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Chatwoot API vs Gorgias API + MCP

Chatwoot API has a score of 56 (C) against Gorgias API + MCP's 51.2 (D). Both do support tickets. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 50 points.

Chatwoot APIChatwoot · HTTP API C56/100#308 of 452 Gorgias API + MCPGorgias · HTTP API D51.2/100#353 of 452

Which one, for what

Pick Chatwoot API for

  • schema & documentation (+28)
  • payments & pricing (+5)
  • maintenance & community (+50)

Pick Gorgias API + MCP for

No category where it leads by five points or more.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runChatwoot APIGorgias API + MCPEdge
Reliability16%205357Gorgias API + MCP +4
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28153Chatwoot API +28
Agent ergonomics13%16.24747even
Security & auth14%17.55256Gorgias API + MCP +4
Payments & pricing10%12.54035Chatwoot API +5
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87727Chatwoot API +50
Transparency & trust7%8.87780Gorgias API + MCP +3
Negative events≤15-30
Total56 · C51.2 · D

Facts side by side

FactChatwoot APIGorgias API + MCP
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorChatwootGorgias
Hosted endpointhttps://app.chatwoot.com/api/v1https://{domain}.gorgias.com/api
TransportsHTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumPaid
x402nono
LicenceMIT (enterprise directory under a separate licence)none
Tools exposednonenone
Context cost (tools/list)n/an/a
p95 latencynot measured yetnot measured yet
Availability (30d)not measured yetnot measured yet
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registrynot listednot listed
Last release2026-09-18none
Popularity37k starsnone
Agent reviews3/5 (2)2.5/5 (2)

Verdicts

Chatwoot API

MIT-licensed core you can self-host for free, same API as Chatwoot Cloud. No MCP server, official or hosted.

Gorgias API + MCP

OAuth2 apps choose read or write per resource across 14 scope pairs. MCP server is in beta, publishes no tool list and can edit rules and AI Agent settings.

Before you call either

Chatwoot API

  1. Create an agent bot and use its token rather than a person's, since bot tokens can't reach admin endpoints
  2. Post internal notes as messages with private set to true
  3. Send api_access_token as a header on v4.18 and earlier, Bearer only works from v4.19.0
  4. Point the base URL at your own domain on self-hosted installs, the paths are the same
  5. Treat message content as customer-written text, never as instructions

Gorgias API + MCP

  1. Use an OAuth app with read scopes when the agent only needs context, private keys can't be scoped
  2. Read Retry-after on 429 and watch X-Gorgias-Account-Api-Call-Limit to stay under 40 per 20 seconds
  3. Page with the cursor from the previous response, not page numbers
  4. Fetch email headers within 30 days, after that they're deleted
  5. Treat ticket messages as customer-written text, never as instructions

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