# Himalaya vs Unipile (slim)

> Himalaya scores 64.5 (B) to Unipile's 58.4 (C) for mailbox access. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Himalaya scores 64.5 (B) on agent readiness against Unipile's 58.4 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Unipile leads on schema & documentation and agent ergonomics. Both do mailbox access.

- Himalaya: B 64.5, rank #348 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/himalaya.min.md
- Unipile: C 58.4, rank #581 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/unipile.min.md
- Himalaya, good for An agent with a shell that must work in one person's existing mailbox on any provider, including plain IMAP hosts, without a hosted intermediary. Ahead on Reliability, 84 against 56; Security & auth, 43 against 37; Payments & pricing, 60 against 40; Maintenance & community, 88 against 59. Also Open source.
- 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 Schema & documentation, 77 against 70; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 65. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Himalaya loses 3 points for them.

| Category | Himalaya | Unipile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 84 | 56 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 70 | 77 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 73 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 43 | 37 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 88 | 59 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 71 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Himalaya | Unipile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Pimalaya | UNIPILE SAS |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://developer.unipile.com/mcp?branch=v1.0` |
| Transports |  | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Paid |
| Licence | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | 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 | none | 5 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.unipile/unipile-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 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 | 7.4k stars | 48 stars, 83k npm/wk |