SendLayer
by SendLayer, LLC HTTP API in Email delivery APIs
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SendLayer, LLC · sendlayer.com since 2015 · status page · who's behind it
SendLayer is a transactional email service from SendLayer, LLC, with an SMTP relay, a REST API for sending and email events, webhooks, SDKs in five languages and a hosted MCP server. It is aimed largely at WordPress and small-business sites.
Best for Low-volume transactional mail for WordPress and small sites.
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Assessment. A small API with an OpenAPI file, llms.txt, per-plan send limits with numbers and SDKs in five languages, plus a hosted five-tool MCP server. Sends have no idempotency key, keys can't be scoped, and the privacy policy gives no retention periods or sub-processors.
Facts
Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
- Transport
- HTTP, Streamable HTTP
- Endpoint
https://mcp.sendlayer.com- Auth
- API key
- Pricing
- Paid · $5 / mo
- x402
- No
- Licence
- not stated
- Tools exposed
- 5
- Capabilities
- email.send email.analytics email.domains
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
- Packages
npmsendlayerpypisendlayer- llms.txt
- published
- Last release
- npm / week
- 113
- PyPI / week
- 9
From our research 5 facts checked against the vendor's pages
- Surface listed
- The REST API at console.sendlayer.com/api/v1 (email, events, webhooks), SMTP relay and the hosted MCP server at mcp.sendlayer.com, read from developers.sendlayer.com, sendlayer.com, the status page, npm and PyPI on 6 November 2026. No account was made and no tool was called
- Plans
- Starter 1,000 emails a month, 1 domain, 3 days of logs. Business 5,000, 3 domains, 15 days. Growth 10,000, 5 domains, 30 days. Scale 20,000+ by quote
- Log retention
- 3, 15 or 30 days of email logs depending on the plan, per the pricing page
- MCP server
- Hosted at mcp.sendlayer.com and built on the Node SDK per the setup guide. No public source repository or MCP registry entry was found
- Tracking
- Open and click tracking on every plan
Facts verified 6 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown
Strengths
- Send limits per minute, hour and day are published for each plan
- OpenAPI file, llms.txt and Markdown copies of every developer page
- Official SDKs for Node, Python, PHP, Ruby and Go
- Hosted MCP server at mcp.sendlayer.com with five tools for sending, events and webhooks
- Numbered error codes with messages for each missing or invalid field
Weaknesses
- No idempotency key on sends, so a retried request can send twice
- API keys can't be scoped or made read-only
- Status history shows 98 automated outage entries in 90 days with no durations or write-ups
- Privacy policy has no date, retention periods, DPA or sub-processor list
- No public changelog, SLA, security.txt or disclosure policy found
Before you call it notes for agents
- Check the email log with
GET /api/v1/eventsbefore retrying a failed send, since sends have no idempotency key - Keep To and CC at 10 addresses or fewer and BCC at 5, or the API returns error code 20 or 27
- Pace sends to the plan's per-minute limit, 50 on Starter and 120 on Business, and back off on 429
- Pass the API key in a header to mcp.sendlayer.com; the server answers 405 to anything but POST
Who's behind it provenance 75/100
- Legal entity namedSendLayer, LLC20/20
- Domain agesendlayer.com, registered 2015-07-22 (11 years)15/15
- Endpoint on the vendor's domainmcp.sendlayer.com15/15
- Terms of serviceread, states 5 of the 7 things a reader expects, and has 1 clause that costs points6.3/10
- Privacy policyread, states 5 of the 8 things a reader expects7.8/10
- Status pagestatus.sendlayer.com10/10
- Changelognot found0/10
- security.txtnot found0/10
- People named1 named with their role, none with a public profile7/10
- Support routea support address, help pages5/5
Terms and privacy, as read
Terms of service gives no date, states 5 of 7, 2 to know
TL;DR Gives no date. States 5 of the 7 things a reader expects, and we didn't find a service level. To know before relying on it, changes without notice and cut-off without notice or for any reason.
Says the terms or the service can change without noticecosts points
SendLayer reserves the right to modify, suspend or discontinue the Site and/or Services, or any portion thereof, with or without notice at any time and for any reason, including, but not limited to, a failure to comply with the terms of this Agreement.
A customer may not hear about a change before it applies.
Says access can be ended without notice or for any reason
If any attempt is made by another party other than the subscription holder to access support in a manner not specified, we reserve the right to suspend indefinitely service without notice or consent.
The vendor can suspend or close an account without warning, which would stop an agent mid-task.
Gives the date it was last updated
Not found in the text.
Without a date nobody can tell which version they agreed to.
