tickets a month; Basic equals Pro at about 925; Pro equals Advanced at about 3,250. Past each, the higher plan is cheaper and gives headroom.
- Starter is monthly-only. The card says “billed monthly, cancel anytime” and “monthly billing only”, so the 17% annual discount available on the other tiers does not apply to it.
- Voice and SMS are separate add-ons, scaling with call and text volume, so a brand doing phone support should price those before committing.
Who Should Use Gorgias
- Shopify and ecommerce brands. The clearest case — order data inside the ticket is what the product is for.
- Teams with many agents and moderate volume. Unlimited agents makes seasonal and part-time staffing free.
- Brands automating support. The AI Agent is outcome-priced, so you pay for resolutions rather than access.
- Businesses with predictable ticket volume. The published allowances and overage rates make the bill forecastable.
It fits poorly for non-ecommerce support, where the store integrations are wasted; for very spiky volume, where overage at 2.4× the included rate punishes peaks; and for teams wanting a free tier, which Gorgias does not offer.
Honest Pros and Cons
Strengths
- Never priced per agent, which is genuinely unusual in help desk software.
- Deep ecommerce integration across Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, and PrestaShop.
- Published overage rates, so the bill is forecastable.
- Outcome-priced AI, charged on resolutions rather than access.
- A $10 entry point if you skip the AI agent.
- One bill for helpdesk, AI, and optionally voice and SMS.
Limitations
- The AI toggle is on by default, so displayed prices are inflated by up to 4×.
- Overage costs ~2.4× the included per-ticket rate.
- Starter has no annual discount — monthly billing only.
- No free plan, only a trial.
- The jump from Basic to Pro is sixfold — $50 to $300 helpdesk-only.
- Voice and SMS cost extra, priced separately by volume.
Gorgias Alternatives and How It Compares
- Freshchat is priced per agent with a free tier for ten, better for teams with low volume and many seats.
- Zoho Desk is a general-purpose help desk at lower cost, without the ecommerce depth.
- HubSpot Service Hub suits teams already in HubSpot, with costs rising as hubs are added.
- LiveChat and Tidio are chat-first tools rather than full ticketing systems.
- Zendesk, Kustomer, Gladly, and Re:amaze are the other help desks Gorgias positions against directly.
For a broader survey, browse our help desk directory.
The Verdict
Gorgias has made the right structural bet for its market. Ecommerce support is high-volume and low-complexity — where is my order, can I change the size, please refund this — and the useful thing is having order data in the ticket and an AI that can resolve the routine cases. Charging by ticket rather than by agent fits that reality: your cost tracks how much support you need, not how many people you have handling it, which is exactly backwards from how most help desks bill and exactly right for a brand with seasonal or part-time agents.
Read the toggle before the price. The page loads with “Add AI Agent” already on, and the difference is not marginal: Starter is $40 displayed against $10 for the helpdesk alone, Basic $77 against $50, Pro $471 against $300. The AI Agent may well be worth its $27 to $171 a month — it is outcome-priced, so you pay when it actually resolves something — but that is a decision to make deliberately rather than by default. Switch it off, establish your helpdesk baseline, then decide whether to add it back.
The other number to model is overage. Included tickets cost $0.15 to $0.20 each depending on tier; going over costs $0.36 to $0.40 — about 2.4 times as much. Gorgias publishes both figures, which is more than most usage-priced software does, and the practical consequence is clear: Starter plus overage costs the same as Basic at roughly 150 tickets a month, Basic equals Pro at about 925, and Pro equals Advanced at about 3,250. Buy the tier that fits your normal month rather than your quietest one, because absorbing a regular overage is the most expensive way to use this product.
FAQ
How much does Gorgias cost?
Captured in July 2026 in US dollars. For the helpdesk alone: Starter $10 per month, Basic $50 ($600 annually), Pro $300 ($3,600), and Advanced $750 ($9,000). With the AI Agent add-on, which the pricing page enables by default, those become $40, $77, $471, and $1,227 per month. Ticket allowances are 50, 300, 2,000, and 5,000 per month respectively.
Does Gorgias charge per agent?
No. Gorgias states plainly that it is “never priced per agent” — plans are metered on tickets handled, from 50 to 5,000 a month, and you can add as many agents as you like at no extra cost. That is unusual in help desk software, where per-seat pricing is the norm, and it makes Gorgias notably cheaper for teams with several part-time or seasonal support staff.
