Comparing Gladly Sidekick and Richpanel? 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 | Gladly Sidekick | Richpanel |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid · ~$180/seat/mo | Per resolution · $99/seat + $0.20/AI conversation |
| Founded | 2014 | 2019 |
| Categories | AI Agents & Chatbots E-commerce Support Help Desk & Ticketing | AI Agents & Chatbots E-commerce Support |
| Integrations | Shopify Salesforce Zendesk Twilio Amazon Connect Slack | Shopify WooCommerce Magento Klaviyo Recharge Aircall |
Gladly organizes support around people instead of tickets, and that one decision changes everything about how it feels. Every customer gets a single lifelong conversation thread that follows them across voice, chat, SMS, email, and social, so they never have to repeat themselves and your agents always see the full story. Sidekick, its AI agent, lives inside that thread, resolving requests using real customer context and taking genuine actions like tracking an order, starting a return, or making a change, then handing off to a human with everything already in view.
A recent standout is Sidekick on Voice, which Gladly bills as the industry's only AI voice agent powered by that lifelong, multichannel history, so a phone conversation picks up right where a chat left off. The company has kept expanding the family with Sidekick Sales for product recommendations, Sidekick Email, and versions that extend the agent onto Zendesk and Salesforce, so teams on other platforms can borrow its brain.
Gladly was founded in 2014 by Joseph Ansanelli and his co-founders, and it has leaned cheerfully into its theme, naming its pricing tiers Hero and Superhero. It is very much an enterprise product, sold largely by quote with seat minimums, and its Sidekick AI is billed per conversation or resolution on top. That positioning fits its customer base of consumer brands that treat support as a loyalty channel, including Crate and Barrel, Ulta Beauty, and Breeze Airways.
The through-line here is emotional as much as it is technical: Gladly wants every interaction to feel like talking to a company that genuinely remembers you and your history. If you sell to consumers who expect a personal, continuous relationship rather than a cold, fresh ticket every single time they reach out, Gladly and its Sidekick agent are built from top to bottom around exactly that promise.
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Richpanel started from a heretical observation: the best support ticket is the one that never gets created. Founded in 2019 by Amit RG and backed by Y Combinator and Sequoia India's Surge program, it leads with an Amazon-style self-service portal for online stores, where shoppers track packages, change addresses, and start returns from their own account page without ever writing to support. Whatever still becomes a conversation lands in an omnichannel inbox, email, chat, social, and voice, where AI resolves tickets end to end in your brand voice, trained on your past tickets, with one-click migration from the help desk you are leaving.
The company sells confidence in numbers. Pricing is a clean usage model, roughly $0.20 per AI-handled conversation plus $99 per month per human seat, so a thousand AI conversations and one agent runs about $299 a month, and it advertises around 30 percent savings versus Gorgias, Zendesk, or Fin. The remarkable part is the guarantee: a 30-day full refund if the AI does not resolve at least half your tickets, which replaces the free trial and tells you how the team thinks.
Richpanel integrates deeply with Shopify, WooCommerce, and Magento plus the DTC stack of Klaviyo, Recharge, and Aftership, and positions squarely as the e-commerce alternative to bigger names, with more than 2,000 brands aboard.
Choose Richpanel if you run an online store, believe most tickets should be self-served out of existence, and like pricing you can verify on a napkin. It is one of the few vendors in the directory willing to be graded on outcomes.
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