{ "data": { "a": { "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" } }, "answer": "MailerSend scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against Cloudflare Email Service's 67.3 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Cloudflare Email Service leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "mailersend", "name": "MailerSend", "vendor": "MailerSend, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.mailersend.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "email", "summary": "Transactional email service from MailerSend, Inc. with a REST API, SMTP relay, templates, inbound routing, webhooks and analytics, plus SMS and WhatsApp sending. Agents reach it with a scoped API token or through a hosted MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mailersend", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mailersend.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mailersend.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mailersend.json", "repo": "https://github.com/mailersend/mailersend-nodejs", "license": "Proprietary service under MailerSend's terms of use. The SDKs and the CLI on GitHub are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.mailersend.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "mailersend" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "mailersend" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The REST API takes a Bearer API token, created in the dashboard or through /v1/token, with any of 30 scopes and an optional sending domain. Tokens can be paused and deleted. SMTP relay uses separate SMTP users. The MCP server and the CLI use OAuth with a browser login, and the MCP authorisation server supports dynamic client registration and PKCE. Access is self-serve, but a new account passes an approval step before full sending.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 500 emails a month and 100 API requests a day, which the pricing FAQ says needs a card once the account is approved. A 14-day Professional trial starts at signup with the same limits. Hobby is $7 a month for 5,000 emails, Starter from $35 for 50,000 and Professional from $110 for 50,000, with overage of $0.50 to $1.50 per 1,000. Yearly billing takes 10 per cent off. Enterprise is priced by sales (https://www.mailersend.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$7 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the OpenAPI file or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 127, "popularity": { "githubStars": 175, "npmWeekly": 128453, "pypiWeekly": 15086, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.mailersend.com", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.mailersend.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.swaggerhub.com/apis/MailerSend/mailersend-api/1.0.0-oas3.1", "capabilities": [ "email.send", "email.inbound", "email.templates", "email.domains", "email.analytics", "email.verification", "email.threads", "messaging.sms", "messaging.whatsapp" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "typescript", "python", "webhooks", "sms", "whatsapp", "status-page", "sla" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 156, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 30, "reliability": 95, "schema": 73, "security": 62, "transparency": 64 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "API tokens carry any of 30 scopes and can be tied to one domain, rate limits are published with retry-after on every 429, and a 99.5 per cent SLA starts on the $35 Starter plan. Sends take no idempotency key, the Free plan allows 100 API requests a day, and the terms permit changes without notice.", "bestFor": "An agent sending transactional email for an owner who wants scoped tokens, a hosted MCP server and low entry prices, with SMS and WhatsApp on the same API.", "strengths": [ "API tokens take any of 30 scopes, read or full by area, and can be limited to one sending domain", "Rate limits published per endpoint, with retry-after and x-ratelimit headers on a 429 and a quota endpoint that isn't counted", "99.5 per cent monthly uptime SLA with service credits on Starter, Professional and Enterprise", "Hosted MCP server at mcp.mailersend.com with OAuth, PKCE and dynamic client registration, on every plan", "Overage published per 1,000 emails for each plan, from $1.50 on Hobby to $0.50 at 2 million on Professional" ], "weaknesses": [ "No idempotency key documented for POST /v1/email or the bulk endpoint", "Free plan is capped at 100 API requests a day and 500 emails a month, and asks for a card after account approval", "The terms allow MailerSend to change or end the service and the terms without notice, and to close an account without cause", "The MCP server lists 127 tools with no documented toolsets or read-only mode", "The public OpenAPI file has one-line summaries, no error responses, and no WhatsApp, DMARC or blocklist monitoring paths", "The terms grant MailerSend a licence to use inputs and outputs of its AI functions to improve AI models" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` to https://api.mailersend.com/v1 and ask for a token with only the scopes the task needs, such as `email_full` and `activity_read`", "Read the message id from the `x-message-id` response header. POST /v1/email answers 202 with an empty body", "Check for a sent message before retrying a send. No idempotency key exists, so a blind retry can deliver twice", "On a 429 wait the seconds in `retry-after`. Call GET /v1/api-quota, which isn't counted, to see the daily quota left", "Use POST /v1/bulk-email for batches of up to 500 emails. It isn't on the Free plan and takes 10 to 60 requests a minute by plan" ], "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": 69.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 30, "reliability": 95, "schema": 73, "security": 62, "transparency": 43 }, "provenanceScore": 84 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install mailersend", "http": "curl -X POST https://api.mailersend.com/v1/email -H \"Authorization: Bearer $MAILERSEND_API_TOKEN\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"from\":{\"email\":\"hello@yourdomain.com\"},\"to\":[{\"email\":\"recipient@example.com\"}],\"subject\":\"Hello\",\"text\":\"Hello\"}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http mailersend https://mcp.mailersend.com/mcp" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/email.send", "tool": "https://letme.dev/mailersend" }, "area": "communication", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Hobby", "unit": "month", "usd": 7, "note": "5,000 emails" }, { "item": "Starter 50k", "unit": "month", "usd": 35, "note": "50,000 emails" }, { "item": "Starter 100k", "unit": "month", "usd": 68, "note": "100,000 emails" }, { "item": "Professional 50k", "unit": "month", "usd": 110, "note": "50,000 emails" }, { "item": "Professional 