Nylas
Developer APIs for email, calendar, scheduling and meeting notes, plus hosted inboxes for AI agents.
Nylas is an API platform for communications data. Nylas gives developers one integration for email, calendar and contacts across Gmail, Microsoft and IMAP providers, a Notetaker bot that records and summarises meetings, and Agent Accounts that supply AI agents with their own inbox and calendar. Nylas has a free plan; paid plans start at $15 per month.
Best for Developers building CRMs, recruiting tools, scheduling products or AI agents that need access to users' mailboxes and calendars.
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- Developer APIEmailMeeting Assistants
- Platforms
- API, MCP
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Starting price
- $15 per month Essentials plan base fee; additional usage billed per unit
- Free plan
- Yes
- API
- Yes
- Made by
- Nylas
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What is Nylas?
Nylas is an API platform that lets software products read and write their users' email, calendar and contact data without building a separate integration for each provider. One schema covers Gmail, Microsoft Graph, Exchange, iCloud calendars and generic IMAP servers, and Nylas manages the OAuth flows and tokens behind it. The calendar side includes availability lookups, an embeddable Scheduler and virtual calendars for rooms or equipment. Notetaker sends a managed bot into Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom calls and returns recordings, speaker-labelled transcripts, summaries and action items through webhooks. Agent Accounts provision a hosted mailbox and calendar for an AI agent so it can send, receive and book under its own address. An MCP server exposes the same capabilities to clients such as Claude Code and Cursor. A free developer plan is available.
Key Features
Email and Contacts API
Sends, receives, threads and parses messages across providers through one normalised JSON format, with two-way sync.
Calendar API and Scheduler
Reads and writes events, checks availability and offers booking components that can be embedded and white-labelled.
Notetaker API
Joins video meetings with a bot and delivers the recording, transcript, summary and action items to your application.
Agent Accounts
Creates a real inbox and calendar for an AI agent with a single API call, on a domain your application controls.
Managed Authentication
Handles Google and Microsoft OAuth, token storage and provider differences, with hosted or bring-your-own auth.
MCP Server and SDKs
Gives MCP clients typed tools covering mail, calendars, contacts and the Notetaker, alongside SDKs for several languages.
Screenshots
Use Cases
- CRM Email Sync
- Log customer correspondence from Gmail and Outlook inside a sales application.
- Interview Scheduling in an ATS
- Embed a booking flow that checks recruiters' calendars for open slots.
- Meeting Notes in a Product
- Add automatic recording and summaries to a SaaS tool without building a meeting bot.
- Giving an AI Agent an Inbox
- Let a support or sales agent send and receive mail from its own address.
- Room and Equipment Booking
- Use virtual calendars to schedule resources that have no provider account.
Pricing
Free
Free
per month, no credit card required
- 5 email and calendar connected accounts
- 5 Notetaker bot hours
- 3 agent accounts with 3,000 emails per month
Essentials
$15
per month, monthly base fee
- 10 connected accounts, then $2.25 per additional account
- 10 Notetaker bot hours, then $0.80 per hour
- 10 agent accounts with 10,000 emails per month
Pro
$49
per month and up, from $43 per month with an annual commitment
- 25 connected accounts, then $2.00 per additional account
- 70 Notetaker bot hours
- 50 agent accounts with 50,000 emails per month
Enterprise
Custom
contact sales, custom
- Volume band pricing
- HIPAA and HITECH BAA
- Contractual uptime SLA
- Dedicated support and onboarding options
Base fees as listed on the official pricing page, which states that all prices are in USD. Each plan includes set usage volumes; usage beyond them is billed at per-unit rates that fall on higher plans. Checked 9 Oct 2026 at nylas.com.
Things to know
- Usage-based overages
- Going past a plan's included accounts, bot hours or agent emails is billed at the per-unit rate for that plan.
- Some features need an annual plan
- Scheduler white-labelling, basic support and the Accelerator package are tied to Pro Annual or Enterprise.
- Bot hours are metered
- Notetaker usage is counted in bot hours: each hour the bot sits in a call counts as one.
- Compliance options
- The site describes SOC 2 compliant infrastructure, and a BAA can be signed on the Enterprise plan.
FAQs
What is Nylas?
Nylas is a developer platform with APIs for email, calendar, contacts, scheduling and meeting transcription, plus hosted mailboxes for AI agents.
What is Nylas used for?
Nylas is used by software teams to add inbox sync, calendar booking and meeting notes to their own products through one integration instead of many.
Is Nylas free?
Yes, Nylas has a Free plan with no credit card required. It includes 5 connected accounts, 5 Notetaker bot hours and 3 agent accounts.
How much does Nylas cost?
Nylas lists a $0 Free plan, Essentials at $15 per month and Pro from $49 per month, or from $43 with an annual commitment. Enterprise pricing is custom, and extra usage is billed per unit.
Does Nylas have an API?
Yes. Nylas is an API product, with SDKs for languages including Node.js, Python and Ruby and an MCP server for AI clients.
Which providers does Nylas connect to?
Nylas says it integrates with more than 250 email, calendar and meeting providers, including Gmail, Microsoft, Exchange, IMAP servers, Google Meet, Teams and Zoom.
What is a Nylas Agent Account?
A Nylas Agent Account is an email inbox and calendar hosted by Nylas for an AI agent, so the agent communicates under its own identity.
Does Nylas store my users' email?
For Google and Microsoft accounts, Nylas states that it does not store message or event data.
Who it's for
- Software developers
- SaaS product teams
- CRM builders
- Recruiting software vendors
- AI agent developers
Used in these workflows
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