Independent paid email with its own apps and a long reputation among people who care about email.
Who it is for
For someone who wants email to be a product they pay for rather than a loss leader attached to something else.
The catch
No free tier. You are buying independence, and independence has a price.
Where it sits in the stack
Fastmail is filed under “Email at your own domain” in the stack directory. Its label there is the same one at the top of this page: listed, not tested. I have read its pricing and mechanics and have not run a project on it, so this page describes it and stops short of recommending it. That distinction is the whole point of the directory.
What has changed about its pricing
Nothing, as far as this site has recorded. Fastmail has no entry in the price change log, which means either its pricing has held since this site started checking or nobody here has re-read it since the figure above was taken. The log distinguishes those two cases deliberately, and a tool with no entry is the weaker of them.
The alternatives in the same slot
These do the same job and sit in the same section of the directory.
- Zoho Mail — listed, not tested, has a free tier
- Google Workspace — listed, not tested, paid only
The whole stack, filterable, with the catch stated on every entry.
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