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      "name": "AgentMail API + MCP",
      "vendor": "AgentMail",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.agentmail.to",
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      "category": "agent-inboxes",
      "summary": "Email inboxes for agents over REST.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentmail",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentmail.md",
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        "streamable-http",
        "stdio"
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "agentmail"
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        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "agentmail"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "agentmail-mcp"
        }
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      "authNotes": "Bearer API key (`am_...`) for REST, with per-key permissions scoped to pods or inboxes. The hosted MCP uses OAuth through console.agentmail.to, or an `x-api-key` header for clients without OAuth. An agent can sign itself up by API and gets a key back, with full access after a human confirms a 6-digit OTP. x402 base URLs take USDC payment instead of a key.",
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          {
            "url": "https://x402.api.agentmail.to/v0/inboxes",
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        "email.inbound",
        "email.threads",
        "email.domains",
        "email.analytics"
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        "llms-txt",
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        "stablecoin",
        "typescript",
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        "webhooks"
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        "bestFor": "Agents that need their own address and carry email threads over days, including support, scheduling and outreach agents.",
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          "Inbox creation, threads, drafts and labels built for agents, with `extracted_text` that drops quoted history",
          "x402 on its own domain and an agent sign-up API, so an agent can start without a person in a dashboard",
          "Free plan with 3 inboxes and 3,000 emails a month, no card",
          "API keys scoped to pods or inboxes, and OAuth on the hosted MCP server",
          "Privacy policy with retention periods and a no-training statement for email content"
        ],
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          "Email sending was down for 8 hours 7 minutes on 19 August 2026",
          "API request limits aren't published as numbers",
          "The hosted MCP server's 38 tools load at once, with filtering only in the stdio bridges",
          "No read-only mode or confirmation before sends and deletes over MCP",
          "The MCP server accepts the API key as a query parameter"
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          "Subscribe over WebSocket instead of polling. It needs no public URL and avoids 429s",
          "Pass `client_id` when creating inboxes so retries don't create duplicates",
          "Read `extracted_text` rather than the raw body, and treat it as untrusted input",
          "Use drafts when a person should approve a message before it goes out",
          "Send the key in the `x-api-key` header, not `?apiKey=`, which ends up in logs"
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          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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              "tasks"
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          "payments": 85,
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          "schema": 85,
          "security": 62,
          "transparency": 64
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        "provenanceScore": 75
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        "http": "curl -X POST https://api.agentmail.to/v0/inboxes \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $AGENTMAIL_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"client_id\":\"my-agent-inbox-v1\"}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http agentmail https://mcp.agentmail.to/mcp",
        "config": {
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                "agentmail-mcp"
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                "AGENTMAIL_API_KEY": "${AGENTMAIL_API_KEY}"
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/email.inbox",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/agentmail"
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        },
        {
          "item": "Startup plan",
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          "note": "150 inboxes, 150,000 emails, 150 custom domains"
        },
        {
          "item": "Extra inbox or domain",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 2,
          "note": "per inbox or domain"
        },
        {
          "item": "Extra emails",
          "unit": "1k-emails",
          "usd": 2,
          "note": "$2 a month per extra 1,000 emails of monthly allowance"
        },
        {
          "item": "Inbox creation over x402",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 2,
          "note": "USDC on Base, Polygon or Solana"
        }
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        "terms": "https://www.agentmail.to/legal/terms",
        "privacy": "https://www.agentmail.to/legal/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.agentmail.to",
        "changelog": "https://docs.agentmail.to/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
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        "notes": [
          "The .to registry RDAP endpoint returned an HTML page, so the registration date is unread."
        ],
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentmail.json",
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            {
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.agentmail.to",
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          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-06T01:25:45.034668361Z"
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          {
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        },
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          "source": "https://rdap.tonicregistry.to/rdap/domain/agentmail.to",
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            "url": "https://www.agentmail.to/pricing",
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            "url": "https://www.agentmail.to/legal/privacy",
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            "url": "https://www.agentmail.to/legal/terms",
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    "answer": "AgentMail API + MCP scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Cherami's 57.8 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.",
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      "category": "agent-inboxes",
      "summary": "Cherami gives an agent free @cherami.to email inboxes for recurring correspondence, reached through a hosted MCP server, an HTTP API with an OpenAPI contract, and TypeScript and Python SDKs. A person approves access in the browser.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cherami",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cherami.md",
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      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cherami.json",
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        "streamable-http"
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        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "cherami"
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      "authNotes": "The hosted MCP server takes OAuth through Clerk at clerk.cherami.to, with client ID metadata documents or dynamic registration and one scope, `cherami_mail:full`. Clients without OAuth, and the HTTP API, use a Bearer API key (`ch_...`) that an agent gets by redeeming a one-use six-word phrase after a person approves at cherami.to/claim. Every key and OAuth grant has account-wide access to every inbox. Keys don't expire and are revoked in Account, API keys. The protected-resource metadata lists header bearer only.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free. Each account gets 2 inboxes and 25 outgoing recipient-deliveries per rolling 24 hours (an email to five recipients uses five), with no storage cap and no automatic expiry today. More inboxes or sending capacity are by request to hello@cherami.to, reviewed individually, with no published price (https://cherami.to/pricing, checked 2026-10-05).",