100k", "unit": "month", "usd": 140, "note": "100,000 emails" }, { "item": "Overage on Hobby", "unit": "1k-emails", "usd": 1.5 }, { "item": "Overage on Starter", "unit": "1k-emails", "usd": 1.3, "note": "up to the 100,000 tier, $1.10 at 250,000 and 500,000, $1.00 at 1 million" }, { "item": "Overage on Professional", "unit": "1k-emails", "usd": 1.3, "note": "up to the 100,000 tier, falling to $0.50 at 2 million" }, { "item": "Email verification credit", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.01, "note": "1,000 credits for $10, falling to $0.002 at 1 million" }, { "item": "Extra sending domain", "unit": "month", "usd": 4, "note": "per domain, Starter and above" }, { "item": "SMS phone number", "unit": "month", "usd": 2, "note": "per number, USA and Canada, Starter and above" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "MailerSend, Inc.", "domain": "mailersend.com", "domainRegistered": "2009-11-12", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.mailersend.com/legal/terms-of-use", "privacy": "https://www.mailersend.com/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.mailersend.com", "changelog": "https://www.mailersend.com/whats-new", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms of use (last updated 5 October 2026) and the privacy policy (last updated 17 September 2026) both name MailerSend, Inc., 228 Park Ave S, PMB 54955, New York, NY 10003-1502. The terms of use are the agreement for the service, with Delaware law.", "The API answers at api.mailersend.com and the MCP server at mcp.mailersend.com.", "www.mailersend.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404. The legal index links a responsible disclosure programme page.", "The changelog address comes from the site's llms.txt. The page itself was not read, because www.mailersend.com began answering with a Cloudflare bot check during our reads.", "RDAP gives 2009-11-12 as the registration date of mailersend.com.", "The lead named MailerLite and Vercom as parents. The pages we read name only MailerSend, Inc., so no parent is recorded." ], "score": 84 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mailersend.json", "live": { "slug": "mailersend", "probe": { "target": "https://api.mailersend.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:14.585031458Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 126, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 172, "p95ms24h": 281, "samples24h": 41, "samples30d": 41, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 41, "ok": 41 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.mailersend.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:06:11.791587793Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.mailersend.com/whats-new", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:29:00.187031888Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "573c2146c8b3" }, { "url": "https://www.mailersend.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:28:58.024689641Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c5c6c75fb124" }, { "url": "https://www.mailersend.com/legal/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:28:53.837822012Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "be735fa80c7c" }, { "url": "https://www.mailersend.com/legal/terms-of-use", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:28:56.046015705Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "7fff1960a381" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:14.585031458Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cloudflare", "b": "MailerSend, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4", "b": "https://api.mailersend.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "not published", "b": "$4 per month (plan)", "name": "Price for email send" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "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", "b": "Proprietary service under MailerSend's terms of use. The SDKs and the CLI on GitHub are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "127", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-25", "b": "2026-09-29", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-09-12", "b": "2026-10-05", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2026-09-17", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "3.8M npm/wk, 364k PyPI/wk", "b": "175 stars, 128k npm/wk, 15k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "MailerSend scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against Cloudflare Email Service's 67.3 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Cloudflare Email Service leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare Email Service or MailerSend?" }, { "answer": "Cloudflare Email Service needs an API key. MailerSend takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Cloudflare Email Service and MailerSend need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Cloudflare Email Service has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4 and MailerSend at https://api.mailersend.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Cloudflare Email Service and MailerSend without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 73", "Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 62", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 64" ], "also": null, "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. Cloudflare's terms let it remove a beta service at any time, and no SLA was found" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 95 against 51" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An agent sending transactional email for an owner who wants scoped tokens, a hosted MCP server and low entry prices, with SMS and WhatsApp on the same API.", "slug": "mailersend", "watchFor": "No idempotency key documented for POST /v1/email or the bulk endpoint" } ], "job": { "capability": "email.send", "name": "Email send" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-ses-vs-cloudflare-email-service.json", "title": "Amazon SES vs Cloudflare Email Service", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-ses-vs-cloudflare-email-service" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-ses-vs-mailersend.json", "title": "Amazon SES vs MailerSend", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-ses-vs-mailersend" }, { "json": 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"url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mailersend-vs-postmark" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mailersend-vs-resend.json", "title": "MailerSend vs Resend API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mailersend-vs-resend" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mailersend-vs-sendgrid.json", "title": "MailerSend vs Twilio