# Fraudmarc review (2026): is it worth $21 a month, billed yearly? > SPF flattening and DMARC reporting for email authentication Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Fraudmarc sells email authentication tools: Universal SPF and SPF Compression keep records under the 10-lookup limit, and a DMARC platform analyzes aggregate and forensic reports. A done-for-you service called Outbox Protection walks teams to strict enforcement. A self-hosted community edition of the DMARC analyzer is on GitHub. - **Category:** Email Verification & Deliverability - **Made by:** Fraudmarc, Inc. (since 2016) - **Website:** https://fraudmarc.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you run many domains, since SPF and DMARC are priced per domain. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Fraudmarc is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $21 per domain / month, billed annually. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 7-day free trial on Universal SPF, cancel anytime. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Universal SPF Basic | $21 per domain / month, billed annually | Dynamic SPF flattening that fixes too-many-lookups errors, with unlimited email volume and automatic updates. | | Universal SPF Pro | $105 per domain / month, billed annually | Adds instant updates, autocorrect for record errors, redundancy, priority compute and support. | | DMARC Standard | $21 per domain / month, billed annually | Aggregate and forensic report analysis with 30 days of history. | | DMARC Advanced | $4 per user / month, billed annually | Adds 90-day history, automated data analysis and basic support; SenderTrace tier is $12 per user. | | SPF Compression Solo | $150 per month | Enterprise SPF management with unlimited domains and volume; Team is $4 per mailbox, Enterprise $2. | | Outbox Protection | Custom | Full-service guidance to strict DMARC enforcement; no price is published, contact the vendor. | Read from https://fraudmarc.com/universal-spf on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Fraudmarc before buying. ## Key features - **SPF flattening:** Universal SPF is pasted in front of your other SPF terms and flattens vendor records to stay under the 10 DNS lookup limit. - **SPF Compression:** A management panel imports existing policies, shows lookups used out of 10 and flags vendors that stopped sending. - **DMARC report analysis:** Aggregate and forensic reports are analyzed, with history of 30 days, 90 days or a year depending on the tier. - **SenderTrace identity data:** The top DMARC tier names the people and departments behind each mail source to speed the move to p=reject. - **Free checkers and open-source analyzer:** SPF and DMARC check tools are free, and a Community Edition of the DMARC analyzer can be self-hosted from GitHub. ## Good for - Domains hitting SPF PermError from too many DNS lookups - Teams that want DMARC data they can act on - Organizations wanting a vendor to run enforcement for them ## Worth knowing - Each product is priced separately, so SPF flattening and DMARC reporting are two subscriptions. - Universal SPF and DMARC Standard are priced per domain, so costs grow with the domain count. - DMARC Advanced and SenderTrace are priced per user, which the page does not define further. - Outbox Protection has no published price. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Fraudmarc flattens SPF records and reads DMARC reports, with a 7-day trial on Universal SPF. SPF and DMARC are separate subscriptions, most are priced per domain, and the full-service enforcement plan has no published price. - **Value for money: C.** $21 per domain a month billed annually, which is in the middle of the category. Each extra domain is another $21. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 7-day trial on Universal SPF, cancel anytime, and the page does not mention a card. No free plan. - **Features: C.** SPF flattening, SPF Compression, DMARC report analysis and SenderTrace. Each is priced on its own. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You edit DNS records and wait for reports to build up. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no integrations listed. Free checkers and an open-source analyzer are on the site. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Fraudmarc's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among email verification and deliverability tools - Fraudmarc's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 8 of the 61 other email verification and deliverability tools we grade, and level with 14. - Its paid plans start at $21 a month, against a middle price of $21.50 for the category: 21 of the 43 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 13 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/email-deliverability ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Fraudmarc you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 1 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 39 of the 61 other email verification and deliverability tools grade higher. It costs $252 a year. Fraudmarc is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Reading the reports inbox providers send about your domain. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** DMARC, Reports, Open source, Self-hostable ## Alternatives - [dmarcian](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dmarcian): DMARC report processing and policy deployment, by a spec co-author. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dmarcian-vs-fraudmarc) - [EasyDMARC](https://toolgpa.com/tools/easydmarc): DMARC setup, reporting and managed SPF, DKIM and BIMI records. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/easydmarc-vs-fraudmarc) - [PowerDMARC](https://toolgpa.com/tools/powerdmarc): DMARC reporting with hosted SPF, DKIM, BIMI and MTA-STS records. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fraudmarc-vs-powerdmarc) - [DMARC Report](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dmarcreport): DMARC report parsing and monitoring with a free tier. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dmarcreport-vs-fraudmarc) - [Red Sift OnDMARC](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ondmarc): Cloud DMARC, SPF and DKIM management with a free trial. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fraudmarc-vs-ondmarc) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://fraudmarc.com/universal-spf - https://fraudmarc.com/dmarc-report-analysis - https://fraudmarc.com/spf-compression - https://fraudmarc.com/outbox-protection - https://fraudmarc.com/about-us - https://fraudmarc.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/fraudmarc Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).