Combell Email
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: Professional E-Mail and Mailbox service from €3.99/month.
Known for: Mailbox-only or bundled with a Microsoft 365 office package. Belgian-hosted, part of the Combell cloud stack. Built for business, not consumers. Useful if you already host with Combell.
https://www.combell.com/en/email-hosting
eclipso
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: Free plan. Paid from €0.99/month. Cheapest plan with custom domain €4.99/month.
Known for: Mail, calendar, contacts via CalDAV and CardDAV. Letter and fax sending for business plans. Servers in Germany. Cheapest paid tier in the list. €0.99/month covers personal use; pay up for a custom domain.
https://www.eclipso.eu
GMX Email
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: Free with ads. Paid plans €2.99/month and €4.99/month.
Known for: Mass-market German mail with webmail, calendar, contacts. Same backend as WEB.DE — both United Internet. Pick this or WEB.DE based on which brand you prefer — the technology underneath is the same.
https://www.gmx.com
Hostpoint E-Mail
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: CHF 3/month for the basic plan.
Known for: One inbox with 15 GB, address book and calendar. Webmail based on Open-Xchange. Hosted entirely in Switzerland. Clean Swiss-hosted mail. Best fit if you already buy domains or hosting from Hostpoint.
https://www.hostpoint.ch/en/email
inbox.eu
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: Personal and business plans both from €9.99/year (100 GB mailbox). Business plan allows custom domain. Latvia country page coming soon.
Known for: Latvian mail with calendar and contacts. Generous mailbox and file storage. Sister services inbox.lv, mail.ee, inbox.lt for local markets. By far the cheapest large-mailbox plan in the list. 100 GB for €10/year is unmatched.
https://www.inbox.eu/en/
Infomaniak kMail
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: Standard free forever with a domain purchase (15 GB). Pro from €6.58/month.
Known for: Part of kSuite: mail, calendar, address book, drive, meeting tool. Infomaniak is also a domain registrar. Swiss bundle for people who want one provider for everything. Free tier with domain is a strong starter offer.
https://www.infomaniak.com/en/hosting/service-mail
Kolab Now
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: Email Only CHF 5/month. Full groupware suite CHF 9.90/month.
Known for: Open-source, fully end-to-end encrypted, perfect forward secrecy. Mail plus calendar, contacts, notes, file storage. Built on open standards. For people who want Swiss privacy AND open source AND open standards. No vendor lock-in by design.
https://kolabnow.com
mail.de
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: Free 1 GB (or 500 MB ad-free). Premium from €0.99/month (2.5 GB). Top plan has unlimited storage.
Known for: Mail, calendar, address book, online storage via CalDAV, CardDAV, WebDAV. Hamburg-hosted on dedicated servers. Hamburg-hosted with generous storage at the top end. Good middle option between Posteo and the mass-market German providers.
https://mail.de/en/
mailbox.org
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: Light €1/month, Standard €3/month, Premium €9/month.
Known for: Webmail, calendar, contacts, video calls. Custom domains on bigger plans. CO2-neutral hosting in Germany. German workhorse for people who want a serious mailbox without privacy theatre. Light covers most personal use.
https://mailbox.org
Mailfence
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: Free entry tier. Paid plans Entry €2.50/month, Pro €7.50/month, Ultra €25/month.
Known for: Privacy-focused mail, calendar, contacts, file storage. OpenPGP encryption support. Revenues fund digital-rights organisations. Belgian privacy mail with a real public-interest mission. The PGP support is a differentiator versus most competitors.
https://mailfence.com
Mailo
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: Free plan. Pro from €1/month.
Known for: French webmail with calendar and contacts via CalDAV and CardDAV. Free and Pro plans plus a dedicated Family plan. Quiet French operator. No marketing noise, no Big-Tech ties. Strong free tier for personal use.
https://www.mailo.com
Migadu
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: Pay per usage (emails sent, storage). Plans from $19/year. Especially attractive for organisations with many mailboxes.
Known for: Usage-based pricing instead of per-mailbox tiers. Unlimited mailboxes and custom domains on every plan. Swiss-operated, EU-hosted on OVHcloud. Unbeatable pricing model for teams and families with many addresses. Takes a minute to get used to.
https://www.migadu.com
Posteo
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: €1/month flat. Extra storage and aliases sold separately.
Known for: Ad-free, sustainability-focused, calendar and contacts via CalDAV and CardDAV. No custom domain. The cheapest serious privacy mail in Europe. Trade-off: no custom domain. Strong recommend for personal use.
https://posteo.de
Proton Mail
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: Free 1 GB. Plus €4.99/month (15 GB). Unlimited €12.99/month bundles Mail, Drive, Calendar, VPN, Pass (500 GB).
Known for: End-to-end encrypted by default. Founded by CERN scientists. Servers in Switzerland, protected by Swiss privacy law. The reference Swiss alternative to Gmail. Free tier alone is enough for most people. Bundles get strong fast.
https://proton.me/mail
Raidboxes Emails
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: From €1.50/month for one mailbox with 1 GB storage.
Known for: Email service from the German WordPress hoster Raidboxes. Renewable-energy data centres. One tree planted per hosted site. Sensible add-on if you already run WordPress on Raidboxes. Not really a standalone mail destination.
https://raidboxes.io/en/email-hosting/
Runbox
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: From $20/year. Norway country page coming soon on Euronomy.
Known for: Norwegian provider, majority employee and board-owned. Renewable-energy hosted. Monthly, yearly, and 3-yearly plans. Cheapest annual privacy mail in this list. Niche but durable: 25 years in business, employee-owned.
https://runbox.com
Seeweb Mail
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: Pricing on request. Built for business buyers, not consumer self-serve.
Known for: Email service from the Italian cloud provider Seeweb. Enterprise-grade infrastructure. EU-hosted. One of the few Italian email providers serious enough to put on this list. Talk to sales if you want a quote.
https://www.seeweb.it/en/products/cloud-mail
Soverin
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: €3.25/month billed annually (€39/year). Extra mailboxes €10/year.
Known for: Mailbox with 25 GB storage, unlimited aliases, your own domain. Encrypted at rest and in transit. ISO-certified, NIS2-aligned. Domain-first email for people who refuse vendor lock-in. One flat price, no upsell tiers.
https://soverin.com
Tuta Mail
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: Free plan. Paid from €3/month with custom domain and unlimited aliases.
Known for: End-to-end encrypted mail, calendar, contacts. Open-source clients for web, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux. The German answer to Proton. More aggressive on E2E encryption and open source. Slightly less polished UI.
https://tuta.com
WEB.DE E-Mail
Ownership: Privately held
Pricing: Free with ads. Paid plans €5/month and €6.99/month.
Known for: Mass-market German mail with webmail, calendar, contacts. Hosted in Germany on IONOS infrastructure. Owned by United Internet — same parent as GMX and IONOS. Familiar to most Germans, but not the privacy-first option.
https://web.de/email