# Purelymail review (2026): is it worth $10 a year?

> Flat-fee email hosting for your own domains and users

Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Purelymail hosts email for custom domains over IMAP, POP3 and SMTP, with a Roundcube webmail. The default plan is a flat $10 a year with no stated cap on users, domains or storage, and a pay-as-you-go option is available for heavy use. It is built for people who bring their own domain.

- **Category:** Email Apps
- **Made by:** Add Rabbit LLC
- **Website:** https://purelymail.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you send marketing mail or newsletters, as the terms ban it and accounts may be removed without refund.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 13, 2026, Purelymail is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $10 per year.

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** Trial account with a limited amount of credits; the vendor says light use may last about a month.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Simple pricing | $10 per year, for all users and domains on the account | One flat fee with no hard limits on users, custom domains or storage; heavy use may be moved to advanced pricing. |
| Advanced pricing | $10 one-time credit purchase at sign-up, then used as you go | Pay per resource: $4 a year account fee, $0.56 per GB of storage a year, $0.23 per 1,000 emails sent externally. |

Read from https://purelymail.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Purelymail before buying.

## Key features

- **Unlimited custom domains and users:** Any number of users on any number of your own domains at no extra charge, with routing rules and catch-alls.
- **Standard mail access:** IMAP with IDLE, POP3 and SMTP work with third-party apps, and Roundcube webmail is provided.
- **Filters and spam control:** Sieve filters or webmail rules, with SpamAssassin spam filtering that can learn.
- **Calendar, contacts and files over DAV:** CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV give basic calendar, contact and file sync.
- **Encryption and 2FA:** Mail is encrypted at rest, and you can set the account so the vendor cannot read it without your password. Two-factor sign-in is supported.

## Good for

- People with several domains who want many mailboxes for one low fee
- Anyone who prefers using their own mail client
- Self-hosters who want to hand off mail delivery

## Worth knowing

- Marketing mail, mailing lists, spam and domain warm-up are banned by the terms, and accounts breaking them may be removed without refund.
- Sending is limited to roughly 3,000 external messages a day, and trial accounts have much lower sending limits.
- The vendor says it has no 24/7 support staff and that some small mail servers may block its mail for a day or two.
- It lists automatic alias generation as not yet supported, and says its own interface is not always intuitive.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Purelymail hosts mail for your own domains at a flat $10 a year, with no hard limits on users, domains or storage. Marketing mail is banned, there's no 24/7 support, and the vendor says its interface isn't always intuitive.

- **Value for money: A.** $10 a year works out under $1 a month, below 60% of the cheapest quarter of what email services charge.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A trial with a limited amount of credits that the vendor says may last about a month. The terms on a card aren't stated.
- **Features: C.** Unlimited domains and users, filters, DAV calendars and contacts, 2FA. Automatic alias generation isn't supported, and mailing lists are banned.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You point your own domain at it, and the vendor says its interface isn't always intuitive.
- **Platforms and integrations: C.** A web service with webmail and standard protocols. No apps of its own and no integrations listed.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Purelymail'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

- Purelymail's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 54 of the 122 other email apps we grade, and level with 19.
- It stands best on value for money (A, above 88 of 122) and worst on features (C, above 1).
- Its paid plans start at $0.83 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $4.92 for the category: 1 of the 76 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 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 Purelymail 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 $10 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.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

**Tags:** Email client, Calendar

## Alternatives

- [Migadu](https://toolgpa.com/tools/migadu): Swiss email hosting with unlimited addresses at a flat price. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/migadu-vs-purelymail)
- [MXroute](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mxroute): Email hosting with unlimited domains and accounts per plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mxroute-vs-purelymail)
- [Fastmail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fastmail): Paid, ad-free email with calendar, contacts and custom domains. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fastmail-vs-purelymail)
- [mailbox](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailbox-org): Paid, ad-free email with cloud storage and office tools from Germany. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailbox-org-vs-purelymail)
- [Zoho Mail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zoho-mail): Ad-free business email hosting with calendar, tasks and notes. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/purelymail-vs-zoho-mail)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026:

- https://purelymail.com/
- https://purelymail.com/pricing
- https://purelymail.com/advancedpricing
- https://purelymail.com/docs/features
- https://purelymail.com/docs/faq
- https://purelymail.com/about

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