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 "categories": [
  "email",
  "developer-tools"
 ],
 "deployment": "saas",
 "evidence": [
  {
   "date": "2026-10-12",
   "fact": "homepage",
   "note": "The homepage title is Mailtrap: Modern Email Delivery for dev and product teams.",
   "source": "https://mailtrap.io/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-12",
   "fact": "license",
   "note": "The MCP guide says Mailtrap offers a free 4,000 email per month Email API/SMTP plan.",
   "source": "https://docs.mailtrap.io/for-ai-agents/tools/mcp-server",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-12",
   "fact": "modalities.api.exists",
   "note": "The authentication page documents authenticated HTTPS requests to the Mailtrap API.",
   "source": "https://docs.mailtrap.io/developers/authentication.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-12",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[0]",
   "note": "The developer readme says the Mailtrap API follows REST principles and that requests must use HTTPS.",
   "source": "https://docs.mailtrap.io/developers/readme.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-12",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[0]",
   "note": "One documented header is Api-Token set to the API token. The page says the token has no expiration date until it is reset.",
   "source": "https://docs.mailtrap.io/developers/authentication.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-12",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[1]",
   "note": "The same page documents Authorization: Bearer with the same API token.",
   "source": "https://docs.mailtrap.io/developers/authentication.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-12",
   "fact": "modalities.api.coverage",
   "note": "Documented agent operations cover sending, sandbox testing, and templates. The full sending, bulk, and marketing surfaces were not each opened, so coverage stays partial.",
   "source": "https://docs.mailtrap.io/for-ai-agents/tools/mcp-server",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-12",
   "fact": "modalities.api.docs",
   "note": "Public API authentication documentation.",
   "source": "https://docs.mailtrap.io/developers/authentication.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-12",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.first_party",
   "note": "The mailtrap/mailtrap-mcp README calls the project the official MCP server for Mailtrap and shows npx -y mcp-mailtrap with MAILTRAP_API_TOKEN.",
   "source": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mailtrap/mailtrap-mcp/main/README.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-12",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.verdict",
   "note": "Mailtrap's docs describe the MCP server for sending, sandbox testing, and template management, and point at the official GitHub repository.",
   "source": "https://docs.mailtrap.io/for-ai-agents/tools/mcp-server",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-12",
   "fact": "modalities.agent_docs.llms_txt",
   "note": "https://docs.mailtrap.io/llms.txt opened as a Mailtrap documentation index.",
   "source": "https://docs.mailtrap.io/llms.txt",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-12",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[0].url",
   "note": "Opened Mailtrap API authentication on 2026-10-12.",
   "source": "https://docs.mailtrap.io/developers/authentication.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-12",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[1].url",
   "note": "Opened the Mailtrap MCP guide on 2026-10-12. The older guides path redirects here.",
   "source": "https://docs.mailtrap.io/for-ai-agents/tools/mcp-server",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-12",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[2].url",
   "note": "Opened the mailtrap-mcp README on 2026-10-12.",
   "source": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mailtrap/mailtrap-mcp/main/README.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  }
 ],
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  "last_verified": "2026-10-12",
  "volatility": "medium",
  "watch": [
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://docs.mailtrap.io/developers/authentication.md"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://docs.mailtrap.io/for-ai-agents/tools/mcp-server"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mailtrap/mailtrap-mcp/main/README.md"
   }
  ]
 },
 "homepage": "https://mailtrap.io/",
 "id": "mailtrap",
 "license": "freemium",
 "modalities": {
  "agent_docs": {
   "llms_txt": true
  },
  "api": {
   "auth": [
    "api-token",
    "bearer"
   ],
   "coverage": "partial",
   "docs": "https://docs.mailtrap.io/developers/authentication.md",
   "exists": true,
   "kinds": [
    "rest"
   ]
  },
  "cli": {
   "exists": "unknown"
  },
  "computer_use": {
   "issues": [],
   "viability": "unknown"
  },
  "data_access": {
   "export": [],
   "import": []
  },
  "extensibility": {
   "scripting": [],
   "webhooks": "unknown"
  },
  "integrations": {
   "make": "unknown",
   "n8n": "unknown",
   "power_automate": "unknown",
   "zapier": "unknown"
  },
  "mcp": {
   "first_party": true,
   "third_party": [],
   "verdict": "official"
  },
  "rpa": {
   "drivability": "unknown",
   "notes": "No repeatable UI probe was run. Sending and sandbox reads are documented as the REST API and the official MCP server, and computer-use viability was not measured.\n",
   "ui_stack": [],
   "vendor_support": []
  },
  "sdk": {
   "exists": "unknown",
   "languages": [],
   "official": "unknown"
  }
 },
 "name": "Mailtrap",
 "platforms": [
  "web"
 ],
 "related": {
  "alternatives": [
   "mailgun",
   "postmark",
   "sendgrid",
   "resend"
  ],
  "our_products": []
 },
 "schema_version": 1,
 "score_version": 1,
 "status": "active",
 "vendor": "Mailtrap",
 "verdict": {
  "best_path": "api",
  "scores": {
   "api": 8,
   "cli": null,
   "computer_use": null,
   "integrations": null,
   "mcp": 7,
   "overall": 8,
   "rpa": null
  },
  "summary": "Mailtrap is automatable today through its REST API. This record is Mailtrap email sending, the email sandbox, and templates. Mailgun, Postmark, SendGrid, and Resend are separate products. The API follows REST over HTTPS. A token is sent either as Api-Token or as Authorization: Bearer. The authentication page says the token does not expire until it is reset. The MCP guide says the server sends transactional email, uses the sandbox, and manages templates, and that it is a Node.js command. The mailtrap/mailtrap-mcp README calls itself the official MCP server and installs as npx -y mcp-mailtrap with MAILTRAP_API_TOKEN. Account ID is required for template tools and sandbox ID for sandbox tools. The same guide says a free Email API/SMTP plan is 4,000 emails per month. Official SDK language pages, the CLI manual, and webhook payloads were not opened, so those paths stay unscored. Connector catalogs were not opened. https://docs.mailtrap.io/llms.txt is a documentation index. Computer-use viability is unassessed. The API scores 8 and is the best path. The local MCP server scores 7 because it covers send, sandbox, and templates and still depends on the API token.\n"
 }
}