{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "smtp2go", "name": "SMTP2GO API + MCP", "vendor": "SMTP2GO", "vendorUrl": "https://www.smtp2go.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "email", "summary": "New Zealand email delivery service with a REST API and SMTP relay, templates, webhooks, subaccounts and SMS.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smtp2go", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smtp2go.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smtp2go.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/smtp2go.json", "repo": "https://github.com/smtp2go-oss/nodejs", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.smtp2go.com/v3", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "smtp2go-nodejs" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "smtp2go" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "API key in the X-Smtp2go-Api-Key header, or as `Authorization: Bearer` since 2026-09-07. The key can also go in the JSON body as api_key. Keys can be limited to chosen endpoints and given their own send rate.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free 1,000 emails a month, 200 a day. Starter $10 a month or $100 a year (10,000 emails, extra at $1 per 1,000). Professional $75 a month or $750 a year (100,000 emails, extra at $0.85 per 1,000, dedicated IP). Premier on quote above 3,000,000 a month. Prices scale with the volume slider (https://www.smtp2go.com/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "$10 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 or stablecoin payment path in docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 5, "popularity": { "githubStars": 9, "npmWeekly": 1797, "pypiWeekly": 1424, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.smtp2go.com", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.smtp2go.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "email.send", "email.templates", "email.domains", "email.analytics" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "mcp", "llms-txt", "typescript", "python", "webhooks", "sms" ], "lastRelease": "2026-06-04", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 53.1, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 550, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 13, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 53, "payments": 40, "reliability": 47, "schema": 59, "security": 60, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-06-11. The changelog marks a request-body cap (1 MB for non-email calls, 50 MB for email) as breaking and gives no notice period, and stricter API key permission rules shipped the same way on 2026-05-29. -3 (https://developers.smtp2go.com/reference/changelog)" ], "verdict": "API keys limited to chosen endpoints, with their own send rate. Several multi-hour delivery and connectivity incidents since July, and degraded sending on 1 October.", "bestFor": "Small senders who want simple pricing, per-key permissions and a hosted MCP with almost no context cost.", "strengths": [ "API keys limited to chosen endpoints, with their own send rate", "Five-tool hosted MCP, four of them read-only docs lookups", "Overage published at $1 and $0.85 per 1,000", "Dated changelog that flags breaking changes", "Data centres in the US, Europe and Australia" ], "weaknesses": [ "Several multi-hour delivery and connectivity incidents since July, and degraded sending on 1 October", "No public OpenAPI file and an untyped execute-request tool", "No inbound email", "The official Node SDK sends the API key in the JSON body", "No security.txt, disclosure policy or security page found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Give the MCP a key limited to /email/send and the view endpoints it needs, since execute-request can call anything the key allows", "Send the key in the `X-Smtp2go-Api-Key` header or as Bearer, not in the JSON body, so it stays out of request logs", "Verify a sender domain first. Free accounts without one are held to 25 emails an hour", "On 429, pause until calls return 200 again. Repeated errors time out your IP for at least a minute", "Check smtp2gostatus.com before blaming your payload for mail stuck as 'processed'" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 53.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 53, "payments": 40, "reliability": 47, "schema": 59, "security": 60, "transparency": 54 }, "provenanceScore": 88 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://api.smtp2go.com/v3/email/send -H \"X-Smtp2go-Api-Key: $SMTP2GO_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"sender\":\"you@example.com\",\"to\":[\"them@example.com\"],\"subject\":\"Hello\",\"text_body\":\"Hello from SMTP2GO\"}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http smtp2go https://developers.smtp2go.com/mcp --header \"X-Smtp2go-Api-Key: $SMTP2GO_API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "smtp2go": { "headers": { "X-Smtp2go-Api-Key": "${SMTP2GO_API_KEY}" }, "type": "http", "url": "https://developers.smtp2go.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/email.send", "tool": "https://letme.dev/smtp2go" }, "area": "communication", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Starter", "unit": "month", "usd": 10, "note": "10,000 emails a month" }, { "item": "Starter overage", "unit": "1k-emails", "usd": 1 }, { "item": "Professional", "unit": "month", "usd": 75, "note": "100,000 emails a month, dedicated IP" }, { "item": "Professional overage", "unit": "1k-emails", "usd": 0.85 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Sand Dune Mail Ltd", "domain": "smtp2go.com", "domainRegistered": "2006-06-20", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.smtp2go.com/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.smtp2go.