MakeEmWait is the cheapest dedicated waitlist API available — $2.50/mo gets you unlimited waitlists, unlimited signups, API access, referral tracking, and position management. The gap is the developer stack: no managed email, no delivery tracking, no SDK, and no agent integration.
Key differences
MakeEmWait has no built-in email sending — you bring your own email stack and wire it separately. Enlist sends a signup confirmation through your configured provider and writes delivery, open, and click events back onto the signup row, queryable via the API.
MakeEmWait provides a REST API with no official SDK. Enlist ships a typed TypeScript SDK and a hosted MCP server — wire a working waitlist by describing it to a coding agent rather than reading an API reference.
MakeEmWait has no permanent free tier — evaluation starts at $2.50/mo on an annual plan. Enlist's free plan includes 500 stored signups and the full API with no credit card required.
MakeEmWait gates webhooks at the $500/yr Pro tier — an order of magnitude more than most tools charge for the same capability. Enlist includes webhooks on the Launch plan ($15/mo).
Up to 500 signups on the free tier. Add the MCP server and your agent wires the whole integration in one prompt.