Proton Mail
Mail Plus from $3.99 a month, yearly ($4.99 monthly). Based in Switzerland.
Last checked 23 October 2026
How these stars are worked out. Commission never changes a star.
Key facts
- Cheapest plan
- Mail Plus
$3.99 a month, yearly ($4.99 monthly) - Free plan
- Yes, 1 GB, no own domain
- Storage
- 15 GB
- Your own domain
- ✓ 1
- End-to-end encryption
- ✓ Built in
- Company based in
- Switzerland
- Your data is kept in
- Switzerland
- Founded
- 2014
- Free trial
- Free plan; 30-day refund on paid plans
- Funded by advertising
- No
- Works in any mail app
- With Proton Bridge on paid plans
- Calendar and contacts
- ✓ Yes
- Aliases
- 10 addresses
- Open-source apps
- ✓ Yes
- Sign up without ID
- ✓ Yes
- White label
- No
- Reader offer
- Offer Proton's current deals
Prices from third-party listings
Proton Mail email addresses end in @proton.me, @protonmail.com, @protonmail.ch, @pm.me.
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Trust score
Still being checked
My Trust score counts only things Proton Mail 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 2.8 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 abuseYes: 0.25/0.25
Email security on its own domain 0.8 of 1
- DMARC set to quarantine (reject scores in full)From my DNS checks of the domain its mail comes from.Partly: 0.2/0.4
- 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.Yes: 0.2/0.2
- 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 0.5 of 0.5
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
5 plans
Free
- Paying monthly
- Free
- Storage
- 1 GB for mail
- Own domains
- None
- Email addresses
- 1
Mail Plus
- Paying monthly
- $4.99 a month
- Paying yearly
- $3.99 a month ($47.88 a year)
- Storage
- 15 GB
- Own domains
- 1
- Email addresses
- 10
Proton Unlimited
- Paying monthly
- $12.99 a month
- Paying yearly
- $9.99 a month ($119.88 a year)
- Storage
- 500 GB
- Own domains
- 3
- Email addresses
- 15
- Also includes
- Proton VPN, Proton Pass and Proton Drive
Proton Duo
- Paying monthly
- €19.99 a month
- Paying yearly
- €14.99 a month (€179.88 a year)
- Storage
- 2 TB, shared
- People
- 2
- Also includes
- Everything in Proton Unlimited, for each person
Proton Family
- Paying monthly
- €29.99 a month
- Paying yearly
- €23.99 a month (€287.88 a year)
- Storage
- 3 TB, shared
- People
- Up to 6
- Also includes
- Everything in Proton Unlimited, for each person
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
4 of 7 checked
- Taking your email with you
- Free Proton Mail Export Tool for Windows, macOS and Linux saves every email as EML files, for any plan Their page ↗
- How to cancel
- Cancel in your account dashboard before the renewal date Their page ↗
- Refunds
- Full refund if you cancel and ask within 30 days of your first purchase, once per person; not for cash or bank transfer payments Their page ↗
- Minimum term
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Price when it renews
- Renews automatically at the price at the time of renewal, which can differ from what you first paid Their page ↗
- After you close your account
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Getting help
- Unknown Suggest an edit
Taken from Proton Mail's own pages. Policies change, so check their page before you pay.
Reviews
Trustpilot 2.1 · App Store 4.7 · Google Play 4.5
Trustpilot
2.1 out of 5
From 1,798 reviews, checked 22 October 2026
Read the reviews on Trustpilot ↗App Store (UK)
4.7 out of 5
From 5,998 ratings, Encrypted Email - Proton Mail, iPhone app, checked 31 October 2026
See the app on the App Store ↗Google Play (UK)
4.5 out of 5
From 96,294 ratings, Proton Mail: Encrypted Email, 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
17 of 22 offered
- Your own domain✓ Yes
- Works in any mail app (IMAP)✓ Yes
- Calendar and contacts✓ Yes
- Open source✓ Yes
- White label (resell as your own)No
- Two-step sign-in✓ Yes
- Passkeys✓ Yes
- PGP encryption✓ Yes
- Password-protected email to anyone✓ Yes
- 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 app✓ Yes
- POP3No
- CalDAV and CardDAV syncNo
- JMAPNo
- Tor (onion) address✓ Yes
- Pay with cash or crypto✓ Yes
- Export all your mail✓ Yes
- APINo
- AI features✓ Yes
- Single sign-on (SSO)No
Policies and contacts
5 of 5 found
- Privacy policy
- proton.me/blog/guides
- Acceptable use policy
- proton.me/support
- Terms of service
- proton.me/legal/terms
- Report abuse
- proton.me/support/report-abuse
Track record
No known breaches
- Known data breaches
- ✓ None on record for proton.me
- Their pricing page in past years
- 2026 ↗ 2025 ↗ 2024 ↗ 2023 ↗ 2022 ↗
Saved copies from the Internet Archive, so you can see how prices and plans have changed. - Their code
- ProtonMail/WebClients ↗ GPL-3.0 licence · 5,669 stars · latest release proton-authenticator@1.1.6 on 8 June 2026 · last change 31 October 2026
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
- 2014
- Owned by
- Proton (Wikidata ↗)
- Domain first registered
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Website hosted in
- Germany (Proton AG)
Only the website. Where your mail is kept is under Your data is kept in. - Mail servers
- Germany (Proton AG)
mail.protonmail.ch, mailsec.protonmail.ch - Mail security records
- SPF soft (~all) · DMARC quarantine · MTA-STS ✓ · TLS reporting ✓ · BIMI logo ✓ · DANE ✓
- Blocklists
- ✓ Not listed on the 12 lists I check, for 4 of its mail servers
- Name servers run by
- Proton AG
- DNSSEC
- ✓ Signed
- IPv6
- Not yet
- Website certificate
- Let's Encrypt · TLS 1.3
- Home page answered in
- 458 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.
Proton Mail home page
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News
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Price history
1 price since 23 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.
- 23 October 2026 $3.99 a month, yearly ($4.99 monthly), when I checked
No earlier prices yet. The history starts from my first check.
Sources
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