{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "brevo", "name": "Brevo API + MCP", "vendor": "Brevo", "vendorUrl": "https://www.brevo.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "email", "summary": "Transactional email over REST and SMTP relay, with inbound parsing, templates and webhooks, inside a wider marketing and CRM suite (formerly Sendinblue).", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brevo", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brevo.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brevo.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/brevo.json", "repo": "https://github.com/getbrevo/brevo-node", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.brevo.com/v3", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@getbrevo/brevo" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "brevo-python" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "REST calls take the key in an `api-key` header. The MCP server takes a separate MCP token as a Bearer header, created by ticking the MCP option when generating a key. That token has full read and write access to the account.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan sends 300 emails a day once the account is approved, no card. Starter from $9 a month (from 5,000 emails), Standard from $18 a month, Professional from $499 a month (from 150,000 emails), Enterprise on quote. Yearly billing takes 10 per cent off. Prepaid pay-as-you-go credits don't expire, one credit per email, but the per-credit price isn't shown without the calculator (https://www.brevo.com/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "$9 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 or stablecoin payment path in docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 122, "npmWeekly": 410486, "pypiWeekly": 65356, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.brevo.com", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.brevo.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developers.brevo.com/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "email.send", "email.inbound", "email.templates", "email.domains", "email.analytics", "email.marketing" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "no-card", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "typescript", "python", "webhooks", "sms", "whatsapp" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-10", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 44.8, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 665, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 14, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 30, "reliability": 55, "schema": 83, "security": 45, "transparency": 67 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -15, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-09-14. A Cloudflare API key with full account permissions, stored in Brevo's source code, let an attacker inject a ClickFix script for 5 hours 29 minutes, showing fake verification pages that pushed visitors to run malware. The post-mortem names brevo.com, sendinblue.com, the login, account, my and onboarding subdomains of brevo.com, sibforms.com and three embedded scripts (the Brevo forms script, the Conversations widget and the SDK loader) as affected. Brevo says app.brevo.com, the API and customer data weren't touched, and it published the fix (scoped, short-lived tokens and alerting). Decayed for the fix and write-up, -6 (https://status.brevo.com/incidents/01M2QBC4EZ24ZACW6SWQYVW8N3/write-up)", "2026-09-10. An attacker created a Brevo account, turned on SAML SSO and invited real users into it, and a scoping flaw then gave the attacker every organisation those users could reach. Brevo's write-up counts 138 accounts accessed, 6 used to send phishing, 43 with contacts exported and 93 with no meaningful activity. Brevo closed the route and ended every user session by 08:30 UTC, two hours after spotting it, disabled the links in the phishing emails, said it was deploying a fix that limits SSO to the organisation that owns the configuration, and is contacting each affected customer. A cross-tenant breach with customer contacts taken, weighed like the 14 September incident and decayed for the same-day fix, the write-up and direct notice to customers, -6 (https://status.brevo.com/incidents/01M266V1CZKJQNGZRNEGFD5CQE/write-up)", "2026-09-03. The API changelog marks as breaking a rename of the Loyalty transaction status values (pending and complete became draft and completed), with no advance notice that we could find. -3 (https://developers.brevo.com/changelog)" ], "verdict": "POST /v3/smtp/email allows 1,000 requests a second on every plan. Eight 'multiple services' full outages on the status page since July.", "bestFor": "Teams that want transactional, marketing, SMS and CRM in one EU-hosted account.", "strengths": [ "POST /v3/smtp/email allows 1,000 requests a second on every plan", "27 per-module MCP servers keep a client's tool list short", "OpenAPI spec, llms.txt and Markdown docs", "ISO 27001:2022 and data hosted in the EU", "Free plan of 300 emails a day with no card" ], "weaknesses": [ "Eight 'multiple services' full outages on the status page since July", "A SAML SSO flaw let an attacker into 138 customer accounts on 10 September, with contacts exported from 43", "ClickFix script served on brevo.com, sendinblue.com, sibforms.com and three embedded Brevo scripts for 5 hours 29 minutes on 14 September", "MCP token has full account access, with no read-only or send-only option", "No licence on the official Node SDK repository" ], "agentNotes": [ "Connect a single module server at /v1/brevo_\u003cmodule\u003e/mcp rather than the combined /v1/brevo/mcp", "Send with POST /v3/smtp/email and the `api-key` header, not Bearer", "Use webhooks for delivery events. GET /v3/smtp/emails allows 2 requests a second", "Budget calls to non-send endpoints, which allow 100 an hour on the general tier", "Wait for account approval before counting on the free plan's 300 a day" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 44.