Fastmail
Individual from $5 a month, yearly. Based in Australia.
Last checked 22 October 2026
How these stars are worked out. Commission never changes a star.
Key facts
- Cheapest plan
- Individual
$5 a month, yearly - Free plan
- No
- Storage
- 50 GB
- Your own domain
- ✓ Yes
- End-to-end encryption
- No
- Company based in
- Australia
- Your data is kept in
- EU (Amsterdam) for UK customers, with a US replica and US backups
- Founded
- 1999
- Free trial
- 30 days free
- Funded by advertising
- No
- Works in any mail app
- ✓ IMAP and SMTP
- Calendar and contacts
- ✓ Yes
- Aliases
- Masked email and aliases
- Open-source apps
- No
- Sign up without ID
- No
- White label
- No
- Reader offer
- Offer 10% off your first year, plus a free trial of up to 30 days
Storage differs between sources (30–50 GB)
Fastmail email addresses end in @fastmail.com, @fastmail.fm, @fastmail.co.uk.
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Trust score
Still being checked
My Trust score counts only things Fastmail controls: reliability, abuse handling, email security, account security, transparency, fair dealing and support. It doesn't change the stars above. I'll show a score once I've had a week of my own checks. So far 1.7 points are confirmed. How it's worked out
Reliability 0 of 1
- Website uptime over 30 daysFrom my hourly checks. 99% or more scores in full, 98% scores 0.75, 97% scores 0.5 and 95% scores 0.25. Needs a week of checks.Not checked yet: 0/1
Abuse and reputation 0 of 0.75
- Mail servers kept off blocklists for 30 daysFrom my daily checks of the free blocklists. A listing only counts if I see it on two separate days.Not checked yet: 0/0.5
- Publishes a way to report abuseNot checked yet: 0/0.25
Email security on its own domain 0.4 of 1
- DMARC set to rejectFrom my DNS checks of the domain its mail comes from.No: 0/0.4
- MTA-STS, so mail to it can't be quietly downgradedFrom my DNS checks.Yes: 0.2/0.2
- DNSSEC on its domainFrom my DNS checks.No: 0/0.2
- Website on HTTPS with HSTSFrom my website checks.Yes: 0.2/0.2
Account security 0.5 of 0.5
- Two-step sign-inYes: 0.25/0.25
- PasskeysYes: 0.25/0.25
Transparency 0.5 of 0.75
Fair dealing 0.25 of 0.5
- You can export all your mail SourceYes: 0.25/0.25
- You can cancel onlineNot checked yet: 0/0.25
Support 0 of 0.5
- A way to reach a person, listed on its websiteNot checked yet: 0/0.25
- A public status pageNot checked yet: 0/0.25
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Plans
3 plans
Individual
- Paying yearly
- £4.50 a month, paid yearly (£54)
- Storage
- 60 GB (50 GB mail, 10 GB files)
- People
- 1
- Own domains
- Yes
- Email addresses
- Many extra addresses
- Also includes
- Calendar, contacts, Masked Email, Scheduled Send and Snooze, 30-day free trial
Duo
- Paying yearly
- £7.20 a month, paid yearly (£86.40)
- Storage
- 60 GB each
- People
- 2
- Own domains
- Yes
- Email addresses
- Many extra addresses
- Also includes
- Calendar, contacts, Masked Email, Scheduled Send and Snooze, 30-day free trial, shared calendars and address book
Family
- Paying yearly
- £9.90 a month, paid yearly (£118.80)
- Storage
- 60 GB each
- People
- Up to 6
- Own domains
- Yes
- Email addresses
- Many extra addresses
- Also includes
- Calendar, contacts, Masked Email, Scheduled Send and Snooze, 30-day free trial, shared family calendars
Prices as listed when I checked, before any tax. Dollar and euro prices are what the provider charges. Tap a plan to see what's included.
