{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "amazon-sns", "name": "Amazon SNS", "vendor": "Amazon Web Services", "vendorUrl": "https://aws.amazon.com/sns/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "notifications", "summary": "Amazon SNS is AWS's publish and subscribe messaging service. A message published to a topic, or directly to a device or phone number, goes out as mobile push, SMS, plain-text email, HTTPS calls or to SQS queues and Lambda functions.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-sns", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-sns.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-sns.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amazon-sns.json", "repo": "https://github.com/aws/api-models-aws", "license": "Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement. The AWS SDKs and the AWS Labs MCP server are Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://sns.us-east-1.amazonaws.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@aws-sdk/client-sns" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "boto3" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "awslabs.amazon-sns-sqs-mcp-server" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Requests are signed with AWS Signature Version 4 using IAM credentials, long-lived access keys or temporary credentials from AWS STS. IAM identity policies and topic resource policies use the `sns` action prefix with topic ARNs and condition keys. Access is self-serve with an AWS account. SMS starts in a sandbox per account, and leaving it or raising the $1 monthly spend quota needs an AWS Support case. Mobile push needs a platform application holding credentials from Apple, Google or another push service.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Pay per request and per notification with no minimum. On standard topics in US East (N. Virginia), API requests cost $0.50 per million after 1,000,000 free each month, mobile push $0.50 per million after 1,000,000 free, email $2.00 per 100,000 after 1,000 free, and HTTP deliveries $0.60 per million after 100,000 free. Deliveries to SQS and Lambda are free. SMS is billed by AWS End User Messaging. New AWS customers get up to $200 in Free Tier credits, and AWS says most can sign up without a payment method (https://aws.amazon.com/sns/pricing/, https://aws.amazon.com/free/free-tier-faqs/).", "priceSummary": "$0.0005 / 1k req", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer guide index, the API model or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 6505984, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/welcome.html", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "notify.push", "notify.multichannel", "messaging.sms" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "llms-txt", "typescript", "python", "push", "sms", "mcp", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 72.8, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 86, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 35, "reliability": 75, "schema": 83, "security": 89, "transparency": 83 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "IAM and topic policies limit a credential to single actions and topics, a read-only managed policy exists, and CloudTrail can log each publish. Standard topics take no idempotency token, so a retried `Publish` can send twice. SNS has no user preferences, digests or in-app channel, email is plain text to confirmed subscribers, and SMS starts in a sandbox.", "bestFor": "Teams already on AWS that want cheap push, SMS and plain-text email alerts or fan-out to queues and functions under IAM and CloudTrail.", "strengths": [ "IAM identity policies and topic resource policies per action and topic, temporary credentials, and an `AmazonSNSReadOnlyAccess` managed policy", "Published quotas of 30,000 published messages a second per account in US East (N. Virginia) and 300 in the smallest Regions", "First 1,000,000 API requests, 1,000,000 mobile push notifications and 1,000 emails each month are free on standard topics", "Smithy model published for all 42 operations, with llms.txt indexes and a Markdown twin of every guide and reference page", "99.9 per cent monthly uptime commitment per Region under the Amazon Messaging SLA, last updated 4 May 2022" ], "weaknesses": [ "No idempotency token on `Publish` to a standard topic. Only FIFO topics deduplicate, over a five-minute window", "No user preferences, digests, templates or in-app channel. Email is plain text and each address has to confirm its subscription", "SMS starts in a sandbox with ten verified numbers and a $1 monthly spend quota, raised through an AWS Support case", "Topic, subscription and endpoint settings travel as string maps and JSON inside strings, and the model has only four enumerated types", "The AWS Health Dashboard lists the service in the UAE and Bahrain Region disruptions open since March 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "Sign requests with SigV4 for service `sns` at `sns.\u003cregion\u003e.amazonaws.com`, or call `aws sns publish --topic-arn \u003carn\u003e --message \u003ctext\u003e` from the AWS CLI", "Track `MessageId` yourself on standard topics, because a retried `Publish` sends again. Use a FIFO topic with `MessageDeduplicationId` when duplicates matter", "Send per-channel text by setting `MessageStructure` to `json` and passing a JSON string with a `default` key plus keys such as `APNS`, `GCM`, `email` and `sms`", "Check `GetSMSSandboxAccountStatus` and the monthly spend quota before texting. Sandbox sends reach only verified numbers", "Expect an email subscription to stay in `PendingConfirmation` until the recipient clicks the link, and keep each email subscription under 10 messages a second" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 72.