OVH MX Plan
- Free allowance
- 5 GB mailbox per account, free 100 MB web hosting with a domain, no database
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedone mailbox per domain on the free activation, with regional variation
- Evidence
- documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | 5 GB mailbox per account, free 100 MB web hosting with a domain, no database unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
the 5 GB is a mailbox storage volume and not an object size, so no kind in the six-value vocabulary names it. One mailbox per domain is the count that shapes the tier |
| Identity | card an OVH account with a payment method. Activation also needs a domain at OVH, which is a second gate and is recorded in the limits rather than in the identity kind, because identity_cost carries one value |
| Egress | not applicable |
| Per-object cap | 5 GB per mailbox |
| Retention | 5 GB per mailbox |
| Interface | webdav a standard mailbox on OVH's mail platform |
| Tooling | any IMAP client, per the MX Plan documentation |
| Composes with | the cheapest route to a real mailbox with a custom domain, at the cost of a domain and a hosting plan at OVH. |
| Reliability | the free activation depends on a domain and a hosting plan at OVH, with regional variation |
Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/web-cloud/web-hosting/activate-s | the free Mail MX activation bundled with a Start 10M hosting plan |
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