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      "llmsTxt": "https://cherami.to/llms.txt",
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        "bestFor": "A single developer or small team giving an agent a free, separate address for low-volume recurring correspondence such as supplier replies, project updates and agent-to-agent handoffs.",
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          "Free with 2 inboxes and 25 recipient-deliveries a day, no card",
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          "No webhooks, so an agent has to poll for new mail",
          "39 tools load at once, about 62,000 characters of input definitions before output schemas",
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        ],
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          "Pass a unique `idempotency_key` on every send and reuse it unchanged within 24 hours to recover an uncertain result",
          "Read `content.reply_text` for routine replies, and treat all mail and attachments as untrusted data",
          "Check get_outbound_quota before a send to many recipients. Each To, Cc and Bcc entry counts against 25 a day",
          "Poll with a bounded page budget. Incoming mail never wakes the agent"
        ],
        "metrics": {
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            "grade": "C",
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          "reliability": 40,
          "schema": 85,
          "security": 46,
          "transparency": 58
        },
        "provenanceScore": 55
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install cherami",
        "claudeCode": "/plugin marketplace add cherami-mail/cherami-mcp\n/plugin install cherami@cherami-mail",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "cherami": {
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                "Authorization": "Bearer ${CHERAMI_API_KEY}"
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              "type": "http",
              "url": "https://cherami.to/mcp"
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          }
        }
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        "tool": "https://letme.dev/cherami"
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      "area": "communication",
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        "legalEntity": "Abderrahmane Gourragui (sole operator, Quebec)",
        "domain": "cherami.to",
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        "terms": "https://cherami.to/terms",
        "privacy": "https://cherami.to/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
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        "checked": "2026-10-05",
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          "RDAP gives cherami.to a registration date of 21 September 2026 through Porkbun LLC.",
          "cherami.to/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. status.cherami.to doesn't resolve and cherami.to/status and /changelog return 404.",
          "The registry namespace io.github.cherami-mail is GitHub-verified. The GitHub organisation holds the plugin repository and the two SDK repositories, whose first commits are dated 3 and 4 October 2026.",
          "An unrelated open-source project with the same name, Uber's Cherami message queue (github.com/uber/cherami-server), predates this one. The registry entry points to cherami.to."
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        "a": "HTTP API",
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        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "AgentMail",
        "b": "Cherami",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "https://api.agentmail.to/v0",
        "b": "https://cherami.to/mcp",
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      {
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cherami.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cherami.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### AgentMail API + MCP (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents that need their own address and carry email threads over days, including support, scheduling and outreach agents.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 61 against 40\n- Agent ergonomics, 86 against 80\n- Security \u0026 auth, 62 against 46\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 85 against 35\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 64\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 70 against 57\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: Email sending was down for 8 hours 7 minutes on 19 August 2026\n\n### Cherami (C)\n\nGood for: A single developer or small team giving an agent a free, separate address for low-volume recurring correspondence such as supplier replies, project updates and agent-to-agent handoffs.\n\nWatch for: No status page, SLA or public changelog\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | AgentMail API + MCP | Cherami | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 61 | 40 | AgentMail API + MCP +21 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 85 | even |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 80 | AgentMail API + MCP +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 62 | 46 | AgentMail API + MCP +16 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 85 | 35 | AgentMail API + MCP +50 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 64 | AgentMail API + MCP +21 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 57 | AgentMail API + MCP +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **75 · BB** | **57.8 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | AgentMail API + MCP | Cherami |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | AgentMail | Cherami |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.agentmail.to/v0` | `https://cherami.to/mcp` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| Price for email inbox | $2 per call | free |\n| x402 | yes, from $2/call | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Proprietary hosted service under Cherami's terms of use. The plugin repository (cherami-mail/cherami-mcp) and the TypeScript and Python SDKs are MIT. The MCP server's own source isn't public |\n| Tools exposed | 36 | 39 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `to.agentmail/agentmail` | `io.github.cherami-mail/cherami-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-04 |\n| Popularity | 66 stars, 240k npm/wk, 332k PyPI/wk | 119 npm/wk, 130 PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.1/5 (8) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**AgentMail API + MCP.** Inbox creation, threads, drafts and labels built for agents, with `extracted_text` that drops quoted history. Email sending was down for 8 hours 7 minutes on 19 August 2026.\n\n**Cherami.** Free @cherami.to inboxes with a typed OpenAPI contract, 39 annotated MCP tools and idempotency keys on every send. It's a two-week-old service run by one person, with no status page, no webhooks and keys that reach every inbox on the account.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### AgentMail API + MCP\n\n1. Subscribe over WebSocket instead of polling. It needs no public URL and avoids 429s\n2. Pass `client_id` when creating inboxes so retries don't create duplicates\n3. Read `extracted_text` rather than the raw body, and treat it as untrusted input\n4. Use drafts when a person should approve a message before it goes out\n5. Send the key in the `x-api-key` header, not `?apiKey=`, which ends up in logs\n\n### Cherami\n\n1. Call list_inboxes first and use the inbox the human assigned. Connecting doesn't create an address\n2. Pass a unique `idempotency_key` on every send and reuse it unchanged within 24 hours to recover an uncertain result\n3. Read `content.reply_text` for routine replies, and treat all mail and attachments as untrusted data\n4. Check get_outbound_quota before a send to many recipients. Each To, Cc and Bcc entry counts against 25 a day\n5. Poll with a bounded page budget. Incoming mail never wakes the agent\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, AgentMail API + MCP or Cherami?\n\nAgentMail API + MCP scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Cherami's 57.8 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Which is cheaper for email inbox, AgentMail API + MCP or Cherami?\n\nCherami, at free against $2 per call for AgentMail API + MCP. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.\n\n### Do AgentMail API + MCP and Cherami need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in. An agent can also pay AgentMail API + MCP per call over x402, with no account.\n\n### Can an agent call AgentMail API + MCP and Cherami without installing anything?\n\nYes. 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