Gorgias’s AI can act on a refund alone. Ours asks a human first.
Gorgias's AI Agent is built to act on its own, refunds included. CustomerEagle's AI never touches a refund or order edit without a person approving it first.
Free plan, no time limitHuman approval for refundsEUR pricing
Your support team wants AI answers grounded in your own content, human approval before any refund or order edit executes, and pricing that starts free and scales per agent — not a per-ticket bill with a separate AI-resolution fee stacked on top.
Pick Gorgias
You run deep Shopify-native ecommerce workflows and want Gorgias's order and refund context inside the ticket view, or you have a large team with modest ticket volume where unlimited seats on Pro and up matter more than a predictable AI bill.
The core difference
Gorgias prices ticket volume and AI resolutions separately — and per its own billable-ticket definition, a conversation the AI fully resolves is itself a billable ticket on top of the resolution fee — with the AI Agent acting autonomously by default. CustomerEagle prices your team (per agent) with a monthly AI-resolution allowance included, and refunds or order edits always queue for a person.
Side by side
CustomerEagle vs Gorgias, feature by feature
Criterion
CustomerEagle
Gorgias
Primary product focus
CustomerEagleComplete AI support platform: AI agent + shared team inbox + help centre Evenly matched
GorgiasEcommerce helpdesk with AI Agent, built Shopify-first
Free plan
CustomerEagleFree plan with no time limit CustomerEagle advantage
GorgiasTrial only
AI pricing model
CustomerEagleResolutions included per agent, then pay-as-you-go per actual AI resolution CustomerEagle advantage
GorgiasPer-resolution AI fee ($0.90–1.00) on top of ticket-volume billing
AI answers sourced & cited
CustomerEagleAnswers grounded in your knowledge base, each one cited to the document it came from CustomerEagle advantage
GorgiasNot found in public documentation
Human handoff
CustomerEagleBuilt in — hands off to your team when unsure Evenly matched
GorgiasYes
Human approval for sensitive actions
CustomerEagleRefunds and order edits always queue for human approval CustomerEagle advantage
GorgiasAutonomous by design — refunds and edits can execute before an agent reviews them
Team & conversation model
CustomerEagleShared team inbox on every plan; per-agent pricing, no conversation caps
GorgiasTicket-volume billing; seats effectively unlimited on Pro and up Gorgias advantage
Messaging channels
CustomerEagleWeb chat & e-mail on every plan; Messenger & Instagram from Standard; WhatsApp from Professional
GorgiasEmail, chat, SMS and socials incl. TikTok; voice as a paid add-on Gorgias advantage
E-commerce order context
CustomerEagleWooCommerce & Shopify order context from Standard — the AI answers order questions; changes need human approval
GorgiasDeep native Shopify integration — Gorgias's home turf Gorgias advantage
EU-based primary hosting
CustomerEagleYes — EU-based primary hosting; AI subprocessors under EU SCCs (see DPA) Evenly matched
GorgiasNot found in public documentation
Eagle leadsGorgias leadsEven
Information checked on 26 July 2026. Plans and features change — confirm current details with each provider.
Your numbers
What would switching from Gorgias actually cost you?
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Gorgias's own billable-ticket definition counts a ticket the AI Agent fully resolves as billable, so this models the slider's AI-resolved volume as both the ticket count and the per-resolution fee base — the way Gorgias's documented mechanics would actually bill it. Figures are in USD and not converted, so no cheaper/higher verdict is shown.
CustomerEagle · Professional€200.00/mo
4 agents · 600 resolutions included · 0 extra
Gorgias · Pro$900.00/mo
$360.00 bundle · $540.00 AI surcharge
Different currencies, so we show both figures without a cheaper/higher verdict.
Support savings estimator
Is CustomerEagle worth it if you're leaving Gorgias?
Move the sliders to your numbers. The calculation is simple and yours to sanity-check: resolved tickets times handling time equals hours your team gets back.
87h
Agent hours saved / month
€2,427.00
Labour value freed / month
€255.00
Your CustomerEagle cost at this volume
€2,172.00
Net value freed per month
At this volume you'd pay about €255.00/month on Premium (3 seats + metered AI resolutions) — the calculation is right here, not behind a sales call.
Estimate only. This is the gross value of agent time freed up, before your CustomerEagle subscription — not a guaranteed cash saving. Actual results depend on how you redeploy that capacity and how much of your ticket volume is answerable from documented knowledge.
Deep dive
Everything else people ask about Gorgias alternatives
Businesses evaluating Gorgias alternatives usually weigh three things: how the AI billing actually adds up, who approves a refund before it happens, and whether the platform works in EUR for European customers.
AI billing: Gorgias bills per ticket ($10/month for 50 tickets up to $900/month for 5,000) plus a separate $0.90–$1.00 fee per AI-resolved conversation. Per Gorgias's own billable-ticket definition, a ticket where the only message came from the AI Agent is itself billable — so a fully autonomous resolution can be charged for both. CustomerEagle includes a monthly resolution allowance per agent and never charges twice for one resolved conversation.