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 35, "reliability": 75, "schema": 83, "security": 89, "transparency": 71 }, "provenanceScore": 95 }, "connect": { "config": { "mcpServers": { "awslabs.amazon-sns-sqs-mcp-server": { "args": [ "awslabs.amazon-sns-sqs-mcp-server@latest" ], "command": "uvx", "env": { "AWS_PROFILE": "your-aws-profile", "AWS_REGION": "us-east-1" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/notify.push", "tool": "https://letme.dev/amazon-sns" }, "sameCompany": [ "aws-end-user-messaging", "amazon-s3" ], "area": "everyday", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "API requests, standard topics", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.0005, "note": "US East (N. Virginia), after 1,000,000 free a month. Each 64 KB of payload counts as one request" }, { "item": "Publishes, FIFO topics", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.0003, "note": "US East (N. Virginia), plus $0.017 per GB of payload and $0.01 per million subscription messages" }, { "item": "Mobile push notification", "unit": "message", "usd": 5e-7, "note": "$0.50 per million after 1,000,000 free a month" }, { "item": "Email notification", "unit": "1k-emails", "usd": 0.02, "note": "$2.00 per 100,000 after 1,000 free a month" }, { "item": "HTTP or HTTPS notification", "unit": "message", "usd": 6e-7, "note": "$0.60 per million after 100,000 free a month" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Amazon Web Services, Inc.", "domain": "amazonaws.com", "domainRegistered": "2005-08-18", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/", "privacy": "https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status", "changelog": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/sns-release-notes.html", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The AWS Customer Agreement (last updated 14 August 2026) governs use of the service, with other AWS entities as contracting party by account country.", "Section 11 of the AWS Service Terms (last updated 1 October 2026) adds terms for Amazon SNS. It says AMCS LLC sells parts of the service in Japan and AMCS SG Private Limited in Singapore, and that fees apply even when delivery is blocked for reasons outside AWS's control (https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/).", "The AWS Privacy Notice (last updated 18 May 2026) says it does not apply to content customers process with AWS services, which the agreement governs.", "https://aws.amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt carries Expires 2026-09-24T16:25:03Z, so it had expired on 8 October 2026.", "RDAP for amazonaws.com gives a registration date of 2005-08-18. The API answers at sns.\u003cregion\u003e.amazonaws.com, while product and legal pages sit on aws.amazon.com." ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-sns.json", "live": { "slug": "amazon-sns", "probe": { "target": "https://sns.us-east-1.amazonaws.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:03.674891671Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 247, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 252, "p95ms24h": 316, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:03.674891671Z" } }, "answer": "Amazon SNS scores 72.8 (BB) on agent readiness against OneSignal's 69.3 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. OneSignal leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "onesignal", "name": "OneSignal", "vendor": "OneSignal", "vendorUrl": "https://onesignal.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "notifications", "summary": "Messaging platform that sends mobile and web push through its own service and adds email, SMS, RCS, in-app messages, Live Activities and journeys.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/onesignal", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/onesignal.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/onesignal.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/onesignal.json", "repo": "https://github.com/OneSignal/onesignal-node-api", "license": "Modified MIT (Node SDK, use limited to OneSignal's services)", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.onesignal.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@onesignal/node-onesignal" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "onesignal-python-api" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "App API key as `Authorization: Key \u003ckey\u003e` (not Bearer), with the app_id in the request body. The hosted MCP at api.onesignal.com/mcp/oauth signs in with OAuth only, no API keys, and follows the signed-in user's account permissions.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with unlimited mobile push, in-app messages and Live Activities for up to 1,000 monthly active users, web push to up to 10,000 subscribers a send, 10,000 emails a month and 3 active journeys. Growth from $19 a month, then $0.012 per mobile push monthly active user, $0.004 per web push subscriber, and 20,000 emails free then $1.50 per 1,000, with SMS and RCS available. Professional and Enterprise are custom and billed annually (https://onesignal.com/pricing). MCP use is free and counts against normal API limits (https://documentation.onesignal.com/docs/en/model-context-protocol).", "priceSummary": "$19 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 43, "popularity": { "githubStars": 52, "npmWeekly": 230563, "pypiWeekly": 28196, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://documentation.onesignal.com", "llmsTxt": "https://documentation.onesignal.