protonmail.com
Proton
Who runs Proton, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest secure email service alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- StartMail
Measured from Proton’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Proton01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Proton
Proton protonmail.com
Proton Mail is the world’s largest secure email service with over 100 million users. Available on Web, iOS, Android, and desktop. Protected by Swiss privacy law.
Wikidata: end-to-end encrypted e-mail service from Proton AG
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Proton tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 8 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Proton
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Proton, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Private, Secure and Encrypted Email You Can Trust | StartMail
Secure your emails with StartMail's encryption and customizable aliases, ensuring ultimate privacy and protection for your data.
Very close - 02
Secure and private email | Mailfence encrypted email service
Mailfence is the only secure and private email service that gives you control. A free, interoperable encrypted email service protected by Belgian privacy law.
Very close - 03
Tuta: Turn ON privacy for free with secure emails, calendars & contacts | Tuta
Tuta guarantees your data stays private for free & without ads. Quantum-resistant encryption makes Tuta the best secure technology solution to protect your privacy.
Very close - 04
Email green, secure, simple and ad-free - posteo.de -
Posteo is an innovative email provider that is concerned with sustainability and privacy and is completely ad-free. Our email accounts, calendars and address books can be synchronised - we use comprehensive encryption.
Very close - 05
mailbox Suite for individuals and businesses
Your digital workspace with email, cloud, office & meet. Secure & GDPR-compliant for businesses, public authorities and private individuals. ▶ Try us now!
Very close - 06
Email and calendar made better | Fastmail
Fast, private email hosting for you or your business. More productive, lightning fast, simple and built to save you time.
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Eppie
Encrypted peer-to-peer instant email
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Free email accounts | Register today at mail.com
Email how it is supposed to be: ✔ Free, simple and secure ✔ Manage multiple mail accounts in one place, from any device ✔ Sign up today!
Very close - 09
Secure Cloud Storage & Internet Storage Services | Sync
Secure cloud storage and collaboration that helps you stay secure and connected in the cloud. Learn about our online storage options today!
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End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage for Businesses | Tresorit
Share files securely with anyone using encrypted cloud storage. Get the highest standard of data security in the cloud.
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Control your data governance with an independent cloud. Solutions hosted in the heart of Europe, designed to protect your confidentiality.
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MEGA
MEGA provides free cloud storage with convenient and powerful always-on privacy. Claim your free 50GB now!
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MEGA
MEGA provides free cloud storage with convenient and powerful always-on privacy. Claim your free 20GB now
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GMX - kostenlose E-Mail, Cloud, Nachrichten & Freemail
Kostenlose E-Mail-Adresse erstellen, Nachrichten lesen und Fotos & Dateien in der GMX Cloud sicher speichern. Jetzt registrieren!
Very close - 15
Threema – Secure Communication For Individuals and Companies
The secure instant messenger from Switzerland. GDPR-compliant messaging for individuals and organizations that value privacy, security and data protection.
Very close - 16
pCloud - Secure Cloud Storage for Files, Photos & Documents
Store, sync, and share your files securely with pCloud. Get up to 10 GB of free secure cloud storage and access your files from any device, anywhere.
Very close - 17
Website
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Temp Mail - Free Temporary & Disposable Email | EmailOnDeck
Free temp mail in 2 easy steps - no signup. A disposable inbox that actually works and lasts longer than 10 minutes. Stop spam, protect your privacy.
Very close - 19
Human Risk Management & Advanced Email Security | Mimecast
Protect email and collaboration tools with Mimecast. Manage human risk and stay ahead of cyber threats with advanced security solutions.
Very close - 20
Behavioral AI for Email, Identity, and AI Security | Abnormal AI
Abnormal AI is a behavioral AI security platform that protects email, identity, and AI—and stops insider threats. Trusted by 5,000 organizations.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Proton’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Proton uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Proton adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 88 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Proton’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Astro page source: <astro-island
- CSS & UI
- Tailwind CSS page source: --tw-bg-opacity:
- Video
- YouTube embeds page source: youtube-nocookie.com/embed/
- Email hosting
- Proton Mail MX mail.protonmail.ch
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=aq9zJnp3H3bNE0Y4D4rH5I5Dhj8VMaLYx0uQ7Rozfgg
- Yandex Webmaster TXT yandex-verification: 6059b187e78de544
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- nginx · not on protonmail.com 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on protonmail.com 4/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on protonmail.com 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on protonmail.com 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on protonmail.com 4/20
- Atlassian · not on protonmail.com 4/20
- Zendesk · not on protonmail.com 3/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on protonmail.com 3/20
- Apple Business · not on protonmail.com 3/20
- GlobalSign · not on protonmail.com 3/20
- HubSpot · not on protonmail.com 3/20
- OpenAI · not on protonmail.com 3/20
- React · not on protonmail.com 3/20
- PHP · not on protonmail.com 2/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on protonmail.com 2/20