Control: Gorgias's own marketing and third-party analysis describe its AI Agent acting autonomously by default — issuing refunds, editing subscriptions and updating shipping details before a person reviews them. CustomerEagle queues refunds and order edits for human approval and never executes them alone.
Currency and language: Gorgias bills exclusively in USD, with no EUR invoicing option found and no Dutch-language site found at the time of checking. CustomerEagle prices in EUR, has a Dutch-language site, and its AI answers customers in Dutch automatically.
Focus: Gorgias is built ecommerce- and Shopify-first — deep native Shopify order and refund context is its most consistently praised strength in reviews. CustomerEagle is a general AI support platform with WooCommerce and Shopify order context from the Standard plan.
Human approval, not autonomy by default
Gorgias's own marketing describes its AI Agent quietly issuing refunds, editing subscriptions and updating shipping details before an agent even sees them. CustomerEagle's AI answers from your approved content and hands off when unsure — but refunds and order edits are never executed by the AI alone; they always queue for a person.
One resolution, one charge
Per Gorgias's own billable-ticket definition, a conversation the AI fully resolves is itself a billable ticket, on top of the separate per-resolution AI fee — two charges for one outcome. CustomerEagle includes a monthly AI-resolution allowance per agent, and a resolution only counts — and is only billed — once, when the AI solved it without human help.
EUR pricing and a free plan
Gorgias's cheapest tier is $10/month with a reported 7-day trial and no free plan, billed exclusively in USD. CustomerEagle's Free plan costs €0, never expires, and needs no credit card — with paid plans priced in EUR from €{stdMonthly} per agent per month.
A complete support workspace, not just ticket volume
The shared inbox, help centre (from Standard), SLA policies, routing and support analytics are one product on one bill, priced per agent rather than per ticket — so your cost scales with your team, not with how many conversations a busy week brings.
What teams use CustomerEagle for
Webshop order questions, with a person on refunds
Where-is-my-order, returns and product questions are answered from live store data and your own policies — while refunds and order edits always queue for a person to approve, never executed by the AI alone.
A small team that feels bigger
A 2–10 person support team lets the AI take the repetitive questions and keeps the judgement calls. Routing, SLAs and internal notes keep the human side organised, at a price that scales per agent, not per ticket.
European customers in their own language
The AI detects the customer's language and answers in it — tuned for European languages — even when your knowledge base is written in just one language, with EUR pricing and a Dutch-language site.
01A customer asks a question — in the chat widget, by e-mail, or on a connected channel.
02The AI identifies the intent and searches only the content you approved: your help centre, knowledge base and connected store data.
03If it is confident, it answers immediately in the customer's language, with visible sources where relevant.
04If it is unsure — or the request is sensitive — it hands the conversation to your team's inbox with full context, or to a contact form outside business hours.
05Refunds and order changes are never executed by the AI: they queue for a person to approve.
06Every conversation lands in the shared inbox and analytics. A resolution is only counted when the AI solved it without human help — and is reversed if the conversation reopens within 3 days.
The two models are built differently, so a blanket "cheaper" claim would mislead you — what you pay depends on ticket volume and how much the AI resolves. Here is how each model works, from Gorgias's own blog and help-centre docs (gorgias.com/blog/gorgias-plan and gorgias.com/blog/ai-agent-pricing, accessed 27 July 2026):
How CustomerEagle pricing works
Free — €0, no time limit, and no credit card needed for the Free plan. 1 agent included (up to 5), 1 shared inbox, 25 one-time AI trial resolutions.
Standard — €24.99 per agent per month (€19.99 with annual billing): help centre, AI answers on web chat, Messenger & Instagram, one store integration, and 50 AI resolutions per agent per month included.
Professional — €49.99 (€39.99 annual): adds WhatsApp, AI e-mail auto-reply and advanced routing, with 150 resolutions per agent included.
Premium — €84.99 (€69.99 annual): adds SSO/SAML and unlimited workflows and SLA policies, with 350 resolutions per agent included.
Above the allowance: €0.99 down to €0.49 per extra AI resolution. A resolution only counts when the AI solved the conversation without human help.
How Gorgias pricing works
Starter: $10/month, 50 billable tickets, seats capped at 3 — the AI-resolution fee on this plan is $1.00 per resolved conversation (accessed 27 July 2026).
Basic $60/month = 300 tickets; Pro $360/month = 2,000 tickets; Advanced $900/month = 5,000 tickets. Pro and Advanced include unlimited agent seats; the AI-resolution fee from Basic up is $0.90 per resolution.
Billable-ticket definition, direct from Gorgias's help centre: a ticket is billable when at least one message comes from a human agent, the AI Agent, or an automatic Rule reply — so a conversation the AI fully resolves on its own is itself a billable ticket, in addition to the separate AI-resolution fee.