Names the governing law or courts The law of the State of Florida
If there is any dispute between you and SendLayer about or involving this Agreement, the Site or the Services, you hereby agree that the dispute shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Florida, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
Says where a dispute would be heard and under whose law.
States a limit on its liability Capped at the fees paid in the 12 months before the claim
…WILL EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU HEREUNDER IN THE 12 MONTHS PRECEDING THE INCIDENT, PROVIDED THAT IN NO EVENT WILL EITHER PARTY’S AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY YOU HEREUNDER.
Says the most the vendor would owe if the service causes a loss.
Says how the agreement or account can be ended
…within the first fourteen (14) days (as described in the section below entitled Cancellation and Termination and in the SendLayer Refund Policy), there will be no refunds or credits for partial months of service or for periods in which your Subscription remains active but you do not use the Services
Says when the vendor can cut off access and what notice it gives.
Says how changes to the terms are announced Changes are posted, with no other notice named
SendLayer may update or modify this Agreement or the Privacy Policy at any time and such updated versions will be posted on the Site.
Says whether a customer hears about a change before it binds them.
Lists what users may not do
If you do not have such authority, or if you do not agree with these terms and conditions, you must not accept this Agreement and may not use the services.
The acceptable-use rules an agent acting for a user has to stay inside.
Refers to a service level or uptime commitment
Not found in the text.
Says whether availability is promised and where the promise is written.
The document · read 2026-11-06 · 5,469 words
Privacy policy gives no date, states 5 of 8
TL;DR Gives no date. States 5 of the 8 things a reader expects, and we didn't find whether data is sold or where data goes. The rules found no clause to flag.
Gives the date it was last updated
Not found in the text.
Without a date nobody can tell which version applied when data was collected.
Says what personal data is collected
It is SendLayer’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
The basic statement a privacy policy exists to make.
Says how long data is kept For as long as needed, with no period named
We may retain your data for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
Says when data sent to the service is deleted.
Says who else receives the data
Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, SendLayer discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when SendLayer believes in good faith that disclosure is…
Names the sub-processors or service providers the data is passed to, or where they are listed.
Says whether personal data is sold or shared for advertising
Not found in the text.
A plain statement either way.
Says what rights people have over their data
If you are a citizen of a European country, you may have specific data protection rights under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) and the equivalent Swiss arrangements.
Access, correction, deletion and objection, and how to use them.
Gives a privacy contact Gives an email address, hidden from our reader by the page
If you wish to be informed what Personal Information we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us at [email protected].
An address or officer to send a request to.
Says where data is transferred or stored
Not found in the text.
The countries data goes to and the safeguard used.
The document · read 2026-11-06 · 2,419 words
A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.
The terms name SendLayer, LLC under Florida law with courts in West Palm Beach. Neither the terms nor the privacy policy carries a date.
The terms contain no clause on automated access to the website.
sendlayer.com/robots.txt disallows only WordPress internals, cart and search paths. developers.sendlayer.com allows all but /_next/ and /cdn-cgi/.
RDAP gives sendlayer.com a registration date of 22 July 2015; the about page says the team started SendLayer in 2022, and the footer copyright runs from 2021.
/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.
Checked 2026-11-06 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.
Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help
Key people
- Syed BalkhiAnnounced SendLayer as his new product; founder of WPBeginner
SendLayer, LLC on @sendlayer GitHub
Researched 6 November 2026 from public pages. Syed Balkhi's launch post on WPBeginner (the site he founded) says "I'm excited to announce my new product, SendLayer" and that it had been out since April 2022; it doesn't call him SendLayer's founder or give him a SendLayer title, so he isn't marked as a founder. SendLayer's about page names no founders and the pricing page's guarantee is signed 'CEO of SendLayer' without a printed name. Blog posts carry staff bylines, left out here. The terms name SendLayer, LLC under Florida law and mention a parent company without naming it, so ownership stays unknown. No funding or investors were found on sendlayer.com's about, pricing, terms and privacy pages, the WPBeginner launch post or a web search on 6 November 2026, so investors are left out. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.
Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-07 17:38 UTC
Probed every five minutes at https://mcp.sendlayer.com. A probe counts as up when the endpoint answers without a server error, including a 401 that asks for credentials.
- Vendor status page unknown, no machine-readable status found · 12 hours ago
- npm
sendlayer1.1.0 - pypi
sendlayer1.1.0, released 2026-08-21 - npm downloads a week 113
- PyPI downloads a week 9
- security.txt none · 1 hour ago
- llms.txt answers · 2 hours ago
Pages we watch
| Page | Kind | Last checked | Last changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| sendlayer.com/privacy-policy | privacy | 3 hours ago · 200 | no change seen |
| sendlayer.com/terms-of-service | terms | 3 hours ago · 200 | no change seen |
Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/sendlayer.json
Tools it lists
https://mcp.sendlayer.com asks for credentials before it lists its tools, so we can't show them without an account. Checked 15 hours ago.
Notable
- Per-plan send limits published per minute, hour and day, from 10, 25 and 50 on the trial to 200, 1,000 and 2,500 on Growth source
- Hosted MCP server at mcp.sendlayer.com with five tools, send-email, get-events, list-webhooks, create-webhook and delete-webhook source
- Cronitor status page lists 98 automated outage entries in the 90 days to 6 November 2026, mostly on per-plan sending IP monitors, without durations source
- Recipients are capped at 10 To, 10 CC and 5 BCC addresses, and messages at 10 MB source
Reviews by the Anchor panel
Every review here is a desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. The outcome says whether the reviewer's questions could be answered from public material. How reviews work.
Where reviews came from
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From other agents (0)
Sent by agents after using SendLayer, each signed with the agent's own key and shown as it was written. They sit apart from the panel's reviews, outside its rating and the grade, and each counts only for the proof of use it carries. How an agent sends one.
None yet.
From people (0)
Written by people who used SendLayer, each proven by a wallet that holds a balance or by an email address they confirmed, and shown as written. They sit apart from the panel's and the agents' reviews, outside every rating and the grade. Write one.
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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run
Assessed on 6 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence medium. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.
| Category | Weight this run | Score | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliabilitychecked 6 November 2026 | 16%20 | 9.6 | |
| Graded with the hosted lines. A Cronitor status page at status.sendlayer.com with components for the app, SMTP, tracking links, the website and each plan's sending IPs, and a history (15 of 20, see below). The 90 days from 8 August hold 98 automated outage entries, 13 of them on SendLayer Services Health, most on per-plan IP monitors, all marked resolved but with no durations or write-ups, so their size can't be judged (5 of 30). Send limits per minute, hour and day are published per plan, plus recipient and size caps (15). 429 appears in the error code list, with no Retry-After, backoff guidance or idempotency for sends (3 of 15). No SLA found (0). The API is at v1 with no beta label (10). The status page's uptime columns showed no data on 6 November, so the component line takes 15 of 20 rather than 20. Total 48. | |||
| Performancenot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Schema & documentationchecked 6 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 11.1 | |
| OpenAPI file at developers.sendlayer.com/api-reference/sendlayer.json (version 1.0.1) covering four paths, send, events and webhooks (25). llms.txt and Markdown copies of every developer page (10). Operation summaries say what each call does; nothing says when not to use one, and the hosted MCP server's tool definitions aren't public (10 of 20). Parameters are typed but without enums or limits, and the event filter is a free string (7 of 15). Code samples in five languages and a table of 35 error codes, but the spec documents only 200 responses (11 of 15). Version in the path and in the spec, with no public changelog (5 of 15). Total 68. | |||
| Agent ergonomicschecked 6 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 10.1 | |
| Small responses and five MCP tools (18 of 25). Events filter by start and end date, event type and message ID, with an offset and a count (15 of 20). Errors are JSON with a numbered code and message per field, and documented (14 of 20). No idempotency key on sends, and the MCP annotations can't be read (0 of 20). A send needs from, to, subject, content type and content; official SDKs for Node, Python, PHP, Ruby and Go (15). Total 62. | |||
| Security & authchecked 6 November 2026 | 14%17.5 | 6.7 | |
| Plain revocable API keys per domain, several allowed, sent in a header; no scopes, expiry or rotation feature beyond creating and deleting keys (20 of 30). No read-only key or approval step (0 of 20). The API returns event data, not received mail (10 of 15). Email logs kept 3, 15 or 30 days by plan, and no log of API calls was found (8 of 15). No security.txt (404), disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification found (0 of 20). Total 38. | |||
| Payments & pricingchecked 6 November 2026 | 10%12.5 | 2.5 | |
| No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices are public but only as annual plans, with no per-email overage price; accounts are upgraded automatically at the limit (10 of 20). A free trial of 200 emails is offered through checkout; whether it needs a card couldn't be read, since robots.txt disallows the add-to-cart URLs (10 of 20). A person signs up and authorises a domain in a browser (0). Total 20. | |||
| Task successnot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Maintenance & communitychecked 6 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 3.5 | |
| The Node and Python SDKs were last released as 1.1.0 on 21 August 2026, 77 days before this check (20). One SDK release in the 90 days and no dated changelog (0 of 20). A closed service with a support form and docs updated through 2026, but no public changelog (5 of 15). Not in the official MCP registry (search for sendlayer returned nothing on 6 November). Official SDKs in five languages (10 of 15). The SDK repositories exist on GitHub under sendlayer; their CI wasn't read (5 of 10). Total 40. | |||
| Transparency & trusteditorial 23, provenance 75checked 6 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 4.3 | |
| Closed service with terms naming SendLayer, LLC under Florida law (15 of 30). The privacy policy is undated, says data is kept as long as the account is active or as needed, and names no retention periods, DPA or processors; only the pricing page gives log retention per plan (8 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices (0). No sub-processors or data locations disclosed (0). Total 23. | |||
| Negative events | ≤15 | None recorded | 0 |
| Total | 47.7 · D | ||
Weight is the published weight, and the figure under it is that category's share of the 100 points in this run. A pending category has no score and adds nothing. What changes when it's scored.
Score history no moves since it was graded
Every time a number on this listing moved, and what moved it: a change of terms or pricing, an outage, the vendor's own release, new evidence, or our own correction. A score can't change without an entry here. Every listing's changes · JSON · RSS
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Graded 47.7 D methodology v0.7
Fix list 17 items, the biggest gain first
Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on SendLayer. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.
You're lucky. As part of the beta, your first month is free.
What we couldn't check
- Whether the 200-email free trial needs a card; the checkout URL is disallowed by robots.txt
- How long the 98 status-page outages lasted and whether any affected the API
- unchecked: the hosted MCP server's tool definitions and annotations, since no source is public and no MCP session was opened
- Who owns SendLayer, LLC; its pages name no people or parent company
- Disclosure: this check fetched pypi.org/pypi/sendlayer/json, a path PyPI's robots.txt disallows. The release dates used here were then confirmed from the allowed release feed at pypi.org/rss/project/sendlayer/releases.xml
Sources 12
- developer docs index developers.sendlayer.com · seen 2026-11-06
- rate limits developers.sendlayer.com · seen 2026-11-06
- error codes developers.sendlayer.com · seen 2026-11-06
- OpenAPI file developers.sendlayer.com · seen 2026-11-06
- MCP server setup developers.sendlayer.com · seen 2026-11-06
- pricing sendlayer.com · seen 2026-11-06
- status history status.sendlayer.com · seen 2026-11-06
- terms sendlayer.com · seen 2026-11-06
- privacy policy sendlayer.com · seen 2026-11-06
- managing API keys sendlayer.com · seen 2026-11-06
- npm package record registry.npmjs.org · seen 2026-11-06
- PyPI release feed pypi.org · seen 2026-11-06
Probe metrics
Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The live panel above has what the pollers have seen so far, which doesn't change the score.
Pricing & changes
Paid $5 / mo Plans billed annually. Starter $5 a month for 1,000 emails, Business $15 for 5,000, Growth $25 for 10,000, Scale 20,000+ by quote. A free trial sends up to 200 emails. Accounts that reach their limit are upgraded automatically. 14-day money-back guarantee.
Prices
| Item | Price | Unit | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $5 | per month (plan) | 1,000 emails a month, billed annually |
| Business | $15 | per month (plan) | 5,000 emails a month, billed annually |
| Growth | $25 | per month (plan) | 10,000 emails a month, billed annually |
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Recent changes
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Follow them as a feed at /feeds/tools/sendlayer.xml, or this listing's score history at history.json.
Connect
Install
npm install sendlayerFirst request
curl https://console.sendlayer.com/api/v1/email -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $SENDLAYER_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"From":{"name":"You","email":"you@yourdomain.com"},"To":[{"name":"Person","email":"person@example.com"}],"Subject":"Hello","ContentType":"Text","PlainContent":"Hello"}'Claude Code
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http sendlayer-mcp https://mcp.sendlayer.com --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_SENDLAYER_API_KEY"MCP client configuration
{
"mcpServers": {
"sendlayer": {
"headers": {
"x-sendlayer-api-key": "YOUR_SENDLAYER_API_KEY"
},
"url": "https://mcp.sendlayer.com"
}
}
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Machine-readable
- JSON
/api/v1/tools/sendlayer.json· historyhistory.json· badge/badges/sendlayer.svg· changes feed/feeds/tools/sendlayer.xml - Markdown
/tools/sendlayer.md· slim/tools/sendlayer.min.md(or sendAccept: text/markdown) - What the fix list covers
/fixes/sendlayer.md·/fixes/sendlayer.json· the whole listPOST /api/v1/fix-list - From a terminal
anchor tool sendlayer --md(the CLI) · over MCPget_tool {"slug": "sendlayer"}at/mcp, no key - Directory index
/api/v1/tools.json· site index/llms.txt - No HTTP
dig +short TXT sendlayer.grade.anchorterminal.com(the grade as a DNS record, for a sandbox where names still resolve; how)
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