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Comparison

Suvenna vs Gorgias

Gorgias is a capable incumbent with years of e-commerce support behind it. Suvenna differs in three places: how the bill is calculated, what the AI is allowed to say, and what stands between the AI and your money. Everything below is based on Gorgias's published pricing as of July 2026.

Side by side

Where we differ, where we match

CapabilitySuvennaGorgias
Per-resolution AI feesNone, flat$0.90-$1.00 + $1.50 overage
How an automated resolution billsOne flat priceTicket + resolution
Unlimited seatsOn Growth and up
Grounded-or-abstain AI
Refunds bounded at execution time
Per-store autonomy toggles, off by default
Append-only audit log for money actionsPartial
SLA first-response timers
Saved inbox views
CSAT surveys
Storefront chat widget
Voice, SMS, and social channelsNot yet

Gorgias column reflects their published pricing and documentation as of July 2026.

Difference 01

The success tax

Gorgias prices automation as a meter. On top of a ticket-capped plan, every AI-resolved conversation costs $0.90 to $1.00, with $1.50 overages beyond your bundle. And a fully automated resolution counts twice: it draws down your ticket allowance and bills as a resolution. The better the AI performs, the faster both meters run.

Suvenna charges a flat monthly price with conversations included and no per-resolution fees, ever. When our AI resolves a conversation on its own, your bill does not move. A helpdesk should not tax you for the exact outcome you bought it for.

Worked example: 3,000 AI resolutions per month

Gorgias resolution fees, per month
$2,700 to $3,000
Over a year, on top of the plan
$32,400 to $36,000
Suvenna resolution fees, at any volume
$0

Difference 02

Grounded, or it abstains

Most AI agents will produce an answer whether or not they have one. Suvenna's agent is built the other way around. It answers from your store's own policies and macros and from the verified customer's real Shopify order. If your policies do not cover the question, it says so and escalates to your team with full context. It never invents a tracking number, a discount, or a policy.

Order lookups are bound to the verified customer's email address, so a shopper can only ever see their own orders. An answer you cannot trace back to your own policy or your own order data is not a resolution, it is a liability.

Difference 03

Guardrails at the execution layer

Anyone can put a rule in a prompt. Suvenna's money guardrails live in the execution engine, where they cannot be skipped. Every refund, cancellation, and return is confirm-gated: the customer explicitly confirms, and risky actions queue for one-click human approval. Refund amounts are bounded by the order's actual refundable amount at the moment of execution, not at the moment of the conversation.

Live actions ship off for every store until you turn them on, and every action lands in an append-only audit log. The confirm-before-money gate is not a setting. It cannot be disabled, by you or by us.

Fair is fair

When Gorgias is the right choice

If your support runs on voice, SMS, Instagram, or Facebook today, Gorgias covers channels Suvenna does not yet. And if your stack depends on a long tail of legacy integrations, Gorgias's marketplace has had years to build out. We would rather you pick the right tool than win a table.

If your support is email and storefront chat on a Shopify store, and you care about what the AI is allowed to say and spend, that is the store we built Suvenna for.

Questions

Suvenna vs Gorgias, answered

Can Suvenna fully replace Gorgias for a Shopify store?
For email and storefront chat, yes. Suvenna is a full desk: shared inbox, SLA timers, saved views, automation rules, an approval queue, QA, CSAT, and reports, plus guarded Shopify actions for refunds, cancellations, and returns. If you need voice, SMS, or social channels today, Gorgias covers channels we do not yet.
What does no per-resolution fees actually mean?
Your plan includes a monthly conversation volume, and that is the whole bill. When Suvenna's AI resolves a conversation on its own, the price does not change. Caps are soft: we never cut you off mid-conversation.
What if Suvenna's AI does not perform?
The resolution guarantee: if Suvenna does not independently resolve at least 30% of your conversations in your first 60 days, we credit your money back.

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