---
title: "Email cost calculator"
description: "What per-seat mail costs your team over a year, against the same team priced per domain. Four dials, list prices from every vendor, and the working shown."
url: "https://openemail.uk/tools/cost"
---

Tools

# What your mail actually costs.

Per-seat pricing is quoted per person per month, which is the smallest the number ever looks. Set your team against the vendors below and read the year.

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

## How it works out

Every vendor here except us bills per person per month, so the only dial that moves their bar is the number of people. Ours moves in steps rather than smoothly, because there are four prices and no per-unit term anywhere: free for a single person on 1 domain with 10 addresses and 10,000 sends a month, $30 a month past any of those or for a team, $80 past 5 domains or 70,000 sends a month, and $200 past 10 domains or 200,000 sends a month.

The sending dial moves nothing but our own step. Nobody on this page bills per message, ours included, and a calculator that quietly leaves out the input everybody worries about is hiding something even when the answer is zero.

List prices as published by each vendor, checked August 2026, at the annual rate wherever a vendor offers one. Ours is shown month to month, with the yearly price beside it. No account, no email capture, and the working is on the screen rather than in a report you have to ask for.

[See what else differs](https://openemail.uk/compare.md)