Why does Gorgias show a higher price than the helpdesk costs?
Because the pricing page loads with the “Add AI Agent” switch already enabled. Turning it off reveals the helpdesk-only prices — $10, $50, $300, and $750 — against the $40, $77, $471, and $1,227 shown by default. The AI Agent is a real product priced on the conversations it resolves, but it is an add-on, so switch the toggle off first if you want to compare Gorgias’s help desk against anything else.
What happens if I exceed my Gorgias ticket allowance?
You pay per ticket: $0.40 on Starter and Basic, $0.36 on Pro and Advanced. That is roughly 2.4 times the effective included rate, which works out at $0.20 a ticket on Starter and $0.15 on the upper tiers. By our arithmetic, Starter plus overage costs the same as Basic at about 150 tickets a month, Basic equals Pro at about 925, and Pro equals Advanced at about 3,250.
Is Gorgias only for Shopify stores?
No, but it is built for ecommerce. Gorgias integrates with Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, and PrestaShop, and says it powers conversations for 40% of Shopify brands. The value comes from having order, refund, and subscription data inside the ticket — so for a business that does not sell online, most of what you are paying for goes unused and a general-purpose help desk will serve better.
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The simplistic design of Gorgias is friendly for newcomers to the platform. We also appreciate the "Rules" functionality to help streamline our workflow and reduce the need for agent intervention.
While the analytics are greatly appreciated - we would like to be able to access data further back than 90 days within the platform to aid with annual reporting.
As an online retailer, our Support staff is continually assisting our customers with product tracking and delivery. The integration of Shopify is of great benefit to us and our agents.
Pulls relevant data from Shopify. All customer info in one place. Easy to clear emails/tickets.
Unable to hide previous messages in email chain. Makes it very frustrating to have to scroll through the whole email chain before you get to the bottom to reply.
Great for several staff members to reply to customers on the se chain. Much easier to view messages.
Freedom in how to work with it/how to filter/how to assign. A great workflow when going through the tickets.
An automatic overview of closed tickets would be nice to keep track of progress. The sound of incoming social media messages is way too loud
Working as a team and colaborating, grouping issues to work more efficiently
I like how Shopify information is brought into customer interactions since it makes checking previous and current orders much easier. Organizing different emails as views has helped separate Notify Me pre-order information, appointments, and daily inquiries.
I feel like there's excess business on screen. Prioritization isn't intuitively apparent at a glance. I also haven't found the automated tags especially helpful. They seem to clutter cases with unnecessary information. I wish tagging coworkers in a case would make a notification on Gorgias instead of just an email notification.
The organization of several email accounts, both with different users and purposes, is important to running our business well. Views have helped keep a visual on what portions of the business we need to be active in. We've had some time-saving convenience through Loop and Shopify integration when working with customers as well.
ease of use and excellent onboarding and support experiences.
The only downside of Gorgias has been the constant updates, although that is a common theme with anything tech.
Chat option supreme service
Easy way to respond efficiently and give customers a better view of who we are
I was not too fond of the days of glitches, slow connection, incoming phone issues.
Gorgias is helping me solve customers' problems, financial inquiries, shipping issues, and helping them find a product based on their needs.
I like how everything is all in one place. It very easy to navigate.
ce.It does crash and need updated more often than I would like.
It doesn't solve problems for me as I do that myself. But it brings all work related things to one place.
I liked how supported the platform was and how many integrations the platform offered. The live chat functionality was perfect.
No self service functionality the way that we wanted. We also could hardly ever get in touch with our rep.
Gorgias was helping us connect with our customer through livechat and through email. It served these purposes very well.
Aggregation of all customer correspondence and touch points in a system that's been hopefully optimized for e-commerce and Shopify. Ability to assign and monitor tickets.
Integration has proven challenging and customer support hours and availability are much less than ideal. Will continue to troubleshoot and refine our process and integration.
Assignment of customers and customer related contact points. Ability to assign, review, and set reminders across all customer channels. Better use of time internally.
ease of use and clean UI/UX - straightforward navigation
slight limitations with integrations & customizations that something more robust like Kustomer
Customer Service helpdesk, responding to tickets and aggregates customer information in one view
Gorgias makes it easy to communicate with customers - and potential customers - as well as leave helpful internal notes for coworkers.
