{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "loops", "name": "Loops API + MCP", "vendor": "Loops (Astrodon Corporation)", "vendorUrl": "https://loops.so", "kind": "http-api", "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" ], "remoteUrl": "https://app.loops.so/api/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "loops" } ], "auth": "mixed", "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": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 7, "npmWeekly": 459804, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://loops.so/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://loops.so/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://app.loops.so/openapi.json", "registryName": "io.github.loops-so/loops", "capabilities": [ "email.send", "email.templates", "email.domains", "email.analytics", "email.marketing" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "no-card", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "typescript", "webhooks" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-03", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.7, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 327, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 30, "reliability": 90, "schema": 82, "security": 40, "transparency": 64 }, "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.", "bestFor": "SaaS teams that send lifecycle and product email from one contact list and want an OAuth MCP.", "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" ], "weaknesses": [ "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": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 30, "reliability": 90, "schema": 82, "security": 40, "transparency": 62 }, "provenanceScore": 66 }, "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" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/email.send", "tool": "https://letme.dev/loops" }, "area": "communication", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Starter", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "up to 5,000 subscribed contacts, unlimited sends" } ], "provenance": { "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": 66 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/loops.json", "live": { "slug": "loops", "probe": { "target": "https://app.loops.so/api/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:14.423007325Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 131, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 157, "p95ms24h": 330, "samples24h": 271, "samples30d": 2157, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 239, "ok": 239 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.loops.so", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:06:11.607032764Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "Loops-so/loops-js", "version": "v7.3.0", "released": "2026-09-03", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:19:26.488374508Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.github.loops-so/loops", "version": "1.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T02:42:52.272076636Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "loops", "version": "7.3.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:19:26.244921059Z" } ], "githubStars": 7, "npmWeekly": 413875, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://loops.so/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:29.983467372Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://loops.so/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:34.996407339Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "loops.so", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:07:57.071985276Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://loops.so/docs/api-reference/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:21:41.514722933Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "89f86b168a72" }, { "url": "https://loops.so/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:21:43.966303163Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-05T15:58:00.718689056Z", "fingerprint": "e22a41cbc50a" }, { "url": "https://loops.so/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:21:45.66926244Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-05T15:58:02.674209188Z", "fingerprint": "c6039d0d0d63" }, { "url": "https://loops.so/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:21:47.82214894Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-05T15:58:04.642525643Z", "fingerprint": "5779ec7dc942" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:14.423007325Z" } }, "answer": "Loops API + MCP scores 62.7 (B) on agent readiness against Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill)'s 58.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "mandrill", "name": "Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill)", "vendor": "Intuit Mailchimp", "vendorUrl": "https://mailchimp.com/features/transactional-email/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "email", "summary": "Transactional email service from Intuit Mailchimp, formerly Mandrill. It sends application email and SMS through an HTTP API, SMTP or a hosted MCP server, with templates, inbound routing, webhooks and reporting, as a paid add-on to a Mailchimp plan.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mandrill", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mandrill.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mandrill.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mandrill.json", "repo": "https://github.com/mailchimp/mailchimp-client-lib-codegen", "license": "Proprietary service under Mailchimp's Standard Terms of Use and Additional Terms. The client libraries are under Mailchimp's own client library licence agreement", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mandrillapp.com/api/1.4", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@mailchimp/mailchimp_transactional" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "mailchimp-transactional" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve API key, created in the Transactional web app at mandrillapp.com/settings by an Owner or Admin of the Mailchimp account. The key goes in the JSON body of every POST as `key`, and the MCP server takes it as `Authorization: Bearer`. A key can be limited to chosen endpoints and to IP addresses, and a restricted key needs the AI Agents permission group to use the MCP server. Test keys work only in test mode. There is no OAuth for this API.