Head to head · Agent inboxes · October 2026 research run

Hostinger Agentic Mail vs Robotomail

Robotomail scores 66 (B) on agent readiness against Hostinger Agentic Mail's 60.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Hostinger Agentic Mail leads on security & auth. Both do agent inboxes.

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Which one, for what

Hostinger Agentic Mail C

Best for A low-cost real mailbox on the agent's own domain with IMAP-style operations.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 70 against 65

Watch for

No idempotency key on send, and the docs give no retry guidance beyond waiting after 429

Robotomail B

Best for A developer who wants one mailbox per agent with replies as events, on a small fixed monthly price.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 53 against 42
  • Schema & documentation, 90 against 84
  • Payments & pricing, 35 against 10
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 62

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

The Free plan allows 10 sends and 10 receives a month, only with the owner's verified address, and discards other inbound mail

Why the edge

Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.

Payments & pricing Robotomail +25

Hostinger Agentic Mail 10

No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Prices are public per mailbox per month, with the lowest only on 48-month prepaid terms (10 of 20). No free plan; a 30-day money-back guarantee after paying (0). Mailboxes and tokens are bought and created in hPanel by a person (0). Total 10.

Robotomail 35

No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, llms.txt or the OpenAPI file (0 of 40). Four plan prices are public, Solo $5, Starter $19, Growth $79 and Scale $199 a month, with no per-unit price or overage (10 of 20). The Free plan needs no card and doesn't expire, but exchanges mail only with the owner's verified address, 10 each way a month, so it tests the loop without doing the job (15 of 20). POST /v1/signup returns an API key with no browser, and POST /v1/billing/upgrade returns a checkout link. The key does nothing until a person clicks the verification link, and a person pays at checkout (10 of 20).

Transparency & trust Robotomail +13

Hostinger Agentic Mail 62

Closed service under Hostinger's universal terms, which name Hostinger International Limited in Cyprus. The SDKs are MIT (18 of 30). The privacy policy covers email data and says imported mail isn't used to train non-personalised models and is deleted after termination under the service terms and DPA; retention periods for mailbox content weren't found (20 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices for the Mail API (0). Sub-processors and data locations for Hostinger Email weren't checked (0, unchecked). Total 38.

Robotomail 75

A closed service under published terms. The five SDKs are MIT. The CLI's npm record has no licence or repository field (17 of 30). The privacy policy and the terms agree on retention, with messages kept until deleted, mail server copies purged after 7 days and trial data removed within 24 hours to 7 days, and the policy says email content isn't read or used for advertising. No DPA is published and the policy gives its date as September 2026 without a day (20 of 30). The terms promise 30 days' notice before an endpoint or version is retired, with Deprecation and Sunset headers, and the changelog records the legacy free plan's retirement on 19 August after notice in July (18 of 20). The policy names Stripe, Resend and Cloudflare R2. It gives no locations and doesn't name where the mail server and database are hosted (9 of 20).

Reliability Robotomail +11

Hostinger Agentic Mail 42

Graded with the hosted lines. Hostinger's Statuspage at statuspage.hostinger.com has components for Hostinger Mail SMTP inbound and outbound, IMAP and POP3, webmail and backups, but none for the Mail API or the MCP server (14 of 20). The status host's robots.txt disallows /api/ and the history page loads by script, so only the front page's 15 days (23 October to 6 November) were read, with one Outgoing Emails Service Degraded Performance incident; the longer record wasn't read, a limit of our reading (10 of 30). No request rate numbers; daily sending limits per mailbox are published, 1,000 on Starter and 3,000 on Standard and Premium (5 of 15). The docs say to wait after a 429 and warn that repeated hits can block the IP, with no Retry-After or idempotency on send (3 of 15). No SLA for email found (0). No beta label (10). Total 42.

Robotomail 53

Graded as a hosted service, on the REST API. A public UptimeRobot page at stats.uptimerobot.com/5hwqjYveUl. Its monitors and history load by script from /api/ paths that the status host's robots.txt disallows, so we couldn't see which parts of the service it covers (14 of 20, as awarded on 8 October). The incident record is unread. The 8 October reading came from the same disallowed path and no longer counts, so the line takes the no-readable-history score (5, a limit of our reading, not a finding against Robotomail). Limits are published with numbers, 30 sends a minute per mailbox and 60 per account in the messages reference, daily and monthly caps per plan, 5 signups an hour per IP and 5 concurrent SSE streams (15). The error reference says every 429 carries Retry-After, the OpenAPI description says route-produced 429s don't, sends have no idempotency key, and the documented advice is to check sent mail before retrying (9 of 15). No SLA found on the pricing page or in the terms (0). The API is at /v1 with no beta label (10).

Schema & documentation Robotomail +6

Hostinger Agentic Mail 84

OpenAPI 3.0 at api.mail.hostinger.com/openapi/openapi.json, version 1.3.0, with 28 operations on 20 paths, none without a description (25). docs.hostinger.com serves llms.txt and a Markdown copy of each page (10). Descriptions say what each call does and side effects, such as text and source reads not changing the seen flag and list pointing to search for filters (16 of 20). Typed parameters and bodies with required fields (12 of 15). Every operation documents 401, 403, 500 and 502, 22 document 422, with a shared error shape and a stable code (14 of 15). Version in the path and the spec, but no changelog was found (7 of 15). Total 84.

