# Mailinator review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Public disposable inboxes and private email testing domains Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Mailinator started as a public disposable email service, and any address at mailinator.com can be read by anyone. It now sells private testing domains, an API, webhooks and SMS testing for QA and development teams. Plans are priced by emails per month, domains and team seats. - **Category:** Email Apps - **Made by:** Manybrain, Inc. - **Website:** https://www.mailinator.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you need privacy on the public inboxes, as anyone can read them. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Mailinator has a free plan, and paid plans start at $79 per month, billed yearly ($99 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Public inboxes need no sign-up. The free Verified Pro plan adds 1 private domain, API access, 1 user and 10 MB storage, capped at 60 emails a day. - **Free trial:** 2-week free trial of the Business plan. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Public (free) | $0 | Unlimited public inboxes with temporary storage and no sign-up; anyone can read them. | | Verified Pro | $0 free with verification | 1 private domain, 1 user, 10 MB storage and API access. The annual page lists 2,000 emails a month and 60 a day; the monthly page lists 1,000 a month. | | Business | $79 per month, 5 seats, billed annually ($99 billed monthly) | 1 private domain, 100,000 emails a month (3,333 a day), 50 MB storage, webhooks and routing rules. | | Business Plus | $159 per month, 10 seats, billed annually ($199 billed monthly) | 3 private domains, 300,000 emails a month (10,000 a day), 100 MB storage, up to 100 emails a second. | | Enterprise | $699 and up, custom pricing; billing basis not stated | 5 or more private domains, 3 million or more emails a month, up to 500 emails a second, custom seats and terms. | Read from https://www.mailinator.com/pricing/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Mailinator before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **20% off with annual billing** (Annual discount): The annual pricing page says its plans include a 20% discount on the service plan compared with month-to-month. Source: https://www.mailinator.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Public and private inboxes:** Any name at a public domain works as an inbox the moment mail arrives; paid plans add private domains with unlimited inboxes. - **API and SDKs:** Inboxes can be read from test code through an API, with SDK releases for C#, Python, JavaScript and Ruby. - **SMS testing:** Business and above can receive SMS in a test suite; numbers are set up on request and cost extra. - **Webhooks and routing rules:** Rules can click links in messages or forward them to tools such as Slack. - **Load testing:** Email load testing needs an Enterprise subscription, per the vendor. ## Good for - QA teams that need to read sign-up, reset and 2FA emails in automated tests - One-off sign-ups where an address anyone can read is acceptable ## Worth knowing - Public mailinator.com inboxes are readable by anyone, so they are unsuitable for private mail. - SMS numbers are bought on request at an additional charge. - The annual and monthly pricing pages list different Verified Pro email limits (2,000 and 1,000 a month). - Load testing and SMS are not on the free plans; load testing needs Enterprise. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Mailinator has public inboxes anyone can read and private testing domains for QA teams, from $79 a month for 5 seats. The free Verified Pro plan is capped at 60 emails a day, and SMS and load testing sit on dearer plans. - **Value for money: C.** Business is $79 a month for 5 seats billed yearly, about $15.80 a seat, which is above the dearer quarter of what email services charge. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Public inboxes need no sign-up, and Verified Pro adds 1 private domain and an API at 60 emails a day. A solo tester could live on it. - **Features: B.** Public and private inboxes, an API and SDKs, webhooks and routing rules, with nothing missing from the job of testing mail. SMS and load testing are dearer extras. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You point a domain at it and wire the API into your tests. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with an API and Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Puppeteer and Slack connections. No apps of its own. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Manybrain'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 - Mailinator'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 value for money (C, above 13). - Its paid plans start at $79 a month, against a middle price of $4.92 for the category: 76 of the 76 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 12 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/email ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Mailinator you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $948 a year. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: Mail servers with a good name among inbox providers. - 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 Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Puppeteer, Slack **Tags:** Public API, Workflow automation, Transactional email ## Alternatives - [Guerrilla Mail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/guerrilla-mail): Disposable email inbox that needs no sign-up. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/guerrilla-mail-vs-mailinator) - [Maildrop](https://toolgpa.com/tools/maildrop): Free public disposable inboxes with a GraphQL API. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/maildrop-vs-mailinator) - [Temp Mail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/temp-mail): Disposable email addresses for sign-ups, with a Premium upgrade. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailinator-vs-temp-mail) - [Burner Mail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/burner-mail): Burner email addresses that forward to your real inbox. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/burner-mail-vs-mailinator) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.mailinator.com/ - https://www.mailinator.com/pricing/ - https://www.mailinator.com/monthly-pricing/ - https://www.mailinator.com/about Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailinator Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).