# Drag vs Gorgias API + MCP (slim)

> Gorgias scores 54.8 (C) to Drag's 40 (E) for support conversations. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Gorgias API + MCP scores 54.8 (C) on agent readiness against Drag's 40 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Drag leads on schema & documentation and maintenance & community. Both do support conversations.

- Drag: E 40, rank #1330 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/drag.min.md
- Gorgias API + MCP: C 54.8, rank #895 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gorgias.min.md
- Drag, good for Small teams running support@ or sales@ in Gmail who want an agent to triage, label, assign and draft replies. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 71 against 53; Maintenance & community, 43 against 27. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- Gorgias API + MCP, good for Shopify and ecommerce brands that want order context in the ticket and an agent to triage and tag. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 28; Security & auth, 56 against 23; Payments & pricing, 35 against 30; Transparency & trust, 80 against 49.

| Category | Drag | Gorgias API + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 28 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 71 | 53 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 43 | 47 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 23 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 43 | 27 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 49 | 80 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Drag | Gorgias API + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | DragApp.com Ltd | Gorgias |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.dragapp.com/mcp` | `https://{domain}.gorgias.com/api` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Tools exposed | 47 | 165 |
| MCP registry | `com.dragapp/mcp-server` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-08-13 | none |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-13 | 2026-03-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-03 | 2026-03-30 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |

Why the edge:
- Reliability, Gorgias API + MCP +47: Drag 28 (Graded as a hosted service on the MCP server at app.dragapp.com/mcp and REST API v2. No status page is linked and status.dragapp.com failed the TLS handshake (0). No readable incident history (5). The REST docs say rate limits apply without numbers; the hosted MCP server's source defaults to 60 calls a minute per key (5 of 15). The REST docs say to retry a 429 with exponential backoff, with no idempotency guidance for sends (8 of 15). No SLA found (0). Neither surface is labelled beta (10). 0 + 5 + 5 + 8 + 0 + 10 = 28.); Gorgias API + MCP 75 (Atlassian Statuspage at status.gorgias.com with a REST API component beside the web app, integrations and helpdesk clusters (20). The Atom feed's 25 entries run from 15 July to 4 November 2026, so the 90 days from 6 August are fully read. 21 incidents were posted from 11 August, each scoped to one function, channel, integration or cluster, or to a subset of customers, such as the cloud provider network incident of 1 September (15:19 to 18:59 UTC), login on 30 October and Workflows calls to the Helpdesk API blocked by a Cloudflare rule on 2 and 3 November. None says the REST API was down, so all read as partial, minor incidents (20). Leaky bucket of 40 requests per 20 seconds for API keys and 80 for OAuth apps, a 10-second window on Enterprise (15). 429 with Retry-after and a usage header, and no safe-retry or idempotency guidance for writes, which this benchmark scores 10 (10). No uptime SLA found (0). The REST API is GA, and the MCP help article no longer carries a beta label (10). 20 + 20 + 15 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 75.)
- Security & auth, Gorgias API + MCP +33: Drag 23 (One API key per user that the docs say grants full access to the workspace, revocable in settings; the hosted server wraps it in an OAuth 2.1 flow with PKCE, but the key remains the access token (10). No read-only key or scopes; the server instructions tell the model to confirm sends when intent is unclear, and ChatGPT's plugin asks before sending (5 of 20). Tools return email and WhatsApp text from outside senders, and no prompt-injection guidance was found (0). No audit log of API or MCP actions found (0). Google CASA Tier 2, and the trust centre lists SOC 2 and GDPR, but no security.txt (404) or disclosure policy was found (8 of 20). 10 + 5 + 0 + 0 + 8 = 23.); Gorgias API + MCP 56 (Private API keys go over Basic auth with the user's email and have no scopes. OAuth2 apps choose read or write per resource, and the MCP server signs in by OAuth and acts with your Gorgias role (22 of 30). The MCP tools page gives each tool a minimum role and labels those that send to customers, go live, change real data or can't be undone. New rules and actions are created off, guidance and articles are saved as drafts, and macros are archived rather than deleted. Approval of each call is left to the AI client, and there is no read-only mode, though an OAuth app can be limited to read scopes (10 of 20). Ticket messages are customer-written and we found no injection guidance (0). Audit log events kept for 12 months, per the changelog (10 of 15). SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA reports on request and a valid security.txt per the 1 October check, and a vulnerability disclosure policy (last revised 30 March 2026) that acknowledges reports within 5 business days. The bug bounty was paused on 1 October (14 of 20). No 2025 or 2026 record in the CVE list names Gorgias. 22 + 10 + 0 + 10 + 14 = 56.)
- Transparency & trust, Gorgias API + MCP +31: Drag 49 (Closed service under terms naming DragApp.com Ltd, with the MCP server under MIT (20 of 30). The privacy policy (3 September 2026) says servers are in the US, says the MCP connector keeps no copy of the data it carries, and names Google Analytics, but gives no retention periods (12 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (0). Hosting at AWS in Virginia is stated and the trust centre has a subprocessor section we could not open past its root page (10 of 20). 20 + 12 + 0 + 10 = 42.); Gorgias API + MCP 80 (Closed service with published terms, the Master Subscription Agreement and website terms both last revised 30 March 2026 (15). Per the 1 October check, the privacy notice (revised 30 March 2026) keeps data while you hold an account, with a DPA and a sub-processor list. The changelog adds email retention (headers deleted and bodies archived 30 days after each email, from 8 September 2026). No AI training statement found (18 of 30). Dated changelog notices of deprecations and removals, such as the TLS 1.2 update with a scheduled date, and no stated notice period, which this benchmark scores 15 (15). Sub-processor list published, hosting on Google Cloud, transfers to the US under standard contractual clauses (15 of 20). 15 + 18 + 15 + 15 = 63.)
- Schema & documentation, Drag +18: Drag 71 (No OpenAPI or other contract for REST v2 was found. Every MCP tool carries a JSON input schema in the open-source server (20 of 25). llms.txt for the site (10). Tool descriptions say which ID to pass, which tool to call first and when WhatsApp free text fails, and the server instructions add tips (17 of 20). Inputs are typed in the schemas, with IDs as strings and few enums (10 of 15). The REST docs show request and response examples for 24 endpoints and a shared error shape with 401, 429 and 500 (9 of 15). REST is v2, but no changelog was found; versions are visible only on npm and in the repository (5 of 15). 20 + 10 + 17 + 10 + 9 + 5 = 71.); Gorgias API + MCP 53 (No public OpenAPI file found (0). llms.txt indexes the developer docs, and any page gives Markdown with .md appended (10). Reference pages describe each object and endpoint (12 of 20). Typed fields on the object pages (10 of 15). An errors page and request examples in the reference (11 of 15). A dated developer changelog marks deprecations and removals, with no API versioning (10 of 15). The MCP tools page names each tool and what it does, without input schemas. 0 + 10 + 12 + 10 + 11 + 10 = 53.)
- Maintenance & community, Drag +16: Drag 43 (@dragapp/mcp-server 0.7.0 on npm on 13 August 2026, 85 days before this check; the repository had a commit on 6 November and its package.json reads 0.12.0 with no matching release (20). Only one dated release in the 90 days from 8 August, and no changelog (0). 43 commits since 6 July 2026 by the CTO; issues were not read (8 of 25). Domain-verified com.dragapp/mcp-server namespace, but the entry stops at 0.1.5 and lists only the stdio package, not the hosted remote (10 of 15). A secret-scan workflow and a tarball check before publish; no tests in CI (5 of 10). 20 + 0 + 8 + 10 + 5 = 43.); Gorgias API + MCP 27 (The newest developer changelog entry, posted on 1 July 2026, changed the API on 8 September 2026, when email headers began to be removed and original bodies archived 30 days after each email. That dated API change is 57 days old (20). No changelog entries in the 90 days from 6 August (0). The MCP server lost its beta label and gained a tool list dated October 2026, with no dated entry. Changelog and support, no public issue tracker (7 of 15). No official SDKs (0). No package to assess (0). 20 + 0 + 7 + 0 + 0 = 27.)
- Payments & pricing, Gorgias API + MCP +5: Drag 30 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-seat plan prices are public, and AI credits are priced at $0.01, with nothing per API call (10). The 7-day trial needs no card and includes every Pro feature, API and MCP among them (20). A person signs up in a browser and copies a key from settings (0). 0 + 10 + 20 + 0 = 30.); Gorgias API + MCP 35 (Per the 30 September check, not re-read on 4 November 2026. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Prices are per ticket, from $10 a month for 50 tickets with overage of $0.40 a ticket on Starter and $36 to $40 per 100 above it, and AI Agent per automated interaction. Per-unit, though not per API call (15). Free trial without a card on most plans (20). A person signs up and makes a key or signs in through OAuth (0). 0 + 15 + 20 + 0 = 35.)