# EmailGuard review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Email deliverability monitoring and domain masking for cold email Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. EmailGuard monitors the health of the domains and mailboxes behind outgoing email. It covers SPF, DKIM and DMARC checks, blacklist monitoring, inbox placement tests, spam checks and contact verification. It also sells domain masking proxies and hosted redirects aimed at cold email agencies. It is a deliverability layer rather than a sending tool. - **Category:** Cold Outreach - **Made by:** EmailGuard - **Website:** https://emailguard.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you need to send campaigns, because it doesn't. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, EmailGuard has a free plan, and paid plans start at $49 per month. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 1 connected domain, 3 email accounts, 50 contact verification credits a month and weekly blacklist monitoring. No domain masking proxies or hosted redirects. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 1 connected domain, 3 email accounts and 50 contact verification credits, with credits resetting monthly. | | Pro | $49 per month for up to 25 connected domains | 100 email accounts, 3,000 contact verification credits, 300 inbox placement tests and 10 domain masking proxies or hosted redirects. | | Business | $129 per month for up to 75 connected domains | 300 email accounts, 20,000 contact verification credits, 500 inbox placement tests and 25 domain masking proxies or hosted redirects. | | Agencies | $199 per month for up to 200 connected domains | 1,000 email accounts, 50,000 contact verification credits, 1,500 inbox placement tests and 120 domain masking proxies or hosted redirects. | Read from https://emailguard.io/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with EmailGuard before buying. ## Key features - **Authentication records:** Connects a domain and monitors its SPF, DKIM and DMARC records, with lookup and generator tools for missing records. - **DMARC monitoring:** Aggregates DMARC reports with a history of passes and fails and a list of sending sources. Unlimited DMARC monitoring is on the paid plans. - **Blacklist monitoring:** Watches domains, IP addresses and sending servers and gives delisting details. Automated checks run weekly, with ad-hoc checks on top. - **Inbox placement tests and spam checks:** Ad-hoc or scheduled placement tests across major email providers, an email tester and a content spam checker. - **Domain masking proxy and hosted redirects:** Masks a primary domain behind secondary domains on shared IPs, with a dedicated IP available for $100 a month extra. - **Contact verification:** Real-time email validation and list cleaning to cut bounce rates, sold as monthly credits. ## Good for - Cold email agencies running many secondary domains - Teams that need DMARC and blacklist monitoring across several domains - Anyone testing inbox placement before a campaign ## Worth knowing - The free plan covers a single domain and three email accounts, and has no domain masking proxies or hosted redirects. - A dedicated redirect IP costs $100 a month extra on every paid plan. - Automated blacklist checks run weekly on every plan, and the page shows no yearly price. - It does not send campaigns, so it sits beside an outreach tool. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. EmailGuard watches the domains and mailboxes behind outgoing email: SPF, DKIM and DMARC checks, blacklist monitoring, inbox placement tests and contact verification. The free plan covers 1 domain and 3 email accounts. It doesn't send anything, so you still need an outreach tool beside it. - **Value for money: C.** Pro is $49 a month for 25 domains, which is the top of the category's dearer quarter ($50). A dedicated redirect IP is another $100 a month. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Free plan: 1 domain, 3 email accounts, 50 verification credits and weekly blacklist checks. A cap you will hit if you run more than a couple of domains. - **Features: C.** SPF, DKIM, DMARC, blacklists, placement tests and verification. It does that job fully, but it's a smaller job and not a sender. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. A web dashboard where you connect each domain and mailbox. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, and the listing names no integrations. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from EmailGuard's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among cold outreach tools - EmailGuard's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 29 of the 81 other cold outreach tools we grade, and level with 10. - Its paid plans start at $49 a month, against a middle price of $39 for the category: 42 of the 73 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 27 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/cold-outreach ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Nothing EmailGuard does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 3 things listed below take a company. It costs $588 a year. - You could not: Reading the reports inbox providers send about your domain. - You could not: Checking that an address exists without writing to it. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** DMARC, Email verification, Public API ## Alternatives - [Folderly](https://toolgpa.com/tools/folderly): Email deliverability tools: placement tests, fixes and monitoring. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/emailguard-vs-folderly) - [Warmbox](https://toolgpa.com/tools/warmbox): Email warm-up through a private network of inboxes. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/emailguard-vs-warmbox) - [Mailivery](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailivery): Email warm-up priced by daily volume, with unlimited mailboxes. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/emailguard-vs-mailivery) - [Inboxkit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/inboxkit): Google and Microsoft mailboxes for cold email, priced per mailbox. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/emailguard-vs-inboxkit) - [Mailforge](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailforge): Shared-IP domains and mailboxes built for cold email sending. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/emailguard-vs-mailforge) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://emailguard.io/pricing - https://emailguard.io/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/emailguard Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).