Faivelo vs Fastmail
Fastmail makes one of the best mail apps around and charges $4 for every person on the Basic business plan. Faivelo is one flat price for the whole team, with the DNS set up for you.
What Fastmail costs as your team grows
Fastmail Basic is $4 per user per month. Faivelo Starter is $6/month flat, however many mailboxes you create.
| Team size | Fastmail / year | Faivelo / year | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 person | $48 | $72 | — |
| 5 people | $240 | $72 | $168 |
| 10 people | $480 | $72 | $408 |
| 25 people | $1,200 | $72 | $1,128 |
| 50 people | $2,400 | $72 | $2,328 |
Fastmail Basic at $4/user/mo, billed monthly, as of July 2026. Faivelo Starter $6/mo ($72/yr); higher Faivelo tiers add storage and sending volume, not seats.
Feature by feature
| Fastmail | Faivelo | |
|---|---|---|
| Mailboxes | 1 per paid user ($4/user/mo on Basic) | ✓Unlimited on every plan |
| Pricing model | Per user, per month | ✓Flat rate, unlimited users |
| Storage | 6 GB per user (Basic), 60 GB on Standard at $6/user | 10 GB to 2 TB pooled by plan |
| Calendar and contacts | ✓Included on every plan | Included from the Growth plan |
| Bulk email campaigns | Not included (bulk sending is not allowed) | ✓Built in — 3,000 to 100,000/mo (Growth+) |
| DNS setup | Copy records at your registrar, or move your nameservers to Fastmail | ✓Automatic — records injected via your registrar |
| IMAP & SMTP access | Included | Included |
| API & MCP for AI agents | JMAP API with API tokens; no hosted MCP server | ✓REST API on every plan; hosted MCP server (Growth+) |
When Fastmail is the better fit
- You live in email all day and want Fastmail's fast, polished web and mobile apps
- You want calendar and contacts on every plan, including the entry one
- You use Masked Email to hand out a fresh address to every website
Why teams switch to Faivelo
- Flat pricing: at two people Fastmail Basic already costs more than all of Faivelo Starter
- support@, billing@ and every new hire are included, not another $4 a month
- Pooled storage instead of 6 GB per person on Fastmail Basic
- MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC written at your registrar for you, plus campaigns from the Growth plan
Migration
Moving from Fastmail takes no time at all
- 1Add your domainFaivelo injects MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC through your registrar automatically. Nothing to copy.
- 2Copy your mailThe migration tool pulls each mailbox's history over IMAP while your old service keeps working.
- 3Flip and cancelMail starts arriving at Faivelo the moment DNS switches; cancel the per-seat bill.
Faivelo vs Fastmail, answered
From the second person. Two users on Fastmail Basic cost $8 a month; Faivelo Starter is $6 a month however many mailboxes you create. At ten people that is $480 a year on Fastmail and $72 on Faivelo.
Fastmail's apps are some of the best in the business, and if you are one person who lives in email, that is a fair reason to stay. Faivelo has its own webmail and iOS app, and every mailbox also works in Apple Mail, Outlook or Thunderbird over standard IMAP and SMTP.
Create an app password in Fastmail's security settings, then Faivelo's migration tool copies each mailbox over IMAP while Fastmail keeps working. When the copy is done, switch your MX records and cancel the Fastmail plan.
Yes. Campaigns are built in from the Growth plan, with CSV import, open and click tracking and one-click unsubscribe, sent from your own domain.
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