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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.",
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      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/loops.min.md",
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      "repo": "https://github.com/Loops-so/loops-js",
      "license": "MIT",
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        "streamable-http"
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          "registry": "npm",
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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",
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        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 or stablecoin payment path in docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
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      "openapi": "https://app.loops.so/openapi.json",
      "registryName": "io.github.loops-so/loops",
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        "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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        "agentReady": false,
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        "ranked": true,
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          "reliability": 90,
          "schema": 82,
          "security": 40,
          "transparency": 69
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          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
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          "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"
        ],
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          "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"
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          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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        "avgRating": 3.5,
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            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.3",
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              "tasks"
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          "reliability": 90,
          "schema": 82,
          "security": 40,
          "transparency": 62
        },
        "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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        "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",
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        "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
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/loops.json",
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          "target": "https://app.loops.so/api/v1",
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              "date": "2026-10-01",
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              "ok": 276
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
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              "ok": 248
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
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              "ok": 271
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
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              "date": "2026-10-05",
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          "page": "https://status.loops.so",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
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          "domain": "loops.so",
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        "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T03:49:48.629511766Z"
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      "slug": "sendgrid",
      "name": "Twilio SendGrid",
      "vendor": "Twilio",
      "vendorUrl": "https://sendgrid.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
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      "summary": "Email API v3 for transactional mail, with Inbound Parse, dynamic templates, suppressions and Marketing Campaigns.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sendgrid",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sendgrid.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sendgrid.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sendgrid.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-nodejs",
      "license": "MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http"
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      "remoteUrl": "https://api.sendgrid.com/v3",
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          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@sendgrid/mail"
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        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "sendgrid"
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      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Bearer API key (`SG.`) with full, restricted or billing access and per-scope permissions. Subusers get their own keys.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "Free trial of 100 emails a day for 60 days, no card. Essentials $19.95 a month for 50,000 emails or $34.95 for 100,000. Pro $89.95 for 100,000, $249 for 300,000 and $499 for 700,000, with a dedicated IP and 2,500 validations. Premier is custom. Overage rates aren't listed on the pricing page (https://www.twilio.com/en-us/products/email-api/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$19.95 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 support in docs, pricing or MCP README (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
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        "githubStars": 3052,
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        "pypiWeekly": 4577455,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://www.twilio.com/docs/sendgrid",
      "llmsTxt": "https://www.twilio.com/docs/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/twilio/sendgrid-oai/main/spec/json/tsg_mail_v3.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "email.send",
        "email.inbound",
        "email.templates",
        "email.domains",
        "email.analytics",
        "email.marketing"
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        "hosted",
        "no-card",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "typescript",
        "python",
        "webhooks",
        "enterprise"
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      "lastRelease": "2025-09-19",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 63.6,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 202,
        "ranked": true,
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        "categoryRank": 5,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "maintenance": 47,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 66,
          "schema": 72,
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          "transparency": 79
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          "tasks"
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          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
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        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Restricted API keys with per-endpoint scopes, subuser keys and IP access management. No official MCP server that can send, only Twilio's docs search.",
        "strengths": [
          "Restricted API keys with per-endpoint scopes, subuser keys and IP access management",
          "OpenAPI 3.1 specs for the whole v3 API",
          "Inbound Parse and Marketing Campaigns in one account",
          "Twilio SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and a HackerOne bug bounty",
          "Subprocessors listed with locations, updated September 2026"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No official MCP server that can send, only Twilio's docs search",
          "Node and Python SDKs last released on 19 September 2025, Go on 29 May 2025",
          "Free plan is a 60-day trial, not a standing free tier",
          "Overage rates and numeric rate limits aren't published",
          "No idempotency key on mail/send"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Give an agent that only sends a restricted key with just `mail.send`",
          "Set `mail_settings.sandbox_mode` to validate payloads without delivery",
          "Authenticate a domain or verify a single sender before the first send",
          "Read X-RateLimit-Remaining and X-RateLimit-Reset and wait for the reset on 429",
          "Don't blindly retry a timed-out mail/send. There's no idempotency key, so the message can go out twice"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 2.5,
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            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
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              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 63.6
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          "maintenance": 47,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 66,
          "schema": 72,
          "security": 81,
          "transparency": 68
        },
        "provenanceScore": 90
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -X POST https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/mail/send -H \"Authorization: Bearer $SENDGRID_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"personalizations\":[{\"to\":[{\"email\":\"to@example.com\"}]}],\"from\":{\"email\":\"from@example.com\"},\"subject\":\"Hello\",\"content\":[{\"type\":\"text/plain\",\"value\":\"Hello\"}]}'"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/email.send",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/sendgrid"
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      "sameCompany": [
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        "stytch-connected-apps",
        "twilio"
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        {
          "item": "Essentials 50k",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 19.95,
          "note": "50,000 emails"
        },
        {
          "item": "Essentials 100k",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 34.95,
          "note": "100,000 emails"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pro 100k",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 89.95,
          "note": "100,000 emails, 1 dedicated IP"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pro 300k",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 249,
          "note": "300,000 emails"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pro 700k",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 499,
          "note": "700,000 emails"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Twilio Inc.",
        "domain": "sendgrid.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2009-04-20",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.twilio.com/en-us/legal/tos",
        "privacy": "https://www.twilio.com/en-us/legal/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.twilio.com",
        "changelog": "https://www.twilio.com/en-us/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "unknown",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
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          "sendgrid.com returns 403 for /.well-known/security.txt, and sendgrid.com pricing now redirects to twilio.com."
