{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "cloudpost", "name": "CloudPost", "vendor": "CloudPost (James Brooks)", "vendorUrl": "https://cloudpost.ing", "kind": "mcp", "category": "mailbox-access", "summary": "Hosted MCP server that connects an iCloud Mail mailbox to OAuth-capable MCP clients, so an agent can list folders, search, read, move, delete and send mail without CloudPost keeping a copy of the mailbox.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudpost", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudpost.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudpost.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudpost.json", "license": "Proprietary. No licence or terms published", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://cloudpost.ing/api/mcp/mail", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "Two credentials. The person saves an Apple app-specific password in CloudPost settings and validates IMAP and SMTP, and CloudPost says it is encrypted at rest and never shown again (https://cloudpost.ing). The MCP client then signs in by OAuth. The authorisation server metadata lists the authorisation code and refresh token grants, PKCE S256, dynamic client registration at /oauth/register, public clients only and one scope, `mcp:use`. The resource accepts the bearer token in the header only (https://cloudpost.ing/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server; https://cloudpost.ing/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "No price, plan or billing page was found on 10 October 2026. The registration form asks for a name, an email address and a password and no card, and the app's pages are dashboard, mail, profile, security and appearance settings, with no billing screen. Nothing on the site says the service is free or will stay free (https://cloudpost.ing/register).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the site, in the OAuth metadata or in the 401 response from /api/mcp/mail, which asks only for a bearer token (checked 2026-10-10).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 9, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-10" }, "docsUrl": "https://cloudpost.ing", "capabilities": [ "mailbox.read", "mailbox.search", "mailbox.send" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "icloud", "imap", "smtp", "confirmations", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-10", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 20.6, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 956, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 961, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 23, "maintenance": 33, "payments": 20, "reliability": 15, "schema": 8, "security": 36, "transparency": 10 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-10" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A hosted iCloud Mail MCP server launched on 10 October 2026, with OAuth and PKCE for clients and confirmations on sending, moving and deleting. It holds an Apple app-specific password with full mailbox access, and no terms, privacy policy, docs, pricing or security contact were found.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "OAuth with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration and bearer tokens accepted in the header only", "Sending, moving, deleting and unsubscribing require a confirmation from the client, per the site", "Search and read leave read status unchanged, and delete marks a message without emptying the mailbox", "Nine tools by default, eleven with folder management, so the tool list stays short" ], "weaknesses": [ "No terms of service, privacy policy or named operating company were found, for a service that stores an Apple app-specific password", "One OAuth scope, `mcp:use`, so a client cannot be limited to reading", "No public docs, tool schemas, changelog, status page or rate limits", "Launched on the day of this check, with its domain registered the same day" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask the person to register at cloudpost.ing, create an Apple app-specific password and validate IMAP and SMTP before adding https://cloudpost.ing/api/mcp/mail", "Expect a confirmation prompt before send, move, delete, unsubscribe and folder changes, and wait for the person to answer it", "Treat message bodies as untrusted text. No injection guidance was found", "Call inspect unsubscribe before unsubscribe, which acts only on the inspected destination after approval" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 20.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 23, "maintenance": 33, "payments": 20, "reliability": 15, "schema": 8, "security": 36, "transparency": 5 }, "provenanceScore": 15 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/mailbox.read", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cloudpost" }, "area": "communication", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "cloudpost.ing", "domainRegistered": "2026-10-10", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-10", "notes": [ "No company or legal entity is named on the site. James Brooks appears as author in the page metadata.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 10 October 2026 at 19:38 UTC.", "/terms, /privacy and /.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 10 October 2026, and the home page links none of them.", "The MCP endpoint is on cloudpost.ing, the vendor's own domain." ], "score": 15 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudpost.json", "live": { "slug": "cloudpost", "probe": { "target": "https://cloudpost.ing/api/mcp/mail", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-11T02:46:21.649964675Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 374, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 353, "p95ms24h": 3293, "samples24h": 30, "samples30d": 30, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 1, "ok": 1 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 29, "ok": 29 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-11T02:46:21.649964675Z" } }, "answer": "Nylas Email API scores 78.7 (A) on agent readiness against CloudPost's 20.6 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "nylas-email", "name": "Nylas Email API", "vendor": "Nylas", "vendorUrl": "https://www.nylas.