List of Free Email Providers

How to use this list

1. To check one address, paste it into the box at the top. The tool tells you whether the domain belongs to a free provider, and which one.
2. To find a provider's domains, type its name in the filter, for example hotmail or gmx. Outlook.com alone has dozens of country versions.
3. To use the list in a spreadsheet, a CRM or your own code, download it. The CSV has the domain, the provider, the company behind it, its country and its type.

Downloads follow the filter you set. Choose Internet providers, for example, and you get only those domains.

What's on the list, and what isn't

This list of free email providers covers three kinds of services. Free webmail services such as Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo Mail, GMX and mail.com. Private, encrypted services such as Proton Mail and Tuta. And the consumer mailboxes of large internet providers, such as Comcast, AT&T, BT and Orange. Those come with a home internet plan rather than for free, but they are personal addresses all the same.

We checked every domain's MX records before adding it. Where a provider runs its own mail servers, the records had to point there. Old domains that no longer accept mail, and domains that now belong to someone else, were left out. That's why a few old country versions, such as yahoo.ch and aol.ca, aren't here.

Disposable services are not on this list. Those give out throwaway inboxes that expire after minutes or hours, and they have their own list of disposable email providers.

Free email providers compared

Here is what each main email service provider gives you on its free plan. Every figure comes from the provider's own pages, checked on 12 October 2026. Free plans change often, so check the provider's site before you decide.

What is the best email service for you?

There is no single best email service. The best email account for you depends on what you'll use it for.

• For the most free storage, GMX and mail.com give 65 GB each.
• For privacy, Proton Mail and Tuta encrypt your mail end to end, even on the free plan.
• For your own domain at no cost, Zoho Mail's Forever Free plan covers up to five people.
• If you already use Apple, Google or Microsoft apps, iCloud Mail, Gmail or Outlook.com work with them.

For work, a free address is fine to start with. Some business forms block free addresses, though, and the section on B2B forms below explains why.

Which domains you can still sign up for

The big providers collected extra domains over the years, and only some are offered to new accounts. The others keep working for the people who already have them.

For a B2B filter, the difference doesn't matter. An address on me.com or ymail.com is just as personal as one on gmail.com, so the list includes both kinds.

Free accounts close when nobody uses them

Free providers delete accounts that sit unused. That's one reason an old list full of free addresses bounces more over time.

• Gmail: Google can delete an account that hasn't been used for two years.
• Outlook.com: you need to sign in at least once a year to keep the inbox. The account closes after two years without a sign-in.
• Yahoo Mail: the mailbox is deleted after 12 months without use, and the account after 18 months.
• Proton Mail: free accounts are deleted after 12 months of inactivity.
• Tuta: free accounts are deleted after 6 months without a login.

Before you email an old list, check it. The bulk email verifier finds the addresses that no longer exist, and the email checker does the same for one address.

Free email domains on B2B forms

Many B2B companies only want sign-ups from work addresses. HubSpot, for example, has a form setting called Block free email providers that turns away free domains. You can do the same in your own form code with the CSV above.

Blocking has a cost, though. Some sole traders and small businesses run everything from a Gmail or Outlook.com address, and a hard block turns them away. A softer option is to accept the address, mark it as personal in your CRM, and let your sales team decide.

A free address isn't a fake one. Gmail and Outlook.com mailboxes are permanent and receive mail. Disposable addresses are the ones that stop working after a few minutes or hours, and the disposable email checker catches those.

Spotting duplicate free addresses

Some providers deliver several spellings of an address to the same inbox. That matters when you remove duplicates from a list.

• Gmail ignores dots in the name, so john.smith@gmail.com and johnsmith@gmail.com are the same inbox. That's true for personal Gmail, not for Google Workspace accounts.
• gmail.com and googlemail.com reach the same mailbox.
• Plus addresses, such as john+news@gmail.com, land in the main inbox too.
• Yandex treats dots and hyphens in the name as the same address.