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 30, "reliability": 55, "schema": 83, "security": 45, "transparency": 51 }, "provenanceScore": 83 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://api.brevo.com/v3/smtp/email -H \"api-key: $BREVO_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"sender\":{\"email\":\"you@example.com\"},\"to\":[{\"email\":\"them@example.com\"}],\"subject\":\"Hello\",\"textContent\":\"Hello from Brevo\"}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http brevo https://mcp.brevo.com/v1/brevo/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer $BREVO_MCP_TOKEN\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "brevo": { "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.brevo.com/v1/brevo/mcp", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer ${BREVO_MCP_TOKEN}" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "BREVO_MCP_TOKEN": "${BREVO_MCP_TOKEN}" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/email.send", "tool": "https://letme.dev/brevo" }, "area": "communication", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Starter", "unit": "month", "usd": 9, "note": "from 5,000 emails a month, price rises with volume" }, { "item": "Standard", "unit": "month", "usd": 18, "note": "entry price, rises with volume, adds automation and A/B testing" }, { "item": "Professional", "unit": "month", "usd": 499, "note": "from 150,000 emails a month, 10 seats" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Sendinblue SAS", "domain": "brevo.com", "domainRegistered": "1999-09-10", "domainNote": "brevo.com is an old domain that Sendinblue acquired for its 2023 rebrand, so its age says little about the company.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.brevo.com/legal/termsofuse/", "privacy": "https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/", "statusPage": "https://status.brevo.com/", "changelog": "https://developers.brevo.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "www.brevo.com/.well-known/security.txt returns a 500 error page. A responsible disclosure page exists at https://www.brevo.com/legal/responsible-disclosure/" ], "score": 83 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brevo.json", "live": { "slug": "brevo", "probe": { "target": "https://api.brevo.com/v3", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:06.279984116Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 69, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 89, "p95ms24h": 174, "samples24h": 271, "samples30d": 2157, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "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.brevo.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:05:52.943436732Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "getbrevo/brevo-node", "version": "v6.0.3", "released": "2026-08-10", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:03:44.624289856Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@getbrevo/brevo", "version": "6.0.3", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:03:37.039664102Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "brevo-python", "version": "5.0.2", "released": "2026-08-10", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:03:41.241966933Z" } ], "githubStars": 122, "npmWeekly": 426448, "pypiWeekly": 68459, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://brevo.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:54.089125074Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://developers.brevo.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:10.502230846Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "brevo.com", "registered": "1999-09-10", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/brevo.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:07:20.948329481Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.brevo.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:17:27.038870249Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:17:27.038870249Z", "fingerprint": "95e7e9ec7d65" }, { "url": "https://www.brevo.com/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:49.708215701Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-05T16:01:56.343208461Z", "fingerprint": "04d7978dda45" }, { "url": "https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:45.124788756Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:45.124788756Z", "fingerprint": "f67be0a125fe" }, { "url": "https://www.brevo.com/legal/termsofuse/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:47.320907198Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:47.320907198Z", "fingerprint": "a97dcf302862" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:06.279984116Z" } }, "answer": "Cloudflare Email Service scores 67.3 (B) on agent readiness against Brevo API + MCP's 44.8 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "cloudflare-email-service", "name": "Cloudflare Email Service", "vendor": "Cloudflare", "vendorUrl": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-service/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "email", "summary": "Cloudflare Email Service sends transactional email through a REST API, a Workers binding or SMTP, and routes inbound mail to Workers or verified addresses. Email Sending is in public beta and needs the Workers Paid plan for arbitrary recipients.