The API, for things that write email without looking at it
An assistant will write you an email template in about four seconds. It
will use flexbox, and a media query, and border-radius on a
button, and it will look right in the preview pane it renders for you.
Then Outlook renders it through Word, Gmail rewrites the colours, and the
version your reader gets is one nobody ever saw.
Nothing in that loop checks. That is what this is for.
Start with MCP, not with HTTP
Most of the traffic here is an agent, so the shortest path is the MCP server . Your assistant gets tools it can call on its own: analyse this HTML, score it across 21 clients, tell me what breaks in Outlook, fix it. It works in Claude, Cursor, and anything else that speaks the protocol, and it compiles React Email, MJML and Maizzle before it checks, so it reads what your recipients receive rather than the source you wrote.
The REST endpoint underneath is the same engine, and it is the right choice for a build step or a service. Both are documented at docs.emailens.dev/api .
Getting a key
API keys come with the Dev plan and above, and you create them yourself in the dashboard . Dev is one key and 100 checks a day; Pro is ten keys and no daily limit. Rate limits are per key.
The web checker stays free and needs no key at all, so you can see what the output looks like before deciding whether to wire it into anything.
Putting it inside your own product
If you are building an email tool and want these checks in it rather than building the data layer yourself, that is a conversation rather than a checkout. The engine is open source and you are welcome to run it. Hosted, at volume, with support and without our name on it, is a licence: [email protected] .
What it will not tell you
It resolves your HTML against per-client support data. It does not open your email in a real copy of Outlook and photograph it. That is what makes it fast enough to call on every save, and it is also the limit: for a pixel-accurate record of what a specific client drew on a specific day, you want screenshots, which are on the paid plans and are a slower, separate thing.
Test your email across 21 inbox clients
Preview rendering, catch CSS issues, and see what Outlook does to your VML. Free, no account needed.
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