--- title: "Compare" description: "Nextmail against Google Workspace, Superhuman, HEY, Fastmail, Proton Mail, Resend, SendGrid, Postmark, Mailgun and Mailchimp. Real list prices, a feature-by-feature table, and a calculator you can drag." url: "https://nextmail.sh/compare" --- Nextmail against the rest # Everyone else counts seats, emails or contacts. We never run a meter. Real list prices, checked in September 2026, and an honest account of what the others do better. Drag the dials: theirs move with every seat, send or contact, ours in four steps. People most mailboxes bill per seat; two or more needs Starter 5 people Domains ours steps at 1, 50 and 500; Proton, HEY, Resend, Fastmail, Postmark and Mailgun charge more 1 domain Sent a month Sending APIs and Mailchimp bill by volume; mailboxes cap it per seat 5,000 sent Addresses unlimited on every plan of ours; Proton and Fastmail tie them to seats 12 addresses You save with Nextmail $172 a month against Superhuman $1,710 a year Mailchimp Essentials · campaigns $13 /mo $156/yr Postmark Basic · sending API $15 /mo $180/yr Mailgun Basic · sending API $15 /mo $180/yr SendGrid Essentials · sending API $19.95 /mo $239/yr Nextmail Starter $20 /mo $210/yr Resend Pro · sending API $20 /mo $240/yr ![Fastmail](https://nextmail.sh/brands/fastmail.svg) Fastmail Business Standard $30 /mo $300/yr Proton Mail Mail Essentials $39.95 /mo $419/yr ![Google Workspace](https://nextmail.sh/brands/google-workspace.png) Google Workspace Business Starter $42 /mo $420/yr HEY for Domains per person $58 /mo $696/yr ![Superhuman](https://nextmail.sh/brands/superhuman.png) Superhuman Starter + Workspace $192 /mo $1,920/yr Most of these sell one piece of the job: a mailbox, a sending API, a campaign tool or an app that needs a mailbox from somebody else. The Nextmail price is the whole job, with mailboxes on your own domains, sending and receiving, the full API and the AI assistant on every plan. So this is not even a fair comparison: every other bar buys one piece, and ours buys all of it. ## Line by line. Where a vendor does not document something, it says so rather than pretending the answer is no. | Compared | Nextmail Starter | ![Fastmail](https://nextmail.sh/brands/fastmail.svg) Fastmail Business Standard | Proton Mail Mail Essentials | ![Google Workspace](https://nextmail.sh/brands/google-workspace.png) Google Workspace Business Starter | HEY for Domains per person | ![Superhuman](https://nextmail.sh/brands/superhuman.png) Superhuman Starter + Workspace | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | What you actually pay for | One plan per workspace | Each person | Each person | Each person | Each person | Each person, twice | | Five people, every month | $20 | $30 | $39.95 | $42 | $58 | $192 | | Twentieth person costs | $0 | $6 | $7.99 | $8.40 | $12 | $38.40 | | Hosts the mail itself | | | | | | a client on top of Gmail or Outlook | | Catch-all on your own domain | yours to switch on | | paid plans | via a routing rule | aliases; catch-all not documented | whatever the host does | | Free on your own domain | one domain, up to 1,000 addresses | trial only | custom domains are paid | trial only | no trial on domains | trial only | | Drafts, subjects and answers from AI | | | writing assistant only | Gemini | | Business tier | | Your own agent can work the inbox | MCP server | JMAP API | | API, no MCP | | | | End-to-end encryption | between Nextmail mailboxes | | their whole point | enterprise tiers | | | ## One at a time. Each of these says what that rival is genuinely better at before it says anything else. [vs ![Google Workspace](https://nextmail.sh/brands/google-workspace.png) Nextmail vs Google Workspace $8.40 / person / month ($7 billed yearly) Docs, Sheets, Meet and a mail account everyone on earth already knows how to use. Deliverability nobody has to think about.](https://nextmail.sh/compare/google-workspace.md)[vs ![Superhuman](https://nextmail.sh/brands/superhuman.png) Nextmail vs Superhuman $30 / person + a mailbox ($25 billed yearly) The fastest keyboard-driven reading experience in email, and a genuinely good AI writing layer. Split-second interactions that make an old Gmail feel new.](https://nextmail.sh/compare/superhuman.md)[vs Nextmail vs HEY $10–12 / person / month The strongest opinion in email: screening, the Imbox, the Feed, paper trail. If you want somebody to have decided for you, they have.](https://nextmail.sh/compare/hey.md)[vs ![Fastmail](https://nextmail.sh/brands/fastmail.svg) Nextmail vs Fastmail $6 / person / month ($5 billed yearly) Twenty years of reliable, fast, standards-first hosting. JMAP is the best open API in email, and their alias handling is excellent.](https://nextmail.sh/compare/fastmail.md)[vs Nextmail vs Proton Mail $7.99 / person / month ($6.99 billed yearly) Real end-to-end encryption between Proton users, and Swiss jurisdiction. If your threat model needs zero-access mail today, this is the answer.](https://nextmail.sh/compare/proton-mail.md)[vs Nextmail vs Resend $20 / month for 50,000 sends The nicest developer experience in transactional email. Good docs, a clean API, React Email for the templates, and webhooks that arrive when they say they will.](https://nextmail.sh/compare/resend.md)[vs Nextmail vs SendGrid $19.95 / month for 50,000 sends The default choice for a decade. SDKs in every language, dynamic templates, and an event webhook a whole ecosystem already knows how to read.](https://nextmail.sh/compare/sendgrid.md)[vs Nextmail vs Postmark $15 / month for 10,000 sends Deliverability is the whole product. Transactional and broadcast mail travel on separate streams, and its activity and bounce tools are the clearest in the business.](https://nextmail.sh/compare/postmark.md)[vs Nextmail vs Mailgun $15 / month for 10,000 sends Built for developers who want control: routes that act on inbound mail, a validation API, and sending across many domains.](https://nextmail.sh/compare/mailgun.md)[vs Nextmail vs Mailchimp $13 / month at 500 contacts Campaigns, audiences, landing pages and reporting that a marketing team can run without help. Decades of deliverability work behind the sending.](https://nextmail.sh/compare/mailchimp.md)