Pricing and the free tier
The short version: DMARCmetric charges per domain, never per message. Free covers 1 domain with 30 days of history, forever. Starter is $4 per domain per month (or $40 per domain per year — about two months free) with unlimited domains and a full year of history. Larger fleets run on Scale, arranged over email. The full comparison lives on the pricing page.
The three plans
- Free — $0, forever. 1 domain, 30 days of history, real report volume (never sampled), plain-English summaries, named senders, GeoMap, email alerts and the free authentication tools. No credit card, no trial clock.
- Starter — $4 /domain /mo, or $40 /domain /yr. Unlimited domains, a full year of history, failure forensics (RUF), email alerts and scheduled digests, and priority support. Starts with a 14-day trial (card required at checkout).
- Scale — custom. Unlimited domains and hand-tailored onboarding and invoicing for agencies and MSPs. Contact [email protected]. White-label, a REST API and SSO are on the Scale roadmap — we don't sell them as if they had shipped.
How per-domain billing works
Your subscription simply follows your domain count:
- Adding a domain raises the subscription by one domain slot, prorated by Stripe from the day you add it.
- Deleting a domain credits the unused time back the same way.
- A minimum of one domain slot is billed while a subscription is active — deleting your last domain doesn't create a $0 subscription.
- We never meter your mail volume. A domain sending 50 messages a month costs exactly the same as one sending 5 million. Volume-based tiers are someone else's game; we deliberately don't play it.
Checkout and card management run on Stripe; invoices come from Digiport OÜ. We never see or store your card number.
The 14-day trial
Starter starts with a 14-day free trial — a card is required at checkout. Stripe holds the card but does not charge until the trial ends. If you cancel before the 14 days are up, you are not charged; after that, the subscription renews automatically. One trial per workspace. Cancel anytime from the billing portal — receipts land in your inbox and every invoice is available there too.
What happens at a limit
Here is exactly what a limit does — and does not — do:
- Being over the limit alone never switches anything off. On Free, the 1-domain limit is enforced when you add a domain: a second domain is blocked at that moment and you get an upgrade prompt, not an error. Domains you already have keep collecting reports; you just see a warning.
- Collection pauses in one case only: if you had a paid subscription and it ends. Then every domain except your oldest stops collecting new reports — the oldest stays fully active — and the workspace returns to the Free plan, so dashboards read the Free 30-day window even though older report data is still stored. No report data is deleted, and subscribing again reactivates those domains and reveals the stored history immediately.
- On Free, dashboards show the most recent 30 days; on Starter, a full year. Upgrading instantly reveals history that is still stored — see How long is my data kept? for the exact windows and the purge grace period.
- Starter supports unlimited domains; Scale adds custom onboarding, invoicing and white-label options — email us when you need those.
Why this price point
From $4/domain, DMARCmetric is cheaper than the cheapest serious competitor at that competitor's own tier sizes — about half the price at comparable fleet sizes. That is not a loss-leader gimmick; it reflects two beliefs:
- DMARC monitoring is an automation problem, not a consulting engagement. Parsing XML, grouping senders and tracking alignment are things software should do cheaply at scale — so the price should look like software, not like a retainer.
- The people who most need DMARC are often the least served by enterprise pricing. Small businesses, agencies managing many client domains, and founders protecting a product's sending domain deserve published numbers they can budget against.
Self-serve plans have published prices and a checkout button; only the custom Scale plan involves talking to us.
Try before you pay
Poke at the real product with sample data on the live demo — no account needed — or create a free account and add your first domain. Free is a permanent tier, not a countdown. For what the product actually does, see What is DMARCmetric?