Pricing and the free tier
The short version: DMARCmetric charges by domains, never by message. Free covers 1 domain with 30 days of history, forever. Starter is $40 per domain per year — $3.33 per domain per month billed yearly — or $4 per domain per month month to month, for up to 3 domains, with a full year of history. From four domains, Scale sells packages of 5 to 250 domains at one flat price each. Past 250 domains, or for terms of your own, Enterprise is arranged over email. The full comparison lives on the pricing page.
The four plans
- Free — $0, forever. 1 domain, 10,000 messages a month, 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 — $40 /domain /yr ($3.33 /domain /mo), or $4 /domain /mo month to month. Up to 3 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 — from $15 /mo for 5 domains ($12.50 /mo billed yearly). Everything in Starter, sold as a package: one flat price for 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 or 250 domains, whatever you use inside it. The same 14-day trial. A REST API and SSO are on the Scale roadmap — we don't sell them as if they had shipped.
- Enterprise — custom. Past 250 domains, or hand-tailored onboarding, invoicing and volume discounts. Contact [email protected]. White-label is on the roadmap, not shipped.
| Package | Monthly | Yearly (2 months free) |
|---|---|---|
| Scale 5 | $15 | $150 ($12.50 /mo) |
| Scale 10 | $25 | $250 ($20.83 /mo) |
| Scale 25 | $50 | $500 ($41.67 /mo) |
| Scale 50 | $80 | $800 ($66.67 /mo) |
| Scale 100 | $140 | $1,400 ($116.67 /mo) |
| Scale 250 | $300 | $3,000 ($250 /mo) |
How billing works
On Starter 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.
On Scale you pay the package price, however many of its domains you use. When the package is full, adding the next domain shows you the next package, its price and what you'll be charged today, prorated — nothing changes until the account owner confirms. Starter works the same way at its fourth domain: it moves you to Scale 5, which costs less than four Starter domains. Moving to a smaller package, or back to Starter, takes effect immediately and credits the unused time to your next invoice, as long as your domains fit.
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. (Free has a reading limit of 10,000 messages a month — see below — but it is a limit on the plan, never a charge.)
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 and Scale start 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 account — move from a Starter trial to Scale and the days you have left carry over. 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 account 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 and Scale, 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 covers up to 3 domains and Scale packages go up to 250; past that, Enterprise — email us.
The Free plan's 10,000 messages a month
Free reads up to 10,000 messages per calendar month, counted across the domains on your account and reset on the 1st (UTC). It is the same 10,000 figure PowerDMARC's free plan publishes (theirs counts DMARC-compliant mail only, ours counts all mail), on the same one domain — with three times the history.
Two things it is not:
- It is not a charge. Nothing about your volume ever moves a bill, on any plan. This is a
limit on what the free plan reads, not a meter on what you send.
- It is not a stop on collection. Past 10,000 we keep receiving and storing every report your
domain sends. Your authentication picture stays complete underneath; what pauses is your ability to read the rest of that month. Upgrade and the whole month is there, already collected — nothing has to be re-sent and nothing was lost.
That second point is deliberate. A DMARC report is a count, not a list of messages, so a month we stopped collecting halfway through would not be "less data" — it would be a biased sample, and the traffic we declined to store could be exactly the traffic that was failing. Recommending a policy change on that basis is how a monitoring tool gets someone's legitimate mail blocked.
Starter and Scale remove the limit entirely: unlimited mail volume, never metered.
Why this price point
From $3.33/domain, DMARCmetric is priced by domain with a year of history — one by one up to three domains, in flat packages above that — with no message cap to outgrow and no volume metering on any paid plan. 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 Enterprise 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?