Frankly, email shouldn’t cost $72 a year.
Unlimited users. Unlimited domains. $9 a year. That’s it.
- MX@Live
- SPF@Live
- DKIMfm._domainkeyLive
- DMARC_dmarcChecking
3 of 4 live. We recheck every minute.
Live in about 10 minutes.
Nothing breaks while you set up — your old mail keeps flowing until MX flips over.
- 1~1 min
Add your domain
Type it in. Any registrar, any TLD, as many as you like.
- 2~5 min
Paste four DNS records
MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC — each with a copy button and registrar-specific instructions. We check them live and tell you exactly what’s missing.
- 3~2 min
Make a mailbox. Send.
IMAP, JMAP or webmail. Setup guides for iOS, Android, Thunderbird and Apple Mail.
The table other pricing pages won’t show you.
A year of email for you and four teammates. List prices, August 2026.
| Per year, 5 people | FranklyMail | Purelymail | Fastmail | Google Workspace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price per year | $9 | ~$10 | $300 | $360 |
| Pricing model | Flat, plus storage you use | Usage-based | Per user | Per user |
| Users included | Unlimited | Unlimited | Paid per seat | Paid per seat |
| Custom domains | Unlimited | Unlimited | Plan-dependent | Domain aliases only |
| Storage | 10 GB pooled, then $0.40/GB/yr | Pay per GB | 30–100 GB / user | 30 GB / user |
| Sieve filters | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| “Contact sales” anywhere | Never | No | On big plans | Yes |
To be fair: Fastmail’s apps are slicker than ours, and Google gives you Docs and Meet. If you need those, pay for those. If you need email that just works on your own domain — that part costs $9.
Why is it $9?
The question every visitor is quietly asking. Here’s the business model, in public.
Per-seat pricing charges you for people. But ten light users cost a mail server less than one heavy one — the real costs are storage and bandwidth, and they’re small.
So we price the resource, not the headcount: $9 flat covers the service with 10 GB pooled storage. Need more, add it at $0.40/GB/yr. How many people share it is your business, not our billing model.
We also skip the expensive parts: no sales team, no ads, no free tier subsidized by paid ones. And no bulk mail — spammers are the costliest customers in this industry, so we simply don’t take them.
No “contact sales”. No surprise tiers. The price is the price.
What you get.
IMAP & JMAP
Open protocols, any client. Your mail is yours to move — no lock-in by design.
Unlimited aliases
One per shop, per project, per mood. Catch-all included, one toggle.
Sieve filters
Server-side rules, checked for syntax before they save. Filter before your phone ever buzzes.
2FA & app passwords
TOTP two-factor, per-device app passwords, a session list you can actually read.
30-day refund
Full refund in the first month, cancel in one click. No retention maze.
Fair questions.
- What’s the catch?
- Storage. $9 includes 10 GB pooled; heavy archives pay $0.40/GB/yr more. That’s the whole trick — most inboxes are small, so most people pay $9.
- Really unlimited users?
- Really. Mailboxes are cheap; storage isn’t. Add your family, your co-founders, your alter egos — they share the storage pool.
- Can I send my newsletter from it?
- No — and we say that proudly. No bulk mail keeps our IPs clean, which keeps your one-to-one mail out of spam folders. Use a proper newsletter tool.
- What happens to my mail?
- No ad scanning, no profiling, no resale, and none of it trains anything. Boring on purpose.
- What if I want to leave?
- IMAP means your archive was portable all along. Point your DNS elsewhere and go — 30-day refund if we lost you in the first month.
Nine dollars. One year. Every mailbox you need.
30-day refund, and cancel in one click.