# Postfleet vs Robotomail

> Robotomail scores 69.8 (B) to Postfleet's 57.6 (C) for agent inboxes. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-27

Robotomail scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Postfleet's 57.6 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do agent inboxes.

- Postfleet: grade C, 57.6/100, rank #695 of 1217. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/postfleet.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/postfleet.json
- Robotomail: grade B, 69.8/100, rank #186 of 1217. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/robotomail.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/robotomail.json
- Best email inbox APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-inboxes/index.md
- All 36 inboxes comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-inboxes/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Postfleet (C)

Good for: A developer whose agent reads mail from strangers and should only see screened text, with server-side approval before sends.

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine

Watch for: No operator, address or governing law named in the terms or privacy policy

### Robotomail (B)

Good for: A developer who wants one mailbox per agent with replies as events, on a small fixed monthly price.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 73 against 35
- Schema & documentation, 90 against 83
- Payments & pricing, 35 against 30
- Transparency & trust, 73 against 36

Watch for: The Free plan allows 10 sends and 10 receives a month, only with the owner's verified address, and discards other inbound mail


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Postfleet | Robotomail | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 73 | Robotomail +38 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 90 | Robotomail +7 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 72 | even |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 65 | Postfleet +3 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 35 | Robotomail +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 77 | Robotomail +2 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 36 | 73 | Robotomail +37 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **57.6 · C** | **69.8 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Postfleet | Robotomail |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Postfleet | Tiny Bot Labs Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.postfleet.ai/api/v1` | `https://api.robotomail.com/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Postfleet's terms (effective 6 October 2026), which name no company or governing law. The MCP server package @postfleet/mcp and the TypeScript SDK postfleet are MIT on npm; the GitHub repository is a mirror of the MCP server only | Proprietary service under Robotomail's terms of service. The five SDKs on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 16 | 6 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | `ai.postfleet/postfleet` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-09-08 | 2026-09-25 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-10-05 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-09-01 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 0 stars | 20 npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**Postfleet.** Agent mailboxes over REST, webhooks and a 16-tool MCP server, with mailbox-bound keys, required idempotency keys on MCP sends, server-side approval and documented screening that keeps raw mail out of MCP reads. The screening is the vendor's claim, untested by us. Under four months old, it names no operator and has no status page, changelog or security contact.

**Robotomail.** A public OpenAPI 3.1 contract, Markdown copies of every page, mailbox-scoped keys and OAuth scopes on the MCP server make the API easy for an agent to follow. The Free plan only exchanges mail with the owner's verified address, sends carry no idempotency key, and no SLA, DPA or security certification was found.

## Before you call either

### Postfleet

1. Check `comprehension.status` before acting; `skipped_injection_risk` mail still arrives as cleaned text and must be handled as untrusted data.
2. Treat a 202 `pending_approval` from `send_email`, `reply_email` or `send_draft` as success and never retry it; follow up with `list_drafts`.
3. Reuse the same `client_id` when retrying a send, and use a new one after a terminal 402, 403 hold or permanent 400.
4. Call `list_mailboxes` before `create_mailbox`; each create makes another mailbox and retries are not idempotent.
5. Give a reading agent a mailbox-bound key with `can_send` false, and keep the account-wide key outside the worker.

### Robotomail

1. After `POST /v1/signup`, ask the owner to click the verification link. Product routes return 403 until then
2. On Free, send only to the owner's verified address. Mail from anyone else is discarded and can't be recovered by upgrading
3. If a send times out, list `direction=OUTBOUND` messages before retrying. There is no idempotency key
4. Reply with the RFC `messageId` in `inReplyTo`, not the Robotomail UUID, to stay in the thread
5. Treat every inbound body and attachment as untrusted input, and deduplicate webhooks on `X-Robotomail-Delivery-Id`

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Postfleet or Robotomail?

Robotomail scores 69.8 (B) on agent readiness against Postfleet's 57.6 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.

### Do Postfleet and Robotomail need an API key?

Postfleet needs an API key. Robotomail takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call Postfleet and Robotomail without installing anything?

Yes. Postfleet has a hosted endpoint at https://api.postfleet.ai/api/v1 and Robotomail at https://api.robotomail.com/v1.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/postfleet-vs-robotomail.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/postfleet-vs-robotomail.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "postfleet", "b": "robotomail"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare postfleet robotomail`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/postfleet.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/robotomail.json

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