All-in-one alternative to Gmail + Mailchimp + Sendgrid
Unlike other services, we don't charge you per user. You get unlimited domains and aliases for only one monthly rate of $3/mo. All paid plans include 10 GB of SSD-backed encrypted SQLite storage (IMAP/POP3/CalDAV). Additional storage can be purchased for $3/mo per 10 GB of additional SSD-backed storage.
Note: 300 emails / day -> 9000 emails per month limit, so not appropriate for some mailing lists – so not really competitive with Mailchimp or Sendgrid… although it does say "call us".
Pricing
- Free - forwarding only
- Enhanced - $3 / month for unlimited domains, 10GB pooled storage (you can enable IMAP as well as "just" forwarding), 300 emails / day (9000 per month)
- Team - $9 / month, adds unlimited team members, team permission management, and shared organizational access
- Enterprise - call us
Technical Whitepaper
April 11th, 2025 - Technical Whitepaper PDF
In an era where digital privacy is increasingly compromised, Forward Email stands as a beacon of transparency and security in email infrastructure. As the only 100% opensource, encrypted, privacy-focused, transparent, and quantum-resistant email service, we have fundamentally reimagined what users should expect from their email provider. Since our founding in 2017, Forward Email has grown to power email for over 500,000 domains – including industry leaders such as Canonical, Netflix, The Linux Foundation, The PHP Foundation, Fox News Radio, Disney Ad Sales, jQuery, LineageOS, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, The University of Cambridge, The University of Maryland, The University of Washington, Tufts University, Swarthmore College, Government of South Australia, Government of Dominican Republic, Fly.io, RCD Hotels, International Correspondence Chess Federation, and notable developers like Isaac Z. Schlueter (npm creator) and David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby on Rails creator). This remarkable adoption stems from our steadfast commitment to privacy-by-design principles and complete technical transparency. This whitepaper provides extensive detail and technical insight into our history, threat modeling, systems and security architecture, and future roadmap. Through comprehensive analysis of our implementation choices, cryptographic approaches, and security protocols, we demonstrate how Forward Email achieves unparalleled privacy protection while maintaining full auditability through open-source development. By combining quantum-resistant encryption, zero-knowledge operations, and a distributed architecture with our steadfast refusal to collect user metadata, Forward Email represents not just an email service, but a fundamental shift in how privacy-critical infrastructure can and should be built in the digital age.