Gmail
Free (Google One 100 GB for more space) from Free; 100 GB about £1.59–£1.99 a month. Based in United States.
Last checked 22 October 2026
How these stars are worked out. Commission never changes a star.
Key facts
- Cheapest plan
- Free (Google One 100 GB for more space)
Free; 100 GB about £1.59–£1.99 a month - Free plan
- Yes, 15 GB shared with Drive
- Storage
- 15 GB
- Your own domain
- No
- End-to-end encryption
- No
- Company based in
- United States
- Your data is kept in
- United States and worldwide
- Founded
- 2004
- Free trial
- Free
- Funded by advertising
- Yes, or its parent company is
- Works in any mail app
- ✓ IMAP and SMTP
- Calendar and contacts
- ✓ Yes
- Aliases
- Plus addressing only
- Open-source apps
- No
- Sign up without ID
- No
- White label
- No
- Reader offer
- None
Google One UK price not confirmed for 2026
Gmail email addresses end in @gmail.com, @googlemail.com.
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Trust score
Still being checked
My Trust score counts only things Gmail 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 1.9 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 0.25 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 abuse SourceYes: 0.25/0.25
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 0.25 of 0.75
- A security contact (security.txt or a security page)Not checked yet: 0/0.25
- A transparency report, or a published policy on government requests SourceYes: 0.25/0.25
- A published security audit, or a bug bountyNot checked yet: 0/0.25
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 0.25 of 0.5
- A way to reach a person, listed on its website SourceYes: 0.25/0.25
- A public status pageNot checked yet: 0/0.25
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Plans
2 plans
Prices as listed when I checked, before any tax. Dollar and euro prices are what the provider charges.
Before you sign up
1 of 7 checked
- Taking your email with you
- Download your email, calendar and other Google data as an archive (Google Takeout), to keep or move elsewhere. Downloading doesn't delete anything Their page ↗
- How to cancel
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Refunds
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Minimum term
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Price when it renews
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- After you close your account
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Getting help
- Unknown Suggest an edit
Taken from Gmail's own pages. Policies change, so check their page before you pay.
Reviews
Google Play 3.7
Google Play (UK)
3.7 out of 5
From 14,507,083 ratings, Gmail, Android app, checked 31 October 2026
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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
13 of 22 offered, 1 still to check
- Your own domainNo
- 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 addressNo
- Filters and rules✓ Yes
- Sieve filtersNo
- Auto-reply✓ Yes
- Scheduled send✓ Yes
- Undo send✓ Yes
- Import from another provider✓ Yes
- Mobile apps✓ Yes
- Desktop appNo
- POP3✓ Yes
- CalDAV and CardDAV sync✓ Yes
- JMAPNo
- Tor (onion) addressNo
- Pay with cash or cryptoNo
- Export all your mail✓ Yes
- API✓ Yes
- AI features✓ Yes
- Single sign-on (SSO)Unknown Suggest an edit
Policies and contacts
4 of 5 found
- Privacy policy
- accounts.google.com/TOS?loc=US&hl=en-US&privacy=true
- Acceptable use policy
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Terms of service
- accounts.google.com/TOS?loc=US&hl=en-US
- Report abuse
- support.google.com/groups/answer/81275?hl=en_US
- Contact
- google.com/contact?hl=en_US
Track record
No known breaches
- Known data breaches
- ✓ None on record for gmail.com
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
- 2004
- Owned by
- Google (Wikidata ↗)
- Domain first registered
- 1995 (gmail.com)
- Website hosted in
- United States (Google LLC)
Only the website. Where your mail is kept is under Your data is kept in. - Mail servers
- United States (Google LLC)
gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com, alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com, alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com - Mail security records
- SPF open · DMARC monitoring only · MTA-STS ✓ · TLS reporting ✓
- Blocklists
- ✓ Not listed on the 12 lists I check, for 3 of its mail servers
- Name servers run by
- DNSSEC
- Not signed
- IPv6
- ✓ website and mail servers
- Website certificate
- Google Trust Services · TLS 1.3
- Home page answered in
- 330 ms · HTTPS with HSTS
My automatic checks last ran on 31 October 2026. Server countries come from their IP addresses (IP geolocation by DB-IP), and big providers often run servers in many countries. Blocklists are the free lists that answer public look-ups.
Gmail 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 Free; 100 GB about £1.59–£1.99 a month, when I checked
No earlier prices yet. The history starts from my first check.
Sources
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