Email hosting compared — FranklyMail vs 6 alternatives
6 head-to-head comparisons and a full alternatives list, each one naming where the other product wins and when you should not switch to us.
Head to head.
FranklyMail vs Google Workspace
Google Workspace costs $420 a year for five people. FranklyMail costs $9. What the difference actually buys, and when Workspace is still the right answer.
Read the comparisonFranklyMail vs Purelymail
Purelymail is $10 a year, FranklyMail is $9, and both give you unlimited users and domains. Where the two actually differ, and when you should not switch.
Read the comparisonFranklyMail vs Cloudflare Email Routing
Cloudflare Email Routing forwards mail on your domain for free. What it does not give you is a mailbox. When free is genuinely enough, and when it is not.
Read the comparisonFranklyMail vs Fastmail
Fastmail Family is $132 a year for six people, and their apps are better than ours. Where per-seat pricing comes back, and which of the two you should buy.
Read the comparisonFranklyMail vs Migadu
Migadu meters messages per day; FranklyMail meters storage per gigabyte. Neither is a trick. Which is cheaper depends on whether you send a lot or keep a lot.
Read the comparisonFranklyMail vs self-hosting
Mailcow, Mail-in-a-Box and Stalwart are free and good. The software was never the hard part. What self-hosting mail actually costs, from someone who does it.
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Without us.
Two other providers, compared to each other. We are a column in the table and the last section on the page, in that order.
Google Workspace vs Fastmail
Google Workspace is an office suite; Fastmail is a mail service with very good apps. What a year costs five people on each, what you give up moving between them, and when neither is the answer.
Read the comparisonFastmail vs Migadu
Fastmail sells polish and bills per person. Migadu sells a flat price and meters messages per day. What each costs five people for a year, and which meter is likelier to bite you.
Read the comparisonMigadu vs Purelymail
Two flat-rate email hosts with unlimited mailboxes, priced within pennies of each other. Migadu meters messages per day, Purelymail runs on fair use. What that difference means in practice.
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A head-to-head assumes you have already picked the other name. These pages start a step earlier and rank the whole field, ours included, by what a year costs.
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