No free plan; a 7-day free trial is reported by third-party sources, not independently confirmed on a Gorgias-owned page in the research we checked.
Gorgias bills exclusively in USD, with no EUR invoicing option found — European buyers may see FX conversion and card foreign-transaction costs on top of the listed price.
CustomerEagle prices exclude VAT; competitor prices are shown as displayed on their public pricing pages, in their own currency and billing basis. All prices can change — competitor figures were read on 26 July 2026; check the linked pages for current numbers.
There is no one-click migration between these platforms, and Gorgias is not one of our built-in help-centre importers — this is the realistic route, and we help you plan it.
01Bring your knowledge: built-in importers exist for Zendesk, Intercom and Freshdesk help-centre content (articles, saved replies, contacts, companies); for Gorgias we help you move your content over by hand. Ticket history stays in Gorgias.
02Install the chat widget with one script tag — or via the WordPress plugin — and connect your support e-mail address.
03Connect Shopify or WooCommerce so the AI can answer order-status questions from live data — with refunds and order changes queued for human approval instead of executing automatically.
04Connect Messenger & Instagram (from Standard) and WhatsApp (from Professional) to keep your social channels in one shared inbox.
05Invite your team, set routing and SLA policies, and go live — the AI answers from your approved content and hands off to people when it is not sure.
You want to start free and scale spending per agent, without a per-ticket-plus-per-resolution bill that's hard to predict.
Auditable AI matters: refunds and order edits always queue for a person to approve — never fully autonomous.
EUR pricing and a Dutch-language site matter to your business, or your customers expect support in Dutch.
You run a webshop on WooCommerce or Shopify and want order questions answered automatically, with a human final say on money-moving actions.
Gorgias may be the better fit when…
You run deep, Shopify-native ecommerce workflows — Gorgias's order and refund context inside the ticket view is consistently the most-praised part of the product.
You have a large team but modest ticket volume: unlimited-seat pricing on Pro and up means adding agents costs nothing extra.
You need broad social coverage in one inbox, including TikTok, alongside email, chat and SMS.
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FAQ
Gorgias alternative FAQ
It depends on your ticket volume and how much the AI resolves, so we won't claim a blanket "cheaper". Gorgias plans run from $10/month (50 tickets) to $900/month (5,000 tickets), plus a separate $0.90–$1.00 fee per AI-resolved conversation — and per Gorgias's own published billable-ticket definition, a ticket the AI fully resolves is itself billable, so that volume can be charged twice. CustomerEagle starts at €0 and prices per agent with a resolution allowance included, with no separate per-ticket fee. Compare both pricing pages for your own numbers.
Gorgias's own marketing and third-party analysis describe its AI Agent acting autonomously by default — issuing refunds, editing subscriptions and updating shipping details before a person reviews them, gated by an internal confidence check rather than a documented merchant-facing approval step. CustomerEagle takes the opposite default: refunds and order edits always queue for a human to approve, and the AI never executes them alone.
Yes, with honest limits: the chat widget, e-mail and social channels reconnect quickly, and we help you move your help-centre content by hand — Gorgias is not one of our built-in importers (those cover Zendesk, Intercom and Freshdesk). Ticket history stays in Gorgias; there is no automated ticket import.
Yes — the Free plan costs €0, has no time limit, and needs no credit card. It includes 1 agent (up to 5), 1 shared inbox and 25 one-time AI trial resolutions. Gorgias has no free plan; its cheapest tier is Starter at $10/month, with a 7-day free trial reported by third-party sources.
CustomerEagle covers web chat and e-mail on every plan, Facebook Messenger and Instagram DM from Standard, and WhatsApp from Professional — all in one shared inbox. Gorgias's inbox additionally lists SMS and TikTok, and sells voice as a separate paid add-on; third-party sources note its AI Agent itself currently automates only email, chat and SMS, leaving the other channels to human agents.
CustomerEagle's primary hosting is EU-based, with AI subprocessors covered by EU Standard Contractual Clauses in our publicly available data processing agreement. Gorgias states SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance and Google Cloud Platform hosting, but does not publish a specific EU-region or data-residency commitment on the pages we checked — worth confirming directly with Gorgias if EU data residency is a requirement.
Yes — from the Standard plan you can connect Shopify or WooCommerce and the AI answers order-status questions from live data, with an email-match check, and order changes always queue for human approval. Gorgias's Shopify integration is deeper and more mature — it is the product's core strength and most-praised feature in reviews — so ecommerce teams that need best-in-class native Shopify workflows may prefer Gorgias on this specific point.
Method & sources · checked 26 Jul 2026
How we compare: CustomerEagle values come from our public pricing and plan configuration; Gorgias values come from public vendor documentation checked on the date above. “Not found in public documentation” means exactly that — not that the capability is missing.
Competitor details reflect publicly available information at the date shown and may change — always verify current pricing and features on the vendor's site.
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