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "$20 per block of 25,000 emails a month for 1 to 20 blocks, falling in steps to $10 at 161 blocks or more, on top of a Standard or Premium Mailchimp marketing plan. Blocks are billed monthly in advance and unused emails do not roll over. A dedicated IP is $29.95 a month. An agent's owner can start without a contract through the demo, which gives 500 emails once to the account's own verified domain on any Mailchimp account, free plan included. Test keys send nothing and cost nothing (https://mailchimp.com/pricing/transactional-email/).", "priceSummary": "$29.95 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the OpenAPI file or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 9, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 226039, "pypiWeekly": 132016, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://mailchimp.com/developer/transactional/docs/fundamentals/", "llmsTxt": "https://mailchimp.com/developer/transactional/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://mailchimp.com/developer/openapi/api-reference-2.json", "capabilities": [ "email.send", "email.templates", "email.inbound", "email.domains", "email.analytics" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "paid", "mcp", "openapi", "llms-txt", "api-key", "smtp", "webhooks", "inbound", "sandbox", "typescript", "python", "status-page", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-03-24", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 58.1, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 459, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 28, "payments": 35, "reliability": 53, "schema": 79, "security": 68, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A public OpenAPI 3.1 file covers all 99 operations, the docs serve Markdown and llms.txt, and keys can be limited by endpoint and IP address. Sending needs a Standard or Premium Mailchimp plan plus $20 blocks of 25,000 emails. No send idempotency key or SLA was found, and the newest dated release is from 24 March 2026.", "bestFor": "Teams already paying for Mailchimp Standard or Premium that want transactional mail, inbound parsing and an MCP server on the same account.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.1 file for all 99 operations, with typed error bodies for 401, 402, 404, 422, 429 and 500", "Hosted MCP server at `https://mandrillapp.com/mcp` with 9 tools, three of which list, describe and call API endpoints", "API keys can be limited to named endpoints and to IP addresses, and test keys send nothing", "Every docs page has a Markdown copy at the same URL plus `.md`, with an llms.txt index", "Status page lists Mailchimp Transactional as its own component with month-by-month event history" ], "weaknesses": [ "Full use needs a Standard or Premium Mailchimp marketing plan in addition to the email blocks", "No idempotency key on `/messages/send`, and no `Retry-After` header found in the docs or the specification", "Three delivery-delay incidents in September 2026, two of them lasting more than four hours", "The newest client library and specification release is 24 March 2026, and the changelog's newest entry is 19 August 2025", "The docs give three API version paths (1.0, 1.3 and 1.4), and the llms.txt link to the OpenAPI file returns 404" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send every call as POST with the key in the JSON body as `key`. The MCP server takes the same key as `Authorization: Bearer`", "Use a test API key while building. Test sends are free, capped at 10,000 a day, and deliver nothing", "Verify the sending domain with DKIM and DMARC first. Mail from an unverified domain is rejected with the reason `unsigned`", "Keep `/messages/search` under 20 calls a minute and set `limit` (default 100, maximum 1,000). There is no offset, so use an activity export for more", "For a restricted key that must also use the MCP server, enable the AI Agents permission group on the key" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 58.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 28, "payments": 35, "reliability": 53, "schema": 79, "security": 68, "transparency": 64 }, "provenanceScore": 77 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @mailchimp/mailchimp_transactional", "http": "curl -sS -X POST \"https://mandrillapp.com/api/1.0/users/ping\" \\\n --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n --data-raw '{ \"key\": \"YOUR_API_KEY\" }'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http mctx-mcp https://mandrillapp.com/mcp \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "mctx-mcp": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }, "type": "http", "url": "https://mandrillapp.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/email.send", "tool": "https://letme.dev/mandrill" }, "area": "communication", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Email block, 1 to 20 blocks", "unit": "1k-emails", "usd": 0.8, "note": "$20 per block of 25,000 emails, billed monthly, unused emails do not roll over. Needs a Standard or Premium Mailchimp plan" }, { "item": "Email block, 21 to 40 blocks", "unit": "1k-emails", "usd": 0.72, "note": "$18 per block of 25,000" }, { "item": "Email block, 41 to 80 blocks", "unit": "1k-emails", "usd": 0.64, "note": "$16 per block of 25,000" }, { "item": "Email block, 81 to 120 blocks", "unit": "1k-emails", "usd": 0.56, "note": "$14 per block of 25,000" }, { "item": "Email block, 121 to 160 blocks", "unit": "1k-emails", "usd": 0.48, "note": "$12 per block of 25,000" }, { "item": "Email block, 161 blocks or more", "unit": "1k-emails", "usd": 0.4, "note": "$10 per block of 25,000" }, { "item": "Dedicated IP", "unit": "month", "usd": 29.95 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "The Rocket Science Group LLC d/b/a Mailchimp", "domain": "mailchimp.com", "domainRegistered": "2001-06-29", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.intuit.com/privacy/statement/", "statusPage": "https://status.mailchimp.com", "changelog": "https://mailchimp.com/developer/release-notes/", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Standard Terms of Use, updated and effective 10 October 2025, name The Rocket Science Group LLC