Gorgias vs Trengo
A side-by-side comparison for e-commerce sellers — platforms, pricing, free trials and ROI.
| Category | Customer Service | Customer Service |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Shopify WooCommerce DTC | Shopify WooCommerce DTC |
| Pricing | Free trial; paid from $10/mo, scales by ticket volume | — |
| Free trial | Yes | No |
| Affiliate program | PartnerStack | — |
| ROI | Automates and deflects 30%+ of repetitive tickets, cutting first-response time by hours. | Consolidates customer messages across channels into one inbox and automates routine tickets, helping support teams reply faster from a single dashboard. |
Which should you choose?
Shopify and DTC brands that want a helpdesk with deep order context and ecommerce-tuned automation.
Support and customer-engagement teams that want to manage all channels and automate tickets from one shared inbox.
Gorgias
Pros
- Best-in-class native order context for Shopify/DTC support
- Agents act on orders (refunds, cancels) without leaving the inbox
- Strong automation and AI deflection tuned for ecommerce
Cons
- Pricing scales by ticket volume and can climb fast as you grow
- AI Agent resolutions are billed on top of base ticket plans
- Less suited to non-ecommerce or B2B support use cases
Trengo
Pros
- Single dashboard for multichannel customer communication
- AI assistant to automate repetitive tickets
- Workflow automation to reduce manual handling
Cons
- Pricing not shown on the scraped page
- Homepage detail was limited behind a cookie consent layer
- General engagement focus rather than ecommerce-specific features
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