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title: "OpenEmail vs Postmark"
description: "OpenEmail against Postmark, at $15 / month for 10,000 sends. What they are genuinely better at, the reason people move, and the same line by line table, with list prices checked in September 2026."
url: "https://openemail.uk/compare/postmark"
---

OpenEmail against

# Postmark line by line.

Their list price is $15 / month for 10,000 sends, checked in September 2026. Ours counts domains and sends, never people, so set the dials below to your own team and volume.

## What they are better at

Deliverability is the whole product. Transactional and broadcast mail travel on separate streams, and its activity and bounce tools are the clearest in the business.

## Why people move

Inbound mail arrives as a webhook rather than in a mailbox, and every message past 10,000 a month is billed on top. OpenEmail sends from the address that receives, against an allowance you can see, and your Postmark code keeps working against it.

People

most mailboxes bill per seat; two or more needs Starter

5 people

Domains

ours steps at 1, 50 and 500; Proton, HEY, Resend, Fastmail, Postmark and Mailgun charge more

1 domain

Sent a month

Sending APIs and Mailchimp bill by volume; mailboxes cap it per seat

5,000 sent

Addresses

unlimited on every plan of ours; Proton and Fastmail tie them to seats

12 addresses

You save with OpenEmail

$172 a month against Superhuman $1,710 a year

Amazon SES Pay as you go · sending API

$0.50 /mo $6/yr

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

$9 /mo $108/yr

Mailchimp Essentials · campaigns

$13 /mo $156/yr

Postmark Basic · sending API

$15 /mo $180/yr

Mailgun Basic · sending API

$15 /mo $180/yr

SendGrid Essentials · sending API

$19.95 /mo $239/yr

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

$20 /mo $210/yr

Resend Pro · sending API

$20 /mo $240/yr

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

$30 /mo $300/yr

Proton Mail Mail Essentials

$39.95 /mo $419/yr

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

$42 /mo $420/yr

HEY for Domains per person

$58 /mo $696/yr

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

$192 /mo $1,920/yr

Most of these sell one piece of the job: a mailbox, a sending API, a campaign tool or an app that needs a mailbox from somebody else. The OpenEmail price is the whole job, with mailboxes on your own domains, sending and receiving, the full API and the AI assistant on every plan. So this is not even a fair comparison: every other bar buys one piece, and ours buys all of it.

## Line by line.

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

| Compared | ![OpenEmail](https://openemail.uk/black-icon.svg)![OpenEmail](https://openemail.uk/white-icon.svg) OpenEmail Starter | ![Fastmail](https://openemail.uk/brands/fastmail.svg) Fastmail Business 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 Starter + Workspace |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| What you actually pay for | One plan per workspace | Each person | Each person | Each person | Each person | Each person, twice |
| Five people, every month | $20 | $30 | $39.95 | $42 | $58 | $192 |
| Twentieth person costs | $0 | $6 | $7.99 | $8.40 | $12 | $38.40 |
| 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, unlimited 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 |  |  |

[Compare everyone at once](https://openemail.uk/compare.md)[Migrate from Postmark](https://openemail.uk/migrate/postmark.md)
