# Courier vs Pingram (slim)

> Courier scores 70.5 (BB) to Pingram's 57.4 (C) for push notifications. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Courier scores 70.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Pingram's 57.4 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Pingram leads on payments & pricing. Both do push notifications.

- Courier: BB 70.5, rank #151 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/courier.min.md
- Pingram: C 57.4, rank #611 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pingram.min.md
- Courier, good for A product team that wants simple per-send billing and one API across many providers, and for agents that only send. Ahead on Reliability, 92 against 58; Schema & documentation, 84 against 69; Security & auth, 56 against 51; Maintenance & community, 86 against 81; Transparency & trust, 65 against 54. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- Pingram, good for An agent that needs to send transactional email and SMS and read replies through one account without separate carrier or SMTP providers. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 40 against 35.

| Category | Courier | Pingram |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 92 | 58 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 69 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 68 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 56 | 51 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 86 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 65 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Courier | Pingram |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Courier | Pingram |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.courier.com` | `https://mcp.pingram.io` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (Node SDK) | Proprietary service under Pingram's terms of service. The Node.js SDK and CLI are MIT on npm. The Go SDK repository has no licence file |
| Tools exposed | 170 | none |
| MCP registry | `io.github.trycourier/courier` | `io.pingram/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-09-24 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-10 | 2025-04-16 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-12-08 | 2025-04-16 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 63 stars, 189k npm/wk, 35k PyPI/wk | 1 stars, 13k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |