# ContactsPlus vs Google People API (slim)

> Google People scores 65.2 (B) to ContactsPlus's 42.4 (E) for reading contacts. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Google People API scores 65.2 (B) on agent readiness against ContactsPlus's 42.4 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do reading contacts.

- ContactsPlus: E 42.4, rank #982 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/contactsplus.min.md
- Google People API: B 65.2, rank #350 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-people-api.min.md
- ContactsPlus, good for Agents serving one person or a small team whose contacts are spread across Google, iCloud and Outlook.
- Google People API, good for Agents that read or maintain a Google user's address book or look people up in a Workspace directory. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 79 against 38; Agent ergonomics, 83 against 42; Security & auth, 86 against 71; Payments & pricing, 35 against 30; Maintenance & community, 83 against 25; Transparency & trust, 71 against 62.

| Category | ContactsPlus | Google People API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 28 | 30 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 38 | 79 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 42 | 83 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 71 | 86 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 25 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 62 | 71 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ContactsPlus | Google People API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Contacts Plus LLC | Google |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.contactsplus.com/api/v1` | `https://people.googleapis.com/v1` |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the ContactsPlus Terms of Use (version 2.0, 26 June 2026). The old Node and Clojure API clients are archived | Proprietary service under the Google APIs Terms of Service. Client libraries are Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 7 | 3 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-10-12 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-26 | 2021-11-09 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-26 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 13 npm/wk | 177k npm/wk |