Comparing Certainly and Gorgias? Both are AI Agents & Chatbots and E-commerce Support tools in the directory, which is why buyers put them on the same shortlist. Below is a side-by-side look at how they price, what they integrate with, and when each is the better fit, so you can pick on the facts rather than either vendor's own sales page.
| Attribute | Certainly | Gorgias |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Per resolution · €500/mo (2,000 conversations) | Paid · $10/mo |
| Founded | 2017 | 2015 |
| Categories | AI Agents & Chatbots E-commerce Support | AI Agents & Chatbots E-commerce Support Help Desk & Ticketing |
| Integrations | Zendesk Shopify Anthropic Claude OpenAI Google Gemini Zapier | Shopify Klaviyo Instagram WhatsApp Slack Recharge |
Certainly is Copenhagen's contribution to the AI agent wave, and its accent shows in the best ways: European data residency, GDPR seriousness, and commercial terms designed to reduce buyer risk rather than maximize lock-in. Founded in 2017 as BotXO and later rebranded, it has deployed more than a thousand agents that have handled over 50 million queries, for brands including Ticketmaster, GANNI, Tiger of Sweden, Quad Lock, and Entain.
The product builds autonomous agents that resolve conversations end to end across web chat, Meta channels, SMS, and email, with more than 200 integrations into help desks and commerce stacks like Zendesk and Shopify. Its most distinctive technical stance is model flexibility: agents can run on Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's GPT, or Google's Gemini, so you are not married to one AI vendor's pricing or politics, and deployments can go live in as little as two weeks.
Pricing is published in euros and billed per conversation rather than per seat: Starter at 500 euros a month for 2,000 conversations, Pro at 1,250 for 10,000, Enterprise from 2,500. The buyer-friendly quirk is that every plan starts as a three-month pilot cancelable on a week's notice, an arrangement that says the product expects to earn its renewal.
Certainly fits European brands, and anyone selling into Europe, who want conversation-based pricing, data kept in the EU, and freedom to choose the underlying model. American enterprises chasing the biggest names will look elsewhere first; e-commerce and consumer brands with EU exposure should look here early.
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Gorgias is a help desk built specifically for online stores, and it knows its lane cold. It integrates deeply with Shopify, BigCommerce, and Magento, so its AI Agent can answer customer emails and chats about orders, shipping, returns, and products using live store data, then take real actions like editing an order or issuing a refund right inside the ticket. A Copilot assists human agents with drafts and summaries, and because Gorgias tracks the revenue that support conversations drive, it treats your help desk as a place that can make money, not just spend it.
The origin story is delightfully accidental. Gorgias started in Paris in 2015 as a humble Chrome extension for email templates, until the founders noticed that support agents were the ones actually using it and pivoted the whole company toward them. It shares its name with Gorgias of Leontini, the ancient Greek orator immortalized in one of Plato's dialogues, a fittingly talkative namesake for a conversation platform. Today it is a certified B Corporation and Shopify's only Premier Partner for customer experience, powering a large share of the biggest Shopify brands.
That focus has won a who's who of direct-to-consumer names, including Steve Madden, Glossier, Dr. Bronner's, and Marine Layer, with more than sixteen thousand brands on board in total. Pricing starts at just ten dollars a month and is based on ticket volume with unlimited users, so growing teams are not punished for adding people, and the AI Agent is billed per resolved conversation.
Its 2.0 release added a shopping assistant, image analysis, and cart-recovery flows in more than eighty languages, pushing Gorgias further into the world of support-driven selling. For any e-commerce brand living on Shopify that wants an AI agent tuned to the specific rhythms of online retail rather than a generic one, Gorgias is the obvious specialist pick.
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