Every free email tier that clears our bar in 2026: 36 offers meet the criteria and 17 offers are demoted with a named reason. Recorded changes and a published ranking method. We could not confirm today's terms for 18 of them: on 8 the page we cite did not answer, and on 10 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.

Best Free Email Tools

Every free email tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-11-14.

36 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 30 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 1 a recorded narrowing, 1 a recorded widening, and we publish no durability signal for 4. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, where the listing is gated, or where a narrowing in our records cites no source or no archived copy of the vendor's page has confirmed it. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page. They are listed in an order that rotates daily. Here is how that order is derived. There is no top slot here to sell.
Why trust this data? Every free tier is verified against the vendor's pricing page with dates tracked. We monitor 513 pricing changes and flag vendors that have reduced or removed free tiers. Rankings start every offer at zero and can only demote. There is no signal a vendor can acquire, lobby for, or buy — there is nothing to add. A record reaches a function page when its category names the function or when it carries a subtype label that names the function. Adding a label to a record publishes it here; removing one withdraws it. No page holds a list of vendors. See all 55 email offers →
1
Free

Free Only supports email forwarding $0 /month for unlimited domains Forward your domain's mail Unlimited inbound email Spam protection 50 MB attachment limit

2
Sendpulse stable
Free

500 subscribers/month, 15,000 emails/month free. The page we cite for Sendpulse states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our own record rather than from that page.

3
temp-mail.io stable
Free

Free disposable temporary email service with multiple emails at once and forwarding

4
Free

Email API and SMTP. Free plan: 500 emails/month, at most 100 a day, for transactional email.

  • MailerSend asks for credit card details on its Free plan to prevent abuse. It does not charge anything on the Free plan. (From mailersend.com/pricing, read 2026-10-23.)
5
Free

Verify up to 200 emails a month for free and see if an email is temporary or not.

6
SendStreak stable
Free

Email framework as a service, that adds templates, automations, history, etc to your own SMTP server (E.g. AWS, Maileroo, Gmail). Free up to 100 emails/day, no time limit.

7
Brevo stable
Free

300 emails/day, up to 100,000 contacts, marketing automation for up to 2,000 contacts, segmentation and signup forms; landing pages need the Standard plan. Formerly Sendinblue

8
EtherealMail stable
Free

Ethereal is a fake SMTP service, mainly aimed at Nodemailer and EmailEngine users (but not limited to). It's an entirely free anti-transactional email service where messages never get delivered.

9
Buttondown stable
Free

Newsletter service. Up to 100 subscribers free

  • Buttondown's prices assume at most one email a day to the whole list. Sending more means contacting Buttondown about usage-based pricing. (From buttondown.com/pricing, read 2026-10-18.)
10
Waitlio stable
Free

Waitlist management software for product launches. Create branded waitlist pages, collect and verify email subscribers, manage signups with tags and analytics. Free plan includes 100 subscribers/month, 1 waitlist, and API access.

11
Postmark stable
Free

Transactional email API — 100 emails/month free, never expires, no credit card required

12
Loops stable
Free

1,000 contacts, 4,000 emails per 30 days (marketing + transactional). All features included. Transactional-only recipients don't count toward contact limit

  • Loops is free to start with no credit card. (From loops.so/pricing, read 2026-10-23.)
13
Free

Email marketing: the Forever Free plan allows up to 2,000 contacts and 6,000 emails a month. Zoho's pricing FAQ gives the 6,000 emails as an example of 3 campaigns sent to 2,000 contacts.

14
SimpleLogin stable
Free

Open source, self-hostable email alias/forwarding solution. Free 10 aliases, unlimited bandwidth, free replies from aliases. New outbound messages from aliases require Premium. Free for educational staff (student, researcher, etc.). The page we cite for SimpleLogin states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our own record rather than from that page.

