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title: "Nextmail vs HEY"
description: "Nextmail against HEY, at $10–12 / person / month. What they are genuinely better at, the reason people move, and the same line by line table, with list prices checked in September 2026."
url: "https://nextmail.sh/compare/hey"
---

Nextmail against

# HEY line by line.

Their list price is $10–12 / person / month, checked in September 2026. Ours counts domains and sends, never people, so set the dials below to your own team and volume.

## What they are better at

The strongest opinion in email: screening, the Imbox, the Feed, paper trail. If you want somebody to have decided for you, they have.

## Why people move

That opinion is the product, and you cannot turn it off or point an agent at it. Nextmail has opinions about addresses and none about how you read.

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.

Every mailbox on one table, HEY among them. 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 |  |  |

[Compare everyone at once](https://nextmail.sh/compare.md)[Migrate from HEY](https://nextmail.sh/migrate/hey.md)