# Inbound vs Robotomail (slim)

> Robotomail scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Inbound's 63.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Inbound leads on reliability and agent ergonomics. Both do email inbox. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Robotomail scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Inbound's 63.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Inbound leads on reliability and agent ergonomics. Both do email inbox.

- Inbound: B 63.7, rank #300 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inbound.min.md
- Robotomail: B 69.8, rank #148 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/robotomail.min.md
- Inbound, good for A team that wants agent addresses on its own domain at a low fixed price, with IMAP and SMTP beside the API and an MCP mode that confines an agent to one mailbox. Ahead on Reliability, 83 against 73; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 72. Also Open source.
- Robotomail, good for A developer who wants one mailbox per agent with replies as events, on a small fixed monthly price. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 90 against 74; Security & auth, 65 against 58; Payments & pricing, 35 against 15; Maintenance & community, 77 against 63; Transparency & trust, 73 against 56. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Inbound | Robotomail |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 83 | 73 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 74 | 90 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 58 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 15 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 63 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 56 | 73 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Inbound | Robotomail |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Exon Enterprise LLC | Tiny Bot Labs Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://inbound.new/api/e2` | `https://api.robotomail.com/v1` |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT for the platform repository. The TypeScript SDK, `inboundctl` and the MCP server are Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under Robotomail's terms of service. The five SDKs on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 50 | 6 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-09-25 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-12-03 | 2026-10-05 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-01-01 | 2026-09-01 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 359 stars, 1.7k npm/wk | 20 npm/wk |