MailHow compared
Honest comparisons with the hosts people actually weigh us against. Including the rows where they win.
How we write these
Every claim on these pages links to a primary source and carries the date we checked it. Where a competitor is genuinely better, cheaper, more mature, more featureful, we say so and tell you to buy theirs. A comparison table where the author wins every row is an advert, and you already know how much those are worth.
Facts current as of 2026-07-13. Prices change; if we have something wrong, tell us and we will correct it.
The comparisons
Migadu prices by usage tier and caps outgoing mail at 20/day on its entry plan. MailHow is $29/year flat with a published 100/hour limit and one inbox across every domain.
Namecheap Private Email is sold per mailbox, per domain. Five domains means five subscriptions and roughly $74–163/year. MailHow is $29/year for all of them, in one inbox.
Zoho Mail Lite is $12/user/year and genuinely cheaper than MailHow. Here is exactly what that $12 does and doesn't buy for someone running several domains.
Purelymail is $10/year for unlimited domains and unlimited users. It is a third of our price. Here is what the difference actually buys.
Forward Email is $36/year for unlimited domains, open source, with a serious API. And a webmail that only appeared in 2026. MailHow is $29/year built around a purpose-built unified inbox.
Fastmail is $60/year and 27 years old, with native apps and a real calendar. MailHow is $29/year, EU-hosted, and free to receive. What the extra $31 buys.
Soverin is the closest thing to MailHow that exists: one mailbox, unlimited own domains, EU-hosted, about €39/year. Here is the honest difference.
Google Workspace Business Starter is about €82/year and covers several domains on one licence. But every alias domain gives you the same address, and it can't keep your data in the EU.
Microsoft 365 Business Basic is $84/year with a 100GB mailbox, Teams and Office. Sending from an address on another domain still needs a PowerShell flag and a feature stuck in preview.