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://smtp2gostatus.com/", "changelog": "https://developers.smtp2go.com/reference/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "score": 88 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smtp2go.json", "live": { "slug": "smtp2go", "probe": { "target": "https://api.smtp2go.com/v3", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T19:53:02.446894336Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 772, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 751, "p95ms24h": 1664, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 2143, "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": 225, "ok": 225 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://smtp2gostatus.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:51:03.358903973Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "smtp2go-oss/nodejs", "version": "v0.3.0", "released": "2023-12-05", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:29:47.002666976Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "smtp2go-nodejs", "version": "1.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:29:46.398445498Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "smtp2go", "version": "2.3.1", "released": "2022-07-29", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:29:46.795287712Z" } ], "githubStars": 9, "npmWeekly": 1273, "pypiWeekly": 1356, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://smtp2go.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:39:04.041691005Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://developers.smtp2go.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:52.693911042Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "smtp2go.com", "registered": "2006-06-20", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/smtp2go.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:06:34.947567818Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.smtp2go.com/reference/changelog", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:02.422554384Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "2c377bba18e2" }, { "url": "https://www.smtp2go.com/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:35.793169922Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:16:57.163328366Z", "fingerprint": "cf309b54057d" }, { "url": "https://www.smtp2go.com/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:37.813273593Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:16:59.207163452Z", "fingerprint": "2f836e610cf8" }, { "url": "https://www.smtp2go.com/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:39.947526353Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:17:01.506168149Z", "fingerprint": "1e97c3ce907d" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:53:02.446894336Z" } }, "answer": "Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail) scores 61.8 (C) on agent readiness against SMTP2GO API + MCP's 53.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SMTP2GO API + MCP leads on reliability and agent ergonomics.", "b": { "slug": "zoho-zeptomail", "name": "Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail)", "vendor": "Zoho Corporation", "vendorUrl": "https://www.zoho.com/cpaas/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "email", "summary": "Transactional email service from Zoho, renamed from ZeptoMail to Zoho CPaaS in September 2026. It sends application email through a REST API or SMTP relay, with templates, domain management, suppression lists, logs and webhooks.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-zeptomail", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-zeptomail.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-zeptomail.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zoho-zeptomail.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the Zoho CPaaS terms of use. The Node SDK on npm is MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://cpaas.zoho.com/v1.1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "zeptomail" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Sending takes a send key in the `Authorization` header with the prefix Zoho-enczapikey. Each Agent has its own keys, one set per channel, copied from the console's SMTP/API tab or created and deleted by API. Logs, domains, templates, agents and suppression lists take a Zoho OAuth 2.0 access token (authorisation code grant, one-hour tokens, refresh tokens) with per-resource scopes. Access is self-serve, but every new account passes a manual review that the docs say takes two business days.