15
Free

10 API requests per hour for email verification, IP, and phone number validation in the free tier. No Credit Cards are required. We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-11-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

16
Free

Open-source email alias/forwarding — Free $ 0 /month Sign Up Unlimited Standard Aliases 10 Active Shared Domain Aliases 1 Recipient (real email address) 2 Available Alias Domains 10MB Monthly Bandwidth Limit

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown — limits reduced: The free tier still exists, but the description of the limits has changed. The free tier now includes 10MB monthly bandwidth, and 1 recipient. Source ↗
17
EmailJS stable
Free

200 requests a month, 2 email templates, requests up to 50 KB, 500 saved contacts, 7 days of email history and no attachments. EmailJS sends email from client-side code through an email service the user connects, such as Gmail, Outlook or a transactional email service, and keeps the service's credentials on its servers.

  • EmailJS's Free plan needs no credit card. (From emailjs.com/pricing, read 2026-11-07.)
  • EmailJS does not charge automatic overage fees. Once the monthly request limit is reached, additional requests are dropped. Notification emails are sent at 80%, 95% and 100% of the quota. (From emailjs.com/pricing, read 2026-11-07.)
  • EmailJS's Free plan adds the "Email sent via EmailJS.com" footer to emails. Paid plans remove it. (From emailjs.com/pricing, read 2026-11-07.)
  • EmailJS accounts registered by "bots" or automated methods are not authorized and will be terminated. (From emailjs.com/legal/terms-of-service, read 2026-11-07.)
  • Multiple free EmailJS accounts held by one individual or organization are not acceptable use. Free accounts can only be created and maintained by their effective users. (From emailjs.com/legal/terms-of-service, read 2026-11-07.)
  • EmailJS may delete a free account inactive for over one year. (From emailjs.com/legal/terms-of-service, read 2026-11-07.)
18
Maildroppa stable
Free

Up to 100 subscribers and 2,500 emails/month free

19
Sweego stable
Free

European transactional emails API for developers. 100 emails/day free.

20
Free

Mailinator offers a "Verified Pro $0 with Verification" plan which is free and includes a private domain and access to the API. They also offer a 100% free, public temporary or disposable email address where you can use any address @mailinator.com.

21
Free

Inboxkitten is a free, open-source disposable email service. Self-hosting is available for $0/month, but requires Firebase and Mailgun accounts (which have their own free tiers). Emails auto-delete after several hours (officially 3 days according to mailgun).

22
Alias.email stable
Free

Free 10 email aliases, one custom domain. Rebranded from Bump to Alias.email.

23
Resend stable
Free

Developer-first email API — 3K emails/month free (100/day cap), 3 domains, 1K marketing contacts/month, 5 AI credits, 30-day data retention

  • Until you verify a domain, Resend sends only from its resend.dev test domain, and only to the email address on your Resend account; mail to anyone else is refused with a 403 error. (From resend.com/docs/knowledge-base/403-error-resend-dev-domain, read 2026-10-20.)
  • Resend's free plan needs no credit card. (From resend.com/agents, read 2026-10-23.)
  • Resend launched Inboxes on October 22, 2026. "An inbox sends and receives email at an address on one of your domains." Every plan includes 3 Inboxes. Inboxes can be used by agents to receive tasks and updates. (From resend.com/blog/announcing-inboxes, read 2026-11-06.)
  • Broadcasts sent through the /broadcasts API or the dashboard do not count against the 3,000 transactional emails a month. Marketing plans are limited by contacts, not email volume. Emails sent or received through an inbox count towards the transactional emails quota. (From resend.com/pricing, read 2026-11-06.)
24
Free

Email API with REST API and SMTP integrations. Free: 100 emails/day (~3,000/month), 3 domains, community support.

25
Free

Email marketing — 250 contacts, 500 sends/month (250/day cap), 1 audience, 1 seat, marketing CRM, forms and landing pages, email support first 30 days. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-10-28, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

26
Verifalia stable
Free

Real-time email verification API with mailbox confirmation and disposable email address detector; 25 free email verifications/day.

27
AhaSend stable
Free

Transactional email service, free for 1,000 emails per month, 3 sending domains, 7-day data retention, basic support. Includes REST API, SMTP relay, sandbox mode, SDKs, scheduling, open/link tracking, webhooks.

