Fastmail vs Gmail Comparison

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Feature	Fastmail Visit →	Gmail Visit →
Overview
Rating	6.8	5.4
Pricing	$5.00/moIndividual (monthly) $5.00/moIndividual (annual) $8.00/moDuo (annual) $11.00/moFamily, up to 6 (annual) Show billing detailsHide billing details Individual (monthly): US$5/mo Individual (annual): US$60 for 12 months Duo (annual): US$96 for 12 months Family, up to 6 (annual): US$132 for 12 months	$0.00/moFree (15 GB shared) $7.00/moGoogle Workspace Business Starter (annual, after the first-year discount) Show billing detailsHide billing details Free (15 GB shared): Free Google Workspace Business Starter (annual, after the first-year discount): US$4.90 per user per month for the first 12 months on annual billing, then US$7.00
Free tier	Paid only	Limited free tier Show detailsHide details 15 GB of storage shared across Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos; the paid Google One and Workspace plans raise that ceiling.
Established	1999	2004
Platforms	WindowsmacOSLinuxAndroidiOS	AndroidiOS
Privacy
Jurisdiction	Australia Show detailsHide details Fastmail Pty Ltd, PO Box 234, Collins St West, VIC 8007, Australia, ABN 31 142 646 580, headquartered in Melbourne. Also operates Fastmail US LLC, a satellite office at 1429 Walnut Street, 12th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA. Independent and employee-owned — not venture-backed or acquired by a larger group.	United States Show detailsHide details Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, is the controller named in Google's privacy policy. Google reports US national-security (FISA) requests separately from its global requests report, in ranges rather than exact counts.
Independent security audit	None on record	None on record
Source code	Partly open source	Closed source
Zero-access encryption	No	No
Intra-provider E2EE	No	No
External PGP	Manual import	Not supported
Past data breach	No	No
Telemetry	On unless you opt out	Always on
Features
Hosting	Cloud	Cloud
Custom domain support	Yes	No
Aliases	Unlimited	Limited
Anti-spam approach	Connection-level blocking of known spam-sending infrastructure before a message is accepted, followed by content-based scoring of accepted mail with a threshold that routes high-scoring messages to Spam; the filter adapts per user from Report spam / Not spam / delete / archive actions. Documented on the vendor's own Stop Spam help page as analysing message content server-side, consistent with a provider that holds the encryption keys and makes no zero-access claim.	AI-powered filtering Google says stops more than 99.9% of spam, phishing and malware, plus sender-authentication requirements for bulk senders that Google says cut unauthenticated messages 75%. Google's privacy policy lists 'email you write and receive' among the content it collects, and with smart features on Google uses Gmail data to provide those features; Google states Gmail content is not used for ads personalization.
Bundled services	CalendarContactsFiles	Google DriveGoogle Photos