Proton Mail vs Fastmail
If you want a truly private email provider with your favourite email features, try Proton Mail.
Proton Mail plans and pricing
- storage
- users
- email addresses
- storage
- users
- extra email addresses for you
- Support for custom email domains
- Unlimited folders and labels
- hide-my-email aliases
- Priority customer support
Premium value included
- storage
- users
- extra email addresses for you
- Support for custom email domains
- Unlimited folders and labels
- Unlimited hide-my-email aliases
- Dedicated customer support
- Ultra fast and private VPN
- Encrypted password manager
- Encrypted cloud storage for photos and documents
- Advanced account protection
Premium value included
- storage
- Up to users
- extra email addresses for you
- Support for custom email domains
- Unlimited folders and labels
- Unlimited hide-my-email aliases
- Dedicated customer support
- Ultra fast and private VPN
- Encrypted password manager
- Encrypted cloud storage for photos and documents
- Advanced account protection
- Proton Scribe writing assistant
Premium value included
Privacy
Based in Switzerland and protected by strict Swiss privacy laws, Proton Mail is beyond the reach of intelligence alliances.
Fastmail is based in Australia, where surveillance laws like the Assistance and Access Act allow the government to monitor your emails.
Advanced security
Proton Mail provides strong physical security. Proton owns and operates all its servers in privacy-friendly countries (Switzerland and Germany) and doesn’t use third-party cloud providers.
Fastmail is based in Australia, but its main servers are located in third-party data centers in the US.
Calendar, storage, VPN
Like Proton Mail, Proton Calendar and Proton Drive are zero-access encrypted, no one but you and those you authorize can access them.
Fastmail holds the encryption keys to your encrypted calendar and file storage, so it can share your data with third parties.
Ease of use
With Proton Mail, you can combine labels and folders to organize your emails the way you like.
Fastmail makes you choose either labels or folders to organize your emails. You can’t use labels and folders together.
Compare our plans
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Storage | ||||
Users | ||||
Priority customer support | ||||
Easy Switch import assistant | ||||
Proton Sentinel program | ||||
Dark Web Monitoring | ||||
Use case | ||||
Number of accounts | ||||
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Email addresses | ||||
Support for custom email domains | ||||
Messages per day | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Folders | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Labels | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Custom filters | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Attachments size | 25 MB | 25 MB | 25 MB | 25 MB |
Desktop app | 14-day free trial | |||
HTML signatures | ||||
End-to-end encryption | ||||
Password-protected emails | ||||
Encrypted contact details | ||||
Hide-my-email aliases | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Short @pm.me address | ||||
Contact groups | ||||
Email client support (via IMAP/SMTP) | ||||
Auto-reply | ||||
Catch-all email | ||||
Automatic forwarding | ||||
Auto-delete spam and trash | ||||
Schedule and snooze emails for any time | ||||
New Proton Scribe writing assistant | Add-on with free trial | Add-on with free trial | ||
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Personal calendars | ||||
End-to-end encryption | ||||
Calendar sharing | ||||
Send and receive invitations | ||||
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Drive storage | ||||
Online document editor | ||||
End-to-end encryption | ||||
Share files and folders via link | ||||
Advanced sharing security | ||||
Version history | ||||
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Devices | ||||
Countries | 5 countries | 5 countries | 5+ servers in 5+ countries | 5+ servers in 5+ countries |
VPN speed | Medium | Medium | Highest | Highest |
Worldwide streaming services | ||||
P2P/BitTorrent | ||||
NetShield malware and ad-blocker | ||||
Secure Core servers | ||||
Tor over VPN | ||||
VPN Accelerator | ||||
Custom DNS | ||||
LAN connections | ||||
Strict no-logs policy | ||||
No ads | ||||
Unlimited volume/bandwidth | ||||
DNS leak prevention | ||||
Kill switch/always-on VPN | ||||
Encrypted VPN servers | ||||
Router support | ||||
Split tunneling (Android and Windows) | ||||
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Vaults | ||||
Built-in 2FA authenticator | ||||
Unlimited logins and notes | ||||
Unlimited credit cards | ||||
Unlimited devices | ||||
Share with up to | ||||
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Encrypted wallet | ||||
Accounts per wallet | ||||
Bitcoin via email | ||||
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