28
verimail.io stable
Free

Bulk and API email verification service. 100 free verifications/month

29
UserCheck stable
Free

Start on our forever free plan Free Perfect for small projects or to try out our service. $0 /month Use for free 1,000 credits per month 1 request per second Limited request log Unlimited user seats Multiple API Keys

30
ImprovMX stable
Free

Email forwarding for 1 domain, 25 aliases, up to 500 forwards/day free. The page we cite for ImprovMX states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our own record rather than from that page.

  • ImprovMX's Free plan cannot send mail: its SMTP sending allowance is 0, and sending through ImprovMX's SMTP needs a paid plan. (From improvmx.com/guides/sending-receiving-limits, read 2026-11-06.)
  • When a Free domain reaches 500 emails in a day, ImprovMX stops processing its mail until 00:00 UTC, and mail received in the meantime is bounced to senders with an over-quota message asking them to try again later. ImprovMX emails a warning near the limit and another at it. (From improvmx.com/guides/sending-receiving-limits, read 2026-11-06.)
  • ImprovMX allows one free account per user; creating several free accounts is prohibited. (From improvmx.com/transparency/terms-of-service, read 2026-11-06.)
  • Gmail's "Send mail as" can be used to reply from an ImprovMX address until January 2027, when Google removes "Send as" for non-Google addresses; Google says it will restrict new set-ups of the feature before then. (From support.google.com/mail/answer/17101213, read 2026-11-06.)
31
Mutant Mail stable
Free

Free 10 Email IDs, 1 Domain, 1 Mailbox. Single Mailbox for All Email IDs. The page we cite for Mutant Mail states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our own record rather than from that page.

32
Mailjet stable
Free

Email API — 6,000 emails/month (200/day limit), 1,000 contacts, email editor and templates

  • Mailjet's free plan needs no credit card at sign-up. (From mailjet.com/pricing, read 2026-10-23.)
33
Free

100 credits a month on the Free plan, no card required. An email validation costs 1 credit and an email search costs 10 credits. Emailvalidation.io provides email validation services. One-off credit packs, valid 12 months, are also usable on the free plan. Monthly plans start at $8.99 for 10,000 checks.

34
Free

250 subscribers, 2,500 emails/month free, 2 user seats, community support

35
Tuta stable
Free

Free secure email account service provider with built-in end-to-end encryption, no ads, no tracking. Free 1GB storage, one calendar (Tuta also have an [paid plan](https://tuta.com/pricing).). Tuta is also partially [open source](https://github.com/tutao/tutanota), so you can self-host. The page we cite for Tuta states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our own record rather than from that page.

36
Plunk stable
Free

Open-source email platform with 1,000 transactional/marketing emails/month free

  • Plunk's free plan needs no credit card. (From useplunk.com, read 2026-10-23.)
Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-03-07 — limits reduced: Free tier reduced from 3,000 to 1,000 emails/month. Plunk's home page said "Send up to 3000 emails for free every month" in the Internet Archive's copy of 2026-03-06 and "1,000 emails free every month. Then $0.001 per email" in its copy of 2026-03-07. Source ↗

Demoted — and exactly why

These offers reach this page too and rank below the list above. Each one names the recorded fact behind it. A recorded limit reduction, pricing restructure or new restriction is shown on every surface where the offer appears, with its date and summary — but it does not move rank. We have change records for only 16% of vendors, and disproportionately for well-known ones, so ranking on them would demote the vendors we happen to watch most closely.

−1
Free

Send up to 9,000 Emails for free every month, up to 300 emails daily. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-12, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-12, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Test if the email's DNS/SPF/DKIM/DMARC settings are correct, 20 free/month. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-12, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-12, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Up to 2,500 subscribers and 10,000 emails per month free. When we read the page we cite for this offer on 2026-10-23, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, and we have read it again since, on 2026-11-13, without confirming them, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-11-13 — The pricing page text does not mention the free tier's subscriber or email limits (2,500 subscribers / 10,000 emails per month), so the stored free-tier terms cannot be verified against it.), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Sandbox Email Server for testing email functionality across build/qa and ci/cd. Free accounts get 15 emails a day forever. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-11-13, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-11-13, found the page different from the terms we hold. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
DNSExit stable
Free

