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Best email alias services
Hide your real address behind disposable or forwarding aliases. Facts come from each tool's own pages, and every score says where it comes from. How we rank
- Tools
- 8
- Researched
- 5
- Free option
- 4
- Only listed
- 3
Ranked by signals we can measure or quote: website health, the facts each tool's own pages state, and community discussion. Nothing here has been hands-on tested yet, so this is not a quality test. How the signals rank works
Quick answer
- No signup needed: Mailinator
Based on what each tool's own pages say. A tool is left out when its pages say it varies or do not say. Details are listed under each tool.
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Details and sources
- Free tier
- Free forever at $0 per month. Includes unlimited standard aliases, 10 active shared domain aliases, 1 recipient, 2 alias domains and 10MB monthly bandwidth.
- Paid plan
- Lite is $1 per month billed yearly. Pro is $3 per month billed yearly or $4 billed monthly. Duo (2 members) is $4.50 per month billed yearly or $6 billed monthly. Family (5 members) is $7.50 per month billed yearly or $10 billed monthly.
- Signup
- An account is needed. The pricing page says you need to sign up, and no card is needed to sign up.
- Watermark
- Not applicable.
- Where files go
- Information you provide is stored on servers in the Netherlands (UpCloud). Forwarded emails are stored only if delivery fails and you enabled that option. Nginx server logs are kept 3 days. No retention period is stated for account data; you can request deletion.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-01. Sources: Pricing, Privacy policy. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Details and sources
- Free tier
- Free plan at $0: 10 aliases and 1 mailbox, unlimited bandwidth, reply from alias, browser extensions and mobile apps.
- Paid plan
- Premium is $36 per year or $4 billed monthly: unlimited aliases, custom domains and mailboxes, 5 subdomains, 50 directories/usernames, catch-all, PGP. No other paid plan listed.
- Signup
- Creating an account requires an email address.
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- Policy says it does not store your emails; messages are deleted once delivered, undeliverable ones kept 7 days. Servers by Proton and UpCloud in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and France. Account deletion purges data within 30 days.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-01. Sources: Pricing, Privacy. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Details and sources
- Free tier
- Free Public plan at $0 per month: unlimited public inboxes, temporary storage (no amount given), SMS testing, API access, webhooks, routing rules, email attachments. Other limits not stated.
- Paid plan
- Business $79 per month billed yearly; Business Plus $159 per month billed yearly; Enterprise from $699 (custom pricing). Verified Pro listed at $0 with verification. Annual plans include a 20% discount. Month-to-month pricing and price by country not stated.
- Signup
- The pricing page lists no sign-up required for the Public plan.
- Watermark
- Not applicable.
- Where files go
- Privacy policy says emails sent to the public system are readable by anyone and in the public domain. Data may be stored and processed in the United States, where its servers and central database are. Retention period for inbox emails is not stated.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-01. Sources: Mailinator pricing, Mailinator privacy policy. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Details and sources
- Free tier
- The free tier includes 5 email masks, a browser extension, and email tracker removal. The page says: “Limited email protection. Email masks 5 . Browser extension . Remove email trackers . Free Get Relay.”
- Paid plan
- Not stated.
- Signup
- A sign in is required to manage masks and use the service. The page says: “Manage your masks from your Relay dashboard. Sign in to your Relay dashboard to create new masks, label existing masks, and block calls, texts, or emails from masks that get too much spam.”
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- Not stated.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-08. Sources: Home. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
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Details and sources
- Free tier
- Not stated.
- Paid plan
- Users can use their own domain with Guerrilla Mail for $9.99 USD per year. The page says: “Do you own a domain? Use it with Guerrilla Mail! Email arriving to your domain will be accessible only by you. Or, you may give access to everyone. Price: $9.99 USD / year.”
- Signup
- Not stated.
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- Not stated.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-08. Sources: Home. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Read automatically by a program, not by a person. Each fact quotes the sentence it came from, and a fact is shown only if that sentence is on the page. Where a page did not say, it reads “Not stated.”
Answers come from each tool's own pages (“Unclear” means they do not say). Tick “Compare” on two to four tools to read them side by side.
Also listed (3, not yet tested)
Each of these answered when we visited its site. We have not tested them or recorded facts, so they are in alphabetical order, not ranked.
- 10 Minute MailOpen
10 Minute Mail is listed for: email alias.
- DuckDuckGo Email ProtectionOpen
Block trackers in your emails with a free Duck Address
- Temp MailOpen
Temp Mail is listed for: email alias.
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