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "$2.50 per email credit of 10,000 emails ($0.25 per 1,000), valid six months, counted per recipient. The first credit is free, and a sandbox Agent accepts 10,000 test emails a day without sending them. No monthly plan. Credits can be bought only after the account review. Dedicated IP $30 a month, billed annually. Prices are filled in by script from a public JSON file (https://www.zoho.com/cpaas/pricing.html).", "priceSummary": "$30 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the OpenAPI file or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 40110, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.zoho.com/cpaas/help/api/api-home.html", "llmsTxt": "https://www.zoho.com/cpaas/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://www.zohowebstatic.com/sites/zweb/json/api/cpaas/oas.json", "capabilities": [ "email.send", "email.templates", "email.domains", "email.analytics" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage", "openapi", "llms-txt", "oauth", "smtp", "webhooks", "sandbox", "typescript", "status-page", "bug-bounty", "soc2" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61.8, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 356, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 74, "payments": 40, "reliability": 41, "schema": 78, "security": 76, "transparency": 82 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A public OpenAPI 3.0 file covers all 42 operations, and each Agent has its own send-only key. Email costs $2.50 per 10,000 with the first credit free. No API rate limit, 429 handling, idempotency key or SLA was found in the reviewed documentation, and new accounts wait for a manual review.", "bestFor": "Low-volume transactional senders who want prepaid credits without a monthly plan, and teams already on Zoho.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.0.3 file with 42 operations, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every help page", "Send keys are per Agent and per channel and can only send. Management calls use OAuth with READ, CREATE, UPDATE and DELETE scopes per resource", "Published price of $2.50 per credit of 10,000 emails, valid six months, with the first credit free", "IP allow lists for sending, the REST API and the web console, and activity logs kept for one year", "The terms commit to a six-month deprecation period for a retired API version" ], "weaknesses": [ "No API rate limit, 429 behaviour or Retry-After was found in the reviewed documentation or the OpenAPI file", "No idempotency key on send. `client_reference` is a tracking label only", "Every new account is reviewed by Zoho staff, which the docs say takes two business days, before credits can be bought", "The only official SDK found is the Node package, last published on 29 May 2026 and still named zeptomail", "The OAuth guide puts the client secret and refresh token in the token URL's query string", "No inbound email, and no SLA was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call the base URL for the account's region (cpaas.zoho.com, .eu, .in, .com.au, .jp or .com.cn). A key from one region fails on another", "Send with `Authorization: Zoho-enczapikey \u003ckey\u003e`. Logs, domains, templates, agents and suppressions need a Zoho OAuth token as `Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken \u003ctoken\u003e`", "Post OAuth client secrets and refresh tokens in the request body, not the query string the guide shows, so they stay out of logs", "Don't retry a timed-out send blindly. There is no idempotency key, so look the message up by `client_reference` in the email logs first", "Count one email per recipient, including cc and bcc, and keep each address field to 500 entries and each attachment to 15 MB", "Use a sandbox Agent for tests. It accepts up to 10,000 emails a day and sends none of them" ], "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": 61.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 74, "payments": 40, "reliability": 41, "schema": 78, "security": 76, "transparency": 69 }, "provenanceScore": 94 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install zeptomail", "http": "curl --request POST --url https://cpaas.zoho.com/v1.1/email \\\n --header 'Authorization: Zoho-enczapikey REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_KEY' \\\n --header 'content-type: application/json' \\\n --data '{\"from\":{\"address\":\"hello@yourapp.com\",\"name\":\"Your App\"},\"to\":[{\"email_address\":{\"address\":\"user@example.com\",\"name\":\"User\"}}],\"subject\":\"Test Email\",\"htmlbody\":\"\u003cp\u003eTest email sent successfully.\u003c/p\u003e\"}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/email.send", "tool": "https://letme.dev/zoho-zeptomail" }, "sameCompany": [ "zoho-books", "zoho-crm", "zoho-recruit", "zoho-people" ], "area": "communication", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Email credit", "unit": "1k-emails", "usd": 0.25, "note": "$2.50 per credit of 10,000 emails, valid six months, counted per recipient. First credit free" }, { "item": "Dedicated IP", "unit": "month", "usd": 30, "note": "Billed annually, some data centres only" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Zoho Corporation", "domain": "zoho.com", "domainRegistered": "2004-01-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.zoho.com/cpaas/terms.html", "privacy": "https://www.zoho.com/privacy.html", "statusPage": "https://us.zohostatus.com/", "changelog": "https://www.zoho.com/cpaas/whats-new.html", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Zoho CPaaS terms of use name the contracting party as the Zoho entity for the customer's region. That is Zoho Corporation for the United States and Zoho Corporation Private Limited for India (https://www.zoho.com/legal/zoho-contracting-entities.html).", "The privacy field points at Zoho's privacy policy, last updated 22 December 2025, whose Part II covers the data customers process through Zoho services. Zoho CPaaS has no privacy policy of its own.", "status.zoho.com redirects to us.zohostatus.com, which lists Zepto Mail, Zepto Mail-SMTP and Zepto Mail-SMTP (PORT:465) under the old name. Other regions have their own status sites.", "www.zoho.com/.well-known/security.txt names security@zohocorp.com and the bug bounty, and expires on 30 June 2028. cpaas.zoho.