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      "slug": "pingram",
      "name": "Pingram",
      "vendor": "Pingram",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.pingram.io",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "notifications",
      "summary": "Pingram, formerly NotificationAPI, is a hosted messaging API that sends email and SMS and receives replies by webhook. Agents reach it through a REST API, seven server SDKs, a CLI and a hosted MCP server.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pingram",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pingram.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pingram.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pingram.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/pingram-io/pingram-go",
      "license": "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",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.pingram.io",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "pingram"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "pingram-cli"
        },
        {
          "registry": "go",
          "name": "github.com/pingram-io/pingram-go"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Self-serve. REST calls to `https://api.pingram.io` take an API key as `Authorization: Bearer`. Keys are created in the dashboard or through `POST /keys`, are secret or public, can be tied to one environment and can be revoked. The API reference also lists Basic schemes for client credentials and end users. The hosted MCP server uses OAuth sign-in with the dashboard account (email, Google or Microsoft) and has that user's access on every account they belong to. No scopes were found.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free tier of 3,000 emails and 100 SMS a month with one local number, no card, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. Paid plans are monthly budgets from $20 to $1,000 drawn down at per-message rates, $0.0005 an email and SMS by country ($0.0100 a segment to the United States). Unused balance does not roll over. Enterprise add-on from $800 a month (https://www.pingram.io/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$20 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the pricing page, llms.txt or the API reference (checked 2026-10-09).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 1,
        "npmWeekly": 12699,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-09"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://www.pingram.io/docs",
      "llmsTxt": "https://www.pingram.io/llms.txt",
      "registryName": "io.pingram/mcp",
      "capabilities": [
        "notify.multichannel",
        "notify.push",
        "notify.in-app",
        "email.send",
        "email.inbound",
        "email.domains",
        "messaging.sms",
        "messaging.mms",
        "messaging.inbound"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "mcp",
        "oauth",
        "llms-txt",
        "typescript",
        "python",
        "go",
        "webhooks",
        "status-page",
        "soc2"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-08",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 57.4,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 611,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 950,
        "categoryRank": 11,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 67,
          "maintenance": 81,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 58,
          "schema": 69,
          "security": 51,
          "transparency": 54
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-09"
        },
        "negative": -2,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-10-09. `llms.txt` and `llms-full.txt`, the files Pingram publishes for AI systems, give the paid plan as from $9 a month, while the pricing page's lowest paid budget is $20. `llms.txt` also links the API reference at an address that answers 403 (https://www.pingram.io/llms.txt, https://www.pingram.io/pricing). 2 points."
        ],
        "verdict": "Email and SMS go out through one REST call with built-in delivery, per-message prices are public and the free tier needs no card. No rate limits or idempotency keys were found in the reviewed documentation, and the MCP connector acts with the signed-in user's whole account.",
        "bestFor": "An agent that needs to send transactional email and SMS and read replies through one account without separate carrier or SMTP providers.",
        "strengths": [
          "Email costs $0.0005 a message and SMS is priced per country on a public page, with a free tier of 3,000 emails and 100 SMS a month and no card",
          "Hosted MCP server at `https://mcp.pingram.io` with OAuth sign-in and regional hosts for Canada and the EU, listed in the official MCP registry",
          "Error responses carry a `trackingId` and an `error` object with `code`, `message` and an optional `fix` hint",
          "A dated changelog with a JSON feed shows more than 25 entries between 16 September and 7 October 2026",
          "security.txt valid to 13 September 2027 and a vulnerability disclosure policy with safe harbour, dated 14 September 2026"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "The terms of service forbid using the service for benchmarking. This matters before any probe is run",
          "No request rate limits, 429 handling or idempotency key for sends were found in the reviewed documentation",
          "The MCP connector has the signed-in user's access across every account they belong to, with no scopes or read-only mode found",
          "`llms.txt` gives a paid plan from $9 a month and links an API reference address that answers 403. The pricing page starts paid plans at $20",
          "RBAC, SAML and internal audit logs are sold only in the Enterprise add-on, which starts at $800 a month"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Use the API host for the account's region. The key and region (`us`, `eu` or `ca`) come from the API Keys page in the dashboard",
          "Keep the `trackingId` from each send and check Logs before retrying. No idempotency key was found, so a blind retry can send twice",
          "Pass `accountId` on MCP tools when the user belongs to several accounts. Without it the tools use the earliest account joined",
          "Create broadcasts as drafts only. Pingram's own skill says a person must send a broadcast from the dashboard",
          "Expect 402 when the monthly budget is spent. Unused balance does not roll over"
        ],
        "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": 57.4
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 67,
          "maintenance": 81,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 58,
          "schema": 69,
          "security": 51,
          "transparency": 47
        },
        "provenanceScore": 60
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npm install pingram",
        "http": "curl -X POST https://api.pingram.io/email \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $PINGRAM_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"type\":\"welcome\",\"to\":\"user@example.com\",\"subject\":\"Welcome\",\"html\":\"\u003cp\u003eHello\u003c/p\u003e\"}'",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "pingram": {