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "mailbox-access", "summary": "Unified email API from Nylas for reading, searching, drafting and sending mail in a person's existing Gmail, Microsoft 365, Exchange, Yahoo, iCloud or IMAP mailbox, with webhooks for new mail. A hosted MCP server exposes the same data.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nylas-email", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nylas-email.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nylas-email.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nylas-email.json", "repo": "https://github.com/nylas/nylas-nodejs", "license": "Proprietary service under Nylas's terms. The SDKs are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.us.nylas.com/v3", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "nylas" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "nylas" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve. Sign in to the Dashboard or run `nylas init` (Google, Microsoft or GitHub SSO in a browser), then create an API key and send it as a Bearer token. Each mailbox is a grant, created when its owner completes Nylas hosted OAuth, and addressed as /v3/grants/\u003cgrant_id\u003e. Production Google and Microsoft connections need the integrator's own OAuth app as a connector. The application API key reaches every grant. IAM API keys, created in the Dashboard, are limited to one grant, workspace or application and to chosen permissions. The hosted MCP takes either key in the `Authorization` header.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free $0 with 5 email and calendar connected accounts and no card, so an agent's operator can start without a contract. Essentials $15 a month with 10 accounts, then $2.25 each. Pro $49 a month, or $43 billed annually, with 25 accounts, then $2.00 or $1.75 each. Enterprise is custom with volume bands, a HIPAA BAA and an uptime SLA. No per-call charge (https://www.nylas.com/pricing/, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$15 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in llms.txt, the OpenAPI spec or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 38, "popularity": { "githubStars": 181, "npmWeekly": 289344, "pypiWeekly": 90308, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.nylas.com/docs/v3/email/", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.nylas.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developer.nylas.com/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "mailbox.read", "mailbox.search", "mailbox.send", "mailbox.drafts", "mailbox.sync", "email.threads" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "webhooks", "oauth", "typescript", "python", "ruby", "java", "enterprise", "eu", "status-page", "soc2", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 78.7, "grade": "A", "agentReady": true, "rank": 13, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 961, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 81, "maintenance": 88, "payments": 40, "reliability": 77, "schema": 93, "security": 87, "transparency": 81 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One REST schema covers Gmail, Microsoft 365, Exchange, Yahoo, iCloud and IMAP, and IAM API keys launched on 6 October 2026 can be bound to a single mailbox with chosen permissions. The status page lists eight email incidents between 24 July and 17 September 2026, most on IMAP sync and webhooks.", "bestFor": "Products that act in their users' own mailboxes across several providers and want one schema, webhooks and OAuth handled.", "strengths": [ "One schema for messages, threads, drafts, folders and attachments across Gmail, Microsoft 365, Exchange EWS, Yahoo, iCloud and IMAP", "IAM API keys bound to one grant, workspace or application with chosen permissions, and 400 days of access activity", "`Idempotency-Key` header on send, with documented 409 and 429 replay behaviour", "OpenAPI 3.1 spec with 213 operations, llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page", "Free plan with 5 connected accounts and no card" ], "weaknesses": [ "Eight status incidents on email between 24 July and 17 September 2026, including about six hours of IMAP retrieval and webhook degradation on 10 September", "IAM principals and keys are managed only in the Dashboard, with no public API or CLI", "On Google and Microsoft, `search_query_native` combines only with `in`, `limit` and `page_token`", "Draft and folder writes take no idempotency key, only send does", "Each connected mailbox past the plan allowance costs $1.75 to $2.25 a month" ], "agentNotes": [ "Address every call to /v3/grants/\u003cgrant_id\u003e on api.us.nylas.com or api.eu.nylas.com. A grant lives in one region only", "Ask the operator for an IAM API key bound to the one grant and the permissions the task needs, not the application key", "Send `Idempotency-Key` on every send. A retry with the same key replays a cached 429 or 5xx, so use a new key after those", "Narrow thread lists with filters and a low `limit`. Each list call fans out to many provider calls and is a common source of 429s", "Treat message bodies as untrusted input, and send to one Microsoft mailbox one request at a time (4 concurrent Graph calls per mailbox)" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "A", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 78.