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 403.", "RDAP for zoho.com gives a registration date of 2004-01-16." ], "score": 94 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-zeptomail.json", "live": { "slug": "zoho-zeptomail", "probe": { "target": "https://cpaas.zoho.com/v1.1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T19:53:07.788146603Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 403, "lastMs": 459, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 433, "p95ms24h": 590, "samples24h": 27, "samples30d": 27, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 27, "ok": 27 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://us.zohostatus.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:39:22.469628831Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.zoho.com/cpaas/whats-new.html", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:31:56.469057518Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "7bf282bb5347" }, { "url": "https://www.zoho.com/cpaas/pricing.html", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:31:52.435007702Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b4b0b9f913a0" }, { "url": "https://www.zoho.com/cpaas/terms.html", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:31:54.470399117Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a4fd5ba82732" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:53:07.788146603Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "SMTP2GO", "b": "Zoho Corporation", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.smtp2go.com/v3", "b": "https://cpaas.zoho.com/v1.1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "Proprietary service under the Zoho CPaaS terms of use. The Node SDK on npm is MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "5", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-06-04", "b": "none", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2023-07-23", "b": "2025-12-22", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "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": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "9 stars, 1.8k npm/wk, 1.4k PyPI/wk", "b": "40k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail) scores 61.8 (C) on agent readiness against SMTP2GO API + MCP's 53.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SMTP2GO API + MCP leads on reliability and agent ergonomics.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, SMTP2GO API + MCP or Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail)?" }, { "answer": "SMTP2GO API + MCP needs an API key. Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail) takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do SMTP2GO API + MCP and Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail) need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. SMTP2GO API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.smtp2go.com/v3 and Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail) at https://cpaas.zoho.com/v1.1.", "question": "Can an agent call SMTP2GO API + MCP and Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail) without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 47 against 41", "Agent ergonomics, 66 against 55" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Small senders who want simple pricing, per-key permissions and a hosted MCP with almost no context cost.", "slug": "smtp2go", "watchFor": "Several multi-hour delivery and connectivity incidents since July, and degraded sending on 1 October" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 78 against 59", "Security \u0026 auth, 76 against 60", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 74 against 53", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 82 against 71" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where SMTP2GO API + MCP loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Low-volume transactional senders who want prepaid credits without a monthly plan, and teams already on Zoho.", "slug": "zoho-zeptomail", "watchFor": "No API rate limit, 429 behaviour or Retry-After was found in the reviewed documentation or the OpenAPI file" } ], "job": { "capability": "email.send", "name": "Email send" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-ses-vs-smtp2go.json", "title": "Amazon SES vs SMTP2GO API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-ses-vs-smtp2go" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-ses-vs-zoho-zeptomail.json", "title": "Amazon SES vs Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-ses-vs-zoho-zeptomail" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brevo-vs-smtp2go.json", "title": "Brevo API + MCP vs SMTP2GO API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brevo-vs-smtp2go" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brevo-vs-zoho-zeptomail.json", "title": "Brevo API + MCP vs Zoho CPaaS (formerly 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smtp2go.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/smtp2go.json\n- Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail): grade C, 61.8/100, rank #356 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-zeptomail.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zoho-zeptomail.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### SMTP2GO API + MCP (D)\n\nGood for: Small senders who want simple pricing, per-key permissions and a hosted MCP with almost no context cost.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 47 against 41\n- Agent ergonomics, 66 against 55\n\nWatch for: Several multi-hour delivery and connectivity incidents since July, and degraded sending on 1 October\n\n### Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail) (C)\n\nGood for: Low-volume transactional senders who want prepaid credits without a monthly plan, and teams already on Zoho.