Comparison

Volty vs Gorgias.

Gorgias is a help desk for Shopify stores, priced by ticket, with an AI Agent billed per automated interaction. Volty is an AI helpdesk builder whose AI agent interviews your team and configures itself.

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Updated Nov 3, 2026

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What you're really deciding

Why teams choose Volty over Gorgias

Gorgias and Volty both answer customers with AI, act on their orders and pass the hard conversations to a person. Gorgias suits an online store on Shopify that wants its help desk built around orders, with an AI Agent that edits and cancels Shopify orders itself. Volty suits a business of any kind whose customers write in on WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, email and web chat: Volty interviews your team, configures itself and writes the automations your team asks for.

01More for what you payMore included on the measures you are billed by.Price
02Build beyond the helpdeskPlan, build and test automations and mini apps with Claude Code.Customize
03Connect any systemAny system with an open API, with no other tool to manage.Integrations
04An AI that works like your teamOur own agentic harness, which learns from your team.AI

01 · Price

More for what you pay than Gorgias

Tools like Volty and Gorgias are priced on a few measures: how many people you talk to, how much the AI does, how often it reaches your other systems, and what each plan unlocks. On each one, Volty includes more or charges less. Prices change, so each company's current figures are on its own pricing page.

Measure

Volty

How you payActive contacts, 2,500 a month on Plus. Each one counts once a month, however many messages they exchange.Every conversation your team, a rule or the AI Agent answers counts as a billable ticket.

AI answersAI replies come out of a monthly allowance of AI credits, 20,000 on Plus.Each automated interaction is billed, and interactions beyond the plan's allowance cost more.

AI that actsAI that calls your other systems on every plan.AI Agent actions are built for Shopify orders and a set of ecommerce apps, and the AI Agent needs a connected Shopify store.

IntegrationsEvery integration on every plan.Systems outside the integrations list connect through an HTTP integration or the REST API.

02 · Customize

Build what your business needs, not only a helpdesk

A helpdesk answers messages. Your business also runs reminders, follow-ups, reports, bookings and the odd spreadsheet nobody owns. In Volty you describe the job in chat, or hand it to Claude Code, and it becomes an automation or a mini app that runs on your conversations, your contacts and the systems you connect.

AutomationsCode that runs on a schedule, when something happens in Volty, when another system calls a webhook, or when an email arrives. Each one runs in a sandbox and picks up where it stopped if anything fails.
Mini appsDashboards and internal tools your team opens inside Volty: a lead board, a report on where this month's customers came from, a front desk view. They read and update your Tables.
Tables and DrivePrice lists, schedules and records live in Tables your automations and Volty itself read from. Handbooks and files in Drive become what Volty knows.

No more drag and drop

Most messaging tools build automations in a visual builder: you place each trigger, condition and step on a canvas or in a form, connect them by hand, and change them the same way. With Volty you describe what you want, and Claude Code plans, builds and tests it with you.

Gorgias Rules are built from WHEN, IF and THEN: a trigger such as Ticket created, conditions of a field, an operator and a value, then actions such as Add tags, Assign team and Reply to customer. An account holds up to 70 rules. Flows are customer-facing paths started from a button, with steps such as Multiple choice, Collect text reply and HTTP request, which splits into Success and Error, ending in Create a ticket or End interaction.

claude · northside-dental

> When someone asks to book on WhatsApp, offer free slots from Google Calendar and book the one they pick

● Plan

1. Read free slots from Google Calendar for the service asked about

2. Offer up to three as WhatsApp buttons

3. Book the slot picked, and hand to the front desk if it was taken

● Build

volty automations create --name "Book from WhatsApp" --source-path booking.ts

● Test

Dry run on this week's calendar: 12 free slots found, 3 offered, 1 booked, 0 errors

● Ready

"Book from WhatsApp" is waiting for an admin to approve it in Volty.

With Volty you describe the job to Claude Code. It plans the steps with you, writes the automation, tests it against your real data and hands it to an admin to approve.

01 · PlanClaude Code reads what Volty can do, asks what it needs to know and lays out the steps before it writes anything.
02 · BuildIt writes the automation or mini app as code and files it in Volty with one command.
03 · TestA dry run against your real data shows exactly what would happen, and Claude Code fixes anything that fails.
04 · ApproveAn admin reads what it does, what it can touch and what it costs, then approves it in Volty.

Why Claude Code works so well with Volty

Every feature in Volty is written once and reaches you four ways at the same time: the screen your team clicks, the volty command line, the API, and the AI inside Volty. There is no second, smaller API for developers. So anything your team can do in Volty, Claude Code or any other coding agent can do too, under the same rules and the same approvals.

The volty command line reads Volty's live list of operations, so a coding agent always sees what exists today, never an outdated reference.
One command installs the Volty skill for Claude Code, which teaches it to build, test and read back what Volty did.
Keys for coding agents can be read-only, limited to some features, and expire within 14 days.
Before anything goes live it is tested: automations run a dry run, mini apps check every data route, and a real conversation can be replayed against the change.
Anything a coding agent writes waits for an admin, on a page that answers four questions: what it does, what changed, what it can touch and what it costs.

03 · Integrations

Connect any system with an open API, with no other tool to manage

Volty reaches your other systems directly, so it can look up an order, book a slot or update a record in the middle of a conversation. Every connection lives inside Volty, so there is no Zapier or Make account to set up, keep in sync and troubleshoot when a step fails.

HubSpot, Google Calendar, Shopify, Slack, Notion, Google Drive, Plato, any MCP server and any API

Ready-made connectors

Hundreds of apps connect in a few clicks, among them Google Calendar and Google Drive, HubSpot, Notion, Slack and Shopify.

Any MCP server

Paste the address of any system that offers an MCP server, sign in, and its tools appear in Volty.

Anything with an API

For a system with no connector, Volty writes the connection itself as code. An admin approves it once, and Volty can call it in the middle of a conversation.

One place to manage every connection: no second automation tool, no second login, no second bill.
API keys go into a secure card, are encrypted, and are never typed into a chat.
Each tool has its own switch. Tools that change data start off until an admin turns them on.

Gorgias lists ecommerce apps such as Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, WooCommerce, Recharge, Loop Returns, Yotpo and Attentive. Anything else connects through an HTTP integration or Gorgias's REST API.

Volty

Ready-made connectors, any MCP server, and a connection Volty writes for anything else with an API, all inside Volty. There is no second automation tool to sign up for, connect and keep working.

04 · AI

An AI that works like a person on your team

Most helpdesks add an AI agent to software built for people clicking buttons. Volty was built the other way round. We wrote our own agentic harness, the engine that decides what the AI reads, what it may do, when it must ask a person and what it keeps from each conversation, and built the helpdesk around it.

What happens when a customer writes in

1Waits for the whole messageCustomers send three short messages in a row. Volty waits a few seconds and answers all three at once, and folds in anything that arrives while it is writing.
2Reads everything they sentVoice notes are transcribed. Photos, PDFs, documents and short videos are read.
3Checks what it knowsYour instructions, the lessons your team taught it, your knowledge files and what it remembers about this customer.
4Acts in your systemsLooks up the order, books the slot, updates the record, using only the tools you switched on.
5Asks before anything bigSpending money, messaging many people or anything that cannot be undone waits for a person. Volty carries on from the same point once someone approves.
6Replies like a person textingShort, answer first, in your customer's language, with buttons when there are only a few choices.

It learns on its own

Dana edited Volty's reply

Sure, I'll refund your deposit for tomorrow's appointment.

Deposits can't be refunded within 24 hours of the appointment, but I can move it to another day.

LessonsFor everyone

Deposits are not refundable within 24 hours of the appointment.

Approved by Dana · todayUndo

Bulk orders over 20 pieces go to Chris for a quote.

Approved by Chris · Oct 28Undo

Say 3 to 5 days for delivery, never a fixed date.

Approved by Maya · Oct 21Undo

Learns from every correction

When a teammate replies instead of Volty, Volty compares the two and keeps the lesson: a fact about the business, a rule for every customer or a note about one. Each lesson shows who taught it, and anyone can undo it.

Keeps its promises

When Volty tells a customer it will get back to them, it schedules the follow-up and returns at that time. A promise with nothing scheduled behind it is flagged.

Jordan ReyesMaya

The chair arrived with a cracked leg. Can I speak to someone?Sorry about that! I've passed this to Maya on our team. She'll reply here shortly.

Volty · Stepped back. A teammate is handling this conversation

Hi Jordan, Maya here. A replacement leg ships today, no charge.

Steps back for your team

When a teammate replies, Volty waits, then picks up whatever the customer sent in the meantime. Replies sent from the WhatsApp Business app on your phone count too.

Reviews its own day

Each night Volty reads the day's replies from your team, merges rules that say the same thing, retires ones that no longer apply and suggests one change to its instructions for an admin to approve.

Remembers each customer

Volty keeps what it learns about each customer and a short recap of every closed case, so a returning customer never has to start over.

The AI Agent answers from your store's website, help center articles, documents, URLs and guidance, and needs a connected Shopify store. It can cancel, edit, replace and reship Shopify orders, and actions you build call other apps through HTTP requests. Each automated interaction is billed.

Volty

An agentic harness we built for this job: it waits, reads everything, acts only with the tools you allow, asks before anything big, and learns from every correction your team makes.

See how it works in more depth on the AI agent page.

