Faivelo

Faivelo sells one flat per-account subscription and puts unlimited mailboxes on every tier, including the cheapest — the metered axes are storage and outbound volume, never seats. As published September 30, 2026: Starter at $5/mo billed yearly ($6 month-to-month) with 10 GB, up to 3 domains and 3,000 transactional emails a month; Growth at $10/$12 with 200 GB, unlimited domains, 20,000 transactional and 3,000 campaign emails, calendar and the hosted MCP server; Pro at $20/$24 with 1 TB, 50,000 transactional and 25,000 campaign emails, AI replies, team roles and new-mail webhooks; Business at $40/$49 with 2 TB and 100,000 of each. The yearly toggle carries a −17% badge, every tier opens with a 14-day trial that asks for no card, and a forwarding-only account is free indefinitely.

Two things the tier table makes easy to miss. “Unlimited domains” from Growth upward describes where mail is received; the domains you may send campaign and API mail from are capped at 1 on Starter and Growth, 3 on Pro and 10 on Business. And several things that read as standard are tier-gated: spam and phishing protection is labelled “Basic” on Starter and Growth and “Advanced” only from Pro, dedicated support starts at Growth, multi-admin team roles at Pro, and a dedicated sending IP is a $30/mo add-on on Pro and above rather than an included feature. API send pacing climbs with the tier as well — 10, 60, 120 and 240 emails a minute.

What every paid tier carries: webmail, IMAP and SMTP, spam and phishing screening, DKIM, SPF and DMARC configured for you, read receipts, two-factor sign-in, and the REST API — which is on Starter too, unlike the hosted MCP server. Alongside the retail tiers sits a Partner plan for agencies and platforms, published as “from $5 per customer a month, no platform fee, introductory pricing”: one API to create customers, domains and mailboxes, your brand on webmail and setup mail, and Faivelo billing you rather than your clients.

There is no intro-versus-renewal split to model here — the price you sign up at is the price that renews, and the terms promise at least 30 days' notice of any change, effective at your next renewal. The arithmetic that matters is against per-seat billing. Ten mailboxes on Google Workspace Business Starter or Microsoft 365 Business Basic run $840 a year at $7/user/mo; ten mailboxes on Faivelo Starter run $60 a year, and the eleventh through the hundredth cost nothing more. Faivelo makes the same comparison on its own page at eight seats — $56/mo on Google against $6/mo here.

Against the flat-fee independents the price case disappears, and that is the comparison a roundup should not skip. MXroute Small is $59/yr for 10 GB with unlimited domains and unlimited mailboxes; Faivelo Starter is $60/yr for the same 10 GB but capped at three domains; Migadu Micro is $19/yr. Faivelo's Growth tier — the first with unlimited domains, calendar, campaigns and MCP — is $120/yr, roughly double MXroute. So you are not buying a cheaper mailbox. You are buying calendar, contacts, Drive files, mobile apps, an API and a sending platform on one bill, and whether that nets out cheaper depends almost entirely on whether you were already paying separately for a Resend, Postmark or Mailgun plan next to your mail.

Renewal figures come from our Hosting Renewal Price Index — intro vs renewal pricing for every provider we cover, verified on vendor sites and dated.

Choose Faivelo if

• +You have far more addresses than people — support@, billing@, role and alias mail across several domains
• +Your product already sends transactional mail and you would rather not run a second vendor and a second sending reputation for it
• +You want an AI agent working the inbox directly — the hosted MCP server is the only one among the providers we track
• +You want calendar, contacts, files and mobile apps without buying a Google or Microsoft seat per person
• +You are an agency or platform reselling mailboxes, which is what the Partner tier is built for

Look elsewhere if

• −You need a contractual uptime guarantee — the terms explicitly disclaim one, and we found no public status page
• −You need SOC 2, ISO 27001, or a third-party-certified GDPR posture; Faivelo's “GDPR ready” mark is its own self-assessment and its EU/UK Article 27 representatives are listed as still being appointed
• −You want the cheapest possible mailbox — MXroute and Migadu still win outright on price
• −You want end-to-end encrypted mail; this is TLS in transit with AES-256 at rest, not Proton's model
• −You need bulk sending volume on day one — the terms are clear that plan volumes are earned, not granted

Inbound: Faivelo detects your DNS provider and offers to write the MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC records itself across roughly nineteen registrars and DNS hosts — Cloudflare, Porkbun, Namecheap, Spaceship, Route 53, GoDaddy, Vercel, Netlify, IONOS, OVHcloud, DigitalOcean, NameSilo, name.com, Gandi, Hostinger, Wix, WordPress.com, Google Cloud DNS and DreamHost — if you hand it an API credential, and it re-checks the records every few seconds; manual record entry is the fallback. Published migration guides cover Gmail, Microsoft 365 and generic IMAP. Outbound: the terms point to Settings → Export data for account data and to IMAP/JMAP for the mail itself, so a standard IMAP copy moves you out. Lock-in on the mail is genuinely low; it is higher on the things a plain mail host does not normally hold for you — calendars, Drive files, and any transactional templates or campaign lists you build inside the product.

The honest headline is age. Faivelo is operated by Louis & Schwartz Group, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company registered at 131 Continental Dr, Suite 305, Newark, DE 19713. As of September 30, 2026 we could find no Trustpilot profile, no Reddit or Hacker News discussion, no third-party review and no public status page; the only independent artefact was a listing submission to an MCP server directory. The testimonials on faivelo.com are first-party and unattributed. Everything in this profile is therefore the vendor's own published claim, dated — and as with every provider on this site, we have not run our own long-term deliverability or uptime measurement, so nothing here is a verdict on how it performs in practice. See how we test.

The terms are unusually frank in one place and unusually thin in others. Frank: “Sending limits are earned. New accounts begin with conservative limits that increase automatically with clean sending history. Plan volumes are the ceiling your account grows into, not a day-one entitlement.” That is the correct way to run a sending platform, and it also means Business's 100,000-email figure is a destination rather than an allowance. Thin: fees already paid are “non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise”, prepaid fees are forfeited if an account is terminated for a policy violation, and the service is supplied “without any guarantee that it will be uninterrupted, timely, or error-free”. Disputes run to binding arbitration under AAA rules and Delaware law.

The stack is assembled rather than owned, and to Faivelo's credit the trust page discloses all of it: mail servers at Contabo in Germany with a US data-centre option, message and file storage on AWS, outbound mail through Amazon SES in the US, plus Vercel, Neon, Upstash, Stripe and Twilio, and Anthropic for the AI features only. That is a defensible 2026 architecture, disclosed better than most — but it does mean the deliverability you inherit is partly Amazon SES's shared-pool reputation, and the fix for that, a dedicated IP, is a $30/mo add-on available only from Pro. Encryption is TLS in transit and AES-256 at rest, AES-256-GCM for identifiers and credentials, and bcrypt at 12 rounds for account passwords, with API keys stored as HMAC-SHA256 hashes and OAuth tokens scoped to the mailboxes you tick.

Alternatives to consider

• NetArt — loaded plans with a published sla
• IONOS — lowest first-year cost — if you plan the exit