# Cherami vs mails.ai Agent Email (slim)

> mails.ai Agent Email scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Cherami's 57.8 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Cherami leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do email inbox. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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mails.ai Agent Email scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Cherami's 57.8 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Cherami leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do email inbox.

- Cherami: C 57.8, rank #293 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cherami.min.md
- mails.ai Agent Email: B 66.8, rank #156 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mails-ai.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 Agent ergonomics, 80 against 73; Payments & pricing, 35 against 30.
- mails.ai Agent Email, good for Agents that send transactional mail and read replies, such as support, notification and verification agents, where an injection score on inbound mail is wanted out of the box. Ahead on Reliability, 60 against 40; Security & auth, 76 against 46; Maintenance & community, 80 against 64; Transparency & trust, 65 against 57. Also Runs on your own machine; Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 3.0 out of 5.

| Category | Cherami | mails.ai Agent Email |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 40 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 73 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 46 | 76 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 64 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 65 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cherami | mails.ai Agent Email |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cherami | Mails.ai |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://cherami.to/mcp` | `https://api.mails.ai/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| 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 | Proprietary hosted API under the mails.ai terms of service. The MCP server, the TypeScript SDK and the Python SDK in mailsai/mailsai are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 39 | 20 |
| MCP registry | `io.github.cherami-mail/cherami-mcp` | `ai.mails/agent-email` |
| Popularity | 119 npm/wk, 130 PyPI/wk | 650 npm/wk, 116 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (2) |