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    "a": {
      "slug": "emailengine",
      "name": "EmailEngine",
      "vendor": "Postal Systems OÜ",
      "vendorUrl": "https://emailengine.app",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "mailbox-access",
      "summary": "EmailEngine is self-hosted software from Postal Systems that puts one REST API over Gmail, Microsoft 365 and IMAP mailboxes, with webhooks for new mail and a beta MCP server. The owner runs it with Redis.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/emailengine",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/emailengine.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/emailengine.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/emailengine.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/postalsys/emailengine",
      "license": "Source available under the EmailEngine licence agreement, version 2.1 of 17 October 2023. Not open source. The PHP SDK is MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "emailengine-app"
        },
        {
          "registry": "oci",
          "name": "postalsys/emailengine"
        },
        {
          "registry": "packagist",
          "name": "postalsys/emailengine-php"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Access is granted by whoever runs the instance, with no vendor approval or app review. Every request takes a 64-character token as `Authorization: Bearer`, or in the `access_token` query parameter. Tokens are created in the admin interface, with the CLI (`emailengine tokens issue`) or through POST /v1/tokens, which only mints tokens bound to one account or narrowed by a permissions record. A token carries scopes (`*`, api, metrics, smtp, imap-proxy, mcp, mcp-manage), an optional account binding, allowlists of actions (read, write, send, destructive) and groups, an IP allowlist, an expiry and a rate limit. The beta MCP endpoint also has an optional built-in OAuth 2.1 server. Mailboxes are connected with the operator's own Google and Microsoft OAuth2 apps, service accounts or IMAP passwords, which stay inside the instance.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "$1,450 or EUR 1,200 a year, excluding VAT, for unlimited mailboxes, instances and API calls, bought with an account at postalsys.com. Every install can start a 14-day trial with full functionality from its own dashboard, with no sign-up and no card, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. When the trial ends the instance stops processing accounts until a licence key is added. A perpetual licence is sold through sales with no public price. The owner also pays for the server and Redis (https://emailengine.app/, https://postalsys.com/plans, checked 2026-10-08).",
      "priceSummary": "$120.83 / mo",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on emailengine.app, in the documentation or in the OpenAPI spec (checked 2026-10-08). Licences are bought by card at postalsys.com, with Stripe named as the payment processor.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 2237,
        "npmWeekly": 388,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://learn.emailengine.app/",
      "llmsTxt": "https://emailengine.app/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://go.emailengine.app/swagger.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "mailbox.read",
        "mailbox.search",
        "mailbox.send",
        "mailbox.drafts",
        "mailbox.sync"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "self-hosted",
        "source-available",
        "paid",
        "trial",
        "api-key",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "mcp",
        "webhooks",
        "imap",
        "gmail",
        "microsoft-365",
        "docker",
        "nodejs",
        "php"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-05",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 71.4,
        "grade": "BB",
        "agentReady": true,
        "rank": 106,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 629,
        "categoryRank": 3,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 80,
          "maintenance": 81,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 79,
          "schema": 91,
          "security": 71,
          "transparency": 72
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-08"
        },
        "negative": -3,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "27 September 2026. Version 2.81.2, a patch release, removed the `bounces` field from the message list, message details and messageNew payloads, listed under bug fixes with no earlier notice found in the changelog. The bounce still arrives through the messageBounce webhook, and the entry is documented, so the smallest deduction applies (https://github.com/postalsys/emailengine/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)"
        ],
        "verdict": "A self-hosted REST API over Gmail, Microsoft 365 and IMAP, with a public OpenAPI 3.0 spec and tokens that can be bound to one account, limited by action and group, and rate limited. It needs a server, Redis and a $1,450 yearly licence after a 14-day trial, and the MCP endpoint is a beta, off by default.",
