{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "braze", "name": "Braze", "vendor": "Braze, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.braze.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "lifecycle-marketing", "summary": "Braze is a hosted engagement platform that stores customer profiles and events, builds segments and sends campaigns and Canvas journeys by email, SMS, push and in-app message. Agents reach it through a REST API and an official remote MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/braze", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/braze.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/braze.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/braze.json", "license": "Proprietary service under Braze's Main Subscription Agreement. The deprecated local MCP server on PyPI is MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.braze.com/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access follows a Braze contract or trial, with no app review or partner approval. The REST API takes a workspace API key as a Bearer header at the instance's own host (15 instances, such as https://rest.iad-01.braze.com). A dashboard user creates the key with per-endpoint permissions such as `users.track` or `campaigns.list` and an optional IP allowlist, and neither can be edited afterwards. The remote MCP server takes only OAuth (authorisation code with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration, scopes `mcp:tools`, `mcp:resources` and `mcp:operator`). A company admin must turn on MCP OAuth access, each user needs the Use MCP Server permission per workspace, and calls run with that user's dashboard permissions. Companies that use IP allowlisting can't use the MCP server.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public prices. Braze sells four editions (Go, Select, Pro, Enterprise) by contract, sized by monthly active users and Action Credits, and the pricing page says there is no free plan. A 14-day free trial is open at try.braze.com, and we couldn't read whether it asks for a card. There's no separate sandbox, and API and MCP calls aren't priced on their own (https://www.braze.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the MCP pages or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 71, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.braze.com/docs/api/home", "llmsTxt": "https://www.braze.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "marketing.profiles", "marketing.events", "marketing.campaigns", "marketing.journeys", "marketing.segments" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "api-key", "closed-source", "llms-txt", "sales-led", "enterprise", "eu-region", "status-page", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-17", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61.2, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 475, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 50, "maintenance": 69, "payments": 10, "reliability": 70, "schema": 68, "security": 77, "transparency": 83 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The REST API covers profiles, events, sends and exports with keys limited to named endpoints, and the remote MCP server adds 71 tools under OAuth with PKCE that return no user-level personal data. No OpenAPI document, idempotency keys, published price or SLA were found, and MCP writes run without a confirmation step.", "bestFor": "A company already on Braze that wants an agent to read campaign and Canvas results, manage catalogues and templates through MCP, or write profiles and trigger sends through REST.", "strengths": [ "REST API keys carry per-endpoint permissions and optional IP allowlists, and a key's scope can't be edited after creation", "Remote MCP server with OAuth, PKCE S256, dynamic client registration and three scopes, generally available since 17 September 2026", "MCP tools return no user-level personal data, and the Use MCP Server permission is off by default for each workspace", "Rate limits published per endpoint, with `X-RateLimit-Limit`, `-Remaining` and `-Reset` headers on every response", "Sub-processor list of 1 June 2026 with locations, 30 days' notice of additions and hosting regions named for six countries or regions" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public prices. Editions, monthly active users and Action Credits are sold by contract, and the pricing page says there is no free plan", "No OpenAPI document found. The machine-readable contract is a public Postman collection", "No idempotency keys on sends or `/users/track`, and Braze says it can't replay REST calls that fail during an incident", "71 MCP tools with no documented toolsets, 21 of them limited to beta programmes", "Edits made through individual MCP update tools don't appear in campaign edit history, and Operator Connect acts without per-step approval" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use the REST host for the customer's instance, such as https://rest.iad-01.braze.com or https://rest.fra-01.braze.eu. A key sent to the wrong instance returns 401", "Create a REST key with only the permissions the task needs. Scope and IP allowlist can't be edited later, so a change means a new key", "Call `get_workspaces` first on MCP. Every other tool needs the returned workspace id as `app_group_id`, and the wrong workspace is a documented failure", "Use REST for profiles, events and sends. The MCP server has no user-level tools and can't trigger a message to a named user", "Treat `\"message\": \"success\"` as queued, not delivered. Add a `group_id` to `/users/track` and poll `/users/track/status`, and don't resend a trigger call blindly" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 61.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 50, "maintenance": 69, "payments": 10, "reliability": 70, "schema": 68, "security": 77, "transparency": 69 }, "provenanceScore": 96 }, "connect": { "http": "curl --location -g --request GET 'https://rest.iad-01.braze.com/campaigns/list?page=0\u0026include_archived=false\u0026sort_direction=desc' \\\n--header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-REST-API-KEY'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "braze": { "url": "https://mcp.braze.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/marketing.profiles", "tool": "https://letme.dev/braze" }, "area": "communication", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Braze, Inc.", "domain": "braze.com", "domainRegistered": "2000-01-19", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.braze.com/company/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://www.braze.com/company/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.braze.com", "changelog": "https://www.braze.com/docs/releases/home", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Main Subscription Agreement (last updated 13 October 2025) names Braze, Inc., and the privacy policy (last updated 23 June 2026) says it is a U.S. company headquartered in New York.", "REST hosts are on braze.com for the US, Australia, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea and on braze.eu for the EU. The MCP server is at mcp.braze.com and mcp.braze.eu.", "www.braze.com/.well-known/security.txt expires 2031-01-01, gives security@braze.com and points its policy to hackerone.com/braze_inc.", "status.braze.com redirects to braze.statuspage.io.", "RDAP for braze.com gives a registration date of 2000-01-19.", "The DPA (revision 28 August 2025), the sub-processor list (1 June 2026) and the security datasheet (14 April 2026) are PDFs linked from braze.com/company/legal." ], "score": 96 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/braze.json", "live": { "slug": "braze", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.braze.com/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T03:53:22.205991542Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 265, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 264, "p95ms24h": 321, "samples24h": 249, "samples30d": 383, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 93, "ok": 93 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 40, "ok": 40 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.braze.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T03:58:01.515839105Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://braze.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2031-01-01T04:59:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:39:14.628128708Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.braze.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:01:33.091319643Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.braze.com/docs/releases/home", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:48:47.398523901Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c84a0deb311a" }, { "url": "https://www.braze.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:48:49.453568781Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "90f9bf6b6c9c" }, { "url": "https://www.braze.com/company/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:48:43.014694678Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "2328a04f813f" }, { "url": "https://www.braze.com/company/legal/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:48:45.151722455Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "066935a8590e" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T03:58:01.515839105Z" } }, "answer": "Omnisend scores 64.9 (B) on agent readiness against Braze's 61.2 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Braze leads on security \u0026 auth, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "omnisend", "name": "Omnisend", "vendor": "Omnisend, UAB", "vendorUrl": "https://www.omnisend.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "lifecycle-marketing", "summary": "Omnisend is an email, SMS and push marketing platform for online shops. Agents reach contacts, events, segments, campaigns, automations and forms through a REST API with dated versions and an official hosted MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/omnisend", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/omnisend.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/omnisend.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/omnisend.json", "license": "Proprietary service under Omnisend's Terms of Use", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.omnisend.com/api", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access is self-serve with an API key. A user creates a named key in the app under API keys, copies it once, and sends it as `Authorization: Omnisend-API-Key \u003ckey\u003e` with `Omnisend-Version: 2026-03-15`. OAuth 2.0 with the authorisation code grant and per-resource scopes is for apps, and credentials are issued through a request form in one to three business days. The hosted MCP server takes OAuth with dynamic client registration, needs the Owner, Admin, Manager or Partner role, and asks for an access level on the consent screen. Whether an API key can be limited to scopes was not found in the pages read.