# CloudPost vs Himalaya (slim)

> Himalaya scores 64.5 (B) to CloudPost's 20.6 (F) for mailbox access. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Himalaya scores 64.5 (B) on agent readiness against CloudPost's 20.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do mailbox access.

- CloudPost: F 20.6, rank #956 of 961 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudpost.min.md
- Himalaya: B 64.5, rank #352 of 961 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/himalaya.min.md
- CloudPost, good for A person who wants an agent to triage and answer their own iCloud Mail from Claude or another OAuth-capable MCP client without running an IMAP server locally. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Himalaya loses 3 points for them.
- Himalaya, good for An agent with a shell that must work in one person's existing mailbox on any provider, including plain IMAP hosts, without a hosted intermediary. Ahead on Reliability, 84 against 15; Schema & documentation, 70 against 8; Agent ergonomics, 65 against 23; Security & auth, 43 against 36; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20; Maintenance & community, 88 against 33; Transparency & trust, 69 against 10. Also Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | CloudPost | Himalaya |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 15 | 84 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 8 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 23 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 36 | 43 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 33 | 88 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 10 | 69 |

| Fact (where they differ) | CloudPost | Himalaya |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | SDK + MCP |
| Vendor | CloudPost (James Brooks) | Pimalaya |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://cloudpost.ing/api/mcp/mail` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Proprietary. No licence or terms published | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 9 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-10 | 2026-10-02 |
| Popularity | none | 7.4k stars |