Nextmail against
Mailchimp
line by line.
Their list price is $13 / month at 500 contacts, checked in September 2026. Ours counts domains and sends, never people, so set the dials below to your own team and volume.
What they are better at
Campaigns, audiences, landing pages and reporting that a marketing team can run without help. Decades of deliverability work behind the sending.
Why people move
The bill follows the contact list, so the cost of keeping an address is the cost of having collected it. It is also a broadcast tool rather than a mailbox: nobody replies to a campaign and reads the answer in Mailchimp. Nextmail charges one plan per workspace and the replies land in an inbox. Your audiences come across with one Mailchimp key.
most mailboxes bill per seat; two or more needs Starter
ours steps at 1, 50 and 500; Proton, HEY, Resend, Fastmail, Postmark and Mailgun charge more
Sending APIs and Mailchimp bill by volume; mailboxes cap it per seat
unlimited on every plan of ours; Proton and Fastmail tie them to seats
FastmailBusiness Standard
Google WorkspaceBusiness Starter
SuperhumanStarter + WorkspaceMost of these sell one piece of the job: a mailbox, a sending API, a campaign tool or an app that needs a mailbox from somebody else. The Nextmail price is the whole job, with mailboxes on your own domains, sending and receiving, the full API and the AI assistant on every plan. So this is not even a fair comparison: every other bar buys one piece, and ours buys all of it.
Line by line.
Mailchimp is not a mailbox, so it is not on this table. The table compares the places mail actually lands, which is the choice Mailchimp sits beside rather than replaces.
| Compared | Nextmail Starter | Fastmail Business Standard | Proton Mail Mail Essentials | Google Workspace Business Starter | HEY for Domains per person | Superhuman Starter + Workspace |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you actually pay for | One plan per workspace | Each person | Each person | Each person | Each person | Each person, twice |
| Five people, every month | $20 | $30 | $39.95 | $42 | $58 | $192 |
| Twentieth person costs | $0 | $6 | $7.99 | $8.40 | $12 | $38.40 |
| Hosts the mail itself | a client on top of Gmail or Outlook | |||||
| Catch-all on your own domain | yours to switch on | paid plans | via a routing rule | aliases; catch-all not documented | whatever the host does | |
| Free on your own domain | one domain, up to 1,000 addresses | trial only | custom domains are paid | trial only | no trial on domains | trial only |
| Drafts, subjects and answers from AI | writing assistant only | Gemini | Business tier | |||
| Your own agent can work the inbox | MCP server | JMAP API | API, no MCP | |||
| End-to-end encryption | between Nextmail mailboxes | their whole point | enterprise tiers |