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      "vendor": "Loops (Astrodon Corporation)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://loops.so",
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      "category": "email",
      "summary": "Email platform for SaaS companies with one API for contacts, events, campaigns, workflows and transactional email, priced by subscribed contacts rather than sends.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/loops",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/loops.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/loops.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/loops.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/Loops-so/loops-js",
      "license": "MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
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      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "loops"
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      "authNotes": "REST calls use an API key as a Bearer token, tested with GET /api/v1/api-key. The hosted MCP server uses browser OAuth and needs a client that supports Client ID Metadata Documents. No API key goes in the MCP config.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free plan with unlimited contacts but at most 4,000 sends (marketing and transactional together) to the 1,000 newest contacts in any rolling 30 days, with a Loops footer, no card. Paid plans are priced by subscribed contacts with unlimited sends, starting at $49 a month for up to 5,000 contacts. No per-seat or per-send charge (https://loops.so/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$49 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 or stablecoin payment path in docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
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      },
      "docsUrl": "https://loops.so/docs",
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      "openapi": "https://app.loops.so/openapi.json",
      "registryName": "io.github.loops-so/loops",
      "capabilities": [
        "email.send",
        "email.templates",
        "email.domains",
        "email.analytics",
        "email.marketing"
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        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "no-card",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "typescript",
        "webhooks"
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      "graded": true,
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        "agentReady": false,
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        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 6,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 66,
          "maintenance": 83,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 90,
          "schema": 82,
          "security": 40,
          "transparency": 69
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": -3,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-09-17. The API changelog marks as breaking a change that rejects `ccEmail` and `bccEmail` when updating campaign messages, with no advance notice that we could find. -3 (https://loops.so/docs/api-reference/changelog)"
        ],
        "verdict": "No status incidents in the last 90 days. No scoped or read-only keys, and no read-only MCP mode.",
        "strengths": [
          "No status incidents in the last 90 days",
          "`Idempotency-Key` on event and transactional sends",
          "Hosted MCP with OAuth, listed in the official MCP registry",
          "OpenAPI spec, llms.txt and agent skills",
          "Unlimited sends on paid plans, priced by subscribed contacts"
        ],
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          "No scoped or read-only keys, and no read-only MCP mode",
          "Transactional sends need a published template, no ad hoc HTML",
          "No inbound email or reply handling",
          "10 API requests a second per team",
          "A breaking change on 17 September with same-day notice"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Publish the transactional email in Loops first, then send with its transactionalId and dataVariables",
          "Send an `Idempotency-Key` on transactional sends and events so a retry doesn't double up",
          "On 429, back off exponentially and read x-ratelimit-remaining",
          "Ask support to enable attachments before sending them on transactional email",
          "Use events to trigger workflows instead of sending sequences yourself"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 3.5,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
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            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.3",
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              "tasks"
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          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 90,
          "schema": 82,
          "security": 40,
          "transparency": 62
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        "provenanceScore": 75
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      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -X POST https://app.loops.so/api/v1/transactional -H \"Authorization: Bearer $LOOPS_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"transactionalId\":\"YOUR_TRANSACTIONAL_ID\",\"email\":\"them@example.com\",\"dataVariables\":{\"name\":\"Ada\"}}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http loops https://mcp.loops.so",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "loops": {
              "type": "http",
              "url": "https://mcp.loops.so"
            }
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      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/email.send",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/loops"
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          "item": "Starter",
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          "note": "up to 5,000 subscribed contacts, unlimited sends"
        }
      ],
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        "legalEntity": "Astrodon Corporation",
        "domain": "loops.so",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "domainNote": "The .so registry answered no RDAP query, so the registration date is unknown.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://loops.so/terms",
        "privacy": "https://loops.so/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.loops.so",
        "changelog": "https://loops.so/docs/api-reference/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "score": 75
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/loops.json",
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          "target": "https://app.loops.so/api/v1",
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          "lastOk": true,
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          "lastNote": "asks for credentials",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
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          "page": "https://status.loops.so",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T01:46:37.123163908Z"
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            "registry": "mcp-registry",
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          "url": "https://loops.so/.well-known/security.txt",
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          "url": "https://loops.so/docs/llms.txt",
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        "domain": {
          "domain": "loops.so",
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      "slug": "mailgun",
      "name": "Mailgun API + MCP",
      "vendor": "Mailgun (Sinch)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.mailgun.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "email",
      "summary": "Email sending API with inbound routes, a Forwards API, templates, mailing lists, suppressions and address validation, in US and EU regions.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mailgun",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mailgun.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mailgun.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mailgun.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/mailgun/mailgun-mcp-server",
