MXroute Pricing in 2026: Every Plan, Real Costs, and What I Pay

MXroute pricing in 2026 starts at $59 per year for the Small plan with 10GB of storage and goes up to $550 per year for 1TB plans, with everything in between landing on the cheap side of email hosting. Every plan ships with unlimited domains, unlimited email accounts, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, webmail, and a real human in support. There are no per-user fees. That’s the whole MXroute pricing story in one paragraph.

This article goes deeper. I cover every current MXroute plan, what each tier actually fits, what I pay personally, MXroute pricing vs Fastmail, Zoho Mail, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365, and the one upsell trick MXroute doesn’t pull that most email hosts do.

MXroute Pricing in 2026: All Plans at a Glance

Every plan above includes unlimited domains, unlimited email accounts, full IMAP/POP3/SMTP, custom SpamAssassin rules, ActiveSync, multiple webmail clients (Roundcube, SnappyMail, Horde), DKIM/SPF/DMARC tooling, and human support. That’s the MXroute promise: you pay once for storage and you stop counting users.

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MXroute Pricing Breakdown: Which Plan Should You Buy?

Small ($59/year, 10GB)

The entry tier. 10GB of email storage is enough for one person across one or two domains with normal email volume. If you send and receive under 50 emails per day and don’t keep large attachments forever, Small lasts years. At $4.92/mo annualized, it’s already cheaper than Google Workspace’s $7/user/mo Starter plan, and you can host unlimited domains and email accounts under the same 10GB cap.

Medium ($69/year, 25GB) – the one most people should buy

Medium is MXroute’s most popular plan and the one I recommend by default. The $10/year jump from Small gets you 2.5x the storage. For a small business or freelancer running 5-15 domains with normal email volume and the occasional 10MB attachment, 25GB is the safe zone. You’re not constantly cleaning out inboxes, you’re not nervous about archiving, and you’re paying $5.75/mo for a setup that would cost $35-$105/mo on Google Workspace for the same number of users.

Large ($79/year, 50GB)

Large makes sense if you run an agency with 20-50 client domains, or if you keep heavy attachments and don’t want to think about deletion policies. Past Large, the storage tiers (100GB, 300GB, 1TB) target archive-heavy use cases. Most teams never need them.

Reseller plans (from $30/quarter)

MXroute’s reseller tier is the secret weapon for web designers and hosting providers. You get a WHM-style control panel, can split storage across customer accounts, and bill them whatever you want. The Reseller 75 plan at $30 per quarter (effectively $10/mo) supports 75GB split across customers. The Reseller 200 plan at $25/mo gives you monthly billing instead of annual, which matters when you’re reselling to clients on monthly contracts.

What MXroute Pricing Doesn’t Include (and What That Saves You)

The thing that makes MXroute pricing actually cheap isn’t the headline number. It’s the absence of upsells.

• No per-seat charges. Add unlimited email accounts on any plan. Compare to Google Workspace at $7/user/mo – a 10-person team is $840/year there, $69/year on MXroute Medium.
• No domain limit. Add unlimited domains on any plan. Most hosts charge per-domain. MXroute doesn’t.
• No “premium support” tier. Every customer gets the same humans answering tickets. Compare to Microsoft 365 where business-grade support requires Business Premium at $22/user/mo.
• No paywalled features. SpamAssassin custom rules, ActiveSync, DKIM, DMARC, and multiple webmail clients are on every plan including Small.

The hidden cost of “cheap” email hosting elsewhere is usually the upsell list. MXroute’s pricing page is the same length as their feature page because there’s not much to upsell. You pay for storage. That’s it.

MXroute Pricing vs Fastmail, Zoho Mail, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365

Proton Mail sits in a different category from the rest of this list. The pricing looks similar on paper at $3.99/user/mo for Mail Plus, but the trade-off is encryption-first design: all mail is end-to-end encrypted between Proton accounts, the company is based in Switzerland under stricter privacy law, and you sacrifice some IMAP flexibility for that protection. For journalists, lawyers, healthcare practitioners, and anyone whose threat model includes server-side snooping, Proton’s price-to-privacy ratio is genuinely worth the upgrade. For the rest of us, MXroute’s flat storage tier is still the better deal.

The math flips once you cross 2-3 users. Below that, Zoho Mail’s $1/user/mo plan is technically cheaper. Above that, MXroute wins on every dimension that matters for small businesses with multiple domains. For a 5-person team across 3 domains, MXroute Medium is $69/year total. Google Workspace would be $420/year. Microsoft 365 would be $360/year. Fastmail would be $300/year. The gap widens with every domain and every additional user.

For a broader email hosting context, see my full cheap email hosting roundup, which covers MXroute alongside Migadu, Purelymail, Fastmail, Zoho, and the free tiers.

MXroute Pricing for Email Hosting With a Custom Domain

Every MXroute plan supports custom-domain email out of the box. You add your domain in the control panel, drop two MX records into your DNS, set the SPF and DKIM records they generate, and you’re sending email from you@yourdomain.com within minutes. There’s no additional charge for custom domains, no minimum plan tier required, and no domain count limit.

This matters because most “cheap” email hosting providers gate custom domains behind their middle tier. Zoho Mail’s $1/mo plan includes one domain, but adding a second domain requires upgrading. Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 charge per user, so two domains with two users is effectively double. MXroute treats domains as line items in a control panel, not a billing event.

Is MXroute Worth the Price?

For most independent businesses, freelancers, and agencies, yes. The MXroute Medium plan at $69/year is the best price-to-feature ratio in independent email hosting in 2026. Uptime since 2013 has been 99.9%+ by their own reporting, and consistent with what I’ve observed across two years on the platform: zero outages noticed, deliverability into Gmail and Outlook inboxes is clean once DKIM and DMARC are set up properly.

MXroute is not the right pick if you need integrated calendar, drive, video conferencing, and a productivity suite. That’s what Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 exist for. MXroute is mail-only. If mail is what you actually need, the price-to-quality ratio is hard to beat.

How to Get the Best MXroute Pricing

• Pay annually. All standard plans (Small through 1TB) are annual-only. There’s no monthly billing option below the 300GB tier, so the listed annual prices are the only prices.
• Start at Medium, not Small. The $10/year delta gets you 2.5x storage. Outgrowing Small in year two means rebuying, which costs more than starting at Medium.
• Watch for Black Friday. MXroute has historically discounted plans 30-40% on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. If you’re not in a hurry, wait until late November.
• Resellers should use quarterly billing. Quarterly reseller plans give you cash-flow flexibility if your downstream clients pay monthly. The Reseller 75 at $30/quarter is the best entry point.

MXroute Pricing Verdict: Who Should Sign Up?

Sign up for MXroute Medium at $69/year if you run a small business, agency, or solo operation with multiple domains and you’re tired of paying per-user fees for email. Sign up for the 100GB tier or above if you’re a hosting reseller or you specifically need high storage. Stay on Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 if you need the bundled productivity suite. There’s no in-between answer.

For more on building out a cheap business email stack, including how to pair MXroute with a transactional email service for marketing emails, see my guide to cheap email hosting in 2026 and the best email marketing software for sending bulk.

MXroute Setup: From Signup to First Sent Email in 15 Minutes

The MXroute pricing page makes the product look bare. The setup process is the proof. You can have a working custom-domain email account in under 15 minutes, and that includes DNS propagation. Here’s the actual sequence.

1. Pick the Medium plan ($69/year). Skip Small unless you’re truly a one-domain solo. The $10/year delta is the easiest upgrade in tech.
2. Sign up and pick your server. MXroute lets you pick a server location at checkout. Pick the one closest to your audience. US-based businesses get US East or West; EU businesses get EU.
3. Add your domain in the control panel. MXroute uses DirectAdmin, not cPanel. The UI is functional but unfamiliar if you’ve only used cPanel. Domains > Add Domain > paste yourdomain.com.
4. Drop in DNS records. MXroute shows you exactly which MX, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records to add at your registrar (Cloudflare, Namecheap, Porkbun, Google Domains). Five records total. Propagation is usually under 10 minutes.
5. Create your first email account. Pick a strong password. MXroute uses Argon2 hashing, so the password length matters more than complexity.
6. Test send and receive. Send a test from yourdomain.com to a Gmail address. Reply from Gmail. Confirm both directions land in the inbox, not spam. If they hit spam, DKIM or SPF isn’t propagating yet; wait 15 minutes and retest.

Once it works, hook your mail client of choice: Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, Mailspring. MXroute provides full IMAP/POP3 details in the control panel. ActiveSync works for iPhone and Outlook. Webmail is available through Roundcube, SnappyMail, or Horde, whichever you prefer.

MXroute Deliverability: DKIM, SPF, and DMARC Setup

Email deliverability is where cheap email hosts usually fail. MXroute doesn’t, but only if you set up the authentication records correctly. The MXroute pricing includes the infrastructure; the configuration is on you.

• SPF record (TXT): v=spf1 include:mxlogin.com -all at your domain’s root. This tells receiving servers that MXroute is authorized to send mail for your domain.
• DKIM record (TXT): MXroute generates a unique DKIM key per domain. Copy the value from the control panel into a TXT record at x._domainkey.yourdomain.com.
• DMARC record (TXT): Start with v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:you@yourdomain.com at _dmarc.yourdomain.com. After two weeks of clean reports, tighten to p=quarantine, then eventually p=reject.
• MX records: MXroute gives you two MX hosts to add at your domain’s root with priorities 10 and 20.
• PTR record: Not needed. MXroute handles reverse DNS on their end.

Validate everything at mxtoolbox.com after adding records. Run an SPF check, a DKIM check, and a DMARC check. All three should return clean within an hour. If any fail, recheck the record values in your DNS panel against what MXroute generated.

Migrating to MXroute From Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or Other Hosts

The MXroute pricing math only works if you can actually migrate without losing email history. Here’s the path that works for most migrations.

1. Sign up for MXroute and configure your domain without changing MX records yet. Both hosts can coexist temporarily.
2. Create your MXroute mailboxes with the same addresses as your current host (you@yourdomain.com).
3. Use IMAP-to-IMAP migration. The MXroute control panel includes an “Import Email” tool. Plug in source server credentials (Gmail IMAP, Outlook IMAP, old host IMAP) and destination credentials. MXroute pulls all messages, folders, and flags across.
4. Verify completeness. Check folder counts on both sides. Gmail’s “All Mail” can be 2-3x the size of inbox folders alone. Account for label structure differences.
5. Cut over MX records. Change MX records from the old host to MXroute. Lower TTL to 300 seconds the day before so propagation completes within an hour.
6. Keep the old host paid for one more month. Any in-flight email during the DNS propagation window may still hit the old server. The overlap period catches stragglers.

Most Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 migrations of 5-50GB complete in 2-12 hours of unattended IMAP sync. Larger archives can take overnight. MXroute’s migration tool is unattended; you don’t need to babysit it.

MXroute Reseller Pricing: When It Makes Sense

MXroute’s reseller program is genuinely useful if you’re a freelance web designer, WordPress agency, or hosting reseller. The pricing structure is built around being able to mark email up as a recurring service to your own clients without much overhead.

Marking that up to clients at $5-10/mo per mailbox creates a high-margin recurring revenue stream attached to your existing web work. Most clients won’t notice or care about the markup because they’re comparing your $5-10/mo to Google Workspace’s $7/user/mo, not to MXroute’s wholesale rate. The reseller control panel handles billing isolation, so each downstream client can manage their own accounts without seeing other clients on the same pool.

