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Benchmark Email

Benchmark Email is an email marketing platform with a REST API for managing contacts, lists, email campaigns, automations, reports, and transactional email delivery. The API supports contact synchronization, campaign management, reporting analytics, domain verification, and webhook notifications for real-time event handling.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Benchmark Email the way a machine reads it — 47 machine-readable artifacts across 29 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Benchmark Email scores 53.0/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 53.0/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Benchmark Email

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Benchmark Email. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 29

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Benchmark Email ABTest Creation API

Create and manage A/B split tests

Benchmark Email Account Settings API

Manage account settings and configurations

Benchmark Email Add Contacts API

Add and import contacts to lists

Benchmark Email Agency Account API

Manage linked agency accounts

Benchmark Email Archive API

Manage email archive and archive pages

Benchmark Email Automation Creation API

Create and manage automation workflows

Benchmark Email Contact Reports & Metrics API

Contact reporting and metrics

Benchmark Email Email Editor API

Email template and layout management

Benchmark Email Engagement API

Engagement analytics and list building

Benchmark Email General API

General operations

Benchmark Email Help API

Help desk and support tickets

Benchmark Email Image Gallery API

Manage image gallery

Benchmark Email Inbox Checker API

Test emails in inbox preview

Benchmark Email List Configurations & Searches API

Configure and search contact lists

Benchmark Email Partner API

Partner commission and referral management

Benchmark Email Poll Creation API

Create and manage polls

Benchmark Email Reports API

Campaign reporting and analytics

Benchmark Email Security API

Authentication and security operations

Benchmark Email Segments API

Manage contact segments

Benchmark Email Signup Form API

Manage signup forms

Benchmark Email Sub-Account API

Manage sub-accounts and their settings

Benchmark Email Survey Creation API

Create and manage surveys

Benchmark Email Third Party Signup Forms API

Third-party signup form integrations

Benchmark Email Video Gallery API

Manage video gallery

Benchmark Email Webhooks API

Manage webhooks for event notifications

Scroll within the panel for all 29 ·

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Benchmark Email Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Benchmark Email Context

17 classes · 35 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Benchmark Email API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

CampaignReport

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContactList

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Contact

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EmailCampaign

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Webhook

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 5

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Add Contact

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Create Contact List

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Create Webhook

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Get Campaign Report

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Send Campaign

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Benchmark Email Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Benchmark Email Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Benchmark Email Agentic Access

296 operations · 130 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

296 operations · 130 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Benchmark Email — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/benchmark-email · machine-readable index on apis.io