Gmail vs Outlook

Pick Gmail if your team lives in Google Workspace and wants a straightforward connection to email, drafts, and labels. The 23 tools cover core workflows—reading threads, sending replies, searching by sender or date range. Pick Outlook if you're on Microsoft 365 and need deeper calendar integration, meeting scheduling, or shared mailbox access. The 43 tools include folder hierarchies, rules management, and Teams handoffs that Gmail's MCP doesn't expose. For most startups defaulting to Google, Gmail is the faster wire-in. Enterprise teams already routing through Exchange will find Outlook's extra tooling worth the setup. Switching between them once you've built automation around meeting prep or CRM sync costs 3-5 days of re-mapping tool calls and testing edge cases in shared inboxes.