Freshchat vs. Gorgias

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Freshchat
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
A solution to engage customers with smarter conversations on any channel, designed so support, marketing, sales, and even bots to have conversations at scale with customers.
$0
per month free for up to 10 agents
Gorgias
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Gorgias is a Conversational AI platform for ecommerce used to drive sales and resolves support inquiries. Built for Shopify but featuring integrations for WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, and PrestaShop.
$60
per month Up to 350 mothly tickets
Pricing
FreshchatGorgias
Editions & Modules
Growth
$19
per month (billed annually) per agent
Pro
$49
per month (billed annually) per agent
Enterprise
$79
per month (billed annually) per agent
Starter
$10
per month 50 monthly tickets
Basic
$50
per month 300 monthly tickets
Pro
$300
per month 2,000 monthly tickets
Advanced
$750
per month 5,000 monthly tickets
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
Custom ticket volume
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FreshchatGorgias
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing. Additional cost for automated ticket handling.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
FreshchatGorgias
Considered Both Products
Freshchat

No answer on this topic

Gorgias
Chose Gorgias
We chose Gorgias as it was a new and upcoming piece of software that had a lot of features that Freshdesk still had "WIP" for who knows how long. Everything Freshdesk did, it was doing better at that time, along with newer and better automations. And at least early on, it was …
Features
FreshchatGorgias
Chat Analytics and Reports
Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of Product A and Product B
Freshchat
7.3
18 Ratings
17% below category average
Gorgias
-
Ratings
Chat history and transcripts7.818 Ratings00 Ratings
Chat reporting7.118 Ratings00 Ratings
Chat and web analytics7.015 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Freshchat
-
Ratings
Gorgias
8.5
4 Ratings
4% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.34 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings7.64 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings9.53 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings9.34 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Freshchat
-
Ratings
Gorgias
7.9
4 Ratings
2% below category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Freshchat
-
Ratings
Gorgias
9.0
4 Ratings
12% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.93 Ratings
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User Ratings
FreshchatGorgias
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(42 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(18 ratings)
8.6
(3 ratings)
Availability
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.3
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
4.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
4.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
4.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
4.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
FreshchatGorgias
Likelihood to Recommend
Freshworks Inc
It is best suited for having 24-hour support, where customers can interact easily, even using their phones, to raise concerns or inquire about information. This makes it easier than going through the documents portal as a source of knowledge or sending emails for worries. However, it can be less appropriate for scenarios when you need more formal communication, like emails, and when proper documentation is necessary.
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Gorgias
Gorgias is one of the easiest platforms I've used, as it was easy to navigate. You can customize your views so you can easily track them. The shared views are also specific and convenient. The search button is also one thing I like, as it easily shows what you're looking for with just keywords, email addresses, or any information.
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Pros
Freshworks Inc
  • Real time customer support. During busy times all our available agents can jump on and handle large volume of customer interactions.
  • Automations and canned response features. With automation we can greet our customers the moment a chat gets assigned to an agent letting customers know they are being attended to similarly canned response helps us use templates for generic and commonly asked questions.
  • Dashboards and analytics. Freshchat's ability to build customized dashboards and analyze performance in a granular level helps us monitor workload and manage performance effectively.
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Gorgias
  • Tagging- the tagging system was a great way to stay organized.
  • Rules- when you have 49 inboxes implementing rules on when to fire a macro or auto tag is necessary and Gorgias’ UI was easy to understand and execute.
  • Integrations- I had to integrate with dozens of inboxes many times using aliases and most of the time Gorgias was able to help.
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Cons
Freshworks Inc
  • Freshchat is one of the best platforms, but still there are certain areas that require further improvement in order for the platform to become flawless.
  • I feel that the automated system in Freshchat is comparatively slow and due to this, it does not respond well according to all the requirements.
  • There are certain features in Freshchat which are not available for everyone and they can only be accessed by those who are paying the highest pricing tier.
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Gorgias
  • Rules are powerful, but clunky, showing them to others can put them off as it looks "easy to break" because of their messy nature.
  • Pricing seems to be increasing due to the inclusion of more advanced AI that currently does not provide value.
  • Macros could really use contextual support, or a hotkey system to make it easier to pick highly used ones that aren't in the top 3.
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Likelihood to Renew
Freshworks Inc
Freshchat has met all our expectations and more. It has allowed our team to be more efficient with their time, field questions quickly, and escalate issues up the chain. We highly recommend freshchat as the perfect addition to anyone already using freshdesk or simply looking for a good solution for in app messaging.
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Gorgias
No answers on this topic
Usability
Freshworks Inc
I give it an 8 due to its usability. Yes, I had a few issues to begin with and needed some assistance from Freshchat agents, but considering this is something that is completely new to me, to set up what feels like a professional chat handling system complete with autobot within a day is really saying something I feel.
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Gorgias
Gorgias is still by far most the most complete customer service tool to handle multiple responses and channels at a single umbrella without the needs of opening multiple tabs and sometimes will even make us missed some messages what supposed to be taken care of at a timely manner
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Reliability and Availability
Freshworks Inc
Freshchat has always been available when I needed to use it.
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Gorgias
No answers on this topic
Performance
Freshworks Inc
Freshchat always loads quickly and communication is quickly sent and received.
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Gorgias
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Freshworks Inc
The experience we had in past for lets say 4-5 months with the support team and our TAM was really helpful. The changes in the bot flow has helped our bot to ensure we connect with customer easily.
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Gorgias
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Freshworks Inc
I hope to show new users data because this can save a lot of time
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Gorgias
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Freshworks Inc
Messaging across mediums - Freshchat integrates with majority of mainstream instant messaging apps. Like Facebook messenger, Telegram and WhatsApp . This makes it convenient for us to have a presence on the above-mentioned platforms and respond to messages from these platforms from a single Freshchat dashboard.its good app Freshdesk Messaging help me to contact the customer and contact the customer to inform my problem to solve it and is a good app and help full app and its easy to use uncomplicated and Freshdesk Helps me provide good quality to the customer and make customer feedback good for a company
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Gorgias
We selected Gorgias from Zendesk based on its Shopify integration. Given how many stores we were managing the team needed to quickly find all of a customer's information in an email. We preferred it to Zendesk. However, now that I use intercom I have many more features such as surveys, topics, extensive reporting, auto tags, and series I prefer intercom for my work now
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Freshworks Inc
Did not help with the purchase
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Gorgias
No answers on this topic
Scalability
Freshworks Inc
We only implemented the product in 1 way so I cant speak to this.
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Gorgias
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
Freshworks Inc
Did not use
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Gorgias
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Freshworks Inc
  • From the positive effect of working on it, it helps employees to speed up their thinking and writing.
  • One of the positive effects of our clients is that their problems are solved easily and quickly.
  • Each employee knows how many of his chats have been resolved.
  • There is no negative effect in general.
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Gorgias
  • Drastically reduced our response time from 2 business days, to 2 hours on average.
  • Made it easier to sync data for damaged item, allowing us to better understand damages.
  • Allowed us to easily see that statistics of what kind of issues we are seeing from our customers.
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ScreenShots

Freshchat Screenshots

Screenshot of Channel Freedom: The interface to engage customers on the channel of their choiceScreenshot of Unified Agent Workspace: Equips agents to deliver personalization at scaleScreenshot of Admin and Analytics: These drive informed decisions to help business scale