Faivelo vs Namecheap Private Email
Namecheap Private Email is priced per mailbox: Launch renews at $14.88 a year for one mailbox, about $1.24 a month, with extra mailboxes at $8.88 a year each; Expand renews at $41.88 a year for three mailboxes and Scale at $71.88 for five (namecheap.com/hosting/email, checked 6 October 2026). Faivelo is one flat price for as many mailboxes as you create.
What Namecheap Private Email costs as your team grows
Namecheap Private Email Launch is $1.24 per user per month. Faivelo Starter is $6/month flat, however many mailboxes you create.
| Team size | Namecheap Private Email / year | Faivelo / year | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 person | $14.88 | $72 | — |
| 5 people | $74.4 | $72 | $2.4 |
| 10 people | $148.8 | $72 | $76.8 |
| 25 people | $372 | $72 | $300 |
| 50 people | $744 | $72 | $672 |
Namecheap Private Email Launch at $1.24 per user or mailbox a month, on the billing basis the provider's own pricing page states (cited on this page). Faivelo Starter $6/mo ($72/yr); higher Faivelo tiers add storage and sending volume, not seats.
Feature by feature
| Namecheap Private Email | Faivelo | |
|---|---|---|
| Mailboxes | 1 included on Launch, $8.88 a year per extra mailbox | ✓Unlimited on every plan |
| Pricing model | Per mailbox, billed yearly after a 30-day trial | ✓Flat rate, unlimited mailboxes, monthly or yearly |
| Storage | 5 GB per mailbox (Launch), 10 GB (Expand), 15 GB (Scale) | 10 GB to 2 TB pooled by plan |
| Aliases | 10 per mailbox on Launch, unlimited on Scale | Unlimited on every plan |
| Calendar and contacts sync | ✓CalDAV and CardDAV included | Calendar from the Growth plan |
| Bulk email campaigns | Not included | ✓Built in — 3,000 to 100,000/mo (Growth+) |
| DNS setup | Copy records in Namecheap Advanced DNS; a Namecheap domain gets the Private Email preset | ✓Automatic — records injected via your registrar |
| IMAP & SMTP access | IMAP, SMTP and POP3 included | Included |
| API & MCP for AI agents | No public mailbox API | ✓REST API on every plan; hosted MCP server (Growth+) |
When Namecheap Private Email is the better fit
- You need exactly one or two mailboxes and want the lowest possible yearly bill
- Your domain is already at Namecheap and you want email on the same invoice
- You want CalDAV and CardDAV calendar and contact sync on the entry plan
Why teams switch to Faivelo
- Three Launch mailboxes already cost more per month than all of Faivelo Starter
- support@, billing@ and every new hire are mailboxes you create, not $8.88 a year each
- Pooled storage by plan instead of 5 GB per mailbox on Launch
- DNS records written and verified for you where the registrar allows it, plus campaigns from the Growth plan
Migration
Moving from Namecheap Private Email 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 Namecheap Private Email, answered
From the third mailbox. Launch renews at $14.88 a year and each extra mailbox adds $8.88 a year, so three mailboxes are about $32.64 a year, or $2.72 a month (namecheap.com/hosting/email, checked 6 October 2026). Faivelo Starter is $6 a month however many mailboxes you create, so a team of five on Scale, which renews at $71.88 a year, pays about the same as Faivelo and gets 15 GB per mailbox rather than a shared pool. Past five, Faivelo pulls ahead on every count.
Yes. Namecheap says every Private Email plan has a 30-day free trial that converts to an annual plan, and that promotional codes apply to the first purchase only. Faivelo's trial is 14 days with no card, and nothing converts unless you choose a plan.
Yes. The domain stays where it is. Namecheap only opens its DNS API to accounts with 20 or more domains or $50 of spend, so most people paste the records Faivelo shows into Advanced DNS by hand, which takes about ten minutes, and Faivelo checks them for you.
Faivelo's migration tool copies each mailbox over IMAP while Private Email keeps working. When the copy is done, switch the MX records and let the Namecheap plan lapse at renewal.
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