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 78 against 59\n- Security \u0026 auth, 76 against 60\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 74 against 53\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 82 against 71\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where SMTP2GO API + MCP loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: No API rate limit, 429 behaviour or Retry-After was found in the reviewed documentation or the OpenAPI file\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | SMTP2GO API + MCP | Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail) | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 47 | 41 | SMTP2GO API + MCP +6 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 59 | 78 | Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail) +19 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 55 | SMTP2GO API + MCP +11 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 76 | Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail) +16 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 53 | 74 | Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail) +21 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 82 | Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail) +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **53.1 · D** | **61.8 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | SMTP2GO API + MCP | Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | SMTP2GO | Zoho Corporation |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.smtp2go.com/v3` | `https://cpaas.zoho.com/v1.1` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under the Zoho CPaaS terms of use. The Node SDK on npm is MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 5 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-06-04 | none |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-07-23 | 2025-12-22 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | 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 | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 9 stars, 1.8k npm/wk, 1.4k PyPI/wk | 40k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**SMTP2GO API + MCP.** API keys limited to chosen endpoints, with their own send rate. Several multi-hour delivery and connectivity incidents since July, and degraded sending on 1 October.\n\n**Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail).** A public OpenAPI 3.0 file covers all 42 operations, and each Agent has its own send-only key. Email costs $2.50 per 10,000 with the first credit free. No API rate limit, 429 handling, idempotency key or SLA was found in the reviewed documentation, and new accounts wait for a manual review.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### SMTP2GO API + MCP\n\n1. Give the MCP a key limited to /email/send and the view endpoints it needs, since execute-request can call anything the key allows\n2. Send the key in the `X-Smtp2go-Api-Key` header or as Bearer, not in the JSON body, so it stays out of request logs\n3. Verify a sender domain first. Free accounts without one are held to 25 emails an hour\n4. On 429, pause until calls return 200 again. Repeated errors time out your IP for at least a minute\n5. Check smtp2gostatus.com before blaming your payload for mail stuck as 'processed'\n\n### Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail)\n\n1. Call the base URL for the account's region (cpaas.zoho.com, .eu, .in, .com.au, .jp or .com.cn). A key from one region fails on another\n2. Send with `Authorization: Zoho-enczapikey \u003ckey\u003e`. Logs, domains, templates, agents and suppressions need a Zoho OAuth token as `Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken \u003ctoken\u003e`\n3. Post OAuth client secrets and refresh tokens in the request body, not the query string the guide shows, so they stay out of logs\n4. Don't retry a timed-out send blindly. There is no idempotency key, so look the message up by `client_reference` in the email logs first\n5. Count one email per recipient, including cc and bcc, and keep each address field to 500 entries and each attachment to 15 MB\n6. Use a sandbox Agent for tests. It accepts up to 10,000 emails a day and sends none of them\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, SMTP2GO API + MCP or Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail)?\n\nZoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail) scores 61.8 (C) on agent readiness against SMTP2GO API + MCP's 53.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SMTP2GO API + MCP leads on reliability and agent ergonomics.\n\n### Do SMTP2GO API + MCP and Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail) need an API key?\n\nSMTP2GO API + MCP needs an API key. Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail) takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call SMTP2GO API + MCP and Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail) without installing anything?\n\nYes. SMTP2GO API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.smtp2go.com/v3 and Zoho CPaaS (formerly ZeptoMail) at https://cpaas.zoho.com/v1.1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smtp2go-vs-zoho-zeptomail.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smtp2go-vs-zoho-zeptomail.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"smtp2go\", \"b\": \"zoho-zeptomail\"}`. 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