d/b/a Mailchimp, 405 N Angier Ave. NE, Atlanta, Georgia, part of the Intuit group with Intuit Inc. as parent.", "Transactional Email is also governed by the section For Transactional Email (formerly Mandrill) of the Additional Terms at https://mailchimp.com/legal/additional-terms/, which the Standard Terms incorporate, and by the API Use Policy updated 1 August 2023.", "The privacy field points at the Intuit Global Privacy Statement, last updated 9 March 2026. Mailchimp's terms name it as the privacy document for the service, mailchimp.com/legal/privacy redirects to it, and it names The Rocket Science Group LLC d/b/a Mailchimp. Mailchimp publishes no separate privacy policy.", "The API and the MCP server are served from mandrillapp.com, registered 2011-09-01, not from mailchimp.com (RDAP, Verisign).", "mailchimp.com/.well-known/security.txt holds one Contact line that points at the responsible disclosure section of the security page, with no Expires field. mandrillapp.com has no security.txt (404).", "The changelog covers the Marketing and Transactional APIs together. Its newest entry is dated 19 August 2025." ], "score": 77 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mandrill.json", "live": { "slug": "mandrill", "probe": { "target": "https://mandrillapp.com/api/1.4", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:14.861311294Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 421, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 426, "p95ms24h": 456, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.mailchimp.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:46.313674676Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:14.861311294Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Loops (Astrodon Corporation)", "b": "Intuit Mailchimp", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://app.loops.so/api/v1", "b": "https://mandrillapp.com/api/1.4", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "Proprietary service under Mailchimp's Standard Terms of Use and Additional Terms. The client libraries are under Mailchimp's own client library licence agreement", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "9", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "io.github.loops-so/loops", "b": "not listed", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-09-03", "b": "2026-03-24", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-12-15", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2025-05-15", "b": "2026-03-09", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "7 stars, 460k npm/wk", "b": "226k npm/wk, 132k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3.5/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Loops API + MCP scores 62.7 (B) on agent readiness against Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill)'s 58.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Loops API + MCP or Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill)?" }, { "answer": "Loops API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) needs an API key.", "question": "Do Loops API + MCP and Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Loops API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://app.loops.so/api/v1 and Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) at https://mandrillapp.com/api/1.4.", "question": "Can an agent call Loops API + MCP and Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 90 against 53", "Agent ergonomics, 66 against 60", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 28" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "SaaS teams that send lifecycle and product email from one contact list and want an OAuth MCP.", "slug": "loops", "watchFor": "No scoped or read-only keys, and no read-only MCP mode" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 68 against 40", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 64" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where Loops API + MCP loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Teams already paying for Mailchimp Standard or Premium that want transactional mail, inbound parsing and an MCP server on the same account.", "slug": "mandrill", "watchFor": "Full use needs a Standard or Premium Mailchimp marketing plan in addition to the email blocks" } ], "job": { "capability": "email.send", "name": "Email send" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-ses-vs-loops.json", "title": "Amazon SES vs Loops API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-ses-vs-loops" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-ses-vs-mandrill.json", "title": "Amazon SES vs Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-ses-vs-mandrill" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brevo-vs-loops.json", "title": "Brevo API + MCP vs Loops API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brevo-vs-loops" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brevo-vs-mandrill.json", "title": "Brevo API + MCP vs Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brevo-vs-mandrill" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-email-service-vs-loops.json", "title": "Cloudflare Email Service vs Loops API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-email-service-vs-loops" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-email-service-vs-mandrill.json", "title": "Cloudflare Email Service vs Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-email-service-vs-mandrill" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/loops-vs-mailersend.json", "title": "Loops API + MCP vs MailerSend", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/loops-vs-mailersend" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/loops-vs-mailgun.json", "title": "Loops API + MCP vs Mailgun API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/loops-vs-mailgun" }, { "json": 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"name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "mandrill", "key": "payments", "loops": 30, "mandrill": 35, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 55, "edge": "loops", "key": "maintenance", "loops": 83, "mandrill": 28, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 7, "edge": "mandrill", "key": "transparency", "loops": 64, "mandrill": 71, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Loops API + MCP scores 62.7 (B) on agent readiness against Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill)'s 58.