# Knock vs Pingram (slim)

> Knock scores 66.5 (B) to Pingram's 57.4 (C) for push notifications. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Knock scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Pingram's 57.4 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do push notifications.

- Knock: B 66.5, rank #286 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/knock.min.md
- Pingram: C 57.4, rank #611 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pingram.min.md
- Knock, good for A product team that wants a workflow engine with batching, preferences and an in-app feed, and for agents that build and debug workflows through MCP safely. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 88 against 69; Security & auth, 71 against 51; Maintenance & community, 86 against 81; Transparency & trust, 60 against 54.
- Pingram, good for An agent that needs to send transactional email and SMS and read replies through one account without separate carrier or SMTP providers.

| Category | Knock | Pingram |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 58 | 58 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 88 | 69 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 64 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 71 | 51 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 86 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 60 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Knock | Pingram |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Knock | Pingram |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.knock.app/v1` | `https://mcp.pingram.io` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (Node SDK) | Proprietary service under Pingram's terms of service. The Node.js SDK and CLI are MIT on npm. The Go SDK repository has no licence file |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.pingram/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-03-04 | 2025-04-16 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-03-04 | 2025-04-16 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 50 stars, 926k npm/wk, 234k PyPI/wk | 1 stars, 13k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |