# Google People API vs Microsoft Graph People and Contacts API (slim)

> Google People and Microsoft Graph People and Contacts score within a point of each other for reading contacts, 65.2 and 64.6 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Google People API and Microsoft Graph People and Contacts API score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 65.2 (B) and 64.6 (B). Microsoft Graph People and Contacts API leads on reliability. Both do reading contacts.

- Google People API: B 65.2, rank #346 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-people-api.min.md
- Microsoft Graph People and Contacts API: B 64.6, rank #369 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/microsoft-graph-people.min.md
- 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 Security & auth, 86 against 72; Maintenance & community, 83 against 76. Also No incidents deducted, where Microsoft Graph People and Contacts API loses 4 points for them.
- Microsoft Graph People and Contacts API, good for Agents working in Microsoft 365 tenants or with Outlook.com address books, especially to find who a user works with. Ahead on Reliability, 60 against 30.

| Category | Google People API | Microsoft Graph People and Contacts API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 30 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 83 | 83 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 86 | 72 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 71 | 69 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Google People API | Microsoft Graph People and Contacts API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Google | Microsoft |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://people.googleapis.com/v1` | `https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0` |
| Pricing | Free | Your plan |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Google APIs Terms of Service. Client libraries are Apache-2.0 | MIT (SDKs) |
| Tools exposed | 3 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-12 | 2026-03-12 |
| Terms last updated | 2021-11-09 | 2025-10-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2026-09-01 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 177k npm/wk | 834 stars, 2.3M npm/wk, 1.6M PyPI/wk |