--- title: "OpenEmail vs Proton Mail" description: "OpenEmail against Proton Mail, at $6.99 / person / month. 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/proton-mail" --- OpenEmail against # Proton Mail line by line. Their list price is $6.99 / person / month, checked in August 2026. Ours counts domains rather than people, so the two lines below diverge with the size of your team. ## What they are better at Real end-to-end encryption between Proton users, and Swiss jurisdiction. If your threat model needs zero-access mail today, this is the answer. ## Why people move Encryption is the ceiling as well as the floor: search is limited, the API is closed, and the price is per seat. OpenEmail is the choice when what you want is your domain, your agents, and one bill. 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. Every mailbox on one table, Proton Mail among them. Where a vendor does not document something, it says so rather than pretending the answer is no. | 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 | | | [Compare everyone at once](https://openemail.uk/compare.md)