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Gemini alternative for your store: Andavor’s proprietary AI, trained for sales

If you’re looking for an AI to serve your store’s customers, Andavor sets up an AI attendant powered by its own AI, trained for sales, with no flow to design and no coding. Andavor’s AI understands what each customer wants, uses your store’s knowledge and guides each conversation based on what the person needs, on WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and your website chat. In Andavor’s subscription app, you follow the conversations and teach and adjust the AI. Gemini is Google’s AI assistant; Google also has Gemini Enterprise, for teams, and tools to build customer service agents.

Try Andavor’s AI in your store

On Personal, you get 14 days free with your customers: the card goes in at sign-up, and nothing is charged during the trial. There’s no setup fee and no long-term contract, and you can cancel in the dashboard at any time. Start the 14-day trial.

What Andavor’s AI does in the conversation

Andavor’s AI is its own, trained for sales, and runs on infrastructure operated by Andavor itself. On your store’s WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, it:

  • Answers with your store’s real data: it checks price and stock in your catalog before answering, without writing figures off the top of its head.
  • Follows the conversation: the chosen product, the ZIP code and the payment method stay organized, and the customer doesn’t have to repeat what they already said.
  • Builds the order with the items, shipping and total. Once your carrier is integrated, it quotes real shipping by ZIP code.
  • It builds the order and sends your store’s checkout link. Once your payment provider is integrated, it creates the charge in your own account, and the money goes straight to you. A payment below the total doesn’t complete the order.
  • Answers during the hours you choose, which can be all day, including nights and weekends.

In the website chat, it answers with your real catalog and guides the customer to finish the purchase at your store’s checkout.

In Andavor’s app, which you open in a browser on your computer or phone, you:

  • Follow conversations and orders.
  • Teach the AI: under Teach your AI (Ensinar sua IA), it reads your store’s website, documents and images, and only what you check goes into customer service.
  • Take over any conversation on WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook: the AI stays quiet in it until you hand it back.
  • See, as waiting for you (Precisa de você), the conversations the AI passed to your team, in the cases you set in the Instructions.
  • Ask your attendant where an answer came from, in an open conversation in the dashboard: every answer keeps a record of what was checked to produce it, such as price, shipping and order status.

At a niche store that uses Andavor, 194 of 431 paid orders in September 2026 (45.0%) were closed with the AI (the case study).

Andavor and Gemini side by side

Criterion by criterion: Andavor and Gemini
CriterionAndavorGemini
The AIIts own AI, trained for sales, that serves your store’s customers: it understands what each one wants, uses your store’s knowledge and guides the conversation. It runs on infrastructure operated by Andavor, and conversation content isn’t sent to any third-party AI provider.Google’s Gemini models: in the app, they help you write, research, create and code.
On WhatsAppAnswers customers on your store’s number, connected through the official WhatsApp from Meta or by QR code, and also on Instagram, Facebook and the website chat.On Android, the app sends WhatsApp messages when its user asks; a CX Agent Studio agent can be connected to WhatsApp and Instagram.
Price, stock and shippingChecks before answering: price and stock come from your catalog, and shipping is quoted by ZIP code once your carrier is integrated.The agent a company builds answers with the systems it connects.
Order and paymentBuilds the order with the items, shipping and total and sends your store’s checkout link; once your payment provider is integrated, it creates the charge in your own account, on channels where the customer is identified.A pre-built Google Cloud Shopping agent, in preview, guides the customer all the way to checkout.
Do you have to build the customer service?No: you connect your channels and catalog, tell it how your store sells and switch the attendant on, with no coding.Yes: in CX Agent Studio, the company builds and tests the agent, with ready-made templates and a drag-and-drop canvas; with the API, a developer codes it.
Website chatGoes in with the plugin on WordPress and WooCommerce, or with a line of code on other platforms, and guides the customer to finish the purchase at your store’s checkout.CX Agent Studio’s web chat widget, for the agent a company builds.
Free trial14 days free on Personal, with your customers: the card goes in at sign-up, and nothing is charged during the trial.A free version of the app; a 30-day no-cost trial of Gemini Enterprise Plus.

When Andavor makes more sense

  • When you want your own AI, trained for sales, serving your customers: Andavor’s runs on infrastructure operated by Andavor itself, and conversation content isn’t sent to any third-party AI provider.
  • When customers ask “do you have it in M?”, “how much is shipping to my ZIP code?” or “can I pay in installments?”, and the answer depends on your store’s system at that moment: the AI checks before answering.
  • When the conversation needs to end in an order: the AI builds it with the items, shipping and total and, once your payment provider is integrated, creates the charge in your own account; a payment below the total doesn’t complete the order.
  • When sales come in after hours: at the store in the case study, 42% of the sales closed with the AI in September 2026 were paid outside business hours.
  • When you don’t have a developer and don’t want to build anything: there’s no flow to design, and you don’t need to code. You connect your channels and catalog and tell it how your store sells.
  • When the same attendant needs to answer WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and your website chat, with every conversation in one dashboard.
  • When you want the AI to work your store’s way: in the Instructions, you write one short instruction per line that you switch on or off, and a new rule is a text you change.
  • When yours is a niche store with a high average order value, and customers already ask questions by message: that’s where it works best.

