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Mimecast

Email and collaboration security

As of 30 August 2026, Mimecast starts at $4/month. Mimecast provides email and collaboration security, backup, and archiving solutions for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and on-premises environments. Softwr lists it under Cybersecurity. Mimecast is made by Mimecast Limited, launched in 2003, available on Web.

Overview

What Mimecast does

Mimecast provides email and collaboration security, backup, and archiving solutions for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and on-premises environments. It protects against advanced threats including ransomware, phishing, and impersonation attacks.

What people use it for

  • Email security filtering against phishing and targeted attacks
  • Email archiving, continuity and compliance for organisations

The honest half

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Mimecast.

  • No pricing is published for any product or plan, and every route ends at a quote or demo request
  • The platform is split into separately sold products for email security, awareness training, data protection and governance
  • Collaboration threat protection, DMARC analysis, incident response and email archiving are all further add ons on top of those

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Pricing

What Mimecast costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Defender

$4 /mo

  • Per user
  • Threat protection
  • Impersonation prevention
  • Secure sharing

Archive

$3 /mo

  • Email archiving
  • Legal hold
  • Search & recall
  • eDiscovery

Unified

$6 /mo

  • All Defender features
  • All Archive features
  • Backup
  • Advanced reporting

Capabilities

Features

  • Advanced threat detection

  • Secure sharing

  • Email encryption

  • Message tracking

  • Email archiving

  • Legal hold

  • eDiscovery

  • Backup and recovery

  • Microsoft 365

    Integration with Microsoft 365

  • Google Workspace

    Integration with Google Workspace

  • Salesforce

    Integration with Salesforce

  • Slack

    Integration with Slack

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

How much does Mimecast cost?

Mimecast does not publish pricing on its website. Customers must request a custom quote by contacting the sales team at +1 617 393 7000 or using the Get a Quote button.

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Is there a free trial of Mimecast?

Mimecast's trial and pricing options are not specified on the public website. Contact sales at +1 617 393 7000 or through their support portal at mimecastsupport.zendesk.com for trial availability.

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Behind it

Who makes Mimecast

Company
Mimecast Limited
Based in
London, UK

Timeline

Mimecast over time

  1. Acquisition2021-12-07$5.8bn

    Permira agrees to acquire Mimecast

    Source
  2. Acquisition2019-11-13

    Mimecast acquires DMARC Analyzer

    Source
  3. Acquisition2018-07-10

    Mimecast acquires Ataata

    Source
  4. Milestone2015-11-19

    Mimecast IPO on Nasdaq

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