Gmail vs Mailfence Comparison

Feature	Gmail Visit →	Mailfence Visit →
Overview
Rating	5.4	7.0
Pricing	$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	$0.00/moFree $2.50/moBase (individual, annual) $3.50/moEntry (individual, annual) Show billing detailsHide billing details Free: $0 Base (individual, annual): $2.50/mo billed yearly Entry (individual, annual): $3.50/mo billed yearly
Free tier	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.	Limited free tier Show detailsHide details 1 GB total (500 MB email + 500 MB documents), no custom domain, Knowledge Base-only support.
Established	2004	1999
Platforms	AndroidiOS	AndroidiOS
Privacy
Jurisdiction	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.	Belgium Show detailsHide details ContactOffice Group sa, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 47b, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium, company number BE 0466.241.584. Gag orders are not legally possible in Belgium — Mailfence's warrant canary states it has never received a US National Security Letter or FISA court order, and could disclose a valid Belgian court order to the affected user.
Independent security audit	None on record	None on record
Source code	Closed source	Closed source
Zero-access encryption	No	No
Intra-provider E2EE	No	No
External PGP	Not supported	Native
Past data breach	No	No
Telemetry	Always on	On unless you opt out
Features
Hosting	Cloud	Cloud
Custom domain support	No	Yes
Aliases	Limited	Unlimited
Anti-spam approach	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.	Incoming and outgoing messages are automatically analysed by anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-abuse checking routines; the provider's own security-analysis documentation states this applies at the transport layer and that OpenPGP-encrypted message bodies are never visible to the server.
Bundled services	Google DriveGoogle Photos	CalendarsDocumentsGroups