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Instantly

Official MCP Paid, self-serve Engagement & Outbound RESEARCHED Checked 2026-08-24

RESEARCHED Facts from public sources with URLs. No usage claims. Nobody has run this tool. The other tier is BENCH-TESTED, which means Andrew personally ran the tool on a stated date and cannot be bought at any price. Across the whole directory that count is 0.

Vendor: instantly.ai · entry id 02-instantly · source 02-engagement-outbound.md line 122

What it does

Cold email sending platform providing mailbox infrastructure, warmup, deliverability management, sequencing, and lead sourcing.

AI features, separated from automation with an AI label on it

Vendor markets "AI Sales Agent," "AI Reply Agent," "AI SDR Agent," and a "Copilot / WARP Mode" that finds leads, writes copy, and builds campaigns from a prompt - genuinely LLM-generated copy/campaign assembly. Email warmup, sender rotation, and sequencing logic are plain rules-based automation despite adjacent AI marketing.

RevOps role

Outbound email sending, deliverability, and warmup infrastructure layer feeding sequencing data to CRM/enrichment tools upstream.

MCP server

Status bucket

Official MCP

Auth

api key (generated in Instantly Settings > Integrations > API Keys)

Parsed URLs

2 found in the mcp_url field

The vendor ships and maintains the server itself. A wrapper built by Zapier, Composio or a similar third party does not count as official. The status was established on 2026-08-24 and has not been re-fetched since.

mcp_status, verbatim from the file:

official

mcp_url, verbatim from the file:

https://mcp.instantly.ai/mcp ; community alternative at https://github.com/bcharleson/Instantly-MCP

Access gate

Gate bucket

Paid, self-serve

Can a solo operator reach it

Yes, by paying, no sales call

api_gate, verbatim from the file:

paid

API documentation

No documentation URL recorded.

263 of 293 entries are in the same position. Blank is legal and it is published as blank.

GitHub health

Not measured. github_url, github_stars, github_last_commit and github_archived are null on every entry in this build.

The refresh rail specced in SPEC section 7.2 has not been run. An unstamped star count is a lie, so nothing is shown rather than something stale.

A github.com URL already appears somewhere in this entry, which is a seed for that rail and not a measurement of repo health:

https://github.com/bcharleson/Instantly-MCP

Jobs it can do

A job tag means the vendor says the tool does this. It is not a test result, not proof the capability is reachable through the tool's MCP server, and not proof it is available on the gate this entry records.

Tagged by machine-pass on 2026-08-25 against the closed 55 job vocabulary. 271 of 293 entries carry at least one tag; 827 tags are assigned in total.

Sources

4 source URLs. Raw sources field, verbatim:

https://instantly.ai/new-pages/pricing, https://instantly.ai/blog/instantly-mcp-server-connect-your-ai-assistant-directly-to-your-cold-email-platform/, https://github.com/bcharleson/Instantly-MCP, https://developer.instantly.ai/

Notes, verbatim from the file

Full API+webhook access is gated to the Hypergrowth tier ($97/mo) and above, not the base Growth plan ($37/mo). A live 401 response at mcp.instantly.ai/mcp plus a third-party writeup confirm the official remote server, alongside an older, separate community implementation.

Provenance

Entry id

02-instantly

Source file

02-engagement-outbound.md

Source line

122

Tier

RESEARCHED

last_checked

2026-08-24

Data baked

2026-08-25

Every field above is rendered from directory.json exactly as the build produced it. Nothing is summarised and nothing is dropped. The one change made at render time is typographic and it is disclosed on the methodology page.