mailbox
by mailbox · Email, Drive, Meet and Office hosted in German data centres
BenchRank score
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Overview
mailbox is a hosted workspace combining email, Drive file storage, Meet video conferencing and Office documents in one account. Data is held in certified German data centres with redundant storage across two locations, and is encrypted in storage and in transit. Plans differ by mail and Drive storage, alias counts and whether custom domains are included.
- Best for
- Individuals and businesses wanting email, files and meetings hosted under EU data-protection rules
- Pricing
- Three plans shown at €1, €4 and €12 per month after a 30-day free trial; no annual rates or business prices are shown.
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Mail, Drive, Meet and Office in a single account
- German data centres, ISO 27001 certified and BSI C5 attested
- Custom domains and up to 250 aliases from Standard upwards
- 30-day free trial before any payment
Trade-offs
- No free plan; the free period is a 30-day trial
- Light tier gives 2 GB mail and no Drive, Office or Meet
- Custom domain names need Standard (€4/month) or higher
- A plan adjustment is announced for summer 2026
How mailbox markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on mailbox’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Your data – under your control.”
- Angle: Security / trust-led
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from mailbox’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
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Where this comes from
The mailbox pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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