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "stdio"
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      "remoteUrl": "https://api.mailgun.net/v3",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "mailgun.js"
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        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "mailgun"
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@mailgun/mcp-server"
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      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "HTTP Basic auth with the username `api` and the API key as password. Role-based keys limit what each key can do. EU accounts use api.eu.mailgun.net. The MCP server reads `MAILGUN_API_KEY` and `MAILGUN_API_REGION` from its environment.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 100 emails a day, 1 custom domain, 1 inbound route and 1 day of logs. Basic $15 a month for 10,000 emails, overage $1.80 per 1,000. Foundation $35 for 50,000 (overage $1.30, first month free). Scale $90 for 100,000 (overage $1.10 falling to $0.40 at 2.5 million), with a dedicated IP and 5,000 validations. Validations from $1.20 per 100 (https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/).",
      "priceSummary": "$15 / mo",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 support in docs, pricing or MCP README (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
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        "pypiWeekly": 61238,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
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      "docsUrl": "https://documentation.mailgun.com",
      "llmsTxt": "https://documentation.mailgun.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://documentation.mailgun.com/_bundle/docs/mailgun/api-reference/send/mailgun.yaml",
      "capabilities": [
        "email.send",
        "email.inbound",
        "email.templates",
        "email.domains",
        "email.analytics"
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        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "typescript",
        "python",
        "webhooks"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-09-21",
      "graded": true,
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        "agentReady": false,
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        "ranked": true,
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        "run": "2026-10-01",
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        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
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        "negative": 0,
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          "Key roles (Admin, read-only Analyst, Developer, Support), Domain Sending Keys and IP allowlisting",
          "OpenAPI 3.1 specs for `send`, `validate`, `optimize` and `inspect`, plus llms.txt",
          "Inbound routes and a Forwards API (May 2026) for incoming mail",
          "SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, with a third-party bug bounty",
          "Weekly release notes through September 2026 and MCP CI on Node 20, 22 and 24"
        ],
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          "74 MCP tools load by default, each a one-line summary, with no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint",
          "12 status incidents since 10 July, including 93 minutes of US validation API errors",
          "No general API rate limit published and no idempotency key for sends",
          "Free plan keeps logs for 1 day and allows 1 inbound route",
          "No security.txt"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Give an agent that only sends a Domain Sending Key, which can only POST /messages for one domain",
          "Start the MCP with `--tags validate,inspect` when you don't need the 70 send-tagged tools",
          "Set `MAILGUN_API_REGION=eu` for EU accounts, which live on api.eu.mailgun.net",
          "Add `o:testmode=yes` to check a send without delivering it",
          "Verify a custom domain first. The sandbox domain reaches only 5 authorised recipients"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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        "avgRating": 3,
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            "basis": "public evidence",
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            "grade": "B",
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              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "reliability": 57,
          "schema": 83,
          "security": 74,
          "transparency": 64
        },
        "provenanceScore": 75
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      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -s --user \"api:$MAILGUN_API_KEY\" \"https://api.mailgun.net/v3/$MAILGUN_DOMAIN/messages\" \\\n  -F from=\"Test \u003cpostmaster@$MAILGUN_DOMAIN\u003e\" -F to=you@example.com \\\n  -F subject=\"Hello\" -F text=\"Testing Mailgun\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add mailgun -e MAILGUN_API_KEY=$MAILGUN_API_KEY -- npx -y @mailgun/mcp-server",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "mailgun": {
              "args": [
                "-y",
                "@mailgun/mcp-server"
              ],
              "command": "npx",
              "env": {
                "MAILGUN_API_KEY": "${MAILGUN_API_KEY}",
                "MAILGUN_API_REGION": "us"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/email.send",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/mailgun"
      },
      "area": "communication",
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          "item": "Basic",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 15,
          "note": "10,000 emails"
        },
        {
          "item": "Foundation",
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          "usd": 35,
          "note": "50,000 emails"
        },
        {
          "item": "Scale",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 90,
          "note": "100,000 emails, 1 dedicated IP"
        },
        {
          "item": "Overage on Basic",
          "unit": "1k-emails",
          "usd": 1.8
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        {
          "item": "Overage on Foundation",
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          "usd": 1.3
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        {
          "item": "Overage on Scale",
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        "domainNote": "mailgun.com was registered in 2003, years before Mailgun launched in 2010.",
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        "terms": "https://www.mailgun.com/legal/terms/",
        "privacy": "https://www.mailgun.com/legal/privacy-policy/",
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mailgun.json",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
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          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/mailgun.com",
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No scoped or read-only keys, and no read-only MCP mode.\n\n**Mailgun API + MCP.** Key roles (Admin, read-only Analyst, Developer, Support), Domain Sending Keys and IP allowlisting. 74 MCP tools load by default, each a one-line summary, with no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Loops API + MCP\n\n1. Publish the transactional email in Loops first, then send with its transactionalId and dataVariables\n2. Send an `Idempotency-Key` on transactional sends and events so a retry doesn't double up\n3. On 429, back off exponentially and read x-ratelimit-remaining\n4. Ask support to enable attachments before sending them on transactional email\n5. Use events to trigger workflows instead of sending sequences yourself\n\n### Mailgun API + MCP\n\n1. Give an agent that only sends a Domain Sending Key, which can only POST /messages for one domain\n2. Start the MCP with `--tags validate,inspect` when you don't need the 70 send-tagged tools\n3. 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