The social integration is just ok! Not the best, but probably best for the price point.
Different employees sometimes have different skill sets and acquired/accumulated knowledge. Gorgias' tagging capabilities make it easy to sort interactions by category and tag coworkers for the expertise!
I think Gorgias probably works well for a very small team that plans to reply to customers when they have time. It could also work for a team that sits and stares at the tool, refreshing and waiting for incoming messages.
We're a larger company, and our team often works in our backend or other tools. Gorgias (when we tried it) did not make any sound when a call or chat came in. There were other basic features Zendesk and Kustomer offered that Gorgias lacked, and in the end, it just wasn't going to work for us. The major selling point was editing Shopify orders from Gorgias, but Zendesk offers that function now.
None. We don't use it. We switched to Zendesk after about 1 month.
Macros are great for streamlining responses
The automated responses from support are not that helpful immediately.
I benefit from having the ability to search through closed tickets
I like it but they offer money for review and don't give you anything. Bit of a scam, right?
I dislike that they offer money in exchange for review but then won't give you anything and still keep the review!
Platform works as expected
I like that you can merge customers and it's helpful to integrate social media channels with your regular email resolutions and responses in one place for customer service teams!
There are far too many options for rules and channels even for the presets, it sets off confusion for teams who've never interacted with a CRM tool before. It's hard to tell what needs to be set up manually and what is automated via your AI tool.
Its solves the issue of keeping customer centric info all in one place and makes responding much more efficient in the world of chat bots and same day shipping
The instruction videos and easy for start-up
Nothing everything works just fine and meets the requirements for use
It is easy to locate emails via search engines provided
Easy onboarding experience with walk-through videos at one's own pace. Lots of integrations with Shopify make it easy to work.
The snooze /remind setting is confusing at first but with practice, it makes sense
Solving the problem of shipping updates - the shortcuts are hugely beneficial for quick answers for customers
I like that it can limit to other softwares.
Its a bit chaotic to navigate, for a first time user.
I haven't come across any issues with it currently, benefits are that everything is in one place.
UI looks really clean and nice! The clarity and clean aspect that the platform has on hand really help with workflow and straightforward accessibility.
The number of update flags that are requested on an hourly/daily basis, stifling the flow a lot since it breaks the program I'm using (chrome) and makes the situation really lag.
Order edit requests, fraud outreach, order updates, etc. Given the automation sets we're able to push through we've been able to expedite the help we can provide to customers on a normal basis! Positively affecting a high impact of customers.
The macros has features where it can talk directly with shopify, which is very convenient.
For the company that I work for we can't respond to Instagram DM's. Also a lot of non-spam gets taken by the spam folder, and I don't even know where to find the spam folder. Also in the facebook comment section, the tagging of customers doesn't work optimal
I just see it as a tool to talk to customers through on multiple media. It's nice that it can search across all of them at the same time.
I like that I can make email templates so I can easily and quickly respond to common questions I receive at my job.
I don't like that the icon is on email. It blocks some of the words during the email and gets in the way. I don't know if there is a way to move the icon.
I use this the most for directions to my company or accepting or rejecting facilities requests. So instead of having to type roughly the same response every time I get a common question, I can use the template I created with Gorgias. I can create a short cut of each template for even faster responses. All I have to do is personalize it. Customers are impressed at the fast responses.
The automated Ticking assigning is a great feature.
We are still navigating Gorgias, however, we do feel for how big Gorgias is it should have more personalized and customizable options. Such as Hyperlinks and more customizable reporting. The capability of BCC within an email is a big thing for us along with the small File size allowed is a bit frustrating that we have had to make small workarounds for. we absolutely love our CS rep assigned to us, however, we wish that we had this person during the beginning steps of setting up our account. We would be lost without Natalie and she has been our fairy godmother to Gorgias, we just wish we had her from the beginning.
The fact that you can assign more than 4 tickets to one agent.
Some integrations were great like email, chat and Shopify.
Continually disconnects from Adobe/Magento leaving macros sending bad info to customers because it's not connecting customer orders. Macros/rules are not as intuitive as they should be and when you reach out to support they are not always helpful.
Puts most of Customer Service touchpoints in one place connecting customer profiles to their activities on site.
Tries to be helpful in their spam emails I think
They spam and send emails I haven't asked for
No problems