Startmail vs MessageBird Comparison (2024)
What are the differences between Startmail and MessageBird?
Written by
Forward Email Team
Published
5/1/24
Time to read
Less than 5 minutes
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Email Service Comparison
20 facts in comparisonStartmail | vs. | MessageBird |
---|---|---|
Startmail"Private email you can trust" | vs. | MessageBird"Omnichannel automation platform for APIs, service & marketing" |
$7/mo | Pricing | $20/mo |
20 GB | Storage | No MessageBird does not support storage |
25 MB | Attachments | 100 MB |
No | Open-Source | No |
❌ Startmail claims to use a User Vault, but this statement has not been audited and their source code is closed-source | Sandboxed Encryption | No |
No | Unlimited Domains | No |
No | Unlimited Aliases | No |
No | TTI | No |
Yes | SMTP | Yes |
Yes | IMAP | No |
Yes | POP3 | No |
No | API | Yes |
⚠️ Supported if both sender and recipient are using OpenPGP | E2EE | No |
⚠️ Supports OpenPGP, but does not support WKD | OpenPGP | No |
No | WKD | No |
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Why use us as your email provider?
What makes us different than others?
- We're the only 100% open-source provider
- We don't rely on any third parties (we don't use Amazon SES or an alternative like others)
- Our pricing allows you to scale cost effectively (we don't charge per user and you can pay as you go for storage)
- Unlike others, your email with us is not stored in a shared relational database alongside everyone else
- We're the world's first and only email service to use quantum-safe and individually encrypted SQLite mailboxes
Did you know?
Other email services advertise as open-source, but they do not release the source code to their back-end. The back-end is the most sensitive part of an email provider. It is also important to use 100% open-source because it builds trust and allows anyone to contribute and independently audit.
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