        ],
        "score": 90
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sendgrid.json",
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          "target": "https://api.sendgrid.com/v3",
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              "ok": 35
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 276,
              "ok": 276
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
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              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
              "probes": 44,
              "ok": 44
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.twilio.com",
          "indicator": "minor",
          "summary": "Partially Degraded Service",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T03:49:57.64808369Z"
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            "released": "2025-09-19",
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        "pypiWeekly": 4921569,
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          "url": "https://sendgrid.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "unknown",
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        },
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          "url": "https://www.twilio.com/docs/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:18:13.607546517Z"
        },
        "domain": {
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          "registered": "2009-04-20",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/sendgrid.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:05:08.539043451Z"
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            "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:40:22.694527148Z",
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          {
            "url": "https://www.twilio.com/en-us/products/email-api/pricing",
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            "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:40:29.339427666Z",
            "fingerprint": "d7367bb506a5"
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          {
            "url": "https://www.twilio.com/en-us/legal/privacy",
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            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:52:34.551038823Z",
            "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:40:25.166275433Z",
            "fingerprint": "a5ff48b4c6bb"
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          {
            "url": "https://www.twilio.com/en-us/legal/tos",
            "kind": "terms",
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            "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:40:27.263475456Z",
            "fingerprint": "2a9a14fa11bf"
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      }
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sendgrid.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sendgrid.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Loops API + MCP for reliability (+24), schema \u0026 documentation (+10), agent ergonomics (+6), maintenance \u0026 community (+36).\n\nPick Twilio SendGrid for security \u0026 auth (+41), transparency \u0026 trust (+10).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Loops API + MCP | Twilio SendGrid | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 66 | Loops API + MCP +24 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 72 | Loops API + MCP +10 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 60 | Loops API + MCP +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 40 | 81 | Twilio SendGrid +41 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 47 | Loops API + MCP +36 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 69 | 79 | Twilio SendGrid +10 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **63.1 · B** | **63.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Loops API + MCP | Twilio SendGrid |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Loops (Astrodon Corporation) | Twilio |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.loops.so/api/v1` | `https://api.sendgrid.com/v3` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\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 | 2025-09-19 |\n| Popularity | 7 stars, 460k npm/wk | 3.1k stars, 5.5M npm/wk, 4.6M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 2.5/5 (2) |\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**Twilio SendGrid.** Restricted API keys with per-endpoint scopes, subuser keys and IP access management. No official MCP server that can send, only Twilio's docs search.\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### Twilio SendGrid\n\n1. Give an agent that only sends a restricted key with just `mail.send`\n2. Set `mail_settings.sandbox_mode` to validate payloads without delivery\n3. Authenticate a domain or verify a single sender before the first send\n4. Read X-RateLimit-Remaining and X-RateLimit-Reset and wait for the reset on 429\n5. Don't blindly retry a timed-out mail/send. There's no idempotency key, so the message can go out twice\n\n## Other comparisons with Loops API + MCP or Twilio SendGrid\n\n- [Amazon SES vs Loops API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-ses-vs-loops.md)\n- [Amazon SES vs Twilio SendGrid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-ses-vs-sendgrid.md)\n- [Brevo API + MCP vs Loops API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brevo-vs-loops.md)\n- [Brevo API + MCP vs Twilio SendGrid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brevo-vs-sendgrid.md)\n- [Loops API + MCP vs Mailgun API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/loops-vs-mailgun.md)\n- [Loops API + MCP vs Mailjet API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/loops-vs-mailjet.md)\n- [Loops API + MCP vs Postmark API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/loops-vs-postmark.md)\n- [Loops API + MCP vs Resend API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/loops-vs-resend.md)\n- [Loops API + MCP vs SMTP2GO API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/loops-vs-smtp2go.md)\n- [Mailgun API + MCP vs Twilio SendGrid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mailgun-vs-sendgrid.md)\n- [Mailjet API + MCP vs Twilio SendGrid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mailjet-vs-sendgrid.md)\n- [Postmark API + MCP vs Twilio SendGrid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/postmark-vs-sendgrid.md)\n- [Resend API + MCP vs Twilio SendGrid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/resend-vs-sendgrid.md)\n- [Twilio SendGrid vs SMTP2GO API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sendgrid-vs-smtp2go.md)\n",
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