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Canary Mail pricing
Canary Mail publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 1 September 2026, Canary Mail pricing is free across 3 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Per user per year, or one-time purchase
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Canary Mail plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Growth | $36/year | 4 | +$36/year, 4 more features |
| Pro+ | $100/year | 3 | +$64/year, 3 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers unified inbox, basic search, pgp support.
Growth
$36/yearOver Free, this tier adds:
- AI Copilot and summaries
- Send later
- Inbox cleaner
- Calendar and scheduling
Pro+
$100/yearOver Growth, this tier adds:
- Advanced security features
- Priority support
- All Growth features
Where Canary Mail stops being free
Free, Free
- Unified inbox
- Basic search
- PGP support
Growth, $36/year
The first thing you pay for:
- AI Copilot and summaries
- Send later
- Inbox cleaner
- Calendar and scheduling
What the product covers
The full Canary Mail feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- AI Copilot
- AI Summaries
- Smart Search
- PGP encryption
- Read receipts
- Lifetime licence
People bring Canary Mail in for a privacy-conscious user who wants pgp encryption built into a mainstream-feeling client, someone who wants to avoid an open-ended subscription and prefers a lifetime purchase, a user who wants ai summaries without sending mail content through an unfamiliar third party indefinitely, someone consolidating several imap accounts into one client with unified search. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Canary Mail are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Productivity
Too few productivity tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canary Mail (this page) | Free | Per user per year, or one-time purchase | - | |
| Bluemail | Free | quote | - | vs Canary Mail |
| Mealime | Free, then $5.99/month | Freemium subscription | - | vs Canary Mail |
| HEY | $99/year | Per user per month | - | vs Canary Mail |
| Day One | Free | Free tier plus subscription | - | vs Canary Mail |
| Streaks | $5.99/one-time | One-time purchase | - | vs Canary Mail |
| Bring! | Free | Free, with an optional paid Premium tier for extras | - | vs Canary Mail |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Canary Mail badges page.
Before you pay for Canary Mail
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and $100/year, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Canary Mail runs on macos, windows, ios, android, and is published by Canary Mail Inc. of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the Canary Mail review, and the rest of the category is under best productivity tools.
Canary Mail pricing questions
- How much does Canary Mail cost?
- Canary Mail publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to $100/year for Pro+. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Canary Mail have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers unified inbox, basic search, pgp support. Paying starts at $36/year for Growth.
- What is the difference between Free and Growth on Canary Mail?
- Growth costs $36/year against Free, and adds ai copilot and summaries, send later, inbox cleaner, calendar and scheduling.
- Is the Pro+ plan on Canary Mail worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is advanced security features, priority support, all growth features. It costs $100/year against $36/year for Growth. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which productivity tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 productivity tools listed alongside Canary Mail have a free tier: Bluemail, Mealime, Day One, Bring!.
- What am I actually paying for with Canary Mail?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a privacy-conscious user who wants pgp encryption built into a mainstream-feeling client, someone who wants to avoid an open-ended subscription and prefers a lifetime purchase, a user who wants ai summaries without sending mail content through an unfamiliar third party indefinitely.
- Does Canary Mail charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Canary Mail prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Canary Mail against before paying?
- The closest productivity tools in this directory are Bluemail, Mealime, HEY, Day One. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Canary Mail covering price, platforms and features.