Proton Mail vs Fastmail

If you want a truly private email provider with your favourite email features, try Proton Mail.

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Proton Mail plans and pricing

Individuals | Families | Businesses

Proton Free
No credit card required
- 1 GB storage
- 1 user
- 1 email address
Mail Plus
Get Mail Plus
30-day money-back guarantee
- 15 GB storage
- 1 user
- 10 extra email addresses for you
- Support for 1 custom email domain
- Unlimited folders and labels
- 10 hide-my-email aliases
- Priority customer support
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Proton Unlimited
Get Proton Unlimited
30-day money-back guarantee
- 500 GB storage
- 1 user
- 15 extra email addresses for you
- Support for 3 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 Duo
Get Proton Duo
30-day money-back guarantee
- 2 TB storage
- Up to 2 users
- 30 extra email addresses for you
- Support for 3 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

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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.

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Features	Proton Free	Mail Plus Get Mail Plus	Proton Unlimited Get Proton Unlimited	Proton Duo Get Proton Duo
Storage
Users
Priority customer support		Included	Included	Included
Easy Switch import assistant	Included	Included	Included	Included
Proton Sentinel program			Included	Included
Emergency Access		Included	Included	Included
Dark Web Monitoring		Included	Included	Included

Email addresses
Custom email domains supported
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	Included	Included	Included
HTML signatures	Included	Included	Included	Included
End-to-end encryption	Included	Included	Included	Included
Password-protected emails	Included	Included	Included	Included
Encrypted contact details	Included	Included	Included	Included
Hide-my-email aliases	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Short @pm.me address		Included	Included	Included
Contact groups		Included	Included	Included
Email client support (via IMAP/SMTP)		Included	Included	Included
Auto-reply		Included	Included	Included
Catch-all email		Included	Included	Included
Automatic forwarding		Included	Included	Included
Auto-delete spam and trash		Included	Included	Included
Schedule and snooze emails for any time		Included	Included	Included
New Proton Scribe writing assistant		Add-on with free trial	Add-on with free trial	Included

Personal calendars
End-to-end encryption	Included	Included	Included	Included
Calendar sharing		Included	Included	Included
Send and receive invitations	Included	Included	Included	Included
New Appointment scheduling

Drive storage
Online document editor	Included	Included	Included	Included
New Online spreadsheets	Included	Included	Included	Included
End-to-end encryption	Included	Included	Included	Included
Share files and folders via link	Included	Included	Included	Included
Advanced sharing security	Included	Included	Included	Included
Version history			Included	Included

Devices
Countries	10 countries	10 countries	2000+ servers in 10+ countries	2000+ servers in 10+ countries
VPN speed	Medium	Medium	Highest	Highest
Worldwide streaming services			Included	Included
P2P/BitTorrent			Included	Included
NetShield malware and ad-blocker			Included	Included
Secure Core servers			Included	Included
Tor over VPN			Included	Included
VPN Accelerator			Included	Included
Custom DNS			Included	Included
LAN connections			Included	Included
Strict no-logs policy	Included	Included	Included	Included
No ads	Included	Included	Included	Included
Unlimited volume/bandwidth	Included	Included	Included	Included
DNS leak prevention	Included	Included	Included	Included
Kill switch/always-on VPN	Included	Included	Included	Included
Encrypted VPN servers	Included	Included	Included	Included
Router support	Included	Included	Included	Included
Split tunneling (Android and Windows)			Included	Included

Vaults
Built-in 2FA authenticator			Included	Included
Unlimited logins and notes	Included	Included	Included	Included
Unlimited credit cards	Included	Included	Included	Included
Unlimited devices	Included	Included	Included	Included
Share with up to

Encrypted wallet
Accounts per wallet
Bitcoin via email	Included	Included	Included	Included

New Meeting duration
New Participant capacity
New Simultaneous active meetings
New Unlimited meetings per day
New Meeting recording
New Screen sharing	Included	Included	Included	Included

Max model usage	Limited	Limited	Limited	Limited
Messages and chat history	Limited	Limited	Limited	Limited
Image generations	Limited	Limited	Limited	Limited