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://documentation.onesignal.com/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "notify.push", "notify.in-app", "notify.multichannel", "email.send", "messaging.sms" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "typescript", "python", "sms", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.3, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 161, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 35, "reliability": 70, "schema": 87, "security": 74, "transparency": 72 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Runs push delivery itself, so there's no separate push provider to wire up. Three incidents on the API and SDK endpoints in September 2026.", "bestFor": "A team whose main channel is push to its own mobile or web app and who wants delivery handled without a separate push provider.", "strengths": [ "Runs push delivery itself, so there's no separate push provider to wire up", "429 with Retry-After, two documented backoff recipes and 30-day idempotency keys", "Hosted MCP server with OAuth only, a confirmation flag on send and no delete tools", "SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and 27701 and HIPAA, with a valid security.txt", "Dated deprecation notices with effective dates in the changelog" ], "weaknesses": [ "Three incidents on the API and SDK endpoints in September 2026", "MCP server is in open beta and app access may need enabling before most tools work", "Priced per monthly active user and subscriber, which is hard to forecast", "43 MCP tools with no way to load a subset", "The SDK licence limits use to OneSignal's services, and the Node SDK has no test job in CI" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use `Authorization: Key \u003ckey\u003e`, not Bearer, and put `app_id` in the body", "Send an `idempotency_key` UUID with every create call and reuse it on each retry", "On 429, wait for `Retry-After`, then back off with jitter, up to 10 attempts", "Stay under 10 sends per subscribed subscription in 15 minutes or the app is disabled", "Target people with `include_aliases.external_id` and set `target_channel`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 69.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 35, "reliability": 70, "schema": 87, "security": 74, "transparency": 51 }, "provenanceScore": 93 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST \"https://api.onesignal.com/notifications?c=push\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Key $ONESIGNAL_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d \"{\\\"app_id\\\":\\\"$ONESIGNAL_APP_ID\\\",\\\"target_channel\\\":\\\"push\\\",\\\"include_aliases\\\":{\\\"external_id\\\":[\\\"user_123\\\"]},\\\"headings\\\":{\\\"en\\\":\\\"Build finished\\\"},\\\"contents\\\":{\\\"en\\\":\\\"All tests passed\\\"}}\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http onesignal https://api.onesignal.com/mcp/oauth", "config": { "mcpServers": { "onesignal": { "type": "http", "url": "https://api.onesignal.com/mcp/oauth" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/notify.push", "tool": "https://letme.dev/onesignal" }, "area": "everyday", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Growth", "unit": "month", "usd": 19, "note": "Starting price, plus usage" }, { "item": "Email on Growth", "unit": "1k-emails", "usd": 1.5, "note": "After 20,000 free sends a month" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "OneSignal, Inc.", "domain": "onesignal.com", "domainRegistered": "2011-09-10", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://onesignal.com/tos", "privacy": "https://onesignal.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.onesignal.com", "changelog": "https://documentation.onesignal.com/release-notes/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "Terms are governed by California law.", "security.txt lists security@onesignal.com and expires on 2030-01-01." ], "score": 93 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/onesignal.json", "live": { "slug": "onesignal", "probe": { "target": "https://api.onesignal.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:17.284907717Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 403, "lastMs": 27, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 33, "p95ms24h": 80, "samples24h": 271, "samples30d": 1955, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 239, "ok": 239 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.onesignal.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:06:13.428946964Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "OneSignal/onesignal-node-api", "version": "v5.19.0", "released": "2026-10-02", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:23:12.372144724Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@onesignal/node-onesignal", "version": "5.19.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:23:11.216692792Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "onesignal-python-api", "version": "5.17.0", "released": "2026-10-02", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:23:12.135355252Z" } ], "githubStars": 52, "npmWeekly": 247879, "pypiWeekly": 35003, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://onesignal.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2030-01-01T00:00:00Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:47.747832483Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://documentation.onesignal.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:42.643637429Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "onesignal.com", "registered": "2011-09-10", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/onesignal.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:06:02.742372392Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://documentation.onesignal.com/release-notes/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:19:58.873013691Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:08:56.646152433Z", "fingerprint": "11ec774768cf" }, { "url": "https://onesignal.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:22:28.727136002Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:34:21.895419767Z", "fingerprint": "8b6afea19691" }, { "url": "https://onesignal.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:22:30.781244694Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "3017c3b82574" }, { "url": "https://onesignal.com/tos", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:22:33.320364055Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "126091322fee" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:17.284907717Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Amazon Web Services", "b": "OneSignal", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://sns.us-east-1.amazonaws.com", "b": "https://api.onesignal.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$0. per message", "b": "not published", "name": "Price for notify push" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement. 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OneSignal leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Amazon SNS or OneSignal?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Amazon SNS and OneSignal need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Amazon SNS has a hosted endpoint at https://sns.us-east-1.amazonaws.com and OneSignal at https://api.onesignal.com.", "question": "Can an agent call Amazon SNS and OneSignal without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 75 against 70", "Security \u0026 auth, 89 against 74", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 83 against 72" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better" ], "goodFor": "Teams already on AWS that want cheap push, SMS and plain-text email alerts or fan-out to queues and functions under IAM and CloudTrail.", "slug": "amazon-sns", "watchFor": "No idempotency token on `Publish` to a standard topic. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/onesignal.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/onesignal.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Amazon SNS (BB)\n\nGood for: Teams already on AWS that want cheap push, SMS and plain-text email alerts or fan-out to queues and functions under IAM and CloudTrail.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 75 against 70\n- Security \u0026 auth, 89 against 74\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 83 against 72\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: No idempotency token on `Publish` to a standard topic. Only FIFO topics deduplicate, over a five-minute window\n\n### OneSignal (B)\n\nGood for: A team whose main channel is push to its own mobile or web app and who wants delivery handled without a separate push provider.\n\nAhead on:\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 81 against 75\n\nWatch for: Three incidents on the API and SDK endpoints in September 2026\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Amazon SNS | OneSignal | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 70 | Amazon SNS +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 87 | OneSignal +4 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 64 | Amazon SNS +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 89 | 74 | Amazon SNS +15 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 35 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 81 | OneSignal +6 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 72 | Amazon SNS +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **72.8 · BB** | **69.3 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Amazon SNS | OneSignal |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | OneSignal |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://sns.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://api.onesignal.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| Price for notify push | $0. per message | not published |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement. The AWS SDKs and the AWS Labs MCP server are Apache-2.0 | Modified MIT (Node SDK, use limited to OneSignal's services) |\n| Tools exposed | none | 43 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | 2024-06-12 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | 6.5M npm/wk | 52 stars, 231k npm/wk, 28k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Amazon SNS.** IAM and topic policies limit a credential to single actions and topics, a read-only managed policy exists, and CloudTrail can log each publish. Standard topics take no idempotency token, so a retried `Publish` can send twice. SNS has no user preferences, digests or in-app channel, email is plain text to confirmed subscribers, and SMS starts in a sandbox.\n\n**OneSignal.** Runs push delivery itself, so there's no separate push provider to wire up. Three incidents on the API and SDK endpoints in September 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Amazon SNS\n\n1. Sign requests with SigV4 for service `sns` at `sns.\u003cregion\u003e.amazonaws.com`, or call `aws sns publish --topic-arn \u003carn\u003e --message \u003ctext\u003e` from the AWS CLI\n2. Track `MessageId` yourself on standard topics, because a retried `Publish` sends again. Use a FIFO topic with `MessageDeduplicationId` when duplicates matter\n3. Send per-channel text by setting `MessageStructure` to `json` and passing a JSON string with a `default` key plus keys such as `APNS`, `GCM`, `email` and `sms`\n4. Check `GetSMSSandboxAccountStatus` and the monthly spend quota before texting. Sandbox sends reach only verified numbers\n5. Expect an email subscription to stay in `PendingConfirmation` until the recipient clicks the link, and keep each email subscription under 10 messages a second\n\n### OneSignal\n\n1. Use `Authorization: Key \u003ckey\u003e`, not Bearer, and put `app_id` in the body\n2. Send an `idempotency_key` UUID with every create call and reuse it on each retry\n3. On 429, wait for `Retry-After`, then back off with jitter, up to 10 attempts\n4. Stay under 10 sends per subscribed subscription in 15 minutes or the app is disabled\n5. Target people with `include_aliases.external_id` and set `target_channel`\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Amazon SNS or OneSignal?\n\nAmazon SNS scores 72.8 (BB) on agent readiness against OneSignal's 69.3 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 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