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Do AI agents pick Postmark?

How often agents choose Postmark when a developer needs transactional email — measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Postmark

#1 of 5 transactional email
14%Pick Rate
95% CI 10%19%

When developers ask an AI agent for transactional email, Postmark is picked 14% of the time — ranking #1 of 5 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 14% Named, not picked 30% Never surfaced 57%

Top pick in the category. 🟢

Awareness

1.0M package downloads / week

Known but not preferred — widely used, but agents pick competitors. That's a preference problem, not awareness.

0 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 325 URLs in Common Crawl

In the raw web crawl, but thin in the filtered corpus models actually train on — an awareness gap at the source.

AdoptionDid the pick convert to installs? Public Adoption = npm downloads of your packages. The proof half of the funnel.

4.0M installs / month ▲ 14% MoM

Growing despite a low Pick Rate — winning the agent pick is upside, not a dependency.

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About Postmark

A transactional email delivery service focused on high deliverability rates.

Postmark is a transactional email service that handles sending application emails—such as password resets, receipts, and notifications—with an emphasis on reliable inbox delivery. It provides bounce and spam processing, detailed sending statistics, and can also parse incoming emails and forward them to your application. It's aimed at developers and teams who need dependable delivery for time-sensitive transactional messages.

Where to start

Sign up for a Postmark account to get an API key, then use the official Node.js library or the REST API directly to start sending. The Postmark developer docs cover API details, while the postmark.js wiki provides a quick-start guide.

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