# Agentline NZ vs Gmail for your assistant

**Short answer:** Pick Gmail if you want your assistant to help with the email you already have: finding messages, summarising threads and drafting replies in your own inbox, with no extra account and nothing to pay beyond your ChatGPT or Claude plan. Pick Agentline NZ if you want the assistant to have a separate address of its own, so it can sign up for services and get their sign-in codes without seeing your personal mail, and so people can tell a message came from an assistant. You can make a second Gmail for an assistant, but a person creates the Google account and connects it. Agentline NZ texting is coming soon.

Agentline NZ is the New Zealand service at agentline.nz, not the US AgentLine.

## Side by side

Gmail facts checked 5 Nov 2026 from the sources in each row. Agentline NZ figures come from our [pricing](https://agentline.nz/pricing) and [docs](https://agentline.nz/docs).

| | Agentline NZ | Gmail | Gmail sources |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| What it is | Gives an AI assistant its own @agentline.nz email inbox it can send and read email from. For people with personal AI assistants, and developers. Texting is coming soon. | Google's free email service. ChatGPT and Claude have built-in Gmail apps that use the account you connect. | [Create a Google Account](https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/27441?hl=en), [Claude Google Workspace connectors](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/10166901-use-google-workspace-connectors), [Connected apps in ChatGPT](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11487775-connected-apps-in-chatgpt) |
| Email inbox your assistant can read | Yes: name@agentline.nz, live from day one. Your assistant sends and reads email and waits for sign-in codes with wait_for_code. | Yes: your own Gmail, or a second Gmail you create for the assistant. The assistant can search and read everything in the account you connect. | [Claude Google Workspace connectors](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/10166901-use-google-workspace-connectors), [Claude Gmail connector docs](https://claude.com/docs/connectors/google/gmail) |
| Works with AI assistants (MCP) | Yes: a hosted MCP server at https://agentline.nz/mcp that works in ChatGPT, Claude and other assistants, with nothing to install. A REST API and command-line tool too. | Built into ChatGPT and Claude, with nothing to set up. Claude's help centre says it can search, read, draft and send (asking you first by default), while Claude's connector docs say it's read-only. ChatGPT can draft and send from Gmail on the web on Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise. Other assistants: not covered on the pages we checked. | [Claude Google Workspace connectors](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/10166901-use-google-workspace-connectors), [Claude Gmail connector docs](https://claude.com/docs/connectors/google/gmail), [ChatGPT release notes](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes) |
| Assistant can sign itself up | Yes. The assistant signs itself up. The owner opens one email link, and adds a card for a paid plan. | No. A person creates the Google account and connects it in the assistant's settings. | [Create a Google Account](https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/27441?hl=en), [Connected apps in ChatGPT](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11487775-connected-apps-in-chatgpt) |
| Monthly cost | Free NZ$0 (1 inbox, 100 emails a month). Starter NZ$29/month (1 inbox, 500 emails a month). Pro NZ$79/month (5 inboxes, 2,000 emails a month). No GST added. | Gmail is free, with 15 GB of storage shared across your Google account; more is a paid Google One plan. Sending from ChatGPT needs a paid ChatGPT plan, and Claude's pages disagree on which plans include the Gmail connector. Personal Gmail limits sending to 500 recipients in one email and 500 sent messages a day. | [Google One plans](https://one.google.com/about/plans), [ChatGPT release notes](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes), [Claude Google Workspace connectors](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/10166901-use-google-workspace-connectors), [Claude Gmail connector docs](https://claude.com/docs/connectors/google/gmail), [Gmail sending limits](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22839?hl=en) |
| Free trial | A free inbox-only plan, and a 7-day free trial of Starter or Pro, card required: 1 email inbox and 50 outbound emails. One free trial per person. We check this using the email address and the card used to start it, so a new account with the same email address or card won't get another trial. | Not needed: Gmail is free. | [Google One plans](https://one.google.com/about/plans) |
| Texting | Coming soon. Texting and phone numbers aren't available yet. Join the waitlist at /pricing#texting. | Gmail is email only. | [Create a Google Account](https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/27441?hl=en) |

Gmail is free. Google storage plans and ChatGPT and Claude plans are priced separately. Agentline NZ charges NZD and isn't GST-registered, so no GST is added to its prices.

## Common questions

### Can ChatGPT or Claude use my Gmail?

Yes. Both have a built-in Gmail app that searches and reads the account you connect. ChatGPT drafts an email and you choose whether to send it. Claude's help centre says Claude can draft and send too, asking you first by default.

### Why give my assistant its own inbox instead?

Your main mailbox holds banking alerts, private threads and password resets. An inbox of its own gives the assistant only the mail sent to it, and makes it clear to people that a message came from an assistant.

### Can my assistant make its own Gmail?

No. A person creates the Google account and connects it. On Agentline NZ the assistant signs itself up, you open one email link, and you add a card for a paid plan.

### What does each cost?

Gmail is free. Agentline NZ Free is NZ$0 with 1 inbox and 100 outbound emails a month, sent only to your own verified address. Starter is NZ$29 a month (1 inbox, 500 emails) and Pro is NZ$79 a month (5 inboxes, 2,000 emails), with no GST added.

### Can I use both?

Yes. Keep Gmail for your own mail and give the assistant an Agentline NZ inbox for its sign-ups and codes.

## Sources

All checked 5 Nov 2026.

- [Create a Google Account](https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/27441?hl=en)
- [Claude Google Workspace connectors](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/10166901-use-google-workspace-connectors)
- [Connected apps in ChatGPT](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11487775-connected-apps-in-chatgpt)
- [Claude Gmail connector docs](https://claude.com/docs/connectors/google/gmail)
- [ChatGPT release notes](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes)
- [Google One plans](https://one.google.com/about/plans)
- [Gmail sending limits](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22839?hl=en)

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