# CloudPost vs Unipile (slim)

> Unipile scores 58.4 (C) to CloudPost's 20.6 (F) for mailbox access. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Unipile scores 58.4 (C) 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
- Unipile: C 58.4, rank #585 of 961 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/unipile.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.
- Unipile, good for A product that needs one API over Gmail, Outlook and IMAP together with LinkedIn or WhatsApp messaging, priced per account. Ahead on Reliability, 56 against 15; Schema & documentation, 77 against 8; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 23; Payments & pricing, 40 against 20; Maintenance & community, 59 against 33; Transparency & trust, 71 against 10. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | CloudPost | Unipile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 15 | 56 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 8 | 77 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 23 | 73 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 36 | 37 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 33 | 59 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 10 | 71 |

| Fact (where they differ) | CloudPost | Unipile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | CloudPost (James Brooks) | UNIPILE SAS |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://cloudpost.ing/api/mcp/mail` | `https://developer.unipile.com/mcp?branch=v1.0` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Paid |
| Licence | Proprietary. No licence or terms published | Proprietary service under Unipile's terms of use. The v1 Node SDK repository and the unipile-mcp repository carry an MIT licence file |
| Tools exposed | 9 | 5 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.unipile/unipile-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-10 | 2026-09-02 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-28 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 48 stars, 83k npm/wk |