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Infomaniak Email Alternative: Unlimited Storage, Rationed Addresses
Everyone else meters gigabytes. Infomaniak does not, on any paid tier, from CHF 1.76 a user. What they ration instead is addresses — two per user on the entry plan — and that is where the comparison actually happens.
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Alexey Bulygin
Wix Does Not Make an Email Product
Wix does not make an email product — it resells Google Workspace, billed per user through your Wix account. That settles most of the comparison, because the mailbox, the limits and the list price are all Google.
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Alexey Bulygin
You Cannot Buy SiteGround Email on Its Own
SiteGround does not sell email hosting. It sells web hosting, and email comes with it. That is fine until the website moves and you are still paying $215.88 a year for hosting whose only remaining job is holding mailboxes.
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Alexey Bulygin
Gandi Gives You Infinite Aliases and Charges Per Mailbox
Gandi gives infinite aliases on every plan and withholds nothing but gigabytes, which is rare and worth crediting. It also charges EUR 4.99 a mailbox in a market where that buys unlimited mailboxes elsewhere.
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Alexey Bulygin
Neo Email Alternative: Where the Backup Sits on the Price List
Neo gates a few things people assume are part of a mailbox. Drive is on the middle tier, email backup on the top one, and every figure is per mailbox — so wanting backup for twenty people is not a $9.99 decision.
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Alexey Bulygin
Two Gigabytes Is Why People Leave IONOS Email
The number that sends people looking is not the price, it is 2 GB — the storage each mailbox gets on both email plans, whether you pay $1.10 a month or $4. The headline figures are first-term rates on a three-year commitment.
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Alexey Bulygin
Greatmail Alternative: The Five-Mailbox Floor and the Calendar Upsell
The $1.95 figure is real, and two things sit underneath it. There is a five-mailbox minimum, so the smallest bill is $9.75 a month whether you need five or two. And the calendar is not in that price — it is the $3.95 edition.
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Alexey Bulygin
MailAfiniti Alternative: Unlimited Domains, Priced Per Person
MailAfiniti gives unlimited domains on every plan including the $1.50 one, which most of this bracket does not. What it did not change is the meter — you still pay per person, so the bill tracks headcount rather than the business.
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Alexey Bulygin
Mailbux Alternative: Unlimited Mailboxes, Metered Storage
Mailbux sells almost exactly what we sell — flat pricing, unlimited mailboxes and domains, every protocol, plus a free tier and white label. Unlimited is accurate on both sides and it is not the meter on either. Storage is.
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Alexey Bulygin
Posteo Alternative: Why You Can't Use Your Own Domain There
Posteo does not support custom domains at all, and the reason is one of the more principled decisions in this industry: a domain is registered to a named person, and holding that data would break the anonymity the service exists to protect. Here is who should stay and who has to move.
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Alexey Bulygin
mailbox.org Alternative: German Privacy, Priced Per Person
mailbox.org is a serious product with a real privacy position — German hosting, German law, PGP done with the standard rather than a walled scheme. What it is not is cheap at scale, because you pay per person and the gap between 2 GB and 20 GB is a fourfold price jump.
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Alexey Bulygin
Zimbra Alternative: Enterprise Groupware and the Partner You Have to Find
Zimbra is mature enterprise groupware, and the friction is structural: it sells through 3,000+ partners rather than a signup form, so there is no list price, and Outlook plus mobile push sit in the upper edition. Someone still runs the server either way.
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Alexey Bulygin