$49 against $290. Same sending.
Migadu Standard · $290 per year, flat · checked 22 September 2026
Migadu prices on message volume rather than mailboxes, so which tier you need changes as you grow. Ours is one plan at 500 sends a day, so there is no rung to reassess after a busy month.
JustEmails is $49 a year for unlimited domains and unlimited mailboxes, sending up to 500 messages a day. Migadu is also flat-rate and also unlimited-mailbox, which makes this the closest comparison on the site in shape — but their price is set by message volume rather than by account. The rung that matches our throughput is Standard at $290 a year. Their cheaper tiers are real and worth knowing about: Micro is $19 and Mini is $90, and if your volume genuinely fits inside 20 or 100 messages a day they cost less than we do. What they cap is exactly what we do not.
| Plan | Price | Storage | Outbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| JustEmails | $49/yr | 10 GB | 500 emails/day |
| Migadu Micro | $19/yr | 5 GB | 20 emails/day |
| Migadu Mini | $90/yr | 30 GB | 100 emails/day |
| Migadu Standard | $290/yr | 100 GB | 500 emails/day |
| Migadu Maxi | $990/yr | 500 GB | 2,000 emails/day |
Migadu pricing: $290 per year, flat. Checked against their published pricing on 22 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 If it has changed since, the comparison above is out of date and we'd rather you told us than took our word for it.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 Migadu over IMAP — folders and read state intact. DNS records written and verified for you, per domain. Keep Migadu running while you test it.
Feature by feature
| JustEmails | Migadu | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat, per account | Flat, by message volume |
| Comparable tier | $49/yr | $290/yr (Standard) |
| Outbound at that tier | 500 messages/day | 500 messages/day |
| Cheapest tier | $49 — one plan only | $19 Micro, capped at 20/day |
| Domains | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Mailboxes | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Storage | 10 GB, +100 GB add-on | 5 GB Micro to 500 GB Maxi |
| Unified inbox across domains | Yes | No |
| Auto-DNS per domain | Generated, verified, re-checked 6-hourly | Manual |
| DNS drift alerts | Email + webhook | Not offered |
| MCP tools for AI agents | 140+ | None |
Who should pick what
Who this is for
You want one price that does not move as volume grows, and you would rather not think about which rung you are on. At 500 messages a day we are $49 against their $290 for the same throughput, and every domain you add afterwards is free on both counts — mailboxes and bill.
Two flat-rate hosts, and where the difference actually shows
Migadu and JustEmails both authenticate correctly and both sit outside the hyperscale IP reputation game, so at the volumes either product is sold for there is no meaningful placement gap between us. Anyone claiming otherwise about two hosts of this size is guessing.
The difference is what the platform does when DNS breaks. Neither product can stop a registrar change from dropping a DKIM record, but only one of them tells you. Authentication failure is silent by design: mail keeps leaving, signatures stop verifying, and the first signal is a customer saying your reply never arrived.
We re-check MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MTA-STS on every verified domain every six hours, email you the first time a record stops resolving, and fire a webhook if you want it routed somewhere. On one domain that is a nicety. On thirty it is the only way you find out at all.
The other practical difference is volume-based pricing itself. A rung that fits today can stop fitting after one busy month, and hitting a daily send cap looks like an outage to whoever was waiting on the mail. A flat cap of 500 a day on a single plan removes the tier decision entirely.
Why we quote Standard and not Micro
Migadu Micro is $19 a year and we publish it in the tier table above rather than hiding it. It caps outbound at 20 messages a day — a twenty-fifth of our 500 — so quoting it as the comparison would be comparing a different product and hoping nobody checked.
Standard at $290 is the rung that matches our throughput, which is why it is the headline figure. The ladder is published above so you can find the rung your own volume needs rather than take our word for which one applies.
That is the honest shape of a volume-priced competitor: they are cheaper below a threshold and dearer above it, and the only question that matters is which side of the threshold you are on. Their tier ladder is published above so you can find your own rung rather than take our word for which one applies.
Common questions
Migadu Micro is $19 — why does your comparison say $290?
Because Micro caps outbound at 20 messages a day and we allow 500 — a twenty-fifth of the throughput. Standard is the tier that matches ours, so it is the one we quote. Micro stays in the tier table above so you can see the full ladder and where your own volume sits.
Are both really unlimited mailboxes?
Yes, and that makes this the closest structural comparison on this site. Neither of us charges per mailbox or per domain. Migadu meters message volume instead and sells tiers against it; we set one cap of 500 a day on a single plan. The difference is what happens when you grow, not what you are allowed to create.
What do I get that Migadu does not offer?
One inbox spanning every domain rather than switching between accounts, DNS records generated and verified per domain instead of written by hand, six-hourly re-checks with email and webhook alerts when a record drifts, and 140+ MCP tools so Claude or ChatGPT can run your mail. None of those changes whether a message is delivered; they change how much of your attention email costs.
Do I have to move my domains to use JustEmails?
No. Leave every domain registered wherever it is. We need the DNS records, and those are generated and checked for you per domain — one account-wide verification value works across all of them, so publishing across a portfolio is one templated pass.
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