Purelymail costs $10 a year with no hard limits on users, domains or storage, and nothing on this page is cheaper. People still leave it, for a handful of specific reasons. If one of them is yours, here is where to go; if none is, stay where you are.
First, the price
Purelymail's pricing page says "$10 a year" and "There are no hard limits. Not on users, custom domains, storage, or anything else." An account that uses more than $10 worth of resources moves to advanced pricing, which is a $4 yearly account fee plus a charge per compressed gigabyte stored and per message (purelymail.com/pricing and /advancedpricing, checked 6 October 2026). For one person with normal habits, the bill stays at $10.
Faivelo is $6 a month, or $60 a year on yearly billing. That is six times Purelymail. We are not going to pretend the gap is small, so the rest of this page is about whether what you get for the difference is something you need.
The four reasons people leave
- You want to send a newsletter. Purelymail's terms say you cannot send marketing or advertising email and cannot run a mailing list. Transactional mail to your own customers is allowed.
- You need an answer today. In Purelymail's own words: "We don't have a 24/7 support staff." Tickets are answered when the team can.
- Someone else set it up. DNS records go in by hand at your registrar. When a record breaks, the person who knows how to fix it may be the one who left.
- Your team wants an app. Purelymail has webmail and works with any mail client. It does not ship phone apps of its own.
Each of these is a fair choice for a service that costs less than a sandwich a year. None of them is a flaw if you are one technical person with a personal domain. They start to matter when the domain belongs to a business, when there is a team, or when the mailbox is also where invoices and password resets arrive.
Where to go, by reason
| If you are leaving because | Consider | Price to expect |
|---|---|---|
| You want everything Purelymail has, a little more polish, and still very cheap | Migadu Micro | $19 a year, 5 GB, but only 20 outgoing messages a day |
| You have many domains and send ordinary mail only | MXroute | From $59 a year for 10 GB, unlimited domains, 400 emails an hour per address |
| You want a mature app and calendar, priced per person | Fastmail Business Standard | $5 per person a month on yearly billing, custom domains included |
| You want DNS done for you, phone apps, support, and room for a newsletter | Faivelo | $6 a month or $60 a year, unlimited mailboxes, newsletters from Growth at $12 |
Official pricing pages, checked 6 October 2026: migadu.com/pricing, mxroute.com, fastmail.com/pricing. Migadu and MXroute also forbid marketing mail of one kind or another; read their terms if a newsletter is your reason for leaving.
If the reason is price creep from advanced pricing, the honest answer is MXroute or Migadu, whose prices are fixed by storage tier. If the reason is that the business has grown past one technical person, that is the case Faivelo is built for. We connect to the registrar and place the MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC records ourselves, keep checking them, and give the team webmail plus iPhone and Android apps.
How to move off Purelymail without losing mail
- Make an app password if you use 2FA. Purelymail asks for an app password instead of your login password when two-factor is on. Create one for the copy.
- Create the same addresses at the new host. Every mailbox, plus the aliases and the catch-all if you use one.
- Copy the history over IMAP. Purelymail's IMAP server is imap.purelymail.com on port 993 with SSL. On Faivelo the migration tool in the dashboard does the copy; elsewhere use the host's importer or imapsync.
- Switch the MX records. Point MX at the new host and replace the SPF, DKIM and DMARC records in the same edit. Leave Purelymail's account open.
- Copy again an hour later. A second pass picks up what arrived while DNS was changing.
- Close Purelymail after a month. By then every sender has your new MX and nothing is still landing on the old account.
The full order, including the TTL trick that makes the switch take minutes instead of hours, is in how to move email to a new provider without losing mail.
When to stay
Stay on Purelymail if you are the only person on the account, you are comfortable editing DNS, you never send bulk mail, and a reply to a support ticket in a day or two is fine. That describes a lot of people, and for them nothing else is better value. We wrote a longer, friendlier comparison of the three indie hosts in Faivelo vs Purelymail, Migadu and MXroute.
Leave Purelymail for a reason, not for a price. On price, it wins.
FAQs
Is there anything cheaper than Purelymail?
Not among paid hosts that let you send and receive on your own domain with no user or domain limits. Free options exist, such as Zoho's free plan, but they cap users, storage and protocols.
Can I keep my addresses when I switch?
Yes. The addresses belong to your domain, not to Purelymail. Create the same ones at the new host before you change the MX records, and nothing about them changes for the people who write to you.
Will I lose old mail?
Not if you copy it over IMAP before switching MX and again after. Folders and read state come across; filters and contacts are moved separately.
Can I send a newsletter from Faivelo?
Yes, to people who opted in, from the Growth plan at $12 a month with 3,000 campaign sends a month. Cold outreach is not allowed on any plan.
Try the version with the setup done
Add the domain, let Faivelo place the records, and copy your Purelymail history in from the dashboard. Fourteen days free, no card, and your Purelymail account keeps working until you switch MX.