Pricing that fits how you actually use email

Mailyte is an open-source email platform for your own domain. It hosts real mailboxes with IMAP, SMTP, and webmail; sends at scale through SMTP or a REST API; and gives you deliverability tooling — generated SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records verified against live DNS, full email logs, and reporting — all from one dashboard. You can self-host the community edition or use Mailyte Cloud.

Yes. The Mailyte mail server community edition and webmail are open source under AGPL-3.0 on GitHub. The community edition ships the full mail stack — Postfix, Dovecot, spam filtering, the API, and webmail — as a Docker Compose deployment you run on your own hardware, free, with no seat counting. Mailyte Cloud is the same core, operated for you, with migration tooling, deliverability monitoring, teams, and support on top.

Google Workspace charges about $7 per user per month. Mailyte is $0.50 (₦700) per mailbox per month on an annual term — around 90% less — and domains, aliases, forwarders, admin seats and API keys are all included, so you only pay for people who actually read mail. You can also mix tiers: put the people who need 30 GB on Pro and everyone else on Standard, on one invoice. And if you self-host the community edition, the software is free.

Both. Most tools make you choose: hosting providers give you mailboxes but no sending API, and sending services give you an API but no mailboxes. Mailyte does the whole job — your team reads and replies in webmail or any mail client, and your product sends through the same authenticated domain via SMTP or the API.

Add your domain and Mailyte generates the exact DNS records you need — SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and MX. Publish them at your DNS provider, click verify, and Mailyte checks each record against live DNS so you know they are actually in effect. Once verified you can create mailboxes and start sending immediately.

Yes. Mailyte connects to your current provider over IMAP — with presets for Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and cPanel — and copies messages, folders, and read state into your new mailboxes. Mail keeps flowing to your old server during the copy, you can re-run a delta sync to pick up anything new, and you switch your MX records only when everything is across.

Either. Every mailbox includes access to Mailyte webmail — sign in with the mailbox credentials from any browser. Mailboxes also speak standard IMAP and SMTP, so Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, and phone mail apps all work out of the box.

Every message is logged end to end: submission, the receiving server’s actual response (delivered, deferred, or bounced), open and click events, and the full rendered content of the message. Content is retained for 30 days and attachments are never stored.

Two separate limits. The first is per mailbox: a person can send 100 emails a day on Free, 500 on Standard, 2,000 on Pro. The second is your account-wide allowance for everything sent automatically — app email AND campaigns together, out of one pool. Standard includes 5,000 a month, Pro 20,000. Beyond that you buy prepaid credits from $1 (₦1,200) per 10,000, and your first 15,000 are free once your domain verifies — one welcome grant per customer. There is no separate marketing allowance to buy.

Yes. Broadcasts use the same prepaid credits as your app email — there is no separate marketing plan, and we do not charge for the size of your list, only for the emails you actually send. A 10,000-person list costs nothing to keep and about ₦1,200 to email once. Above roughly 50,000 emails a month we move you onto your own dedicated sending IP, warmed up first, so your reputation is yours rather than shared. In return we ask that everyone on your list opted in, that every broadcast carries a working unsubscribe link, and that your domain is verified before the first send — one bad list is what gets an entire mail platform blocked at Gmail.

Sending stops until you top up — we never bill you for going over. Prepaid credits mean no surprise invoice at the end of the month, which is the whole point: you decide when to spend more. We warn you as your balance runs down, and topping up takes effect immediately. Your mail keeps arriving throughout; only outbound sending from your app pauses.

Yes, and it is not a countdown. Free gives you 10 mailboxes with 5 GB each, on your own domain, with IMAP, POP and mobile sync — so you can use Outlook or your phone's mail app, which most free plans elsewhere do not allow. No credit card, and no expiry date. Move to a paid tier when you need more room or more sending.

Everyone gets the documentation and the community. Standard mailboxes get email support, and Pro gets priority support with named response times. Priority support is also available as an add-on if you are on Standard and want it.