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Disroot vs StartMail Comparison

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Rating4.86.4
Pricing
  • $0.00/moFree
  • $0.92/mo5 GB extra storage (annual)
  • $9.17/mo60 GB extra storage (annual)
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  • Free: $0 — 1 GB mailbox, no fixed term
  • 5 GB extra storage (annual): EUR 11/year, shareable across mail, cloud and CryptPad storage
  • 60 GB extra storage (annual): EUR 110/year, shareable across mail, cloud and CryptPad storage
  • $4.99/moPersonal (annual)
  • $6.99/moBusiness (annual)
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  • Personal (annual): $59.88/year
  • Business (annual): $83.88/year
Free tierFree tier
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1 GB mailbox at no cost, no time limit, no feature gating versus paid storage tiers — the only difference paid tiers add is more space.

Paid only
Established20152013
PlatformsNot specifiedNot specified
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JurisdictionNetherlands
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Stichting Disroot.org (a Dutch foundation), Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KVK) number 69988099. Servers are owned and operated in a data center in the Netherlands; the Terms of Service state the platform is subject to Dutch law. Run entirely by volunteers with no venture funding.

Netherlands
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StartMail B.V., registered in Zeist, Netherlands. Servers are company-owned hardware in locked cabinets inside Dutch data centers — not third-party cloud infrastructure.

Independent security auditNone on recordNone on record
Source codeFully open sourceClosed source
Zero-access encryptionNoNo
Intra-provider E2EENoNo
External PGPManual importNative
Past data breachNoNo
TelemetryOpt-inOn unless you opt out
Features
HostingCloudCloud
Custom domain supportYesYes
AliasesLimitedUnlimited
Anti-spam approachNot separately documented as a technical methodology beyond standard server-side mail filtering; the Privacy Statement discloses that email server logs (sender/recipient addresses, connecting IPs) are retained for 48 hours to prevent brute-force attacks and aid debugging, and specifies that message content is not read except for service operation, troubleshooting, or suspected Terms of Service violations.Personal, per-user Bayesian spam filter (SpamAssassin) trained by the user marking mail as spam or not; the training data is stored inside that user's own encrypted vault rather than pooled across the service.
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CloudPadPaste BinChatCalendarContacts
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