Common MXroute Issues (and How to Fix Them)

• Mail landing in spam at Gmail or Outlook: 90% of the time this is DKIM or SPF misconfiguration. Run mxtoolbox.com checks for both. Fix any “fail” or “softfail” results before sending volume.
• “Sender address rejected” errors when sending: SMTP authentication on the wrong port. MXroute uses port 587 with STARTTLS or 465 with SSL/TLS, not 25.
• iPhone Mail app not syncing folders: Use IMAP (port 993 SSL), not the iPhone’s “Other” mail setup wizard, which defaults to incorrect settings. Add the account manually with the exact MXroute server hostnames.
• Storage filling up faster than expected: Gmail-migrated archives are deceptively large because of how Gmail stores labels as separate folder copies. Check your storage breakdown in MXroute’s webmail before assuming you need a bigger plan.
• Outbound rate limits hit: MXroute caps outbound to roughly 100 messages per hour per account on standard plans, which prevents your shared IP from being abused. For higher-volume transactional or marketing sends, route through Postmark, Resend, or Amazon SES instead.

MXroute Pricing vs Migadu, Purelymail, and Other Independents

MXroute isn’t the only independent email host with flat pricing. The competitive landscape in 2026 includes a small set of operator-run providers that all undercut Google Workspace on price.

If you want absolute privacy and end-to-end encryption, Proton Mail Plus at $3.99/user/mo is the right call. If you want the absolute cheapest entry price and don’t need much storage, Purelymail or Migadu Mini beat MXroute Small. If you want the best webmail experience, Fastmail wins. If you want flat pricing across many domains and accounts with the most established operational track record, MXroute Medium remains the default recommendation.

Why MXroute’s Pricing Has Stayed This Cheap Since 2013

MXroute has been operator-run since 2013 by a small team that explicitly avoids the venture-backed playbook. There’s no investor pressure to raise prices to chase growth, no per-seat sales motion to push, no enterprise tier with white-glove onboarding. The pricing has held remarkably steady for over a decade while Google Workspace went from $5/user/mo to $7/user/mo to $7.20 plus storage caps.

That stability is part of why I recommend MXroute over newer entrants. Independent email hosting has a high failure rate — Tutanota acquihires, Protonmail’s price creep, and the occasional disappearing indie host (RIP Cock.li for many users, RIP others) all show that operator continuity matters as much as the headline plan price. MXroute’s 12+ year operating history is the part that doesn’t show up on the pricing page but should.

What You Don’t Get for MXroute’s Pricing

The MXroute pricing is cheap because the product is narrow. Honest list of what’s missing compared to Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.

• No bundled calendar. You can run CalDAV separately (Apple Calendar, Thunderbird) but there’s no Google Calendar equivalent built in.
• No bundled drive or file storage. MXroute is mail-only. Pair with Dropbox, Google Drive’s free tier, or self-hosted Nextcloud for files.
• No video conferencing. Use Zoom, Google Meet, or Whereby separately.
• No native iOS/Android app. Use Apple Mail, Gmail (with custom IMAP), or Spike. The lack of a branded app is fine in practice; standard mail clients work cleanly.
• No real-time co-editing of documents. If your team lives in Google Docs or Microsoft Word, you’ll keep paying for that separately.

For most small businesses, “mail-only” is actually the right scope. You pay $69/year for email that works, then pick the best-of-breed tool for each other category. The bundled Google Workspace approach is convenient but expensive; the unbundled MXroute approach is cheaper and gives you better tools per category.

MXroute Pricing Roundup

If you’ve made it this far, you’re probably weighing whether the MXroute pricing math actually works for your situation. The honest answer for most independent businesses, freelancers, agencies, and bootstrapped startups: yes. The combination of $69/year flat pricing, unlimited accounts, unlimited domains, and 12+ year operator track record beats every per-user tier from the big providers once you have more than 1-2 mailboxes.

The MXroute pricing works against you in two specific cases: if you genuinely need the Google Workspace bundle (Drive, Docs, Calendar, Meet) for your team, or if you only need email for one user and one domain and Zoho Mail Lite’s $12/year per-user plan is enough. Outside those edges, MXroute is the best price-to-feature ratio available in 2026.

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