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.
Free Only supports email forwarding $0 /month for unlimited domains Forward your domain's mail Unlimited inbound email Spam protection 50 MB attachment limit
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.
Free disposable temporary email service with multiple emails at once and forwarding
Email API and SMTP. Free plan: 500 emails/month, at most 100 a day, for transactional email.
Verify up to 200 emails a month for free and see if an email is temporary or not.
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.
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
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.
Newsletter service. Up to 100 subscribers 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.
Transactional email API — 100 emails/month free, never expires, no credit card required
1,000 contacts, 4,000 emails per 30 days (marketing + transactional). All features included. Transactional-only recipients don't count toward contact limit
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
European transactional emails API for developers. 100 emails/day 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.
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).
Free 10 email aliases, one custom domain. Rebranded from Bump to Alias.email.
Developer-first email API — 3K emails/month free (100/day cap), 3 domains, 1K marketing contacts/month, 5 AI credits, 30-day data retention
Email API with REST API and SMTP integrations. Free: 100 emails/day (~3,000/month), 3 domains, community support.
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.
Real-time email verification API with mailbox confirmation and disposable email address detector; 25 free email verifications/day.
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.
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
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.
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.
Email API — 6,000 emails/month (200/day limit), 1,000 contacts, email editor and templates
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.
250 subscribers, 2,500 emails/month free, 2 user seats, community support
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.
Open-source email platform with 1,000 transactional/marketing emails/month 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.
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.
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.
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.
Up to 2 Email addresses under your domain for free with 100MB of storage space. IMAP, POP3, SMTP, SPF/DKIM support.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
SMTP relay and email API for developers. 3,000 emails per month, unlimited domains, webhooks 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.
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.
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.
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 ↗
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 effective 2026-03-07 |
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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.
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.