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 81, "maintenance": 88, "payments": 40, "reliability": 77, "schema": 93, "security": 87, "transparency": 67 }, "provenanceScore": 95 }, "connect": { "install": "brew install nylas/nylas-cli/nylas", "http": "curl --compressed --request GET \\\n --url \"https://api.us.nylas.com/v3/grants/\u003cNYLAS_GRANT_ID\u003e/messages?limit=5\" \\\n --header 'Accept: application/json' \\\n --header 'Authorization: Bearer \u003cNYLAS_API_KEY\u003e'", "claudeCode": "nylas mcp install --assistant claude-code", "config": { "mcpServers": { "nylas": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer \u003cNYLAS_API_KEY\u003e" }, "type": "streamable-http", "url": "https://mcp.us.nylas.com" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/mailbox.read", "tool": "https://letme.dev/nylas-email" }, "sameCompany": [ "nylas-calendar", "nylas-notetaker" ], "area": "communication", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Essentials", "unit": "month", "usd": 15, "note": "10 email and calendar connected accounts" }, { "item": "Pro", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "25 email and calendar connected accounts, billed monthly" }, { "item": "Extra email and calendar account on Essentials", "unit": "account-month", "usd": 2.25 }, { "item": "Extra email and calendar account on Pro", "unit": "account-month", "usd": 2 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Nylas, Inc.", "domain": "nylas.com", "domainRegistered": "2001-11-07", "domainNote": "nylas.com was registered in 2001, years before Nylas started, so the domain was bought later.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.nylas.com/legal/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.nylas.com/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status-v3.nylas.com", "changelog": "https://developer.nylas.com/docs/changelogs/", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms (updated 23 June 2025) name Nylas, Inc., 2100 Geng Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303, under Californian law with arbitration.", "developer.nylas.com/.well-known/security.txt is an RFC 9116 file with security@nylas.com as contact, expiring on 1 August 2027. www.nylas.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.", "The API answers at api.us.nylas.com and api.eu.nylas.com, and the status page for the v3 API is status-v3.nylas.com.", "RDAP for nylas.com gives a registration date of 2001-11-07.", "The privacy policy was last updated on 6 January 2026 and the sub-processor page on 28 August 2026." ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nylas-email.json", "live": { "slug": "nylas-email", "probe": { "target": "https://api.us.nylas.com/v3", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-11T02:46:35.073584831Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 128, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 135, "p95ms24h": 171, "samples24h": 248, "samples30d": 619, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 93, "ok": 93 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 29, "ok": 29 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status-v3.nylas.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T02:41:03.599217924Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "nylas/nylas-nodejs", "version": "v8.4.0", "released": "2026-06-24", "seenAt": "2026-10-10T18:03:07.120899687Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "nylas", "version": "8.4.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-10T18:03:06.932562437Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "nylas", "version": "6.18.0", "released": "2026-09-30", "seenAt": "2026-10-10T18:03:06.997443941Z" } ], "githubStars": 180, "npmWeekly": 242326, "pypiWeekly": 91527, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://nylas.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T15:41:15.898023901Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://developer.nylas.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T14:04:46.47686292Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-11T02:46:35.073584831Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "MCP server", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "CloudPost (James Brooks)", "b": "Nylas", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://cloudpost.ing/api/mcp/mail", "b": "https://api.us.nylas.com/v3", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary. No licence or terms published", "b": "Proprietary service under Nylas's terms. The SDKs are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "9", "b": "38", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-10", "b": "2026-10-07", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2025-06-23", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2026-01-06", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "181 stars, 289k npm/wk, 90k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Nylas Email API scores 78.7 (A) on agent readiness against CloudPost's 20.6 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, CloudPost or Nylas Email API?" }, { "answer": "CloudPost uses an OAuth sign-in. Nylas Email API takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do CloudPost and Nylas Email API need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. CloudPost has a hosted endpoint at https://cloudpost.ing/api/mcp/mail and Nylas Email API at https://api.us.nylas.com/v3.", "question": "Can an agent call CloudPost and Nylas Email API without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "cloudpost", "watchFor": "No terms of service, privacy policy or named operating company were found, for a service that stores an Apple app-specific password" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 77 against 15", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 93 against 8", "Agent ergonomics, 81 against 23", "Security \u0026 auth, 87 against 36", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 33", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 10" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Products that act in their users' own mailboxes across several providers and want one schema, webhooks and OAuth handled.", "slug": "nylas-email", "watchFor": "Eight status incidents on email between 24 July and 17 September 2026, including about six hours of IMAP retrieval and webhook degradation on 10 September" } ], "job": { "capability": "mailbox.read", "name": "Mailbox access" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aurinko-email-vs-cloudpost.json", "title": "Aurinko Email API vs CloudPost", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aurinko-email-vs-cloudpost" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aurinko-email-vs-nylas-email.json", "title": "Aurinko Email API vs Nylas Email API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aurinko-email-vs-nylas-email" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-emailengine.json", "title": "CloudPost vs EmailEngine", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-emailengine" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-fastmail.json", "title": "CloudPost vs Fastmail API (JMAP)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-fastmail" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-gmail-api.json", "title": "CloudPost vs Gmail API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-gmail-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-himalaya.json", "title": "CloudPost vs Himalaya", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-himalaya" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-outlook-mail-graph.json", "title": "CloudPost vs Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-outlook-mail-graph" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-unipile.json", "title": "CloudPost vs Unipile", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-unipile" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-zoho-mail.json", "title": "CloudPost vs Zoho Mail API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-zoho-mail" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/emailengine-vs-nylas-email.json", "title": "EmailEngine vs Nylas Email API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/emailengine-vs-nylas-email" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fastmail-vs-nylas-email.json", "title": "Fastmail API (JMAP) vs Nylas Email API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fastmail-vs-nylas-email" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gmail-api-vs-nylas-email.json", "title": "Gmail API vs Nylas Email API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gmail-api-vs-nylas-email" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/himalaya-vs-nylas-email.json", "title": "Himalaya vs Nylas Email API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/himalaya-vs-nylas-email" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nylas-email-vs-outlook-mail-graph.json", "title": "Nylas Email API vs Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nylas-email-vs-outlook-mail-graph" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nylas-email-vs-unipile.json", "title": "Nylas Email API vs Unipile", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nylas-email-vs-unipile" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nylas-email-vs-zoho-mail.json", "title": "Nylas Email API vs Zoho Mail API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nylas-email-vs-zoho-mail" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 62, "cloudpost": 15, "edge": "nylas-email", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "nylas-email": 77, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 85, "cloudpost": 8, "edge": "nylas-email", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "nylas-email": 93, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 58, "cloudpost": 23, "edge": "nylas-email", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "nylas-email": 81, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 51, "cloudpost": 36, "edge": "nylas-email", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "nylas-email": 87, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "cloudpost": 20, "edge": "nylas-email", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "nylas-email": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 55, "cloudpost": 33, "edge": "nylas-email", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "nylas-email": 88, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 71, "cloudpost": 10, "edge": "nylas-email", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "nylas-email": 81, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Nylas Email API scores 78.7 (A) on agent readiness against CloudPost's 20.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do mailbox access.", "verdicts": { "cloudpost": "A hosted iCloud Mail MCP server launched on 10 October 2026, with OAuth and PKCE for clients and confirmations on sending, moving and deleting. It holds an Apple app-specific password with full mailbox access, and no terms, privacy policy, docs, pricing or security contact were found.", "nylas-email": "One REST schema covers Gmail, Microsoft 365, Exchange, Yahoo, iCloud and IMAP, and IAM API keys launched on 6 October 2026 can be bound to a single mailbox with chosen permissions. The status page lists eight email incidents between 24 July and 17 September 2026, most on IMAP sync and webhooks." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-nylas-email", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-nylas-email.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-nylas-email.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-nylas-email.min.md" }, "markdown": "Nylas Email API scores 78.7 (A) on agent readiness against CloudPost's 20.