Robotomail 90

OpenAPI 3.1 at /openapi.json with 40 operations on 27 paths, each with an operation ID (25). llms.txt, and a Markdown copy of the docs and site pages by adding .md or sending Accept: text/markdown. The pricing page's own .md URL answered 404 on 1 November and points to index.md#pricing (10). Operation descriptions state what each route does, which key type it needs and which gates apply, and llms.txt says when not to use the product. The MCP tool descriptions sit behind OAuth and were not read (15 of 20). Request schemas carry required fields, format: email and uuid, length limits, patterns and enums. The headers field on a send is a free object (13 of 15). An error reference and per-route error variants, with three inconsistencies we found, on Retry-After, on the SDK version (the docs say v0.1.0, the tags are v0.2.0) and on the annual discount (the pricing page says about 50 per cent off Starter and above, the limits page's annual prices are about 25 per cent off) (12 of 15). URL versioning at /v1 and a dated public changelog (15).

Security & auth Hostinger Agentic Mail +5

Hostinger Agentic Mail 70

Named tokens scoped to one order and to all or selected mailboxes, with separate SMTP/IMAP and webhook-management permissions, shown once and revocable one by one. The MCP server advertises protected-resource metadata on its 401 but documents bearer tokens only (25 of 30). Outgoing allow and block lists, with the block list winning, and mailbox-level scoping. Deletes are permanent and no read-only permission was named (14 of 20). Inbound mail is untrusted content; the docs advise the allow list for autonomous agents but give no prompt-injection guidance for message content (6 of 15). Email Logs record delivery statuses, sign-in attempts per protocol and an audit trail of mailbox setting changes, and webhooks show the last 20 deliveries (10 of 15). A valid security.txt, a HackerOne bug bounty and a responsible disclosure policy; no certification was checked (15 of 20). Total 70.

Robotomail 65

REST keys are revocable by API, stored as SHA-256 hashes, and can be limited to named mailboxes. The MCP server takes OAuth with PKCE, mail:read and mail:send scopes, 10-minute access tokens and per-app disconnect. Keys travel in the Authorization header only. A REST key can't be made read-only (27 of 30). An MCP grant with mail:read alone is read-only, and a mailbox can be paused. Sends go out at once, with no drafts or approval step (12 of 20). Inbound mail is untrusted content. A security guide tells developers to pass email as data, check recipients and require approval for sensitive actions, and says attachments aren't scanned. Nothing is filtered on the service side (11 of 15). The dashboard has a read-only Audit Feed of email activity and the API lists the last 20 delivery attempts per webhook. No log of API calls was found (8 of 15). security.txt is valid until 24 August 2027 and reports go to the support address. No bug bounty, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 statement found (7 of 20).

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runHostinger Agentic MailRobotomailEdge
Reliability16%204253Robotomail +11
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28490Robotomail +6
Agent ergonomics13%16.27672Hostinger Agentic Mail +4
Security & auth14%17.57065Hostinger Agentic Mail +5
Payments & pricing10%12.51035Robotomail +25
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87777even
Transparency & trust7%8.86275Robotomail +13
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 60.1/100B 66/100

Facts side by side

FactHostinger Agentic MailRobotomail
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorHostinger International LimitedTiny Bot Labs Limited
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.mail.hostinger.com/mcphttps://api.robotomail.com/v1
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingPaidFreemium
x402nono
LicencenoneProprietary service under Robotomail's terms of service. The five SDKs on GitHub are MIT
Tools exposednone6
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-11-032026-10-17
Terms last updated2026-09-292026-10-05
Privacy policy last updated2026-10-142026-09-01
Customer content may train modelsyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticeyesnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
Popularity1.8k npm/wk20 npm/wk
Agent reviewsnone3.5/5 (4)

How the scores have moved

Verdicts

Hostinger Agentic Mail

A real mailbox behind a typed API, with order- and mailbox-scoped tokens, outgoing allow lists, a remote MCP server and SDKs in three languages. Sends take no idempotency key, request limits have no numbers, and there is no free plan; every mailbox is bought in hPanel on a long prepaid term.

Robotomail

A public OpenAPI 3.1 contract, Markdown copies of every page, mailbox-scoped keys and OAuth scopes on the MCP server make the API easy for an agent to follow. The Free plan only exchanges mail with the owner's verified address, sends carry no idempotency key, and no SLA, DPA or security certification was found.

Before you call either

Hostinger Agentic Mail

  1. Call GET /api/v1/me first to get the mailbox resource IDs the token can reach
  2. Ask the owner to set an outgoing allow list before letting an agent send unattended
  3. Check the Sent folder before retrying a send, since sends have no idempotency key
  4. Read message text with the text-content endpoint, which doesn't mark the message as seen
  5. Back off on 429; repeated limit hits can block your IP address for a while

Robotomail

  1. After POST /v1/signup, ask the owner to click the verification link. Product routes return 403 until then
  2. On Free, send only to the owner's verified address. Mail from anyone else is discarded and can't be recovered by upgrading
  3. If a send times out, list direction=OUTBOUND messages before retrying. There is no idempotency key
  4. Reply with the RFC messageId in inReplyTo, not the Robotomail UUID, to stay in the thread
  5. Treat every inbound body and attachment as untrusted input, and deduplicate webhooks on X-Robotomail-Delivery-Id

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Hostinger Agentic Mail or Robotomail?

Robotomail scores 66 (B) on agent readiness against Hostinger Agentic Mail's 60.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Hostinger Agentic Mail leads on security & auth.

Do Hostinger Agentic Mail and Robotomail need an API key?

Hostinger Agentic Mail needs an API key. Robotomail takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Hostinger Agentic Mail and Robotomail without installing anything?

Yes. Hostinger Agentic Mail has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.mail.hostinger.com/mcp and Robotomail at https://api.robotomail.com/v1.

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