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 2026-07-08. 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 no webmail at all. MailHow is $29/year and ships an actual 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.