Proton
ProtonMail

Break free from Gmail

What’s in your email is your business, not Google’s. With Proton, only you can read your inbox.

All the features you want,
privacy included

Big Tech email providers like Gmail make money by searching through your inbox and using what they find to target you with ads. Proton Mail doesn’t.

We just give you everything you need to manage and organize your inbox.

Comparison of Proton Mail and Gmail
Comparison of Proton Mail and Gmail

Inbox features

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Price

Free, or pay for extra space and products

“Free,” but you pay with your privacy

Your favorite features
Free, fully integrated calendar
Works on all your devices
Mobile and desktop apps
Privacy first: no data harvesting
No ads
End-to-end encryption
Blocks trackers and spying marketers
Free VPN
Protected by strong Swiss privacy laws

Proton Mail plans and pricing

No credit card required
  • storage
  • users
  • email addresses
30-day money-back guarantee
  • 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

  • Mail
  • Calendar
Recommended
30-day money-back guarantee
  • storage
  • users
  • extra email addresses for you
  • Support for
    custom email domains
  • Unlimited folders and labels
  • Unlimited hide-my-email aliases
  • Dedicated customer support
  • Proton VPN
    Ultra fast and private VPN
  • Proton Pass
    Encrypted password manager
  • Proton Drive
    Encrypted cloud storage for photos and documents
  • Advanced account protection

Premium value included

  • Mail
  • Calendar
  • VPN
  • Drive
  • Pass
  • Wallet
30-day money-back guarantee
  • 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
  • Proton VPN
    Ultra fast and private VPN
  • Proton Pass
    Encrypted password manager
  • Proton Drive
    Encrypted cloud storage for photos and documents
  • Advanced account protection
  • Proton Scribe writing assistant

Premium value included

  • Mail
  • Calendar
  • VPN
  • Drive
  • Pass
  • Wallet

Keep your conversations to yourself

With end-to-end and zero-access encryption, we can’t see your emails. Only you and your recipients can.

Kick trackers out of your inbox

Automatically block the trackers in promotional emails. Stop senders from seeing which emails you open.

Quickly unsubscribe from newsletters

Keep your encrypted inbox clutter-free and remove yourself from mailing lists with a single click.

Organize your schedule privately

Create events, send invitations, and set reminders only you can see. Your calendar is a record of your life.

Take a break from advertising

We make our money through paid subscriptions to premium plans, not by targeting you with ads.

See everything that’s in our code

Our apps are open source and audited by independent experts. Anyone can verify they do what we claim.

Join the Proton community

Fight for an internet where privacy and freedom are the default and people have an alternative to Big Tech.

Get Swiss privacy on your side

Based in Switzerland, Proton benefits from some of the strictest privacy protections in the world. So can you.

Switch to Proton in one click

Moving your existing emails, contacts, and calendars to your new inbox is effortless with Easy Switch.

Enjoy the privacy of Proton, with all the features you need to quickly and easily communicate and collaborate.

Our story begins at CERN, where the web was born

Proton was founded by scientists who met at CERN and united over a shared vision of a more secure and private internet. We are scientists, engineers, and specialists working to protect civil liberties online.

A better world starts with privacy and freedom

Proton is building a better internet where privacy is the default. By choosing and advocating Proton, you stay in control of your data and join a community of millions who believe privacy is worth fighting for.

100 million users trust Proton
with their privacy

Since our start in 2014, Proton has grown from a small community to a privacy-first ecosystem with more than 100 million satisfied users, and featured in some of the world’s leading media outlets.

PCMag Editors’ Choice

“If you’d like to reclaim at least some of your privacy, consider switching to an encrypted email provider that puts your security first, like Proton Mail. ... [Its] wealth of added features combined with effective end-to-end email encryption makes Proton Mail an Editors’ Choice winner for email encryption service.”
— PCMag

What our users say

Jack Dorsey
Twitter co-founder

My favorite email service

@hexnobody
X user

Just exported 20 years of Gmail and imported to Proton Mail - then deleted it all in Gmail.

Quite soon, Google will no longer know who I am.

Mark Ruffalo
American actor and producer

Love my ProtonMail.

@EddieUSAxyz
X user

My Choice for a Gmail alternative? @ProtonMail - Been using a paid account for over 2 years and it's great. Good customer service also!

@shauno1369
X user

I moved to @ProtonMail 2 years ago and never looked back. The feeling of freedom you get when you know you are not being tracked is uplifting.

@dhh
X user

I'm a big fan of @ProtonMail! They kept the light on for small tech, independent mail service providers while nobody else seemed to give a damn.

@DebLRobison
X user

You get what you pay for. In the case of big tech, if you pay nothing, you get used. I quit using Gmail and switched to @ProtonMail

Compare our plans

Compare our plans
Features
Storage
Users
Priority customer support
Easy Switch import assistant
Proton Sentinel program
Dark Web Monitoring
ProtonMail
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
ProtonCalendar
Personal calendars
End-to-end encryption
Calendar sharing
Send and receive invitations
ProtonDrive
Drive storage
Online document editor
End-to-end encryption
Share files and folders via link
Advanced sharing security
Version history
ProtonVPN
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)
ProtonPass
Vaults
Built-in 2FA authenticator
Unlimited logins and notes
Unlimited credit cards
Unlimited devices
Share with up to
ProtonWallet
Encrypted wallet
Accounts per wallet
Bitcoin via email

Millions trust Proton Mail to keep their communications private

Choose an email that is secure and private by default.