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title: "OpenEmail vs Forward Email"
description: "OpenEmail against Forward Email, at $3 / month, unlimited domains. What they are genuinely better at, the reason people move, and the same line by line table, with list prices checked in August 2026."
url: "https://openemail.uk/compare/forward-email"
---

OpenEmail against

# Forward Email line by line.

Their list price is $3 / month, unlimited domains, checked in August 2026. Ours counts domains rather than people, so the two lines below diverge with the size of your team.

![Forward Email](https://openemail.uk/brands/forward-email.svg)

## What they are better at

Cheap, open source, and honest about what it is. Unlimited aliases on unlimited domains, forwarded to wherever you already read mail.

## Why people move

It forwards, so you still need a mailbox at the other end and you still send as that mailbox. Replies go out from the address you forwarded to rather than the one people wrote to. OpenEmail is the destination as well as the routing, so the address you publish is the address you send from.

People per seat everywhere but here; two or more needs Starter

5 people

Domains bills only us

1 domain

Sent a month per message nowhere; sets our step

5,000 sent

Addresses bills only us, past ten

12 addresses

You save with OpenEmail

$130 a month against Superhuman $1,680 a year

![Forward Email](https://openemail.uk/brands/forward-email.svg) Forward Email forwarding only

$3 /mo $36/yr

Mailchimp marketing sends

$13 /mo $156/yr

Resend transactional sends

$20 /mo $240/yr

![Fastmail](https://openemail.uk/brands/fastmail.svg) Fastmail Standard

$25 /mo $300/yr

![OpenEmail](https://openemail.uk/black-icon.svg)![OpenEmail](https://openemail.uk/white-icon.svg) OpenEmail per domain

$30 /mo $240/yr

Proton Mail Mail Essentials

$34.95 /mo $419/yr

![Google Workspace](https://openemail.uk/brands/google-workspace.png) Google Workspace Business Starter

$35 /mo $420/yr

HEY for Domains per person

$58 /mo $696/yr

![Superhuman](https://openemail.uk/brands/superhuman.png) Superhuman + Workspace

$160 /mo $1,920/yr

## Line by line.

Forward Email is not a mailbox, so it is not on this table. The table compares the places mail actually lands, which is the choice Forward Email sits beside rather than replaces.

| Compared | ![OpenEmail](https://openemail.uk/black-icon.svg)![OpenEmail](https://openemail.uk/white-icon.svg) OpenEmail per domain | ![Fastmail](https://openemail.uk/brands/fastmail.svg) Fastmail Standard | Proton Mail Mail Essentials | ![Google Workspace](https://openemail.uk/brands/google-workspace.png) Google Workspace Business Starter | HEY for Domains per person | ![Superhuman](https://openemail.uk/brands/superhuman.png) Superhuman + Workspace |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| What you actually pay for | The workspace | Each person | Each person | Each person | Each person | Each person, twice |
| Five people, every month | $30 | $25 | $34.95 | $35 | $58 | $160 |
| Twentieth person costs | $0 | $5 | $6.99 | $7 | $12 | $32 |
| Hosts the mail itself |  |  |  |  |  | a client on top of Gmail or Outlook |
| Catch-all on your own domain | yours to switch on |  | paid plans | via a routing rule | aliases; catch-all not documented | whatever the host does |
| Free on your own domain | one domain, ten addresses | trial only | custom domains are paid | trial only | no trial on domains | trial only |
| Drafts, subjects and answers from AI |  |  | writing assistant only | Gemini |  | Business tier |
| Your own agent can work the inbox | MCP server | JMAP API |  | API, no MCP |  |  |
| End-to-end encryption | between OpenEmail mailboxes |  | their whole point | enterprise tiers |  |  |

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