# Yandex Mail review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Free webmail inside the Yandex 360 suite with 5 GB of Disk space

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

Yandex Mail is the email service of Yandex 360, a bundle that also covers Disk storage, Documents, Calendar, Notes and Telemost video calls. The free plan includes the mailbox with ads and 5 GB of Disk space. Paid Personal and Family plans add storage, remove ads and unlock a smart assistant in Mail.

- **Category:** Email Apps
- **Made by:** Yandex
- **Website:** https://mail.yandex.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Tight if you hate ads, because free accounts see them and Personal removes them.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 13, 2026, Yandex Mail has a free plan, and paid plans start at $2.42 per month, billed annually ($28.99 a year, Personal).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Yandex Mail, Disk, Telemost and other Yandex 360 services with ads and 5 GB of Disk space.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | All Yandex 360 services with ads and 5 GB of Disk space. |
| Personal | $2.42 per month, billed annually ($28.99 a year) | 1 TB of Disk space, no ads and the Mail smart assistant; page shows $3.17 a month crossed out. |
| Family | $3.04 per month, billed annually ($36.45 a year) | Personal features for up to 8 people, 1 TB of Disk space each; $3.80 a month shown crossed out. |
| For business | $3.99 per employee / month, and up | Corporate mailbox from 100 GB per employee, Calendar, messenger and Telemost for 30+ participants. |

Read from https://360.yandex.com/premium-plans/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Yandex Mail before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Yearly payment lowers the monthly rate** (Annual discount): The plans page shows Personal at $2.42 a month when paying $28.99 for a year and Family at $3.04 a month when paying $36.45 for a year. Source: https://360.yandex.com/premium-plans/
- **Monthly Personal at $4.99 for three months** (Other savings): The Yandex 360 page shows a monthly Personal plan at $4.99 a month for the first three months, with $6.19 crossed out. Source: https://360.yandex.com/

## Key features

- **Spam and virus protection:** Yandex describes the mailbox as protected from spam and viruses, with a block list and white list you manage yourself.
- **Mail from other accounts:** Yandex 360's page says Mail collects messages from your other mailboxes, and the help center covers importing from other providers.
- **IMAP and SMTP access:** Any email client that supports IMAP and SMTP can connect, and OAuth sign-in is recommended where the client offers it.
- **Smart assistant in Mail:** The Personal and Family plans list a smart assistant that searches and summarizes important emails.
- **Bundled Yandex 360 services:** The same account covers Disk storage, Documents, Calendar, Notes and Telemost video calls.

## Good for

- People who already use Yandex Disk, Documents and Calendar
- Families wanting shared storage under one paid plan

## Worth knowing

- Free accounts see ads in Yandex 360 services; the Personal and Family plans remove them.
- The pages read list only web access for Mail; no iOS or Android app was confirmed here.
- The Mail smart assistant is a Personal and Family plan feature, not part of the free plan.
- Yandex's login and plans pages can show different prices by region; these are the US-reader figures.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 3.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Yandex Mail is the mailbox in the Yandex 360 bundle, with 5 GB of Disk space and ads on the free plan. Personal is $2.42 a month on yearly billing and removes ads. The pages we read confirm only web access for Mail, and the smart assistant is a paid feature.

- **Value for money: A.** A free mailbox, and Personal is $2.42 a month on yearly billing, under the $3 that opens the cheaper quarter of email tools.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** A free plan with Mail, Disk and Telemost, 5 GB of Disk space and ads, which one person could live on.
- **Features: B.** Spam and virus protection, IMAP and SMTP, mail collection from other accounts and a paid assistant. The listing shows no gap in the core mail job.
- **Ease of use: B.** No store rating on record, but you sign up and open the inbox with nothing to set up.
- **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only: no iPhone or Android app was confirmed, and the integrations are Yandex's own.

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

- Yandex Mail's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 100 of the 122 other email apps we grade, and level with 15.
- It stands best on value for money (A, above 88 of 122) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 10).
- Its paid plans start at $2.42 a month, against a middle price of $4.92 for the category: 14 of the 76 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 2 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 Yandex Mail 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 is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 3.0 is higher than 100 of the 122 other email apps we grade. It costs $29.04 a year.

- You could make: Calendar and documents: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: An email client: sending, receiving, threading and searching years of mail.
- You could not: Storing and serving files for other people.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Yandex Disk, Yandex Documents and Yandex Telemost among them.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- 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

Yandex Disk, Yandex Documents, Yandex Telemost, Yandex Calendar, Yandex Notes

**Tags:** Email client, Calendar, Documents, File sharing, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Mail.com](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mail-com): Free webmail with 100+ domain names and optional ad-free Premium. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mail-com-vs-yandex-mail)
- [GMX Mail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gmx-mail): Free webmail with 65GB storage, aliases and a mail collector. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/gmx-mail-vs-yandex-mail)
- [Proton Mail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/proton-mail): End-to-end encrypted email service based in Switzerland. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/proton-mail-vs-yandex-mail)
- [Gmail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gmail): Google's email service, free for personal use with 15 GB of storage. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/gmail-vs-yandex-mail)
- [Mailo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailo): French webmail with a free tier, ad-free paid plans and calendar. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailo-vs-yandex-mail)

## Sources

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

- https://360.yandex.com/premium-plans/
- https://360.yandex.com/
- https://yandex.com/support/yandex-360/customers/mail/en/
- https://yandex.com/support/yandex-360/customers/mail/en/mail-clients/others

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