AI agents for customer support
Answer recurring questions and route unresolved conversations to people.
Inputs & prerequisites
Approved policies, knowledge base, escalation rules, and permitted actions.
Test policy answers, order permissions, refunds, and escalation.
Candidates & fit
Evaluate when: Commerce support teams evaluating a helpdesk and AI agent together.
Check first: Availability, plan eligibility, and contractual conditions require confirmation.
Documented use: Combines a helpdesk and AI Agent in one support platform. Inspect evidence →
Evaluate when: Teams testing support grounded in an approved knowledge base.
Check first: Availability, plan eligibility, and contractual conditions require confirmation.
Documented use: Uses customer-provided knowledge and guidance for support responses. Inspect evidence →
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An AI agent within a commerce helpdesk, billed for resolved conversations.
Knowledge-based customer responses with guidance and configurable human handoff.
Compare the same facts
| Selection question | Gorgias AI AgentGorgias | Tidio LyroTidio |
|---|---|---|
| Product type | Supervised agent | Supervised agent |
| Best suited for | Commerce support teams evaluating a helpdesk and AI agent together. | Teams testing support grounded in an approved knowledge base. |
| Shared / related tasks | ||
| Price model | Helpdesk plan + resolved conversationsOfficial pricing describes an AI Agent on every plan and charges when it resolves a conversation. Exact rates and included volumes were not readable in the captured page. | Trial conversations · usage-based plansThe official page advertises a trial conversation allowance and conversation pricing. Verify current plans, Premium integration eligibility, and total costs. |
| Price amount | Not verified — not assumed to be $0 | Not verified — not assumed to be $0 |
| Deployment | Cloud service | Cloud service |
| API | Not verifiedNot verified in the reviewed official material. | Not verifiedNot verified in the reviewed official material. |
| Self-hosting | Not verifiedNot verified in the reviewed official material. | Not verifiedNot verified in the reviewed official material. |
| Open source | Not verifiedLicense and open-source status have not been verified. | Not verifiedLicense and open-source status have not been verified. |
| Inputs | Support knowledge and configured customer conversations; exact setup requires confirmation. | Approved support content, guidance, escalation rules, and permitted integrations. |
| Outputs | Support responses and resolved-conversation records. | Customer responses and human handoffs. |
| Platform relationship | Shopify: Native integration | Website: Native integration |
| Permissions | Exact action scopes not verified | Exact action scopes not verified |
| Commercial use | Commercial output rights and contractual use restrictions have not been verified for this entry. | Commercial output rights and contractual use restrictions have not been verified for this entry. |
| Human review | Review product claims, SKU details, refunds, campaign spend, and publishing actions before use. | Review product claims, SKU details, refunds, campaign spend, and publishing actions before use. |
| Ecommerce & Retail · Commerce platforms | Shopify: Native integrationSource 1 | Not verifiedNot verified in the reviewed official material. |
| Ecommerce & Retail · Workflow stages | ecommerce customer supportSource 1 | ecommerce customer supportSource 1 |
| Ecommerce & Retail · Integration by platform | Shopify: Native integrationSource 1 | Not verifiedNot verified in the reviewed official material. |
| Ecommerce & Retail · Store data & permissions | Not verifiedNot verified in the reviewed official material. | Not verifiedNot verified in the reviewed official material. |
| Ecommerce & Retail · Output formats | Not verifiedNot verified in the reviewed official material. | Not verifiedNot verified in the reviewed official material. |
| Ecommerce & Retail · Batch processing | Not verifiedNot verified in the reviewed official material. | Not verifiedNot verified in the reviewed official material. |
| Ecommerce & Retail · Localization languages | Not verifiedNot verified in the reviewed official material. | Not verifiedNot verified in the reviewed official material. |
| Ecommerce & Retail · Approval requirements | Not verifiedNot verified in the reviewed official material. | Not verifiedNot verified in the reviewed official material. |
| Verification | Partially verified · 2026-10-01 | Partially verified · 2026-10-01 |
| Independent testing | Not conducted by uAgentKit | Not conducted by uAgentKit |
A practical evaluation sequence
- Prepare the inputs and define a reviewable output.
- Check the candidate’s documented capability and plan eligibility.
- Run a small sample in the vendor product with authorized data.
- Review the result, permissions, sources and full operating cost.
Cost & human review
Check base subscriptions, seats, usage credits, connected app charges, hosting and any licensed source data. Trial access does not establish a recurring free allowance. Exact unverified prices remain unknown.
Test policy answers, order permissions, refunds, and escalation.
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Sources & limits
What “official sources” means We read vendor material for the claims cited below. This is a documentation review. No independent product test or professional endorsement is implied. Read our method →
- Official product information
Gorgias · www.gorgias.com · Limited accessible content · 2026-10-01
- Official pricing
Gorgias · www.gorgias.com · Read · 2026-10-01
- Official Shopify integration scope
Gorgias · www.gorgias.com · Read · 2026-10-01
- Official product information
Tidio · www.tidio.com · Read · 2026-10-01