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do mailbox access.\n\n- CloudPost: grade F, 20.6/100, rank #956 of 961. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudpost.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudpost.json\n- Nylas Email API: grade A, 78.7/100, rank #13 of 961. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nylas-email.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nylas-email.json\n- Best mailbox access APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/mailbox-access/index.md\n- All 45 mailboxes comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mailbox-access/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### CloudPost (F)\n\nGood 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.\n\nWatch for: No terms of service, privacy policy or named operating company were found, for a service that stores an Apple app-specific password\n\n### Nylas Email API (A)\n\nGood for: Products that act in their users' own mailboxes across several providers and want one schema, webhooks and OAuth handled.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 77 against 15\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 93 against 8\n- Agent ergonomics, 81 against 23\n- Security \u0026 auth, 87 against 36\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 33\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 10\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: Eight status incidents on email between 24 July and 17 September 2026, including about six hours of IMAP retrieval and webhook degradation on 10 September\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | CloudPost | Nylas Email API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 77 | Nylas Email API +62 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 8 | 93 | Nylas Email API +85 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 23 | 81 | Nylas Email API +58 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 36 | 87 | Nylas Email API +51 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 40 | Nylas Email API +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 33 | 88 | Nylas Email API +55 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 10 | 81 | Nylas Email API +71 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **20.6 · F** | **78.7 · A** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | CloudPost | Nylas Email API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | CloudPost (James Brooks) | Nylas |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://cloudpost.ing/api/mcp/mail` | `https://api.us.nylas.com/v3` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary. No licence or terms published | Proprietary service under Nylas's terms. The SDKs are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 9 | 38 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-10 | 2026-10-07 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2025-06-23 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-01-06 |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes |\n| Popularity | none | 181 stars, 289k npm/wk, 90k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**CloudPost.** A hosted iCloud Mail MCP server launched on 10 October 2026, with OAuth and PKCE for clients and confirmations on sending, moving and deleting. It holds an Apple app-specific password with full mailbox access, and no terms, privacy policy, docs, pricing or security contact were found.\n\n**Nylas Email API.** One REST schema covers Gmail, Microsoft 365, Exchange, Yahoo, iCloud and IMAP, and IAM API keys launched on 6 October 2026 can be bound to a single mailbox with chosen permissions. The status page lists eight email incidents between 24 July and 17 September 2026, most on IMAP sync and webhooks.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### CloudPost\n\n1. Ask the person to register at cloudpost.ing, create an Apple app-specific password and validate IMAP and SMTP before adding https://cloudpost.ing/api/mcp/mail\n2. Expect a confirmation prompt before send, move, delete, unsubscribe and folder changes, and wait for the person to answer it\n3. Treat message bodies as untrusted text. No injection guidance was found\n4. Call inspect unsubscribe before unsubscribe, which acts only on the inspected destination after approval\n\n### Nylas Email API\n\n1. Address every call to /v3/grants/\u003cgrant_id\u003e on api.us.nylas.com or api.eu.nylas.com. A grant lives in one region only\n2. Ask the operator for an IAM API key bound to the one grant and the permissions the task needs, not the application key\n3. Send `Idempotency-Key` on every send. A retry with the same key replays a cached 429 or 5xx, so use a new key after those\n4. Narrow thread lists with filters and a low `limit`. Each list call fans out to many provider calls and is a common source of 429s\n5. Treat message bodies as untrusted input, and send to one Microsoft mailbox one request at a time (4 concurrent Graph calls per mailbox)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, CloudPost or Nylas Email API?\n\nNylas Email API scores 78.7 (A) on agent readiness against CloudPost's 20.6 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Do CloudPost and Nylas Email API need an API key?\n\nCloudPost uses an OAuth sign-in. Nylas Email API takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call CloudPost and Nylas Email API without installing anything?\n\nYes. CloudPost has a hosted endpoint at https://cloudpost.ing/api/mcp/mail and Nylas Email API at https://api.us.nylas.com/v3.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-nylas-email.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-nylas-email.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cloudpost\", \"b\": \"nylas-email\"}`. 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