SendGrid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mailersend-vs-sendgrid" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mailersend-vs-smtp2go.json", "title": "MailerSend vs SMTP2GO API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mailersend-vs-smtp2go" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mailersend-vs-zoho-zeptomail.json", "title": "MailerSend vs Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mailersend-vs-zoho-zeptomail" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 44, "cloudflare-email-service": 51, "edge": "mailersend", "key": "reliability", "mailersend": 95, "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 16, "cloudflare-email-service": 89, "edge": "cloudflare-email-service", "key": "schema", "mailersend": 73, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 3, "cloudflare-email-service": 72, "edge": "cloudflare-email-service", "key": "ergonomics", "mailersend": 69, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 15, "cloudflare-email-service": 77, "edge": "cloudflare-email-service", "key": "security", "mailersend": 62, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 0, "cloudflare-email-service": 30, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "mailersend": 30, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "cloudflare-email-service": 81, "edge": "mailersend", "key": "maintenance", "mailersend": 83, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { 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Sends take no idempotency key, the Free plan allows 100 API requests a day, and the terms permit changes without notice." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-email-service-vs-mailersend", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-email-service-vs-mailersend.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-email-service-vs-mailersend.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-email-service-vs-mailersend.min.md" }, "markdown": "MailerSend scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against Cloudflare Email Service's 67.3 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Cloudflare Email Service leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do email send.\n\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- MailerSend: grade B, 69.5/100, rank #156 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mailersend.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mailersend.json\n\n## Which one, for what\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 73\n- Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 62\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 64\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### MailerSend (B)\n\nGood for: An agent sending transactional email for an owner who wants scoped tokens, a hosted MCP server and low entry prices, with SMS and WhatsApp on the same API.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 95 against 51\n\nWatch for: No idempotency key documented for POST /v1/email or the bulk endpoint\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cloudflare Email Service | MailerSend | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 51 | 95 | MailerSend +44 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 89 | 73 | Cloudflare Email Service +16 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 69 | Cloudflare Email Service +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 77 | 62 | Cloudflare Email Service +15 |\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) | 81 | 83 | MailerSend +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 64 | Cloudflare Email Service +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **67.3 · B** | **69.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cloudflare Email Service | MailerSend |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Cloudflare | MailerSend, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4` | `https://api.mailersend.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| Price for email send | not published | $4 per month (plan) |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | 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 | Proprietary service under MailerSend's terms of use. The SDKs and the CLI on GitHub are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 127 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-25 | 2026-09-29 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 | 2026-10-05 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-09-17 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | 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 | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | 3.8M npm/wk, 364k PyPI/wk | 175 stars, 128k npm/wk, 15k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\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**MailerSend.** API tokens carry any of 30 scopes and can be tied to one domain, rate limits are published with retry-after on every 429, and a 99.5 per cent SLA starts on the $35 Starter plan. Sends take no idempotency key, the Free plan allows 100 API requests a day, and the terms permit changes without notice.\n\n## Before you call either\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### MailerSend\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` to https://api.mailersend.com/v1 and ask for a token with only the scopes the task needs, such as `email_full` and `activity_read`\n2. Read the message id from the `x-message-id` response header. POST /v1/email answers 202 with an empty body\n3. Check for a sent message before retrying a send. No idempotency key exists, so a blind retry can deliver twice\n4. On a 429 wait the seconds in `retry-after`. Call GET /v1/api-quota, which isn't counted, to see the daily quota left\n5. Use POST /v1/bulk-email for batches of up to 500 emails. It isn't on the Free plan and takes 10 to 60 requests a minute by plan\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare Email Service or MailerSend?\n\nMailerSend scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against Cloudflare Email Service's 67.3 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Cloudflare Email Service leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Cloudflare Email Service and MailerSend need an API key?\n\nCloudflare Email Service needs an API key. MailerSend takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Cloudflare Email Service and MailerSend without installing anything?\n\nYes. Cloudflare Email Service has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4 and MailerSend at https://api.mailersend.com/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-email-service-vs-mailersend.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-email-service-vs-mailersend.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cloudflare-email-service\", \"b\": \"mailersend\"}`. 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