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workwae, Nylas, Unipile and Aurinko

What each email, calendar and contacts API documents about providers, authentication, Google verification, hosting and pricing, side by side.

Last checked October 17, 2026

Overview

Where workwae is different.

workwae is a hosted service from WORKWAE LLC, in early access; competitor facts come only from each vendor’s own pages.

Microsoft national clouds

GCC High, DoD and 21Vianet, each account signed in and called in its own cloud.

Per-record encryption, US hosting

Per-tenant, per-record keys in HashiCorp Vault, on AWS in the United States.

Zoom and Webex with events

Zoom or Webex meetings are created, moved and canceled with the event.

Import from EmailEngine

Accounts keep their refresh tokens, so users don’t consent again.

Side by side

Feature comparison.

“Not documented” means we could not find it on the vendor’s own public pages, not that the vendor lacks it. Superscripts link to the sources below.

Last checked October 17, 2026. Vendors change their products; if anything here is out of date, tell us at support@workwae.com and we will correct it.

workwae, Nylas, Unipile and Aurinko compared
	workwae	Nylas	Unipile	Aurinko
Providers
Gmail and Google Workspace	Yes Gmail API, or IMAP with your own Google app.	Yes ^N1	Yes ^U1	Yes ^A1
Microsoft 365	Yes Microsoft Graph, or IMAP and SMTP with Microsoft sign-in.	Yes Exchange Online and Microsoft 365. ^N2	Yes Through Microsoft Graph. ^U2	Yes ^{A1, A2}
Outlook.com (personal Microsoft accounts)	Yes	Yes hotmail.com, msn.com, outlook.com. ^N2	Yes ^{U2, U3}	Yes ^{A1, A2}
IMAP and SMTP	Yes Password or Google and Microsoft OAuth; servers autodiscovered.	Yes Any IMAP server. ^N4	Yes Yahoo, Zoho, AOL, Apple and others over IMAP. ^U1	Yes ^A3
Exchange on-premises (EWS)	No Servers allowing IMAP and SMTP connect as IMAP accounts.	Yes EWS connector. ^N3	Not documented	Yes Login name and Exchange server URL. ^A4
Other named providers	Yes CalDAV and CardDAV; discovery for iCloud, Fastmail, Yahoo (calendar), GMX, Zoho, mailbox.org, Posteo.	Yes iCloud and Yahoo. ^N1	Yes LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram and other messaging channels. ^U4	Yes Zoho Mail and iCloud. ^A1
Microsoft national clouds (GCC High, DoD, 21Vianet)	Yes GCC High, DoD, 21Vianet, each in its own cloud. 21Vianet mail uses IMAP and SMTP.	No Docs say national cloud accounts (U.S. government, China) are unsupported. ^N2	Not documented	Not documented
Data
Calendar	Yes Google, Microsoft 365, CalDAV: all calendars, recurrence, writes, RSVP, free/busy.	Yes Google, Microsoft, iCloud, EWS; IMAP accounts have no calendar. ^N5	Yes Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar. ^U4	Yes Google, Office 365, Outlook.com, Exchange, iCloud. ^{A5, A6}
Contacts	Yes Google, Microsoft 365 and CardDAV address books.	Yes Read and write; iCloud and Yahoo through CardDAV. ^N6	Partly Lists contacts, Gmail and Microsoft only. ^U5	Yes Google, Office 365, Outlook.com, Exchange. ^A7
Zoom and Webex meetings created with events	Yes Creates and keeps in step; Teams and Meet links come from the provider.	Partly Creates Meet, Teams, Zoom (own Zoom app); same page: Zoom, WebEx read-only. ^N7	No Guide: no generated conferences, pass a URL; reference cites Meet/Teams. No Webex. ^{U6, U7}	Not documented Booking profiles have `startConference`; providers not named. ^{A6, A8}
Webhooks and change notifications	Yes Signed, filtered, retried, logged, replayable; plus a cursor change feed.	Yes Signed; also to Google Pub/Sub or Amazon SNS. ^N8	Yes New and sent email, tracking, calendar events. ^{U8, U9}	Yes Messages, calendar events, contacts, tasks, bookings. ^A9
Authentication and Google verification
Hosted authentication UI	Yes Hosted connect page for Google, Microsoft, IMAP, or headless OAuth.	Yes Hosted OAuth and password form; branding, custom domain are Pro add-ons. ^{N4, N9, N14}	Yes Hosted auth wizard; custom subdomain needs an active subscription. ^U10	Yes Shows the sign-in form for the requested service type. ^A4
Bring your own OAuth app	Yes Google, Microsoft (per cloud), Zoom, Webex, or workwae’s; refresh tokens importable.	Yes Through connectors; existing refresh tokens can create grants. ^{N4, N10}	Yes Optional; Unipile’s own credentials are the default. ^U11	Yes Production Google access uses your own Google project. ^{A10, A12}
Whose Google app users consent to, and verification	workwae’s app (CASA not completed) or yours, verified by you. IMAP needs yours.	Yours, verified and assessed. Verified shared app (CASA Tier 3): annual Pro + Accelerator, or Enterprise add-on. ^{N11, N12, N14}	Unipile’s verified app (CASA Tier 2) by default, “for POC”; yours needs verification and assessment. ^{U2, U11}	Yours, verified by you; no shared verified app. Default app has no Google email. ^{A11, A12}
Hosting, compliance and pricing
Data hosting region	United States only, on AWS.	United States (Iowa) or Europe (London), per application. ^N13	France only (Scaleway, OVHcloud); dedicated options for residency needs. ^{U12, U13}	Not documented
Compliance	CASA not completed. SOC 2 planned, not started.	SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA; BAA on Enterprise. ^{N14, N16}	SOC 2 Type II, CASA Tier 2, GDPR. ^U12	Preparing for SOC 2 Type I, targeted Q3 2026. ^A15
Pricing publicly listed	No. Early access; agreed with each early-access team.	Yes: Free $0, Essentials $15, Pro from $49 ($43 annual), Enterprise custom; per extra account. ^N14	Yes: per linked account, tiered; minimum €49/month for up to 10 accounts. ^U4	Yes: from $1 per active account per month, tiered by usage. ^{A13, A14}
Self-hosting	No Hosted service only.	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented
Migration from EmailEngine	Yes Team-run import from EmailEngine’s Redis; tokens kept, no new consent.	Partly No migration guide; BYO auth imports refresh tokens; publishes an EmailEngine comparison. ^{N10, N15}	Not documented	Not documented

Sources

Where each fact comes from

Every competitor fact links to the vendor’s own page, as read on October 17, 2026. workwae facts come from our feature pages, Security, Subprocessors, Pricing and migration guide. Product names are trademarks of their respective owners.