Legit.Show measured inbound's Security frame at 80/100. Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure inbound?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

Developer Tools

inbound

Last updated 2026-10-01 · benchmark measured 2026-10-01 — deterministic & reproducible

Email API for developers to receive, route, and reply to email via webhooks.

91/100

7/7 frames

Top 11% of 14,607 measured · #5 of 20 in email sending api

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-10-01 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored inbound 91/100 on 2026-10-01, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/inbound-new/2026-10-01

Is inbound production-ready?

Legit.Show scores inbound 91 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on inbound (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 95/100
Accessibility — 89/100
Security — 80/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 75/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 100/100
Standards — 100/100
Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
No Content-Security-Policy.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Real Lighthouse performance run — 279 ms to first byte.
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
Has a reachable privacy policy.
Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who built it

product account @inboundemail

Who it's for

Developers · AI agents · SaaS platforms · Support teams · Automated systems

Pricing

From $4/mo for 5,000 emails/mo; Pro $15/mo (50k emails); Growth $39/mo (100k emails); Scale $79/mo (200k emails); additional domains $3.50/mo

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from inbound.new's own website on 2026-10-01.
Operator: EXON ENTERPRISE LLC, as named in inbound.new's terms, privacy page or footer.
Benchmark: Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-10-01.

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