Zoho Mail
Mail Lite from $1 per user a month, yearly. Based in India.
Last checked 22 October 2026
How these stars are worked out. Commission never changes a star.
Key facts
- Cheapest plan
- Mail Lite
$1 per user a month, yearly - Free plan
- Yes, up to 5 users, 5 GB, own domain
- Storage
- 5 GB
- Your own domain
- ✓ Yes
- End-to-end encryption
- No
- Company based in
- India
- Your data is kept in
- EU (Amsterdam, Dublin); UK data centre announced for 2026, not confirmed live
- Founded
- 2008
- Free trial
- 15 days free, and a free plan for small teams
- Funded by advertising
- No
- Works in any mail app
- ✓ IMAP and SMTP
- Calendar and contacts
- ✓ Yes
- Aliases
- Yes
- Open-source apps
- No
- Sign up without ID
- No
- White label
- Unknown
- Reader offer
- None
UK £ prices not found; UK data centre status unconfirmed
Zoho Mail email addresses end in @zohomail.com, @zoho.com, @zohomail.eu, @zoho.eu, @zohomail.in.
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Trust score
Still being checked
My Trust score counts only things Zoho 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 1.6 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.Yes: 0.4/0.4
- MTA-STS, so mail to it can't be quietly downgradedFrom my DNS checks.No: 0/0.2
- 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) SourceYes: 0.25/0.25
- 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 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
4 plans
Forever Free
- Paying monthly
- Free
- Storage
- 5 GB per person
- People
- Up to 5
- Own domains
- 1
- Also includes
- Webmail and Zoho's apps only (no IMAP, POP or ActiveSync), 25 MB attachments
Mail Lite
- Paying yearly
- $1 per person a month, paid yearly
- Storage
- 5 GB per person (a 10 GB option costs more)
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
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- How to cancel
- Downgrade to the free plan, or tell Zoho you don't want to renew, before the period ends Their page ↗
- Refunds
- A pro-rata refund of prepaid fees only if you close your account because Zoho broke the agreement Their page ↗
- Minimum term
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Price when it renews
- Renews automatically at the end of each period, charged to the card you last used Their page ↗
- After you close your account
- Closing your account deletes your address, password and all the data in it Their page ↗
- Getting help
- Unknown Suggest an edit
Taken from Zoho Mail's own pages. Policies change, so check their page before you pay.
Reviews
Trustpilot 3.8 · App Store 4.5 · Google Play 4.6
Trustpilot
3.8 out of 5
From 6,169 reviews, checked 22 October 2026
Read the reviews on Trustpilot ↗App Store (UK)
4.5 out of 5
From 1,628 ratings, Zoho Mail - Email and Calendar, iPhone app, checked 31 October 2026
See the app on the App Store ↗Google Play (UK)
4.6 out of 5
From 77,435 ratings, Zoho Mail - Email and Calendar, 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, 6 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)Unknown Suggest an edit
- Two-step sign-in✓ Yes
- Passkeys✓ Yes
- PGP encryptionNo
- Password-protected email to anyoneUnknown Suggest an edit
- Catch-all address✓ Yes
- Filters and rules✓ Yes
- Sieve filtersUnknown Suggest an edit
- Auto-reply✓ Yes
- Scheduled send✓ Yes
- Undo send✓ Yes
- Import from another provider✓ Yes
- Mobile apps✓ Yes
- Desktop app✓ Yes
- POP3✓ Yes
- CalDAV and CardDAV sync✓ Yes
- 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
- API✓ Yes
- AI features✓ Yes
- Single sign-on (SSO)✓ Yes
Policies and contacts
2 of 5 found
- Privacy policy
- zoho.com/privacy-commitment.html?src=zindex
- Acceptable use policy
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Terms of service
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Report abuse
- bugbounty.zohocorp.com/bb/#/submitbug
- Contact
- Unknown Suggest an edit
Track record
No known breaches
- Known data breaches
- ✓ None on record for zoho.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
- 2008
- Domain first registered
- 2004 (zoho.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 (ZOHO)
smtpin.zoho.com, smtpin2.zoho.com, smtpin3.zoho.com - Mail security records
- SPF strict (-all) · DMARC reject · No MTA-STS · TLS reporting ✓
- Blocklists
- ✓ Not listed on the 12 lists I check, for its mail server
- Name servers run by
- Zoho
- DNSSEC
- Not signed
- IPv6
- Not yet
- Website certificate
- Sectigo Limited · 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.
Zoho Mail 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 $1 per user a month, yearly, when I checked
No earlier prices yet. The history starts from my first check.
Sources
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