Comparison

Sensbot vs Gorgias helpdesk or assistant layer

A full helpdesk against an assistant layer. Where they overlap, and what each costs.

Sensbot runs ecommerce support in two places. The Email Assistant drafts a reply inside your own mailbox and an operator presses send. The Chatbot answers on your storefront. Both read live order, product and customer data from IdoSell, Shoper, Shopify or Upgates, so a question about order 5512 is answered with order 5512, not with a knowledge base article about shipping.

Gorgias is an ecommerce helpdesk: the place tickets live, get assigned and get closed. It prices on ticket volume and states outright that it is never priced per agent, entering at $10 per month for 50 tickets, with its AI charged separately at $1.50 per AI conversation. It was founded in Paris in 2015 by Romain Lapeyre and Alex Plugaru and has raised around $100M.

So this is a category comparison, not a feature duel. If you need a shared inbox, ticket assignment, SLAs and agent workflows, that is a helpdesk and Sensbot is not one. If you need the answers themselves to arrive already written from live store data, that is the layer we sell. Plenty of stores would sensibly want both.

Competitor pricing and plan facts below come from a pricing and positioning scan we ran in August 2026, quoted in the currency each vendor publishes. Sensbot figures come from our own pricing page. Every cost calculation shows its arithmetic and rounds in the other vendor favour. Rows we could not confirm from a primary source say so instead of guessing, and nothing here is a claim about how well the other product works. One extra caveat for this page: the Gorgias figures in our scan came from its Shopify app listing rather than its own pricing page, so they may lag direct-sale pricing. Check with Gorgias before making a decision on the numbers.

Sensbot vs Gorgias, side by side

Sensbot and Gorgias side by side, checked August 2026
What you are comparing	Sensbot	Gorgias
Category	Assistant layer. Answers on the storefront and drafts email replies; not a ticketing system.	Full ecommerce helpdesk: shared inbox, ticketing and agent workflow.
Pricing model	Flat monthly price per product. No credits, no per-seat fee, no per-resolution fee.	Ticket volume, never per seat. AI charged separately at $1.50 per AI conversation.
Entry price	€49 per month for Chatbot Starter (100 chats). Email Assistant also starts at €49.	Gorgias advantage $10 per month for 50 tickets. Ticket overage from $36 per 100.
What you pay at real support volume	Sensbot advantage €129 Growth covers 500 chats with custom branding included. €299 Scale covers 2,500. The invoice is identical in a busy month and a quiet one.	500 AI conversations at $1.50 each is $750 for the month, before ticket overage.
Fits the desk you already run	Sensbot advantage Supplies the drafted reply and the order context inside Thulium, Zendesk, Freshdesk or Zoho Desk, so nothing has to be migrated.	A helpdesk in its own right. Gorgias is not one of the desks Sensbot plugs into today.
Where a reply gets its facts	Live order, shipment, product, customer and return data from your store, plus your knowledge base.	Not covered by our source scan.
Ecommerce platform integrations	IdoSell, Shoper, Shopify and Upgates as installed apps, plus PrestaShop, Magento, Shopware, Sylius and Shoptet connected through their own API during setup.	Not covered by our source scan.
Channels covered	Storefront chat, email drafts in Gmail or Outlook, and helpdesk replies in Thulium, Zendesk, Freshdesk and Zoho Desk.	Not covered by our source scan. Sensbot does not plug into Gorgias today.
Managed white-glove option	Verified Sensbot capability Done-for-you from €390 per month: setup, tuning, multi-store and multi-language portfolios, full API access, priority support and SLA, and a named contact with a monthly review.	Not covered by our source scan.
European positioning	Built for European stores. 100+ customers across Europe, Polish market first.	None stated in our August 2026 scan, despite being Paris-founded.

Green check: a capability we can verify on our own side. Grey check: a genuine advantage on theirs. No check means the row is descriptive, the two are level, or the answer is not covered by our source scan. A green check never means the other product lacks the feature, only that we could confirm ours.

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The bill at real support volume

The concession is real: $10 per month for 50 tickets is the cheapest entry in this whole market, and nothing we sell competes with it at that size.

The AI is the part that scales. Gorgias charges $1.50 per AI conversation, so 500 AI conversations is $750 for the month (500 times 1.50), on top of whatever the ticket plan costs. Ticket overage above the entry plan starts at $36 per 100, and we have used the low end of that range deliberately.

Sensbot Chatbot Growth is €129 flat for 500 chats with custom branding included, and Scale is €299 for 2,500. The answering layer does not meter per resolution, so the number stops moving.

One honest caveat on all of this: our scan took the Gorgias figures from its Shopify app listing rather than its own pricing page, so check them directly before deciding. And note the units differ, since an AI conversation and a chat are not defined identically.

When Gorgias is the better choice

You need a helpdesk, not an assistant. Shared inbox, ticket assignment, macros, SLAs and agent workflows are its job and are not something Sensbot does.
Your ticket volume is very small. $10 per month for 50 tickets is cheaper than any Sensbot plan, and it includes the ticketing system.
You want the AI to be optional and pay only when it resolves something. Gorgias states "AI Agent on every plan, pay only when it resolves a conversation", which is a fair deal at low AI usage.
You are on a platform Sensbot does not connect to. We cover IdoSell, Shoper, Shopify and Upgates today.

When Sensbot is the better choice

Your AI volume is real. This is the price and performance case: 500 AI conversations at $1.50 is $750 a month there, against €129 flat here for 500 chats with custom branding included. Per-resolution pricing is fair at low volume and expensive at the volume a growing store actually has.
Email is where the work actually is. The Email Assistant drafts the reply in your own mailbox with order context attached, and an operator presses send.
You sell on IdoSell, Shoper or Upgates. Sensbot is in those marketplaces and reads live order, shipment and return data from them; a helpdesk built around Shopify-first ecommerce is a worse fit for a Polish or Czech catalogue.
You already have a helpdesk and do not want a second one. Sensbot supplies the answer inside Thulium, Zendesk, Freshdesk or Zoho Desk rather than asking your team to move house.
You would rather we ran it. Done-for-you starts at €390 per month: we set it up, tune it and keep it running across your stores and languages, with helpdesk, CRM and internal system integrations, full API access, priority support and SLA, and a named contact with a monthly review.

Common questions

Is Gorgias cheaper than Sensbot?

At small volume, clearly: $10 per month for 50 tickets is cheaper than anything we sell, and it is a whole helpdesk. The crossover is the AI meter. Gorgias charges $1.50 per AI conversation, so 500 of them is $750 for the month, while Sensbot Growth is €129 flat for 500 chats with custom branding included. Below roughly a hundred AI conversations a month the pay-per-resolution model is the better deal; above that, a flat plan is.

Does Sensbot replace Gorgias?

No. Gorgias is a helpdesk and Sensbot is not: there is no shared inbox, no ticket assignment and no SLA engine here. Sensbot is the layer that writes the answer from live store data. Sensbot plugs into Thulium, Zendesk, Freshdesk and Zoho Desk today, and Gorgias is not one of the helpdesks we integrate with.

Can I run both?

Not through a direct integration today. If your tickets live in Gorgias, the practical Sensbot surfaces are the storefront Chatbot and the Email Assistant on a mailbox you route yourself. If integrating with your helpdesk is the deciding factor, tell us which one and we will tell you honestly whether it is on the roadmap.

Why does Sensbot not charge per resolution?

Because it makes the bill unpredictable in exactly the months support is hardest. A flat monthly price for the volume in your plan means a busy December costs the same as a quiet July, and when you outgrow a tier you move up a tier on purpose rather than by surprise.

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