Up to 2 Email addresses under your domain for free with 100MB of storage space. IMAP, POP3, SMTP, SPF/DKIM support.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-11-13 — The pricing page mentions free plans for email/SMTP relay and business email hosting but does not state the specific free-tier limits from the stored deal info (2 email addresses, 100MB storage, IMAP/POP3/SMTP, SPF/DKIM), so the stored terms cannot be verified against the current page.), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Three separate free products. Email API/SMTP: 4,000 emails/month (150/day cap), 1 domain, 3-day log retention. Email Sandbox (testing): 50 test emails/month, 1 sandbox. Email Marketing: 1,500 emails/month, 500 contacts. 1 user each. When we read the page we cite for this offer on 2026-10-16, we found the same terms as an earlier read we had declined to record, and we have read it again since, on 2026-11-07, without confirming the terms above, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • Mailtrap's Email API/SMTP free plan needs no credit card. (From mailtrap.io/pricing, read 2026-10-23.)
  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-11-07 — The pricing page text provided is truncated and contains only navigation, marketing copy, testimonials, and feature lists. It does not include the actual free tier limits (email counts, domain limits, log retention, sandbox limits, contacts, users) needed to verify the stored deal info.), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free OSS

Free MIT-licensed self-hosted mail server for websites and web servers — an open-source stand-in for Sendgrid, Mailgun or Postmark that you run yourself. No hosted or paid plan is offered; the only cost is the infrastructure you send from. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-15, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-15, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Free, temporary email for testing. We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-11-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 4 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-11-10 — HTTP 403), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Aionda Mail stable
Free

Free tier includes up to 25 disposable addresses, encrypted mailbox, calendar & contacts. Plus tier is €1.99/month for up to 10,000 disposable addresses, unlimited forwarding, custom domains, calendar invitations, and 5 GB encrypted drive. Enterprise tier starts at €1.49/employee/month.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-24, found the page different from the terms we hold. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Test if the email's DNS/SPF/DKIM/DMARC settings are correct, free service by roundsphere.com. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-11, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Free API for temporary email testing, free public email hosting, outbound capture, email-to-slack/websocket/webhook (1,500 monthly API limit). When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-10-31, we found the same terms as an earlier read we had declined to record, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-31, found the same terms as an earlier read we had declined to record. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Easy to use testing mail server for developers. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-10-29, we found the same terms as an earlier read we had declined to record, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-29, found the same terms as an earlier read we had declined to record. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Maileroo stable
Free

SMTP relay and email API for developers. 3,000 emails per month, unlimited domains, webhooks free

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-29, found the page different from the terms we hold. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Create up to 3 temporary emails a day, then delete them when you're done from within a handy Chrome extension. Perfect for testing signup flows. We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-11-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 8 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-11-10 — page content too short (likely JS-rendered SPA); a rendering client read 174 characters), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Catches mail and serves it through a web interface. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-12, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-12, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Wraps stable
Free

Free forever: Get started — no credit card required. Dashboard + AI template editor, 5K tracked events/mo, 1 workflow, Unlimited contacts. Sending costs go straight to AWS — $0.10/1K on à la carte, or $0.16/1K on the new default Essentials plan.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-29, found the page different from the terms we hold. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−3
Credits

Transactional and bulk email API/SMTP. No perpetual free tier: new AWS accounts get up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits usable across eligible services, and the free plan runs for 6 months after account creation. From July 21, 2026, new SES accounts (and account-region pairs with no metered SES activity since June 1, 2025) start on the Essentials plan: $0.16 per 1,000 emails for the first 10M a month, with no monthly fee, including Virtual Deliverability Manager's SES deliverability insights. An account can switch to à la carte pricing at any time: $0.10 per 1,000 outbound emails plus $0.12 per GB of attachments. Sending from AWS adds EC2 compute and data transfer. Note — 2025-07-16: AWS restructured its Free Tier into expiring credits, which removed the per-service SES allowance for new accounts. The SES pricing page, read 2026-08-27, offers only 'up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits' with 'the free plan will be available for 6 months after account creation' and no perpetual sending allowance from any source. Source ↗

  • −2 time_limited_offer Tier "Credits" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 2 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-11-10 — Could not parse AI response), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)

Not on our ranked list

2 of the 55 offers matching this query are not on our ranked list — 1 is not a free offer, 1 we have not been able to confirm in the last 180 days. Here is how that order is derived.

Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-11-14
query_key
best-of:Email
seed
dded9caa873d18af3ae2d7507cf449711eed9749986e0b7629f1397a6e6ecff4
tie_count
36

Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Durability Read / catalogue date
forwardemail.net Free Free Only supports email forwarding $0 /month for unlimited domains Forward your domain's mail Unlimited inbound email S... stable 2026-11-11
Sendpulse Free 500 subscribers/month, 15,000 emails/month free not confirmed · page states a free price · 2026-11-11 stable 2026-11-11 / 2026-10-21
temp-mail.io Free Free disposable temporary email service with multiple emails at once and forwarding stable 2026-11-04
MailerSend.com Free Email API and SMTP. Free plan: 500 emails/month, at most 100 a day, for transactional email. MailerSend asks for credit card details on its Free plan to prevent abuse. It does not charge anything on the Free plan. (From https://www.mailersend.com/pricing, read 2026-10-23.) stable 2026-11-11
TempMailDetector.com Free Verify up to 200 emails a month for free and see if an email is temporary or not. stable 2026-11-11
SendStreak Free Email framework as a service, that adds templates, automations, history, etc to your own SMTP server (E.g. AWS, Maileroo... stable 2026-11-11
Brevo Free 300 emails/day, up to 100,000 contacts, marketing automation for up to 2,000 contacts, segmentation and signup forms; la... stable 2026-11-05
EtherealMail Free Ethereal is a fake SMTP service, mainly aimed at Nodemailer and EmailEngine users (but not limited to). It's an entirely... stable 2026-11-04
Buttondown Free Newsletter service. Up to 100 subscribers free. Buttondown's prices assume at most one email a day to the whole list. Sending more means contacting Buttondown about usage-based pricing. (From https://buttondown.com/pricing, read 2026-10-18.) stable 2026-11-10
Waitlio Free Waitlist management software for product launches. Create branded waitlist pages, collect and verify email subscribers, ... stable 2026-10-29
Postmark Free Transactional email API — 100 emails/month free, never expires, no credit card required. Postmark's free plan needs no credit card. (From https://postmarkapp.com/pricing, read 2026-10-23.) stable 2026-11-05
Loops Free 1,000 contacts, 4,000 emails per 30 days (marketing + transactional). All features included. Transactional-only recipien... stable 2026-10-25
Zoho Campaigns Free Email marketing: the Forever Free plan allows up to 2,000 contacts and 6,000 emails a month. Zoho's pricing FAQ gives th... stable 2026-11-07
SimpleLogin Free Open source, self-hostable email alias/forwarding solution. Free 10 aliases, unlimited bandwidth, free replies from alia... not confirmed · page states a free price · 2026-11-04 stable 2026-11-04 / 2026-10-08
Antideo Free 10 API requests per hour for email verification, IP, and phone number validation in the free tier. No Credit Cards are r... not published
page unreadable · 2026-11-11
2026-10-21 · tried 2026-11-11, no read
addy.io Free Open-source email alias/forwarding — Free $ 0 /month Sign Up Unlimited Standard Aliases 10 Active Shared Domain Aliases ...
read found the page different · 2026-10-29
— 2026-10-29 / 2026-10-04
EmailJS Free 200 requests a month, 2 email templates, requests up to 50 KB, 500 saved contacts, 7 days of email history and no attach... stable 2026-11-08
Maildroppa Free Up to 100 subscribers and 2,500 emails/month free stable 2026-10-29
Sweego Free European transactional emails API for developers. 100 emails/day free. Sweego's Free plan needs no credit card. (From https://www.sweego.io/transactional-emails, read 2026-10-23.) stable 2026-11-11
mailinator.com Free Mailinator offers a "Verified Pro $0 with Verification" plan which is free and includes a private domain and access to t... stable 2026-10-29
inboxkitten.com Free Inboxkitten is a free, open-source disposable email service. Self-hosting is available for $0/month, but requires Fireba... — 2026-10-29
Alias.email Free Free 10 email aliases, one custom domain. Rebranded from Bump to Alias.email. stable 2026-10-29