              "url": "https://mcp.pingram.io"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/notify.multichannel",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/pingram"
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      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Email",
          "unit": "1k-emails",
          "usd": 0.5
        },
        {
          "item": "SMS to the United States",
          "unit": "message",
          "usd": 0.01,
          "note": "per segment, carrier fee included"
        },
        {
          "item": "SMS to Canada",
          "unit": "message",
          "usd": 0.015,
          "note": "per segment, carrier fee included"
        },
        {
          "item": "Lowest paid budget",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 20,
          "note": "about 2,000 US SMS or 40,000 emails"
        },
        {
          "item": "Extra local phone number",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 0.5
        },
        {
          "item": "Enterprise add-on",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 800,
          "note": "starting price, on top of a paid budget"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "",
        "domain": "pingram.io",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.pingram.io/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://www.pingram.io/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.pingram.io",
        "changelog": "https://www.pingram.io/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-10-09",
        "notes": [
          "No legal entity is named. The terms, privacy policy and footer say Pingram or Pingram™, at 170 Water St., #0200, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.",
          "The terms (last updated 16 April 2025) cover the website, APIs and related services, and are governed by the law of Newfoundland and Labrador.",
          "The API answers at api.pingram.io and the MCP server at mcp.pingram.io, both on the vendor's domain.",
          "security.txt names security@pingram.io and expires on 13 September 2027.",
          "RDAP for pingram.io answered 404 through rdap.org, so no registration date is recorded."
        ],
        "score": 60
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pingram.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "pingram",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://mcp.pingram.io",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-10T05:39:00.773543539Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 401,
          "lastMs": 344,
          "lastNote": "asks for credentials",
          "authRequired": true,
          "uptime24h": 100,
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          "p95ms24h": 892,
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          "samples30d": 143,
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              "probes": 85,
              "ok": 85
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-10",
              "probes": 58,
              "ok": 58
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.pingram.io",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T05:35:37.126856734Z"
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            "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:13:00.934046118Z"
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            "registry": "npm",
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            "url": "https://www.pingram.io/pricing",
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            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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          {
            "url": "https://www.pingram.io/privacy-policy",
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            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "253bc47822ca"
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            "url": "https://www.pingram.io/terms-of-service",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:53:10.238064171Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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      }
    },
    "answer": "Pingram scores 57.4 (C) on agent readiness against Pushover's 53.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Pushover leads on transparency \u0026 trust.",
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      "name": "Pushover",
      "vendor": "Pushover",
      "vendorUrl": "https://pushover.net",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "notifications",
      "summary": "Push notification service for your own phone, tablet or desktop.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pushover",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pushover.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pushover.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pushover.json",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "An application token and a user or group key, both 30 characters, sent as the `token` and `user` parameters in the request body rather than a header.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "Receiving needs the Pushover app, free for 30 days and then $4.99 once per platform (iOS, Android, desktop). Pushover for Teams is $5 per user a month. Sending is free up to 10,000 messages a month per account (25,000 for a team), shared across all of an account's applications since 2026-05-01. Capacity upgrades exist but their price isn't on the pricing page (https://pushover.net/pricing, https://support.pushover.net/i12-message-size-and-frequency-limitations, https://blog.pushover.net/posts/2026/4/app-limits).",
      "priceSummary": "$5 / seat-mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "endpoints": []
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      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
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        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://pushover.net/api",
      "capabilities": [
        "notify.push"
      ],
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        "hosted",
        "webhooks"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-06-23",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 53.1,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 716,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 950,
        "categoryRank": 12,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "maintenance": 20,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 62,
          "schema": 50,
          "security": 52,
          "transparency": 87
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        "pending": [
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          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
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        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "One POST with three required fields, form or JSON. Recipients need the app, $4.99 per platform after a 30-day trial.",
        "bestFor": "An agent that must reach its owner or an on-call team and get an acknowledgement.",
        "strengths": [
          "One POST with three required fields, form or JSON",
          "Emergency priority repeats until acknowledged, up to 3 hours, with pollable receipts",
          "Every response reports the remaining monthly quota in `X-Limit-App-*` headers",
