# IceWarp review (2026): is it worth $1.50 a month per user, billed yearly? > Business email, chat, files and meetings, cloud or self-hosted Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. IceWarp is a business collaboration suite that bundles email, calendar, files, chat, documents and video conferencing. It is offered as a vendor-hosted cloud service or as software to run on your own servers, in Core, Essential and Business tiers priced per user. - **Category:** Email Apps - **Made by:** IceWarp - **Website:** https://www.icewarp.com - **Runs on:** Web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a free plan, as there is only a 30-day trial. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, IceWarp is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $1.50 per user / month, billed monthly ($1.35 billed annually). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** Free 30-day trial, no credit card needed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Core | $1.35 per user / month, billed annually ($1.50 billed monthly) | 2 GB email and 4 GB total storage per user, calendar, chat, files, notes and tasks. | | Essential | $2.25 per user / month, billed annually ($2.50 billed monthly) | Adds 50 GB mail and 1 TB storage, document editing, conferencing and ActiveSync. | | Business | $4.05 per user / month, billed annually ($4.50 billed monthly) | Adds 200 GB mail storage, booking and webinar mode. | Read from https://www.icewarp.com/pricing/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with IceWarp before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Annual billing lowers the per-user price** (Annual discount): Core is $1.35 per user / month billed annually versus $1.50 monthly, Essential $2.25 versus $2.50, Business $4.05 versus $4.50. Source: https://www.icewarp.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Email and calendar:** Email server with calendar, contacts, notes and tasks, plus anti-virus and anti-spam. - **Chat and TeamChat:** Chat is in every tier, and Essential adds TeamChat for real-time team messaging. - **Conferencing:** Essential adds video conferencing with recording; Business adds webinar mode. - **Documents:** Collaborative document editing arrives in Essential. - **Mobile sync:** Mobile app on every tier and Exchange ActiveSync sync starting with Essential. - **Desktop and mobile apps:** The site lists Windows and Mac desktop apps and iOS and Android apps. ## Good for - Small teams wanting email plus chat and meetings in one suite - Organizations that want a self-hosted option alongside cloud ## Worth knowing - Self-hosted licenses are priced per user per year; those amounts were not readable, so only cloud prices are listed. - Booking and webinar mode require the Business tier. - The pricing page offers the free trial and sales contact, not a self-serve card checkout. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. IceWarp bundles email, calendar, chat, files, documents and video conferencing, from $1.35 a user a month on yearly billing. The Core tier is small at 2 GB of mail, ActiveSync and document editing start on Essential, and booking and webinar mode need the dearest tier. - **Value for money: B.** Core is $1.35 a user a month billed yearly, below 60% of the cheapest paid email quarter. But 2 GB of mail and no ActiveSync; Essential is $2.25 and Business $4.05, so a B. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free 30-day trial with no credit card, and no free plan after it. - **Features: B.** Mail, calendar, chat, conferencing, documents and mobile sync across the tiers. Booking and webinar mode need Business. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. It needs accounts and users set up, and a self-hosted route exists, which keeps it at C. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android apps, plus ActiveSync. The only integration listed is ChatGPT. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from IceWarp's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among email apps - IceWarp's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 74 of the 122 other email apps we grade, and level with 13. - It stands best on features (B, above 79 of 122) and worst on free plan and trial (C, above 9). - Its paid plans start at $1.50 a month for each person, against a middle price of $4.92 for the category: 9 of the 76 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/email ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace IceWarp you would be making an email client: sending, receiving, threading and searching years of mail. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $18 a year. - You could make: Calendar: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: An email client: sending, receiving, threading and searching years of mail. - You could not: Chat that a whole team counts on staying up. - You could not: Video calls. - You could not: Storing and serving files for other people. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with ChatGPT **Tags:** Email client, Calendar, Team chat, Video calls, File sharing ## Alternatives - [Axigen](https://toolgpa.com/tools/axigen): Mail server with calendars and webmail for Windows and Linux. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/axigen-vs-icewarp) - [SmarterMail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/smartermail): Business mail server for Windows and Linux with webmail. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/icewarp-vs-smartermail) - [Zimbra](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zimbra): Self-hosted email, calendar and file sharing for organizations. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/icewarp-vs-zimbra) - [Open-Xchange](https://toolgpa.com/tools/open-xchange): OX App Suite email platform sold to providers and governments. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/icewarp-vs-open-xchange) - [MDaemon](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mdaemon): Email server for Windows with webmail and Outlook connector. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/icewarp-vs-mdaemon) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.icewarp.com/pricing/ - https://www.icewarp.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/icewarp Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).