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-email-service", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-email-service.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-email-service.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-email-service.json", "license": "Proprietary service under Cloudflare's Self-Serve Subscription Agreement and Developer Platform service-specific terms. The official `cloudflare` SDK on npm is Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "cloudflare" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "cloudflare" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A Cloudflare API token as a Bearer header, created by the account owner in the dashboard. The SMTP guide names the permission Email Sending: Edit, and the OpenAPI file lists `com.cloudflare.api.account.email.sending.create` for sends and `.read` for limits and reputation. Tokens can carry an expiry and an IP address filter. The same token is the SMTP password. The OpenAPI file also accepts the legacy global API key. Access is self-serve, but the sending domain must be on Cloudflare DNS and new accounts start with a daily quota that Cloudflare raises over time.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "$0.35 per 1,000 outbound emails after 3,000 included a month, on the Workers Paid plan (minimum $5 a month). Sending to arbitrary recipients is not available on Workers Free. Sends to the account's own verified destination addresses are free on every plan, and inbound Email Routing is free and unmetered. Hard bounces count towards the quota. Sends rejected at the API boundary or by the suppression list don't (https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-service/platform/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "$5 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Email Service docs, the pricing page or the Email Sending paths of the OpenAPI file (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 3766696, "pypiWeekly": 363923, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-service/", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-service/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cloudflare/api-schemas/main/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "email.send", "email.inbound", "email.domains", "email.analytics" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage", "beta", "openapi", "llms-txt", "smtp", "typescript", "python", "go", "graphql", "status-page", "bug-bounty" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-25", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67.3, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 212, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 30, "reliability": 51, "schema": 89, "security": 77, "transparency": 76 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Cloudflare API tokens can be limited to sending, given an expiry and restricted by IP address, and a public OpenAPI file covers 29 Email Sending operations. Sending is still in beta, with no SLA, no idempotency key and no published daily quota, and it needs a domain on Cloudflare DNS and the Workers Paid plan.", "bestFor": "Teams already on Cloudflare DNS and Workers that want transactional sending and inbound handling in one account at a low unit price.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.0.3 file with 29 Email Sending and 46 Email Routing operations, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page", "$0.35 per 1,000 emails after 3,000 included a month on Workers Paid. Sends rejected at the API boundary or blocked by the suppression list don't count", "API tokens carry separate send and read permissions, an optional expiry and an IP address filter, and Workers bindings can be limited to named senders and recipients", "The Cloudflare API returns 429 with `retry-after` and `Ratelimit` headers, and the send endpoint has its own throttled error code 10004", "Email Sending and Email Routing are separate components on cloudflarestatus.com, and the changelog has four dated entries since 15 July 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "Email Sending has been in public beta since 16 April 2026. Cloudflare's terms let it remove a beta service at any time, and no SLA was found", "No idempotency key on `/email/sending/send`, in the docs or the OpenAPI file", "The daily sending quota for new accounts is described as conservative with no number. It can be read per account from `/email/sending/limits`", "The sending domain must use Cloudflare DNS, and sending to arbitrary recipients needs the Workers Paid plan at $5 a month", "A token with the send permission can send from every onboarded domain on the account. No per-domain token scope was found", "No template storage, and the terms and FAQ allow transactional email only" ], "agentNotes": [ "POST to `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/email/sending/send` with `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e`. The body needs `to`, `from`, `subject` and one of `html` or `text`", "Don't retry a timed-out send blindly. There is no idempotency key, so look for the message in the `emailSendingAdaptive` GraphQL dataset first", "On 429 (code 10004) wait for the `retry-after` header. On 409 `sending_not_ready` the domain setup is unfinished and nothing was sent", "Read `result.delivered`, `result.queued` and `result.permanent_bounces` in the response. A 200 does not mean every recipient was accepted", "Keep to 50 recipients across to, cc and bcc, and 5 MiB per message including attachments", "For SMTP use `smtp.mx.cloudflare.net` on port 465 with implicit TLS, username `api_token` and the API token as password. Port 587 is not supported", "By default one suppressed recipient fails the whole send. Turn on Drop suppressed recipients for the domain to send to the rest" ], "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": 67.