          "Messages deleted from the servers once delivery is verified, and nine processors named",
          "10,000 free messages a month, 25,000 on Teams"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Recipients need the app, $4.99 per platform after a 30-day trial",
          "No idempotency key, so a retry after a timeout can send twice",
          "No OpenAPI spec, llms.txt, official SDK or MCP server",
          "No product change since the 23 June 2026 GitHub endpoint deprecation",
          "At most 2 concurrent connections to the API"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Use priority 2 with `retry` (30 or more) and `expire` (10,800 or less) when a person must act, then poll the receipt",
          "Don't retry a 4xx. Fix the parameter named in `errors`. Wait at least 5 seconds before retrying a 5xx",
          "Read `X-Limit-App-Remaining` before a batch. Over the monthly quota every send returns 429",
          "Keep messages to 1,024 characters and titles to 250",
          "Send to a group key to reach several people in one call. Each person still counts against the quota"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 3.5,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
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              "tasks"
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            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 53.1
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          "maintenance": 20,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 62,
          "schema": 50,
          "security": 52,
          "transparency": 77
        },
        "provenanceScore": 96
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      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -s https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json \\\n  --form-string \"token=$PUSHOVER_APP_TOKEN\" --form-string \"user=$PUSHOVER_USER_KEY\" \\\n  --form-string \"title=Build finished\" --form-string \"message=All tests passed\""
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      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/notify.push",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/pushover"
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      "area": "everyday",
      "unitPrices": [
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          "item": "Pushover for Teams",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 5
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      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Pushover, LLC",
        "domain": "pushover.net",
        "domainRegistered": "2005-01-02",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://pushover.net/terms",
        "privacy": "https://pushover.net/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.pushover.net",
        "changelog": "https://blog.pushover.net",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "The terms give no address and point to US law.",
          "Product changes are announced on the blog. The 2026-06-23 post deprecates the GitHub notification endpoint in favour of webhooks."
        ],
        "score": 96
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pushover.json",
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          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-10T05:39:01.990286968Z",
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              "date": "2026-10-08",
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              "date": "2026-10-09",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-10",
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        "vendorStatus": {
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          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
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        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://pushover.net/.well-known/security.txt",
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          "registered": "2005-01-02",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/net/v1/domain/pushover.net",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:08:13.137695898Z"
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            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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          {
            "url": "https://pushover.net/terms",
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        "a": "HTTP API",
        "b": "HTTP API",
        "name": "Kind"
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        "name": "Vendor"
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        "a": "https://mcp.pingram.io",
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        "a": "HTTP",
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      {
        "a": "OAuth or key",
        "b": "API key",
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      {
        "a": "Freemium",
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        "name": "Pricing"
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      {
        "a": "no",
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      {
        "a": "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",
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This matters before any probe is run\n\n### Pushover (D)\n\nGood for: An agent that must reach its owner or an on-call team and get an acknowledgement.\n\nAhead on:\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 87 against 54\n\nWatch for: Recipients need the app, $4.99 per platform after a 30-day trial\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Pingram | Pushover | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 58 | 62 | Pushover +4 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 50 | Pingram +19 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 64 | Pingram +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 51 | 52 | Pushover +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 30 | Pingram +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 20 | Pingram +61 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 54 | 87 | Pushover +33 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **57.4 · C** | **53.1 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Pingram | Pushover |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Pingram | Pushover |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.pingram.io` | `https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | 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 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | `io.pingram/mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-06-23 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-04-16 | 2026-05-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-04-16 | 2026-05-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | 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 | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 1 stars, 13k npm/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Pingram.** Email and SMS go out through one REST call with built-in delivery, per-message prices are public and the free tier needs no card. 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