Compare 4 free consumer email tools, free tiers, and developer deals. We could not confirm today's terms for 2 of them, and on all 2 the page we cite did not answer. Each row says why. Nothing on record contradicts our terms for Proton Mail, Tutanota.
What this name holds: Mailboxes a person reads their own mail in.
One other name here answers “how does mail get sent and received”, and each holds a different list: Email (55).
We track 4 consumer email services with a free tier we hold as current. This category has been mostly stable — only 1 pricing change recorded across all vendors.
| Vendor | Tier | Description | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gmail | Free | 15 GB storage shared with Google Drive and Photos. Advanced spam filtering. Smart Compose. Search with filters. Labels and categories. Multiple accounts. Ads in Promotions tab. Google Workspace integration.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-02 / 2026-08-18 |
| Outlook.com | Free | 15 GB email storage. 5 GB OneDrive included. Calendar, contacts, tasks integrated. Focused Inbox. Office for the web access. Custom email aliases. Sweep rules. Ad-supported.We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-09-28, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-08-20 · tried 2026-09-28, no read |
| Proton Mail | Free | Proton Free offers 500 MB storage (expandable to 1 GB), 1 user, and 1 encrypted email address. | 2026-09-22 |
| Tutanota | Free | 1 GB storage. End-to-end encrypted (email, calendar, contacts). 1 Tuta.com address. No custom domains, no aliases, no auto-reply, no inbox rules on free. German privacy jurisdiction. Open-source. | 2026-09-22 |