Riseup
Free from Free (donations). Based in United States.
Last checked 25 October 2026
How these stars are worked out. Commission never changes a star.
Key facts
- Cheapest plan
- Free
Free (donations) - Free plan
- Yes, by invitation
- Storage
- Not confirmed
- Your own domain
- No
- End-to-end encryption
- No
- Company based in
- United States
- Your data is kept in
- United States
- Founded
- 1999
- Free trial
- Unknown
- Funded by advertising
- No
- Works in any mail app
- ✓ IMAP and SMTP
- Calendar and contacts
- No
- Aliases
- Yes
- Open-source apps
- ✓ Yes
- Sign up without ID
- ✓ Yes
- White label
- Unknown
- Reader offer
- None
For activists; needs an invite code. Storage not confirmed
Riseup email addresses end in @riseup.net.
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Trust score
Still being checked
My Trust score counts only things Riseup 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 1.1 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 0.6 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.Yes: 0.2/0.2
- Website on HTTPS with HSTSFrom my website checks.Yes: 0.2/0.2
Account security 0 of 0.5
- Two-step sign-inNo: 0/0.25
- PasskeysNot checked yet: 0/0.25
Transparency 0 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 requestsNot checked yet: 0/0.25
- A published security audit, or a bug bountyNot checked yet: 0/0.25
Fair dealing 0.25 of 0.5
- You can copy all your mail out with any mail app (IMAP)Yes: 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
1 plan
Prices as listed when I checked, before any tax. Dollar and euro prices are what the provider charges.
Before you sign up
Not checked yet
- Taking your email with you
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- 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 Riseup's own pages. Policies change, so check their page before you pay.
Reviews
Trustpilot 3.8
Trustpilot
3.8 out of 5
From 6 reviews, checked 22 October 2026
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Features
0 of 22 offered, 21 still to check
- Your own domainNo
- Works in any mail app (IMAP)✓ Yes
- Calendar and contactsNo
- Open source✓ Yes
- White label (resell as your own)Unknown Suggest an edit
- Two-step sign-inNo
- PasskeysUnknown Suggest an edit
- PGP encryptionUnknown Suggest an edit
- Password-protected email to anyoneUnknown Suggest an edit
- Catch-all addressUnknown Suggest an edit
- Filters and rulesUnknown Suggest an edit
- Sieve filtersUnknown Suggest an edit
- Auto-replyUnknown Suggest an edit
- Scheduled sendUnknown Suggest an edit
- Undo sendUnknown Suggest an edit
- Import from another providerUnknown Suggest an edit
- Mobile appsUnknown Suggest an edit
- Desktop appUnknown Suggest an edit
- POP3Unknown Suggest an edit
- CalDAV and CardDAV syncUnknown Suggest an edit
- JMAPUnknown Suggest an edit
- Tor (onion) addressUnknown Suggest an edit
- Pay with cash or cryptoUnknown Suggest an edit
- Export all your mailUnknown Suggest an edit
- APIUnknown Suggest an edit
- AI featuresUnknown Suggest an edit
- Single sign-on (SSO)Unknown Suggest an edit
Policies and contacts
3 of 5 found
- Privacy policy
- riseup.net/en/privacy-policy
- Acceptable use policy
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Terms of service
- riseup.net/en/about-us/policy/tos
- Report abuse
- Unknown Suggest an edit
Track record
No known breaches
- Known data breaches
- ✓ None on record for riseup.net
- Their code
- riseupnet/riseup_help ↗ 231 stars · last change 15 September 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
- 1999
- Domain first registered
- 2000 (riseup.net)
- Website hosted in
- United States (Riseup Networks)
Only the website. Where your mail is kept is under Your data is kept in. - Mail servers
- United States (Riseup Networks)
mx1.riseup.net - Mail security records
- SPF open · DMARC monitoring only · MTA-STS ✓ · TLS reporting ✓ · DANE ✓
- Blocklists
- ✓ Not listed on the 12 lists I check, for its mail server
- Name servers run by
- Koumbit
- DNSSEC
- ✓ Signed
- IPv6
- Not yet
- Website certificate
- Let's Encrypt · TLS 1.3
- Home page answered in
- 446 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.
Riseup home page
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News
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Price history
1 price since 25 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.
- 25 October 2026 Free (donations), when I checked
No earlier prices yet. The history starts from my first check.
Sources
2 sources
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