Tuta (formerly Tutanota)
- Free allowance
- No free custom-domain mailbox: the Free plan has 1 GB of storage and no custom domains; Revolutionary at €3 per month paid yearly adds 20 GB, 15 extra addresses and 3 custom domains
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedcustom domains need a paid plan: 3 on Revolutionary, 10 on Legend, none on Free
- Evidence
- documented35 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | no free custom-domain mailbox: the Free plan has 1 GB of storage and no custom domains; Revolutionary at €3 per month paid yearly adds 20 GB, 15 extra addresses and 3 custom domains unit none; metered on none; Legend is EUR 8 per month paid yearly with 500 GB, 30 extra addresses and 10 custom domains. Prices include taxes. Free accounts are deleted after more than six months without a login. No sending cap number is published: the support page says email limits are calculated for each account from several variables, and limits for paying users are much higher. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
no vocabulary kind names a removed mail protocol; it is filed as retention-clamped, as in the Zoho Mail record, and the true kind is a protocol gate |
| Binding | write-gated a custom domain needs a paid plan: the Free plan has none, Revolutionary at €3 per month paid yearly has 3 and Legend at €8 per month paid yearly has 10, so a custom-domain mailbox starts at the Revolutionary price. |
| Identity | anonymous signup asks the user to choose a new Tuta address and a password, and the vendor's sign-up guide states that it asks for no verification of any kind, no phone number among them; an account may be held for approval for up to 48 hours, which choosing a paid plan skips. Custom domains need a paid plan, paid by credit card, PayPal, or a gift card bought with Monero, Bitcoin or cash through a partner. |
| Egress | not applicable: a mailbox with no IMAP, POP or SMTP access from Tuta; mail is read and sent through the Tuta web, desktop and mobile apps, or through an unofficial bridge to Tuta's native API |
| Per-object cap | 25 MB attachments on every plan |
| Retention | 20 GB on Revolutionary; a Free account is deleted after more than six months without a login |
| Interface | unknown Tuta's own web, desktop and mobile apps; Tuta offers no IMAP, POP or SMTP, which it states it cannot offer with end-to-end encryption |
| Tooling | Tuta's own web, desktop and mobile apps, open source under GPLv3 with Tuta's Rust SDK in the same repository; Tuta offers no IMAP, POP or SMTP. Unofficial open-source bridges serve IMAP and SMTP over Tuta's API: TutaBridge (Rust; a desktop app or a CLI binary) and tuta-proxy (Python or Docker; also CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV); the user installs and runs the bridge beside the mail client or script that uses it. |
| Composes with | an end-to-end encrypted mailbox for up to 3 custom domains at €3 per month paid yearly (Revolutionary), or 10 at €8 per month (Legend), read and sent through Tuta's own web, desktop and mobile apps, or by a script or mail client through an unofficial IMAP and SMTP bridge to Tuta's API that the user installs and runs. |
| Reliability | a Free account is deleted after more than six months without a login; a new signup may be held for approval for up to 48 hours |
| Notes | A custom-domain mailbox at €3 per month paid yearly on Revolutionary, with 3 custom domains, 20 GB and 15 extra addresses; the Free plan carries no custom domain, so the verdict is paid-only. Tooling records the missing IMAP, POP and SMTP and the bridges that add IMAP and SMTP. |
| Evidence note | documented plans and prices read from the rendered pricing page; protocol support read from vendor blog posts; no account was made |
| Parsed numbers |
|
Evidence 35
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | tuta.com/pricing | Revolutionary is €3 per month paid yearly, taxes included |
| 2026-10-31 | tuta.com/pricing | Legend is €8 per month paid yearly |
| 2026-10-31 | tuta.com/pricing | Free has 1 GB, Revolutionary 20 GB and Legend 500 GB |
| 2026-10-31 | tuta.com/pricing | Free has no custom domains, Revolutionary 3 and Legend 10 |
| 2026-10-31 | tuta.com/pricing | Revolutionary adds 15 extra addresses |
| 2026-10-31 | tuta.com/pricing | attachments are capped at 25 MB |
| 2026-10-30 | tuta.com/pricing | the Tuta apps are open source |
| 2026-10-30 | tuta.com/blog/offline-support | there is no IMAP or POP access |
| 2026-10-30 | tuta.com/blog/tuta-vs-startmail | Tuta does not support IMAP |
| 2026-10-30 | tuta.com/support | Free accounts are deleted after six months without a login |
| 2026-10-30 | tuta.com/blog/anonymous-email | signup needs no phone number |
| 2026-10-30 | tuta.com/blog/anonymous-email | an account may be held for approval for up to 48 hours |
| 2026-10-30 | tuta.com/blog/anonymous-email | a paid plan skips the approval hold |
| 2026-10-30 | tuta.com/support/payment | paid plans take card or PayPal |
| 2026-10-30 | tuta.com/support/payment | a gift card can be bought with Monero, Bitcoin or cash |
| 2026-10-31 | tuta.com/pricing | custom domains need a paid plan: none on Free, 3 on Revolutionary, 10 on Legend |
| 2026-10-31 | github.com/spartanz51/tutabridge | TutaBridge is a third-party bridge that serves IMAP and SMTP over Tuta's API |
| 2026-10-31 | tuta.com/support/howto | Tuta offers no IMAP, POP or SMTP and supports no third-party mail client, for end-to-end encryption |
| 2026-10-31 | github.com/peix2/tutaproxy-public | Tuta supports only its own apps, and tuta-proxy translates IMAP, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV to Tuta's native API |
| 2026-10-31 | github.com/spartanz51/tutabridge | Tuta's Rust SDK is part of the GPLv3 tutanota repository, and TutaBridge builds on it |
| 2026-10-31 | github.com/spartanz51/tutabridge | TutaBridge ships a CLI binary besides its desktop app |
| 2026-10-31 | github.com/spartanz51/tutabridge | the IMAP and SMTP bridges are unofficial |
| 2026-10-31 | github.com/peix2/tutaproxy-public | tuta-proxy runs under Python or Docker |
| 2026-10-31 | github.com/tutao/tutanota | Tuta's own repository holds a tuta-sdk directory |
| 2026-10-31 | github.com/tutao/tutanota | Tuta's client repository is licensed GPL-3.0 |
| 2026-10-31 | tuta.com/support | Free accounts are deleted after more than six months without a login, as the record states |
| 2026-11-02 | tuta.com/support/howto | limits for paying users are much higher than for free users, and the page gives no number |
| 2026-11-02 | tuta.com/support/howto | Tuta calculates email limits for each account from several variables |
| 2026-11-02 | tuta.com/support/howto | an account that exceeds its email limit is stopped from sending for a day or two |
| 2026-11-02 | tuta.com/blog/anonymous-email | the vendor's sign-up guide states that signup asks for no verification of any kind |
| 2026-11-02 | tuta.com/blog/anonymous-email | the vendor's sign-up guide lists choosing an address and a password as the signup step |
| 2026-11-04 | tuta.com/pricing | Revolutionary is still EUR 3 per month paid yearly |
| 2026-11-04 | tuta.com/pricing | Revolutionary still has 3 custom domains, Legend 10 |
| 2026-11-04 | tuta.com/pricing | Revolutionary still has 15 extra addresses, Legend 30 |
| 2026-11-04 | tuta.com/pricing | storage is still 1 GB, 20 GB and 500 GB |
More fields 1
| stale after days | 90 |
|---|
Unknown values 1
- interface: the access interface was not established