It doesn’t make things up: price, stock and shipping come from a lookup in the system. When it passes the conversation to your team is up to you, in the Instructions.

If you only need help writing, researching or creating images, the Gemini app does the job.

What Andavor costs, and what Gemini costs

At Andavor, the AI that serves your customers comes with the plan, and the price is per plan, per month: Personal costs $20.00, Essential $110.00 and MAX $210.00, and they differ in the AI usage included. With setup help and direct support, Business Essential costs $190.00 and Business MAX $290.00. Enterprise is priced together with you.

Every plan includes WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and the website chat, with no setup fee and no long-term contract, and Personal starts with 14 days free. When a month needs more AI usage, you buy usage credits. On official WhatsApp, Meta charges WhatsApp’s fees separately; the math is in What AI costs.

Your customers pay at your store’s checkout or, once your payment provider is integrated, into your own account, and your sales revenue goes straight to you: Andavor doesn’t receive it.

At Google, on its official pages checked on October 25, 2026, with the prices shown for the United States:

  • Gemini app: a free version and plans from $4.99 a month (plans).
  • Gemini Enterprise: from $21 per seat per month, on the Business edition.
  • CX Agent Studio: $0.50 per chat session (pricing).

How to start without dropping what you already use

  1. Create your account at Create account and choose Personal: it comes with 14 days free, and nothing is charged during the trial.
  2. Andavor’s AI serves your store’s customers, and you keep using Gemini for writing and research.
  3. Connect your store’s channels in the dashboard: WhatsApp, through the official WhatsApp from Meta or by QR code, Instagram, Facebook and the website chat. On WhatsApp, keep one AI per number: two answering the same customer trip over each other.
  4. Bring in your catalog: in a WooCommerce store, products come from the website; on other platforms, you add them in the app’s Catalog. Connect your payment provider to charge and your shipping tool to quote shipping.
  5. Tell it how your store sells: payment methods, delivery, exchanges, the usual questions and, in the Instructions, when the AI passes the conversation to your team.
  6. Turn the attendant on and follow the conversations in the dashboard. You can take over any conversation on WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, pause a channel whenever you want and cancel in the dashboard at any time.

Before turning it on, if you like, chat with the attendant as if you were a customer: only you see that conversation, and no real order or charge happens. The whole path, from sign-up to the attendant switched on, is in Getting started.

Where the Gemini information comes from

Checked on October 25, 2026; prices and features change, so check before deciding. Gemini belongs to Google, with no ties to Andavor.

Questions

What is Gemini for business?

It’s Gemini Enterprise, the editions of Gemini built for business use: an AI assistant for teams, across a company’s email, docs and apps. Andavor is something else: with its own AI, trained for sales, it sets up an AI attendant for your store’s customers that understands what each one wants, uses your store’s knowledge and guides each conversation. In Andavor’s subscription app, you follow, teach and adjust the AI.

What are the Gemini Business plans and what do they cost?

On Gemini’s plans page, checked on October 25, 2026, Gemini Enterprise starts at $21 per seat per month on the Business edition and at $30 on the Standard and Plus editions. At Andavor, the AI that serves your customers comes with the plan, from $20.00/month, with 14 days free on Personal, and every plan includes WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and the website chat.

Does Gemini work on WhatsApp?

According to the Gemini Help Center, on Android the app makes calls and sends messages through WhatsApp when its user asks; to serve customers, a company builds an agent in CX Agent Studio and connects it to WhatsApp. At Andavor, the AI answers customers on your store’s number, with no flow to design and no coding, and builds the order in the conversation.

How do I set up an AI to answer customers on my store’s WhatsApp?

At Andavor, you create your account, connect WhatsApp in the dashboard, through the official WhatsApp from Meta or by QR code, bring in your catalog, tell it how your store sells and switch the attendant on, with no coding. You don’t need a new number: with the official WhatsApp from Meta, if the number is already on the WhatsApp Business app on your phone, it keeps working there. The AI answers with the prices and stock in your catalog and builds the order and, once your tools are integrated, quotes shipping and creates the charge in your own account. You can take over any conversation whenever you want.

How much does the Gemini API cost?

On the Gemini API pricing page, checked on October 25, 2026, there’s a free tier, for developers and small projects, and a paid one, billed in dollars per million tokens, with a price for each model. At Andavor, AI usage comes with the plan, up to each plan’s limit, you don’t code anything for the AI to serve customers, and conversation content isn’t sent to any third-party AI provider.

What’s the difference between Gemini and Andavor?

Andavor has its own AI, trained for sales, and sets up an AI attendant for your store’s customers, with no flow to design and no coding: it understands what each customer wants, checks your catalog and builds the order and, once your tools are integrated, quotes shipping and creates the charge in your own account. In the app, you follow, teach and adjust the AI and take over any conversation on WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook. Gemini is Google’s AI assistant for everyday help; to serve customers, a company builds or deploys agents on Google Cloud.