---
title: "Primitive"
slug: "primitive"
status: "active"
last_checked: "2026-07-05"
categories:
  - "email"
---

# Primitive

Primitive gives AI agents their own email addresses and an API to send, receive, and reply to email.

- Status: active
- URL: https://www.primitive.dev/
- Last checked: 2026-07-05
- Freshness: 1 days
- Founded: 2026
- Funding: not published


## Editorial

Primitive is email-only. It does not offer phone, SMS, or voice, so the phone category does not apply.

## Offerings

### Email

- Offering status: live
- What you get: An agent gets a managed email address on a primitive.email subdomain or a custom domain, plus a REST API, SDKs (Node.js, Python, Go), a CLI, and a hosted MCP server to send, receive, and reply to email.
- Acquisition: self_serve
- Geographies: not published
- Pricing: Three usage-based tiers: Developer is free with 5 dollars per month of usage credits, Power is 13 dollars per month with matching credits, Platinum is 299 dollars per month with matching credits. Metering covers inbound and outbound email, storage, function invocations, and runtime.
- Pricing URL: https://www.primitive.dev/
- API: yes
- SDK: yes
- MCP: yes
- Standards: not published

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| address_model | both |
| direction | both |
| deliverability_handling | Managed SPF, DKIM, DMARC, TLS-RPT, inbound MX, bounce processing, and sending-IP reputation. |
| inbox_api | yes |

## Sources

- https://www.primitive.dev/
- https://docs.primitive.dev/docs
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/primitive