        "bestFor": "A team that must keep mailbox access on its own infrastructure, has many mailboxes across Gmail, Microsoft 365 and IMAP, and can run a server and Redis.",
        "strengths": [
          "Public OpenAPI 3.0 spec for version 2.82.2 with 82 operations, plus llms.txt on both sites and a capabilities.json manifest",
          "Tokens can be bound to one account, narrowed by action and group, limited by IP range, expiry and rate, and are stored only as SHA-256 hashes",
          "Idempotency-Key header on both send routes, and 429 responses carry Retry-After and a ttl field",
          "Ten tagged releases between 7 September and 5 October 2026, and the last eight test runs on master passed",
          "Written prompt-injection guidance, with MCP mail access set to none by default and message bodies returned as sanitised HTML"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Not open source. Running it beyond the 14-day trial needs a subscription at $1,450 or EUR 1,200 a year",
          "The owner has to run a server and Redis. There is no hosted service, status page or SLA",
          "The MCP endpoint is labelled beta, is off by default, and its tool set may change between releases",
          "A token may also travel in the `access_token` query parameter, and API authentication can be switched off in settings",
          "Version 2.81.2, a patch release, removed the `bounces` field from message responses, and 2.82.0 removed the Document Store in a minor release",
          "One maintainer, no guaranteed support response time, and issues are disabled on the GitHub repository per the GitHub API"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Ask the operator for a token bound to one account with a permissions record. Mint more with POST /v1/tokens, which refuses instance-wide tokens without one",
          "Send the token in the Authorization header, not the `access_token` query parameter, so it stays out of proxy logs",
          "Page with `cursor` from `nextPageCursor`. `page` works only on IMAP accounts, and search covers one folder unless `path` is `\\All` on Gmail or Microsoft Graph",
          "Set an Idempotency-Key header on POST /v1/account/{account}/submit. A 2xx means queued, so follow the result through the outbox or the messageSent and messageFailed webhooks",
          "Treat message text as untrusted. For MCP, the operator must enable the endpoint first and mail access starts at none"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "BB",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 71.4
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 80,
          "maintenance": 81,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 79,
          "schema": 91,
          "security": 71,
          "transparency": 68
        },
        "provenanceScore": 76
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "curl -LO https://go.emailengine.app/docker-compose.yml\ndocker compose up -d",
        "http": "curl \"https://emailengine.example.com/v1/account/user@example.com/messages?path=INBOX\u0026page=0\u0026pageSize=50\" \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http emailengine https://emailengine.example.com/mcp \\\n  --header \"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "emailengine": {
              "headers": {
                "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
              },
              "type": "http",
              "url": "https://emailengine.example.com/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/mailbox.read",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/emailengine"
      },
      "area": "communication",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "EmailEngine subscription, $1,450 billed yearly",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 120.83,
          "note": "unlimited mailboxes, instances and API calls, VAT excluded, 14-day trial without a card"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Postal Systems OÜ, Narva mnt 5, 10117 Tallinn, Estonia, registry code 14971894",
        "domain": "emailengine.app",
        "domainRegistered": "2021-07-28",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "https://postalsys.com/tos",
        "privacy": "https://emailengine.app/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/postalsys/emailengine/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "The about page names Postal Systems OÜ at Narva mnt 5, 10117 Tallinn, with registry code 14971894 and VAT number EE102255902, and says the company is run by one person.",
          "RDAP for emailengine.app shows registration on 28 July 2021 through Namecheap.",
          "emailengine.app/.well-known/security.txt is PGP-signed, expires on 1 June 2027 and points to GitHub private advisories and SECURITY.md. postalsys.com has its own security.txt with no Expires field.",
          "The terms of service at postalsys.com/tos are dated 14 May 2020 and cover the subscription. The software licence is the EmailEngine licence agreement, version 2.1 of 17 October 2023, governed by Estonian law.",
          "The privacy policy at emailengine.app/privacy-policy has an effective date of 29 July 2026 and covers the website and the licence account, with Stripe named for payments.",
          "The API runs on the owner's instance, so there is no vendor endpoint and no status page."