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 250 contacts and 500 emails a month, no credit card required, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. Paid plans scale with contacts through a slider. At the page's defaults Standard (500 contacts, 6,000 emails a month) shows $11.20 a month for the first three months against a three-month total of $48.00, and Pro (2,500 contacts, unlimited emails) $41.30 against $177.00. SMS starts at $0.007 a message. API calls aren't metered, and the page lists Omnisend MCP under every plan (https://www.omnisend.com/pricing/, checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "$16 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API documentation or the pricing page. The 402 response on the send campaign endpoint is an ordinary plan payment error (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 4, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://api-docs.omnisend.com/", "llmsTxt": "https://api-docs.omnisend.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "marketing.profiles", "marketing.events", "marketing.segments", "marketing.campaigns", "marketing.journeys", "email.templates", "forms.create" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "mcp", "closed-source", "oauth", "llms-txt", "free-tier", "no-card", "status-page", "bug-bounty" ], "lastRelease": "2026-07-10", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 334, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 29, "payments": 30, "reliability": 81, "schema": 79, "security": 57, "transparency": 77 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The API documents 104 operations with per-operation OpenAPI definitions, cursor pagination, RFC 9457 errors and published rate limits, and the hosted MCP server fronts them with four tools and a read-only consent preset. No approval hold before a campaign send, no idempotency keys, no SLA and no official SDK were found in the reviewed documentation.", "bestFor": "Online shops already on Omnisend that want an agent to read campaign results, manage contacts and segments, and draft campaigns or automations.", "strengths": [ "Each of the 104 documented operations has a Markdown page with its OpenAPI 3.0 definition, required scopes and rate limit, indexed in `llms.txt`", "The hosted MCP server lists four tools (`search`, `tool_schema`, `tool_documentation`, `execute`) in front of the whole API, with a read-only preset on the OAuth consent screen", "Errors follow RFC 9457 with a field-level `errors` array that reports every validation failure at once, plus a trace ID in `instance`", "Rate limits are published per endpoint, 400 requests a minute by default on a sliding window per brand", "The Free plan has 250 contacts and 500 emails a month, and the pricing page says no credit card is required", "The status page has an API component and its history feed shows no incident between 27 May and 9 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "No approval or hold step before `POST /campaigns/{id}/send` was found. The terms make the customer responsible for approving each action an AI agent takes", "No idempotency keys were found. Event `eventID` deduplicates historical events only, not real-time events that trigger automations", "OAuth client credentials for the REST API are issued through a request form in one to three business days, and access tokens never expire unless the user revokes them", "No SLA was found, and the terms say scheduled or unscheduled downtime may occur", "No official SDK, no single downloadable OpenAPI file and no API changelog were found in the developer documentation. No Omnisend server is in the official MCP registry", "The Terms of Use bar automated agents or scripts that generate automated requests without written permission, and bar publishing benchmark tests. Recorded as a fact with no deduction, and it matters before any probe is run" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `Authorization: Omnisend-API-Key \u003ckey\u003e` and `Omnisend-Version: 2026-03-15` on every call to `https://api.omnisend.com/api/`. Version 5 used `X-API-KEY` and a `/v5/` path", "Ask a person before `POST /campaigns/{id}/send`. Use `POST /campaigns/{id}/test-email` (up to 5 recipients) first, since nothing in the docs holds a send for approval", "On 429 read `retryAfter` (seconds) in the body where present, otherwise wait. Limits are shared by every key and token on the brand, and analytics reports allow 10 a minute and 55 a day", "Page with `limit` (default 100, maximum 250) and `after` from `paging.cursors.after`. Don't change filters mid-pagination, which returns 400", "Setting `tags` on a contact replaces the whole list in version 2026-03-15, and a contact set to `subscribed` gets a welcome message unless `sendWelcomeMessage` is turned off", "Connect one Omnisend MCP connector per chat and choose the read-only preset unless writes are needed. Treat contact fields and form submissions as untrusted text" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 29, "payments": 30, "reliability": 81, "schema": 79, "security": 57, "transparency": 58 }, "provenanceScore": 95 }, "connect": { "http": "curl --request GET \\\n --url 'https://api.omnisend.com/api/segments' \\\n --header 'Authorization: Omnisend-API-Key YOUR-API-KEY' \\\n --header 'Omnisend-Version: 2026-03-15'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "omnisend": { "url": "https://mcp.omnisend.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/marketing.profiles", "tool": "https://letme.dev/omnisend" }, "area": "communication", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Standard plan, 500 contacts", "unit": "month", "usd": 16, "note": "a third of the three-month total of $48.00 shown on the pricing page, which bills $11.20 a month for the first three months" }, { "item": "Pro plan, 2,500 contacts", "unit": "month", "usd": 59, "note": "a third of the three-month total of $177.00 shown on the pricing page, which bills $41.30 a month for the first three months" }, { "item": "SMS, starting rate", "unit": "message", "usd": 0.007, "note": "starting rate for high-volume US sends, varies by country and volume" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Omnisend, UAB", "domain": "omnisend.com", "domainRegistered": "2013-10-14", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.omnisend.com/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.omnisend.