Before you sign up
5 of 7 checked
- Taking your email with you
- Works with standard mail apps (IMAP), such as Outlook or iPhone Mail, so you can copy your mail out Their page ↗
- How to cancel
- Change plans or cancel at any time Their page ↗
- Refunds
- Refunds are at Fastmail's discretion; they don't have to refund prepaid fees if you stop using it Their page ↗
- Minimum term
- Pay monthly, or for 12, 24 or 36 months up front Their page ↗
- Price when it renews
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- After you close your account
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Getting help
- 24/7 support from real people on every plan Their page ↗
Taken from Fastmail's own pages. Policies change, so check their page before you pay.
Reviews
Trustpilot 3.6 · App Store 3.6 · Google Play 4.1
Trustpilot
3.6 out of 5
From 265 reviews, checked 22 October 2026
Read the reviews on Trustpilot ↗App Store (UK)
3.6 out of 5
From 138 ratings, Fastmail – Email & Calendar, iPhone app, checked 31 October 2026
See the app on the App Store ↗Google Play (UK)
4.1 out of 5
From 2,600 ratings, Fastmail, Android app, checked 31 October 2026
See the app on Google Play ↗
These are other people's ratings, taken from each site on the date shown. They don't change my stars, which come only from the facts.
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Features
15 of 22 offered, 2 still to check
- Your own domain✓ Yes
- Works in any mail app (IMAP)✓ Yes
- Calendar and contacts✓ Yes
- Open sourceNo
- White label (resell as your own)No
- Two-step sign-in✓ Yes
- Passkeys✓ Yes
- PGP encryptionNo
- Password-protected email to anyoneNo
- Catch-all address✓ Yes
- Filters and rules✓ Yes
- Sieve filters✓ Yes
- Auto-reply✓ Yes
- Scheduled send✓ Yes
- Undo send✓ Yes
- Import from another provider✓ Yes
- Mobile apps✓ Yes
- Desktop appUnknown Suggest an edit
- POP3✓ Yes
- CalDAV and CardDAV sync✓ Yes
- JMAP✓ Yes
- Tor (onion) addressNo
- Pay with cash or cryptoNo
- Export all your mail✓ Yes
- API✓ Yes
- AI featuresNo
- Single sign-on (SSO)Unknown Suggest an edit
Policies and contacts
3 of 5 found
- Privacy policy
- fastmail.com/features/privacy
- Acceptable use policy
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Terms of service
- fastmail.com/policies/terms-of-service
- Report abuse
- fastmail.com/bug-bounty
- Contact
- Unknown Suggest an edit
Track record
No known breaches
- Known data breaches
- ✓ None on record for fastmail.com
- Their pricing page in past years
- 2025 ↗
Saved copies from the Internet Archive, so you can see how prices and plans have changed.
From public sources, last read on 31 October 2026: breaches from Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0), which lists breaches of the provider's own site, not of every account that uses it; incidents as the provider reports them. None of this changes my stars.
Company and servers
Founded, owner, servers, uptime and blocklists
- Founded
- 1999
- Owned by
- Opera (Wikidata ↗)
- Registered company
- FASTMAIL PTY LTD Active (GLEIF ↗)
- Domain first registered
- 1994 (fastmail.com)
- Website hosted in
- 🌐 Worldwide network (Cloudflare, Inc.)
Only the website. Where your mail is kept is under Your data is kept in. - Mail servers
- United States (Fastmail Pty Ltd)
in1-smtp.messagingengine.com, in2-smtp.messagingengine.com - Mail security records
- SPF soft (~all) · DMARC monitoring only · MTA-STS ✓ · TLS reporting ✓
- Blocklists
- ✓ Not listed on the 12 lists I check, for 4 of its mail servers
- Name servers run by
- Cloudflare, Inc.
- DNSSEC
- Not signed
- IPv6
- ✓ website
- Website certificate
- Google Trust Services · TLS 1.3
- Home page answered in
- 139 ms · HTTPS with HSTS
My automatic checks last ran on 31 October 2026. Server countries come from their IP addresses, and big providers often run servers in many countries. Blocklists are the free lists that answer public look-ups.
Fastmail home page
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News
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Price history
1 price since 22 October 2026
Cheapest plan per month, in pounds. Prices charged in dollars or euros are converted at a rough rate. Every change I find is added here with its date.
- 22 October 2026 $5 a month, yearly, when I checked
No earlier prices yet. The history starts from my first check.
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