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Google Gmail

The Gmail API lets you view and manage Gmail mailbox data like threads, messages, and labels. It provides RESTful access to Gmail mailboxes, supporting message sending, drafting, organizing with labels, managing settings, and push notifications for mailbox changes. The API uses OAuth 2.0 for authorization and supports both user and service account authentication for Google Workspace domains.

Google Gmail publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Gmail API. Tagged areas include Drafts, Email, Gmail, Google, and Google Workspace.

The Google Gmail catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Google Gmail’s developer surface includes developer portal, getting-started guide, documentation, authentication, pricing, support, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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58.3/100 strong ▼ -5.7 Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
1 APIs
DraftsEmailGmailGoogleGoogle WorkspaceLabelsMessagingThreads

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 58.3/100 · strong
Contract Quality 16.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
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
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 1

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

Google Gmail Gmail API

The Gmail API from Google Gmail — 19 operation(s) for gmail.

Postman Collections 1

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Google Gmail API

POSTMAN

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Google Gmail API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Google Gmail Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Google Gmail Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Google Gmail Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Json Ld Context

6 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Google Gmail API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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

Google Gmail Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Google Gmail Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Google Gmail Agentic Access

29 operations · 17 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

29 operations · 17 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal
Portal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD
JSONLD

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace
PostmanWorkspace
 GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage
StatusPage
 Support
Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: google-gmail
name: Google Gmail
description: The Gmail API lets you view and manage Gmail mailbox data like threads, messages, and labels. It provides RESTful
  access to Gmail mailboxes, supporting message sending, drafting, organizing with labels, managing settings, and push notifications
  for mailbox changes. The API uses OAuth 2.0 for authorization and supports both user and service account authentication
  for Google Workspace domains.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/google-gmail.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-gmail/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-13'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
type: Index
tags:
- Drafts
- Email
- Gmail
- Google
- Google Workspace
- Labels
- Messaging
- Threads
apis:
- aid: google-gmail:google-gmail-gmail-api
  name: Google Gmail Gmail API
  description: The Gmail API from Google Gmail — 19 operation(s) for gmail.
  humanURL: https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/api/guides
  baseURL: https://gmail.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Gmail
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-gmail-gmail-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/api/reference/rest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/api/auth/about-auth
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/api/guides
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/json-schema.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/json-ld.jsonld
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/google-gmail/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/google-gmail-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/google-gmail-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/google-gmail-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/googleworkspace
- type: Portal
  url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/api/guides
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/api
- type: Authentication
  url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/api/auth/about-auth
- type: Pricing
  url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/api/guides/quota
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://developers.google.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.cloud.google.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/api/support
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/json-ld.jsonld
- url: https://blog.google/products/gmail/rss/
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com