        ],
        "score": 76
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/emailengine.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "emailengine",
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "postalsys/emailengine",
            "version": "v2.83.0",
            "released": "2026-10-08",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:10:38.546496352Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "emailengine-app",
            "version": "2.83.0",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:10:36.788101811Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 2238,
        "npmWeekly": 388,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://emailengine.app/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "valid",
          "expires": "2027-06-01T00:00:00.000Z",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:39:10.386155427Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/postalsys/emailengine/master/CHANGELOG.md",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:24:39.774413238Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "92032edad8ba"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://emailengine.app/privacy-policy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:06.567354333Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "bf031c33ef50"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://postalsys.com/tos",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:23:11.919567662Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "cb7a76a9cb6a"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T18:24:39.774413238Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "Nylas Email API scores 78.7 (A) on agent readiness against EmailEngine's 71.4 (BB), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.",
    "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"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-10-07",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 78.7,
        "grade": "A",
        "agentReady": true,
        "rank": 12,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 629,
        "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
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        "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"
      ],
      "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": "2026-10-08T18:20:36.319938176Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 131,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 132,
          "p95ms24h": 189,
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          "samples30d": 33,
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              "date": "2026-10-08",
              "probes": 33,
              "ok": 33
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status-v3.nylas.com",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:22:08.395296619Z"
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "nylas/nylas-nodejs",
            "version": "v8.4.0",
            "released": "2026-06-24",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:22:58.572230857Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "nylas",
            "version": "8.4.0",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:22:58.35348864Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "pypi",
            "name": "nylas",
            "version": "6.18.0",
            "released": "2026-09-30",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:22:58.443340194Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 181,
        "npmWeekly": 289344,
        "pypiWeekly": 90308,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://nylas.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
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Running it beyond the 14-day trial needs a subscription at $1,450 or EUR 1,200 a year\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- Security \u0026 auth, 87 against 71\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 81\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 72\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Free to start without a card\n- No incidents deducted, where EmailEngine loses 3 points for them\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 | EmailEngine | Nylas Email API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 79 | 77 | EmailEngine +2 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 91 | 93 | Nylas Email API +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 81 | Nylas Email API +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 71 | 87 | Nylas Email API +16 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 88 | Nylas Email API +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 81 | Nylas Email API +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **71.4 · BB** | **78.7 · A** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | EmailEngine | Nylas Email API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Postal Systems OÜ | Nylas |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.us.nylas.com/v3` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Source available under the EmailEngine licence agreement, version 2.1 of 17 October 2023. Not open source. The PHP SDK is MIT | Proprietary service under Nylas's terms. The SDKs are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 38 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-10-07 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2025-06-23 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-01-06 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | 2.2k stars, 388 npm/wk | 181 stars, 289k npm/wk, 90k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**EmailEngine.** A self-hosted REST API over Gmail, Microsoft 365 and IMAP, with a public OpenAPI 3.0 spec and tokens that can be bound to one account, limited by action and group, and rate limited. It needs a server, Redis and a $1,450 yearly licence after a 14-day trial, and the MCP endpoint is a beta, off by default.\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### EmailEngine\n\n1. Ask the operator for a token bound to one account with a permissions record. Mint more with POST /v1/tokens, which refuses instance-wide tokens without one\n2. Send the token in the Authorization header, not the `access_token` query parameter, so it stays out of proxy logs\n3. Page with `cursor` from `nextPageCursor`. `page` works only on IMAP accounts, and search covers one folder unless `path` is `\\All` on Gmail or Microsoft Graph\n4. Set an Idempotency-Key header on POST /v1/account/{account}/submit. A 2xx means queued, so follow the result through the outbox or the messageSent and messageFailed webhooks\n5. Treat message text as untrusted. For MCP, the operator must enable the endpoint first and mail access starts at none\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, EmailEngine or Nylas Email API?\n\nNylas Email API scores 78.7 (A) on agent readiness against EmailEngine's 71.4 (BB), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do EmailEngine and Nylas Email API need an API key?\n\nEmailEngine needs an API key. Nylas Email API takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call EmailEngine and Nylas Email API without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for EmailEngine. Nylas Email API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.us.nylas.com/v3.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/emailengine-vs-nylas-email.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/emailengine-vs-nylas-email.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"emailengine\", \"b\": \"nylas-email\"}`. 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