More ways Volty is different

It reads what customers actually send

Voice notes get transcribed. Photos and documents get read.

Side by side

Channels

Volty

WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, email and web chat, in one inbox

Email, live chat, SMS, voice, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, contact forms and TikTok Shop.

Setting it up

Volty

Volty interviews your team, drafts its own instructions and tests itself before it talks to a single customer.

An admin connects a Shopify store, adds knowledge, creates skills and actions, sets guidance, tone and handover, tests in the Playground, then turns the AI Agent on channel by channel.

Reaching your systems

Volty

Volty connects to hundreds of business apps through ready-made connectors, to any MCP server, and to any other system with an API through a connection Volty writes. Tools that change data start Off until an admin turns them on.

Ecommerce apps such as Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, WooCommerce, Recharge and Loop Returns, plus HTTP integrations and Gorgias's REST API.

Building automations

Volty

Describe a workflow in chat, and Volty builds the automation for it. An admin approves each automation before it runs.

An admin builds Rules from a trigger, conditions and actions, and customer-facing Flows from steps such as Multiple choice and HTTP request. An account holds up to 70 rules.

When a person is needed

Volty

WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, email and web chat land in one shared inbox. Volty escalates the conversations that need someone from your team, and when a teammate replies, Volty steps back. Your number can stay in the WhatsApp Business app on your phone, so your team can reply from there too.

The AI Agent hands over on frustration, a request for a person, a sensitive topic or a handover topic you set. A number can belong to only one WhatsApp account, and connecting it to Gorgias creates a new one.

Messaging customers first

Volty

Volty follows up with an approved template once the window has closed, and sends broadcasts.

A WhatsApp conversation is started with a pre-approved template, and replies after 24 hours are templates too.

What it costs

Volty

A monthly plan after a free 7-day trial, with active contacts, AI credits and every integration included. Plan prices are on the Volty pricing page. Meta bills you for its messages separately.

Priced by billable tickets a month, after a free 7-day trial. As of November 2026, from US$10 for 50 tickets on Starter to US$900 for 5,000 on Advanced, billed monthly, with a charge for each extra ticket. AI Agent interactions beyond the plan's allowance cost US$1.50 each.

Feature comparison: Volty vs Gorgias
Feature	VoltyVolty	Gorgias
Channels	WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, email and web chat, in one inbox	Email, live chat, SMS, voice, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, contact forms and TikTok Shop.
Setting it up	Volty interviews your team, drafts its own instructions and tests itself before it talks to a single customer.	An admin connects a Shopify store, adds knowledge, creates skills and actions, sets guidance, tone and handover, tests in the Playground, then turns the AI Agent on channel by channel.
Reaching your systems	Volty connects to hundreds of business apps through ready-made connectors, to any MCP server, and to any other system with an API through a connection Volty writes. Tools that change data start Off until an admin turns them on.	Ecommerce apps such as Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, WooCommerce, Recharge and Loop Returns, plus HTTP integrations and Gorgias's REST API.
Building automations	Describe a workflow in chat, and Volty builds the automation for it. An admin approves each automation before it runs.	An admin builds Rules from a trigger, conditions and actions, and customer-facing Flows from steps such as Multiple choice and HTTP request. An account holds up to 70 rules.
When a person is needed	WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, email and web chat land in one shared inbox. Volty escalates the conversations that need someone from your team, and when a teammate replies, Volty steps back. Your number can stay in the WhatsApp Business app on your phone, so your team can reply from there too.	The AI Agent hands over on frustration, a request for a person, a sensitive topic or a handover topic you set. A number can belong to only one WhatsApp account, and connecting it to Gorgias creates a new one.
Messaging customers first	Volty follows up with an approved template once the window has closed, and sends broadcasts.	A WhatsApp conversation is started with a pre-approved template, and replies after 24 hours are templates too.
What it costs	A monthly plan after a free 7-day trial, with active contacts, AI credits and every integration included. Plan prices are on the Volty pricing page. Meta bills you for its messages separately.	Priced by billable tickets a month, after a free 7-day trial. As of November 2026, from US$10 for 50 tickets on Starter to US$900 for 5,000 on Advanced, billed monthly, with a charge for each extra ticket. AI Agent interactions beyond the plan's allowance cost US$1.50 each.

The honest take

Choose Gorgias when

You run a Shopify store, most of your questions are about orders, and you want a help desk priced by ticket whose AI Agent cancels, edits, replaces and reships Shopify orders itself.

VoltyChoose Volty when

Your business is not only a Shopify store, your customers write in on WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, email or web chat, and you want the AI to set itself up and connect to whatever systems you run.

Bottom line

Gorgias is a help desk built around Shopify orders, priced by ticket. Volty is an AI helpdesk builder whose AI agent configures itself, connects to the systems you run and works alongside your team, on one monthly plan.