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StartMail vs Tuta Comparison

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TutaVisit →
Overview
Rating6.47.9
Pricing
  • $4.99/moPersonal (annual)
  • $6.99/moBusiness (annual)
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  • Personal (annual): $59.88/year
  • Business (annual): $83.88/year
  • $3.00/moRevolutionary (individual, annual)
  • $8.00/moLegend (individual, annual)
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  • Revolutionary (individual, annual): Billed yearly, taxes included; €4.32/month if billed monthly
  • Legend (individual, annual): Billed yearly, taxes included; €9.60/month if billed monthly
Free tierPaid onlyLimited free tier
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1 GB storage, 1 calendar, 3 labels, no custom domain, no extra addresses

Established20132011
PlatformsNot specified
WindowsmacOSLinuxAndroidiOS
Privacy
JurisdictionNetherlands
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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.

Germany
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Tutao GmbH, Deisterstr. 17a, 30449 Hanover, Germany. Registered at the District Court of Hanover, HRB 208014.

Independent security auditNone on recordNone on record
Source codeClosed sourceFully open source
Zero-access encryptionNoYes
Intra-provider E2EENoYes
External PGPNativeNot supported
Past data breachNoNo
TelemetryOn unless you opt outNo telemetry
Features
HostingCloudCloud
Custom domain supportYesYes
AliasesUnlimitedLimited
Anti-spam approachPersonal, 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.SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MTA-STS harden the infrastructure against phishing and spam at the protocol level; Tuta blocks external content (images, videos) in emails by default and warns when the technical sender differs from the visible From address, without scanning encrypted message content.
Bundled servicesNot specified
CalendarDrive