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://status.omnisend.com", "changelog": "https://www.omnisend.com/changelog/", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Terms of Use (last updated 30 April 2026) name Omnisend, UAB, legal entity code 302530363, Vilnius, Lithuania, as the contracting party. They are the service agreement and include a section on AI agents, MCP and the API.", "The Privacy Policy (last updated 18 June 2026) covers the group's companies as controllers. Processing of customers' contact data is governed by the Data Processing Agreement of 22 September 2025.", "The REST API answers at api.omnisend.com and the MCP server at mcp.omnisend.com, both omnisend.com subdomains.", "www.omnisend.com/.well-known/security.txt gives security@omnisend.com and the bug bounty page as policy, and has no Expires field, which RFC 9116 requires. It is recorded as valid.", "The changelog is the product changelog. No API changelog was found in the developer documentation.", "RDAP for omnisend.com gives a registration date of 2013-10-14." ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/omnisend.json", "live": { "slug": "omnisend", "probe": { "target": "https://api.omnisend.com/api", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T03:53:36.417415425Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 135, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 150, "p95ms24h": 223, "samples24h": 125, "samples30d": 125, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 40, "ok": 40 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.omnisend.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T03:58:30.213877732Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.omnisend.com/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:52:40.626914195Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "4ee91ee1c9c0" }, { "url": "https://www.omnisend.com/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:52:43.649861328Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a4f809f8a468" }, { "url": "https://www.omnisend.com/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:52:45.267503247Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "2fe5ad4e76ef" }, { "url": "https://www.omnisend.com/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:52:47.254298905Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "8732e799e365" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T03:58:30.213877732Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Braze, Inc.", "b": "Omnisend, UAB", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://mcp.braze.com/mcp", "b": "https://api.omnisend.com/api", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Braze's Main Subscription Agreement. The deprecated local MCP server on PyPI is MIT", "b": "Proprietary service under Omnisend's Terms of Use", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "71", "b": "4", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-17", "b": "2026-07-10", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-10-13", "b": "2026-04-30", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-06-23", "b": "2026-06-18", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Omnisend scores 64.9 (B) on agent readiness against Braze's 61.2 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Braze leads on security \u0026 auth, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Braze or Omnisend?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Braze and Omnisend need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Braze has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.braze.com/mcp and Omnisend at https://api.omnisend.com/api.", "question": "Can an agent call Braze and Omnisend without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 57", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 69 against 29", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 83 against 77" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "A company already on Braze that wants an agent to read campaign and Canvas results, manage catalogues and templates through MCP, or write profiles and trigger sends through REST.", "slug": "braze", "watchFor": "No public prices. Editions, monthly active users and Action Credits are sold by contract, and the pricing page says there is no free plan" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 81 against 70", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 79 against 68", "Agent ergonomics, 79 against 50", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 10" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Online shops already on Omnisend that want an agent to read campaign results, manage contacts and segments, and draft campaigns or automations.", "slug": "omnisend", "watchFor": "No approval or hold step before `POST /campaigns/{id}/send` was found. The terms make the customer responsible for approving each action an AI agent takes" } ], "job": { "capability": "marketing.profiles", "name": "Marketing audiences" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/activecampaign-vs-braze.json", "title": "ActiveCampaign vs Braze", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/activecampaign-vs-braze" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/activecampaign-vs-omnisend.json", "title": "ActiveCampaign vs Omnisend", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/activecampaign-vs-omnisend" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braze-vs-clevertap.json", "title": "Braze vs CleverTap", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braze-vs-clevertap" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braze-vs-customer-io.json", "title": "Braze vs Customer.io", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braze-vs-customer-io" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braze-vs-iterable.json", "title": "Braze vs Iterable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braze-vs-iterable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braze-vs-klaviyo.json", "title": "Braze vs Klaviyo API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braze-vs-klaviyo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braze-vs-mailchimp-marketing.json", "title": "Braze vs Mailchimp Marketing API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braze-vs-mailchimp-marketing" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braze-vs-moengage.json", "title": "Braze vs MoEngage", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braze-vs-moengage" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clevertap-vs-omnisend.json", "title": "CleverTap vs Omnisend", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clevertap-vs-omnisend" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/customer-io-vs-omnisend.json", "title": "Customer.io vs Omnisend", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/customer-io-vs-omnisend" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iterable-vs-omnisend.json", "title": "Iterable vs Omnisend", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/iterable-vs-omnisend" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/klaviyo-vs-omnisend.json", "title": "Klaviyo API + MCP vs Omnisend", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/klaviyo-vs-omnisend" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mailchimp-marketing-vs-omnisend.json", "title": "Mailchimp Marketing API vs Omnisend", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mailchimp-marketing-vs-omnisend" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/moengage-vs-omnisend.json", "title": "MoEngage vs Omnisend", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/moengage-vs-omnisend" } ], "scores": [ { "braze": 70, "by": 11, "edge": "omnisend", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "omnisend": 81, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "braze": 68, "by": 11, "edge": "omnisend", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "omnisend": 79, "weight": 13 }, { "braze": 50, "by": 29, "edge": "omnisend", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "omnisend": 79, "weight": 13 }, { "braze": 77, "by": 20, "edge": "braze", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "omnisend": 57, "weight": 14 }, { "braze": 10, "by": 20, "edge": "omnisend", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "omnisend": 30, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "braze": 69, "by": 40, "edge": "braze", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "omnisend": 29, "weight": 7 }, { "braze": 83, "by": 6, "edge": "braze", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "omnisend": 77, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Omnisend scores 64.9 (B) on agent readiness against Braze's 61.2 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Braze leads on security \u0026 auth, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do marketing audiences.", "verdicts": { "braze": "The REST API covers profiles, events, sends and exports with keys limited to named endpoints, and the remote MCP server adds 71 tools under OAuth with PKCE that return no user-level personal data. No OpenAPI document, idempotency keys, published price or SLA were found, and MCP writes run without a confirmation step.", "omnisend": "The API documents 104 operations with per-operation OpenAPI definitions, cursor pagination, RFC 9457 errors and published rate limits, and the hosted MCP server fronts them with four tools and a read-only consent preset. No approval hold before a campaign send, no idempotency keys, no SLA and no official SDK were found in the reviewed documentation." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braze-vs-omnisend", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braze-vs-omnisend.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braze-vs-omnisend.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braze-vs-omnisend.min.md" }, "markdown": "Omnisend scores 64.9 (B) on agent readiness against Braze's 61.2 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Braze leads on security \u0026 auth, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do marketing audiences.\n\n- Braze: grade C, 61.2/100, rank #475 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/braze.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/braze.json\n- Omnisend: grade B, 64.9/100, rank #334 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/omnisend.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/omnisend.json\n- Best lifecycle marketing and customer engagement platforms for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/lifecycle-marketing/index.md\n- All 36 lifecycle marketing comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lifecycle-marketing/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Braze (C)\n\nGood for: A company already on Braze that wants an agent to read campaign and Canvas results, manage catalogues and templates through MCP, or write profiles and trigger sends through REST.