I see the free tier being useful in several instances.įirst, if you simply cannot afford to pay for email, this might be workable, but would require studious monitoring of your storage. At the free tier you only get one email address (see explanation further down), three labels/folders, and limited customer support. The security conscious and power-user will certainly want more, thought. Quite honestly, most of these can probably be tolerated by the average user. There are some other minor limitations, as well. Anyone using ProtonMail as a mainstream email replacement will quickly exceed this storage limitation. Half a gigabyte isn’t much at all when you consider that a Google account provides 15 GB of free storage.

ProtonMail’s free tier caps your storage at very small 500 MB. The biggest limitation of the free account is storage. I’m mentioning this tier because I want to point out what it does and does not offer it is a very limited account, and strongly incentivizes serious users to upgrade. The free tier of ProtonMail offers all the stuff we talked about last time: essentially, encrypted communication and zero-knowledge storage. I pay full price, out-of-pocket and have received no discounts, free service, or any other incentive from ProtonMail.

However, I have pay full price – minus discounts available to all ProtonMail users – for both of my paid ProtonMail accounts (one a ProtonMail Plus plan, one a ProtonMail Professional plan).

Obviously I am a fan of ProtonMail, and I selfishly want others to use it so more of my communications are encrypted. I will briefly discuss the free tier, and then discuss additional capabilities of paid accounts. The third is the Visionary account, an account boasting maxed-out capabilities. One of these is designed for individuals, one for professional/corporate accounts. In the last installment, we discussed the features included in free ProtonMail accounts. This post will cover the basics of ProtonMail: how it encrypts your data-in-motion, data-at-rest, and some other features. A lot has changed since ProtonMail’s beginnings. My contact form forward emails to a ProtonMail account, and any of you that have interacted with me have done so through ProtonMail on my end. I have been using ProtonMail full-time for over five years, and recommending it for almost six.

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