$49 against $59. Same 10 GB.

MXroute Small · $59 per year, flat · checked 8 September 2026

MXroute is the closest thing to us in shape: flat annual price, unlimited domains, unlimited accounts. Only storage changes between their tiers.

MXroute pricing: $59 per year, flat. Checked against their published pricing on 8 September 2026. If it has changed since, the comparison above is out of date and we'd rather you told us than took our word for it.

What $49 a year buys

Free migration from MXroute over IMAP — folders and read state intact. DNS records written and verified for you, per domain. Keep MXroute running while you test it.

Feature by feature

Who should pick what

Deliverability: what actually decides it

Both MXroute and JustEmails authenticate properly — SPF, DKIM and DMARC on every domain — so neither has a structural advantage in the headers a receiving server checks first. Anyone claiming a large deliverability gap between two correctly-configured hosts is usually selling something.

What actually moves inbox placement is sender behaviour: how consistent your volume is, how many recipients engage, how few complain, and whether your DNS is still correct on the day you send. Volume spikes from a cold domain get filtered regardless of who hosts them.

Where the two differ is what happens when something breaks. The most common cause of a domain quietly falling out of the inbox is not spam complaints — it is a DNS record that stopped resolving. A nameserver change at the registrar, an expired DNSSEC signature, a DKIM record dropped during an unrelated edit. Mail keeps sending, authentication starts failing, and the first signal is usually a customer saying they never got your reply.

JustEmails re-checks MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MTA-STS on every verified domain every six hours, and emails you — plus fires a webhook if you want one — the first time a record stops resolving. MXroute does not offer equivalent monitoring; you would find out the way most people do.

Both platforms run inbound spam filtering and virus scanning, so neither exposes you on the receiving side. If deliverability is your deciding factor, the honest summary is that authentication is a tie and the difference is monitoring.

Storage flexibility

This is MXroute’s clearest advantage and worth stating plainly. Their tiers scale on storage alone — Small at 10 GB up through a 100 GB tier and a 1 TB tier — while domains and accounts stay unlimited throughout. If you are archiving years of mail across many mailboxes, that ceiling is far above ours.

JustEmails includes 10 GB on the base plan with 100 GB add-ons at $100/year each. That is competitive at the low end and gets expensive well before MXroute’s top tiers. If your requirement is measured in hundreds of gigabytes, buy MXroute — we are not the better answer and pretending otherwise would waste your time.

Where our model is simpler is that storage is the only thing you ever have to think about buying. Domains, mailboxes and aliases never enter the pricing conversation on either platform, so the decision reduces to storage ceiling against everything else on this page.

Track record

MXroute has been running since 2015 and has a genuinely loyal following among self-hosters and sysadmins, largely earned through direct, unpretentious support and not raising prices on existing customers. That is a real asset and we cannot claim an equivalent.

JustEmails is newer. If longevity is what you are buying, no feature table resolves that difference and you should weigh it accordingly.

What we would say in our favour is narrower: the product was built for the multi-domain case specifically, rather than arriving at it via general-purpose mail hosting. The unified inbox, per-domain DNS generation and drift monitoring exist because managing many domains was the starting problem, not a use case discovered later.

Configured for you, or configured by you

MXroute hands you cPanel or DirectAdmin and expects you to drive it. That is a genuine strength if you already live in those panels — everything is exposed, nothing is abstracted, and there is no product opinion between you and the mail server.

It also means DNS is yours to write. MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC per domain, published by hand, correct or not. Nothing re-checks them, so a nameserver change at the registrar or a DKIM record dropped during an unrelated edit produces silent authentication failure: mail keeps leaving and stops arriving.

We take the other approach. Add a domain and the four records are generated for you, checked before the domain goes live, then re-checked every six hours on every verified domain, with an email and optional webhook the first time one stops resolving. The account-wide verification value is identical across every domain, so a portfolio is one templated DNS pass.

The inbox model differs the same way. MXroute is an account and a webmail client per domain; ours is one inbox across every domain you own, with per-domain colour tagging, and 140+ MCP tools so an AI assistant can triage it. Whether that is worth anything depends entirely on whether you wanted a mail server or a mail product.

Common questions

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