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.

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01 · 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.
- YouTube embedsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Proton

No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Proton match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

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 and search numbers · 6 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,209
Vector: 384-d
Query: 48 ms

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.