Resend Free Developer-first email API — 3K emails/month free (100/day cap), 3 domains, 1K marketing contacts/month, 5 AI credits, 30... improving
effective between 2026-08-19 and 2026-08-20
2026-11-02
mailchannels.com Free Email API with REST API and SMTP integrations. Free: 100 emails/day (~3,000/month), 3 domains, community support. stable 2026-11-07
Mailchimp Free Email marketing — 250 contacts, 500 sends/month (250/day cap), 1 audience, 1 seat, marketing CRM, forms and landing page... not published
read not reconciled · 2026-10-28
2026-10-28 / 2026-08-20
Verifalia Free Real-time email verification API with mailbox confirmation and disposable email address detector; 25 free email verifica... stable 2026-11-11
AhaSend Free Transactional email service, free for 1,000 emails per month, 3 sending domains, 7-day data retention, basic support. In... stable 2026-10-31
verimail.io Free Bulk and API email verification service. 100 free verifications/month stable 2026-11-11
UserCheck Free Start on our forever free plan Free Perfect for small projects or to try out our service. $0 /month Use for free 1,000 c... stable 2026-10-29
ImprovMX Free Email forwarding for 1 domain, 25 aliases, up to 500 forwards/day free. ImprovMX's Free plan cannot send mail: its SMTP sending allowance is 0, and sending through ImprovMX's SMTP needs a paid plan. (From https://improvmx.com/guides/sending-receiving-limits/, read 2026-11-06.) When a Free domain reaches 500 emails in a day, ImprovMX stops processing its mail until 00:00 UTC, and mail received in the meantime is bounced to senders with an over-quota message asking them to try again later. ImprovMX emails a warning near the limit and another at it. (From https://improvmx.com/guides/sending-receiving-limits/, read 2026-11-06.) ImprovMX allows one free account per user; creating several free accounts is prohibited. (From https://improvmx.com/transparency/terms-of-service/, read 2026-11-06.) Gmail's "Send mail as" can be used to reply from an ImprovMX address until January 2027, when Google removes "Send as" for non-Google addresses; Google says it will restrict new set-ups of the feature before then. (From https://support.google.com/mail/answer/17101213, read 2026-11-06.) not confirmed · page states a free price · 2026-10-31 stable 2026-10-31
Mutant Mail Free Free 10 Email IDs, 1 Domain, 1 Mailbox. Single Mailbox for All Email IDs. not confirmed · page states a free price · 2026-10-31 stable 2026-10-31
Mailjet Free Email API — 6,000 emails/month (200/day limit), 1,000 contacts, email editor and templates. Mailjet's free plan needs no credit card at sign-up. (From https://www.mailjet.com/pricing/, read 2026-10-23.) stable 2026-10-31
Emailvalidation.io Free 100 credits a month on the Free plan, no card required. An email validation costs 1 credit and an email search costs 10 ... stable 2026-11-11
MailerLite.com Free 250 subscribers, 2,500 emails/month free, 2 user seats, community support stable 2026-11-09
Tuta Free Free secure email account service provider with built-in end-to-end encryption, no ads, no tracking. Free 1GB storage, o... not confirmed · page states a free price · 2026-10-31 stable 2026-10-31
Plunk Free Open-source email platform with 1,000 transactional/marketing emails/month free. Plunk's free plan needs no credit card. (From https://useplunk.com, read 2026-10-23.) watch
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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free email tool in 2026?

We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 36 free email offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

Which of these free email tiers have held their terms?

36 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 30 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 1 a recorded narrowing, 1 a recorded widening, and we publish no durability signal for 4. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, where the listing is gated, or where a narrowing in our records cites no source or no archived copy of the vendor's page has confirmed it. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.

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