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do email send.", "verdicts": { "loops": "No status incidents in the last 90 days. No scoped or read-only keys, and no read-only MCP mode.", "mandrill": "A public OpenAPI 3.1 file covers all 99 operations, the docs serve Markdown and llms.txt, and keys can be limited by endpoint and IP address. Sending needs a Standard or Premium Mailchimp plan plus $20 blocks of 25,000 emails. No send idempotency key or SLA was found, and the newest dated release is from 24 March 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/loops-vs-mandrill", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/loops-vs-mandrill.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/loops-vs-mandrill.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/loops-vs-mandrill.min.md" }, "markdown": "Loops API + MCP scores 62.7 (B) on agent readiness against Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill)'s 58.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do email send.\n\n- Loops API + MCP: grade B, 62.7/100, rank #327 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/loops.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/loops.json\n- Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill): grade C, 58.1/100, rank #459 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mandrill.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mandrill.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Loops API + MCP (B)\n\nGood for: SaaS teams that send lifecycle and product email from one contact list and want an OAuth MCP.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 90 against 53\n- Agent ergonomics, 66 against 60\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 28\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No scoped or read-only keys, and no read-only MCP mode\n\n### Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) (C)\n\nGood for: Teams already paying for Mailchimp Standard or Premium that want transactional mail, inbound parsing and an MCP server on the same account.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 68 against 40\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 64\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Loops API + MCP loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: Full use needs a Standard or Premium Mailchimp marketing plan in addition to the email blocks\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Loops API + MCP | Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 53 | Loops API + MCP +37 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 79 | Loops API + MCP +3 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 60 | Loops API + MCP +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 40 | 68 | Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) +28 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 35 | Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 28 | Loops API + MCP +55 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 71 | Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **62.7 · B** | **58.1 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Loops API + MCP | Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Loops (Astrodon Corporation) | Intuit Mailchimp |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.loops.so/api/v1` | `https://mandrillapp.com/api/1.4` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under Mailchimp's Standard Terms of Use and Additional Terms. The client libraries are under Mailchimp's own client library licence agreement |\n| Tools exposed | none | 9 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.loops-so/loops` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-03 | 2026-03-24 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-12-15 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-05-15 | 2026-03-09 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | 7 stars, 460k npm/wk | 226k npm/wk, 132k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Loops API + MCP.** No status incidents in the last 90 days. No scoped or read-only keys, and no read-only MCP mode.\n\n**Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill).** A public OpenAPI 3.1 file covers all 99 operations, the docs serve Markdown and llms.txt, and keys can be limited by endpoint and IP address. Sending needs a Standard or Premium Mailchimp plan plus $20 blocks of 25,000 emails. No send idempotency key or SLA was found, and the newest dated release is from 24 March 2026.\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### Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill)\n\n1. Send every call as POST with the key in the JSON body as `key`. The MCP server takes the same key as `Authorization: Bearer`\n2. Use a test API key while building. Test sends are free, capped at 10,000 a day, and deliver nothing\n3. Verify the sending domain with DKIM and DMARC first. Mail from an unverified domain is rejected with the reason `unsigned`\n4. Keep `/messages/search` under 20 calls a minute and set `limit` (default 100, maximum 1,000). There is no offset, so use an activity export for more\n5. For a restricted key that must also use the MCP server, enable the AI Agents permission group on the key\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Loops API + MCP or Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill)?\n\nLoops API + MCP scores 62.7 (B) on agent readiness against Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill)'s 58.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Loops API + MCP and Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) need an API key?\n\nLoops API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Loops API + MCP and Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) without installing anything?\n\nYes. Loops API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://app.loops.so/api/v1 and Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) at https://mandrillapp.com/api/1.4.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/loops-vs-mandrill.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/loops-vs-mandrill.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"loops\", \"b\": \"mandrill\"}`. 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