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 30, "reliability": 51, "schema": 89, "security": 77, "transparency": 57 }, "provenanceScore": 95 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/email/sending/send\" \\\n --header \"Authorization: Bearer \u003cAPI_TOKEN\u003e\" \\\n --header \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n --data '{\"to\":\"recipient@example.com\",\"from\":\"welcome@yourdomain.com\",\"subject\":\"Welcome to our service!\",\"html\":\"\u003ch1\u003eWelcome!\u003c/h1\u003e\u003cp\u003eThanks for signing up.\u003c/p\u003e\",\"text\":\"Welcome! Thanks for signing up.\"}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/email.send", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cloudflare-email-service" }, "sameCompany": [ "cloudflare-sandbox-sdk", "cloudflare-web-search", "cloudflare-mcp", "cloudflare-r2", "cloudflare-clef" ], "area": "communication", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Outbound email", "unit": "1k-emails", "usd": 0.35, "note": "After 3,000 included a month, Workers Paid plan only. Sends to verified destination addresses are free" }, { "item": "Workers Paid plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 5, "note": "Minimum monthly charge for the plan that Email Sending to arbitrary recipients needs" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Cloudflare, Inc.", "domain": "cloudflare.com", "domainRegistered": "2009-02-17", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/", "statusPage": "https://www.cloudflarestatus.com", "changelog": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/product/email-service/", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "Terms are the Self-Serve Subscription Agreement, last updated 12 September 2025, which names Cloudflare, Inc. at 101 Townsend St, San Francisco. Its section 5 covers beta services.", "The Developer Platform service-specific terms (https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-developer-platform/), last updated 28 September 2026, have their own sections for Cloudflare Email Service and Email Routing and supplement the agreement.", "The privacy policy is effective from 4 November 2025 and makes Cloudflare a data processor for customer content that crosses its network. A customer DPA is at https://www.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-customer-dpa/.", "www.cloudflare.com/.well-known/security.txt, read on 8 October 2026, names HackerOne and a disclosure policy and has no Expires field. It is recorded as valid to match the other Cloudflare listings.", "The REST endpoint is on api.cloudflare.com. The SMTP endpoint is on smtp.mx.cloudflare.net, a different registered domain.", "The status page lists Email Sending and Email Routing as separate components, both operational on 8 October 2026.", "RDAP for cloudflare.com gives a registration date of 2009-02-17." ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-email-service.json", "live": { "slug": "cloudflare-email-service", "probe": { "target": "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:07.608903417Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 38, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 38, "p95ms24h": 97, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.cloudflarestatus.com", "indicator": "major", "summary": "Partial System Outage", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:05:54.426735933Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:07.608903417Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Brevo", "b": "Cloudflare", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.brevo.com/v3", "b": "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary service under Cloudflare's Self-Serve Subscription Agreement and Developer Platform service-specific terms. 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Brevo API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.brevo.com/v3 and Cloudflare Email Service at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4.", "question": "Can an agent call Brevo API + MCP and Cloudflare Email Service without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Teams that want transactional, marketing, SMS and CRM in one EU-hosted account.", "slug": "brevo", "watchFor": "Eight 'multiple services' full outages on the status page since July" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 83", "Agent ergonomics, 72 against 65", "Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 45", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 67" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where Brevo API + MCP loses 15 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Teams already on Cloudflare DNS and Workers that want transactional sending and inbound handling in one account at a low unit price.", "slug": "cloudflare-email-service", "watchFor": "Email Sending has been in public beta since 16 April 2026. 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Both do email send.", "verdicts": { "brevo": "POST /v3/smtp/email allows 1,000 requests a second on every plan. Eight 'multiple services' full outages on the status page since July.", "cloudflare-email-service": "Cloudflare API tokens can be limited to sending, given an expiry and restricted by IP address, and a public OpenAPI file covers 29 Email Sending operations. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brevo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/brevo.json\n- Cloudflare Email Service: grade B, 67.3/100, rank #212 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-email-service.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-email-service.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Brevo API + MCP (E)\n\nGood for: Teams that want transactional, marketing, SMS and CRM in one EU-hosted account.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: Eight 'multiple services' full outages on the status page since July\n\n### Cloudflare Email Service (B)\n\nGood for: Teams already on Cloudflare DNS and Workers that want transactional sending and inbound handling in one account at a low unit price.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 83\n- Agent ergonomics, 72 against 65\n- Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 45\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 67\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Brevo API + MCP loses 15 points for them\n\nWatch for: Email Sending has been in public beta since 16 April 2026. Cloudflare's terms let it remove a beta service at any time, and no SLA was found\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Brevo API + MCP | Cloudflare Email Service | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 51 | Brevo API + MCP +4 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 89 | Cloudflare Email Service +6 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 72 | Cloudflare Email Service +7 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 77 | Cloudflare Email Service +32 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 81 | Brevo API + MCP +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 67 | 76 | Cloudflare Email Service +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -15 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **44.8 · E** | **67.3 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Brevo API + MCP | Cloudflare Email Service |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Brevo | Cloudflare |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.brevo.com/v3` | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service under Cloudflare's Self-Serve Subscription Agreement and Developer Platform service-specific terms. The official `cloudflare` SDK on npm is Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-08-10 | 2026-09-25 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2025-09-12 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-10-01 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | 122 stars, 410k npm/wk, 65k PyPI/wk | 3.8M npm/wk, 364k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Brevo API + MCP.** POST /v3/smtp/email allows 1,000 requests a second on every plan. Eight 'multiple services' full outages on the status page since July.\n\n**Cloudflare Email Service.** Cloudflare API tokens can be limited to sending, given an expiry and restricted by IP address, and a public OpenAPI file covers 29 Email Sending operations. Sending is still in beta, with no SLA, no idempotency key and no published daily quota, and it needs a domain on Cloudflare DNS and the Workers Paid plan.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Brevo API + MCP\n\n1. Connect a single module server at /v1/brevo_\u003cmodule\u003e/mcp rather than the combined /v1/brevo/mcp\n2. Send with POST /v3/smtp/email and the `api-key` header, not Bearer\n3. Use webhooks for delivery events. GET /v3/smtp/emails allows 2 requests a second\n4. Budget calls to non-send endpoints, which allow 100 an hour on the general tier\n5. Wait for account approval before counting on the free plan's 300 a day\n\n### Cloudflare Email Service\n\n1. POST to `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/email/sending/send` with `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e`. The body needs `to`, `from`, `subject` and one of `html` or `text`\n2. Don't retry a timed-out send blindly. There is no idempotency key, so look for the message in the `emailSendingAdaptive` GraphQL dataset first\n3. On 429 (code 10004) wait for the `retry-after` header. On 409 `sending_not_ready` the domain setup is unfinished and nothing was sent\n4. Read `result.delivered`, `result.queued` and `result.permanent_bounces` in the response. A 200 does not mean every recipient was accepted\n5. Keep to 50 recipients across to, cc and bcc, and 5 MiB per message including attachments\n6. For SMTP use `smtp.mx.cloudflare.net` on port 465 with implicit TLS, username `api_token` and the API token as password. Port 587 is not supported\n7. By default one suppressed recipient fails the whole send. Turn on Drop suppressed recipients for the domain to send to the rest\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Brevo API + MCP or Cloudflare Email Service?\n\nCloudflare Email Service scores 67.3 (B) on agent readiness against Brevo API + MCP's 44.8 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Brevo API + MCP and Cloudflare Email Service need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Brevo API + MCP and Cloudflare Email Service without installing anything?\n\nYes. Brevo API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.brevo.com/v3 and Cloudflare Email Service at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brevo-vs-cloudflare-email-service.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brevo-vs-cloudflare-email-service.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"brevo\", \"b\": \"cloudflare-email-service\"}`. 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