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 57\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 69 against 29\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 83 against 77\n\nWatch for: No public prices. Editions, monthly active users and Action Credits are sold by contract, and the pricing page says there is no free plan\n\n### Omnisend (B)\n\nGood for: Online shops already on Omnisend that want an agent to read campaign results, manage contacts and segments, and draft campaigns or automations.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 81 against 70\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 79 against 68\n- Agent ergonomics, 79 against 50\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 10\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No approval or hold step before `POST /campaigns/{id}/send` was found. The terms make the customer responsible for approving each action an AI agent takes\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Braze | Omnisend | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 81 | Omnisend +11 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 79 | Omnisend +11 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 50 | 79 | Omnisend +29 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 77 | 57 | Braze +20 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 30 | Omnisend +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 69 | 29 | Braze +40 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 77 | Braze +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61.2 · C** | **64.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Braze | Omnisend |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Braze, Inc. | Omnisend, UAB |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.braze.com/mcp` | `https://api.omnisend.com/api` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Braze's Main Subscription Agreement. The deprecated local MCP server on PyPI is MIT | Proprietary service under Omnisend's Terms of Use |\n| Tools exposed | 71 | 4 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-17 | 2026-07-10 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-10-13 | 2026-04-30 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-23 | 2026-06-18 |\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 | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Braze.** The REST API covers profiles, events, sends and exports with keys limited to named endpoints, and the remote MCP server adds 71 tools under OAuth with PKCE that return no user-level personal data. No OpenAPI document, idempotency keys, published price or SLA were found, and MCP writes run without a confirmation step.\n\n**Omnisend.** The API documents 104 operations with per-operation OpenAPI definitions, cursor pagination, RFC 9457 errors and published rate limits, and the hosted MCP server fronts them with four tools and a read-only consent preset. No approval hold before a campaign send, no idempotency keys, no SLA and no official SDK were found in the reviewed documentation.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Braze\n\n1. Use the REST host for the customer's instance, such as https://rest.iad-01.braze.com or https://rest.fra-01.braze.eu. A key sent to the wrong instance returns 401\n2. Create a REST key with only the permissions the task needs. Scope and IP allowlist can't be edited later, so a change means a new key\n3. Call `get_workspaces` first on MCP. Every other tool needs the returned workspace id as `app_group_id`, and the wrong workspace is a documented failure\n4. Use REST for profiles, events and sends. The MCP server has no user-level tools and can't trigger a message to a named user\n5. Treat `\"message\": \"success\"` as queued, not delivered. Add a `group_id` to `/users/track` and poll `/users/track/status`, and don't resend a trigger call blindly\n\n### Omnisend\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Omnisend-API-Key \u003ckey\u003e` and `Omnisend-Version: 2026-03-15` on every call to `https://api.omnisend.com/api/`. Version 5 used `X-API-KEY` and a `/v5/` path\n2. Ask a person before `POST /campaigns/{id}/send`. Use `POST /campaigns/{id}/test-email` (up to 5 recipients) first, since nothing in the docs holds a send for approval\n3. On 429 read `retryAfter` (seconds) in the body where present, otherwise wait. Limits are shared by every key and token on the brand, and analytics reports allow 10 a minute and 55 a day\n4. Page with `limit` (default 100, maximum 250) and `after` from `paging.cursors.after`. Don't change filters mid-pagination, which returns 400\n5. Setting `tags` on a contact replaces the whole list in version 2026-03-15, and a contact set to `subscribed` gets a welcome message unless `sendWelcomeMessage` is turned off\n6. Connect one Omnisend MCP connector per chat and choose the read-only preset unless writes are needed. Treat contact fields and form submissions as untrusted text\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Braze or Omnisend?\n\nOmnisend scores 64.9 (B) on agent readiness against Braze's 61.2 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Braze leads on security \u0026 auth, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Braze and Omnisend need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Braze and Omnisend without installing anything?\n\nYes. Braze has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.braze.com/mcp and Omnisend at https://api.omnisend.com/api.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braze-vs-omnisend.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braze-vs-omnisend.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"braze\", \"b\": \"omnisend\"}`. 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