# Cherami vs Inbound (slim)

> Inbound scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against Cherami's 57.6 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cherami leads on schema & documentation and payments & pricing. Both do email inbox. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Inbound scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against Cherami's 57.6 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cherami leads on schema & documentation and payments & pricing. Both do email inbox.

- Cherami: C 57.6, rank #467 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cherami.min.md
- Inbound: B 63.7, rank #300 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inbound.min.md
- Cherami, good for A single developer or small team giving an agent a free, separate address for low-volume recurring correspondence such as supplier replies, project updates and agent-to-agent handoffs. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 85 against 74; Payments & pricing, 35 against 15. Also Free to start without a card.
- Inbound, good for A team that wants agent addresses on its own domain at a low fixed price, with IMAP and SMTP beside the API and an MCP mode that confines an agent to one mailbox. Ahead on Reliability, 83 against 40; Security & auth, 58 against 46. Also Open source.

| Category | Cherami | Inbound |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 40 | 83 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 74 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 46 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 15 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 64 | 63 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 54 | 56 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cherami | Inbound |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cherami | Exon Enterprise LLC |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://cherami.to/mcp` | `https://inbound.new/api/e2` |
| Pricing | Free | Paid |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Cherami's terms of use. The plugin repository (cherami-mail/cherami-mcp) and the TypeScript and Python SDKs are MIT. The MCP server's own source isn't public | MIT for the platform repository. The TypeScript SDK, `inboundctl` and the MCP server are Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 39 | 50 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `io.github.cherami-mail/cherami-mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-04 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-07 | 2025-12-03 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-07 | 2025-01-01 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 119 npm/wk, 130 PyPI/wk | 359 stars, 1.7k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |