Comparison · facts checked 16 Oct 2026
Inboxes for agents, or your team's email with agents in it.AgentMail is, in its own words, “an email provider built for AI agents”: inboxes created over an API, for developers and the products they build. SuperMailOS is business email for your team, and every seat includes inboxes for your AI agents, with a person who approves what they send to someone new. Both give an agent a real inbox. They’re built for different buyers.
The short answer
Last updated . AgentMail details from public sources, 16 Oct 2026. Where they win comes first.
01 Side by side
An honest, current comparison. Where we're unsure of a competitor detail, we describe what SuperMailOS does rather than assert theirs.
| Feature | AgentMail | SuperMailOS |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | AgentMailIn its own words, “an email provider built for AI agents” | SuperMailOSYour team's business email, with inboxes for its AI agents in every seat |
| Price | AgentMailFree (3 inboxes) · Developer $20/mo for 10 · Startup $200/mo for 150 · extra inboxes $2/mo | SuperMailOSPro $4/mo per mailbox ($3 annual) · Business $6/mo ($5 annual). Agent inboxes included: 2 per seat on Pro, 5 on Business |
| 25 agent inboxes | AgentMail$50 a month (Developer plus 15 extra inboxes) | SuperMailOSYes$30 a month: 5 Business seats, which also give 5 people their own mailboxes |
| Your team's email | AgentMail2 team members on Developer, 10 on Startup; extra seats $5/mo | SuperMailOSYesA mailbox for every person, with webmail, IMAP/SMTP and free aliases |
| Your own domain | AgentMailOn paid plans (10 on Developer); not on Free | SuperMailOSYesOn every plan: up to 3 domains on Pro, unlimited on Business |
| Approval before sending | AgentMailBuilt from drafts and key permissions: “A draft is only an approval step if the agent cannot send on its own.” | SuperMailOSYesOn by default: email to someone new waits for a person, and the agent’s key can’t approve it or change its rules |
| Email sent to trick an agent | AgentMailAgent Armor scans incoming mail (AgentMail Labs, US only); it starts in a monitor mode that never holds mail, with a hold mode to opt into | SuperMailOSYesOur own sender check on every email to an agent: spoofed or blocked mail is held until a person releases it, and hidden text is removed before it reads |
| Says it's an AI | AgentMailFree-plan mail carries a “Sent via AgentMail” footer | SuperMailOSYesEvery email ends with a line naming the agent and the person it works for |
| Developer tools | AgentMailYesREST API (v0), Python and Node SDKs, webhooks, WebSockets, an MCP server, and guides for many agent frameworks | SuperMailOSREST API with an OpenAPI spec and samples, signed webhooks and an MCP server. No SDKs yet |
| Inboxes for your own users | AgentMailYesPods for multi-tenant products; unlimited inboxes on Enterprise | SuperMailOSNoNot yet: agent inboxes are for your own team’s agents |
AgentMail facts from AgentMail’s own pages: AgentMail pricing, AgentMail: what it is, AgentMail: human-in-the-loop, AgentMail: Agent Armor, AgentMail: API reference, AgentMail: docs index · checked 16 Oct 2026
02 Honestly
If any of these describe you, AgentMail is probably the right call — and that's fine.
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A free plan with 3 inboxes, no card and no domain to set up.
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Pods for multi-tenant products, Enterprise plans with unlimited inboxes, and WebSockets for live events.
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Python and Node SDKs, and guides for LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Claude Agent SDK, Vercel and more.
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A SOC 2 report from the Startup plan, and an EU region on Enterprise.
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Every person gets a real mailbox, with webmail and IMAP, and every seat includes agent inboxes. One workspace, one bill.
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Email to someone new waits for approval, and the agent's own key can't approve it or loosen its rules.
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We check who really sent each email to an agent and hold what fails. Hidden text is removed before it reads.
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25 agent inboxes come with 5 Business seats for $30 a month, along with 5 people's mailboxes.
Which one fits you
Building a product that hands out inboxes by the hundred, or after a free agent inbox today: AgentMail. A team that wants its own email with AI agents working beside it, and a person approving what they send to someone new: SuperMailOS.
SuperMailOS is hosted business email: we run the mail servers and the deliverability work, and agent inboxes are part of it, on your own domains.
Still comparing? Ask your AI — we've written the question.
03 Getting started
Nothing new to wire up for your team: the agent's inbox lives in your workspace, beside everyone else's.
In Settings → Agents or with one API call: a name, an address on your domain, and the person it works for.
The key reaches that one inbox. Use it from your code, or from any MCP client that can send an API key.
Ask for new people (the default), ask every time, or send within daily limits.
04 Questions
Something else? Write to us — a real person answers, usually the same day.
14 days free with 3 agent inboxes. No card, and your domain stays yours.