addy.io Review 2026: Email Alias Service Plans Priced

Toolradar data: addy.io's entry paid plan ranks joint 3rd of 65 email tools with a verified entry price on Toolradar, the software directory we run, against a median of $14 a month, as of November 2026. Only 48% of the 183 email tools Toolradar tracks have a free plan; addy.io is one of them, per its Toolradar profile.

An email alias service gives every website its own forwarding address, so a breached shop leaks an address you can switch off rather than the inbox tied to your bank and password resets. addy.io, whose free alias domains still carry the anonaddy name, is one of the cheapest ways to do it, and the code is open source.

The real question is which tier you need, not whether the service works. Free covers sign-ups you never answer. Lite and Pro add the features that matter once an alias becomes a real correspondence address: replies, your own domain and room for heavier mail. Our Proton Pass review covers the password-manager route to aliases, and our data removal ranking handles the address lists that already hold your real email.

addy.io is an anonymous email forwarding service run by Will Browning, a UK web developer, under terms governed by the law of England and Wales. Its FAQ puts the main server in Amsterdam with Greenhost and a backup mail server in Warsaw with UpCloud, so your mail flows through EU infrastructure. The service has no venture capital funding, which means subscriptions rather than ads or data sales pay the bills.

The application is open source and can be self-hosted with Postfix or a Docker image, which matters for a security team that wants to read the code or run aliases on its own infrastructure. The homepage says the code was audited by Securitum and that users have created more than 5 million aliases, both figures the company publishes about itself.

Standard aliases. You pick a username and get a subdomain such as johndoe.anonaddy.com. Any address you invent on it, like [email protected], is created the first time mail arrives, and those standard aliases are unlimited on every plan. The catch is that one username links them all, so addy.io suggests random aliases or extra usernames when you want accounts that cannot be tied together.

Shared domain aliases. Random addresses such as [email protected] carry no username. Free allows 10 active ones, Lite 50 and Pro an unlimited number, and that cap is the first limit a privacy-minded free user hits.

Replies and encryption. On paid plans you can reply to or start mail from an alias, and the recipient sees the alias rather than your real address. Free accounts cannot, because outbound mail is the feature spammers abuse. You can also add your own GPG/OpenPGP public key so every forwarded message, attachments included, arrives encrypted and signed.

Limits to know. The FAQ caps messages at 25MB, throttles forwarding at 200 emails an hour, and limits new aliases to 10 an hour on Free, 20 on Lite and 50 on Pro. addy.io stores email only for failed deliveries, and only when you turn that option on.

addy.io publishes every plan in US dollars on its pricing page, read on November 9, 2026. Free is $0 with no card needed. Lite is listed only at its yearly rate, and Pro is $36 a year on yearly billing or $48 a year paid month by month, by our arithmetic. Duo costs $4.50 a month yearly or $6 monthly for two people, and Family $7.50 a month yearly or $10 monthly for five.

Cyberpresso data: our three-year cost for one person, built from each vendor's printed prices. addy.io Lite comes to $36 and addy.io Pro to $108 on yearly billing. SimpleLogin Premium also comes to $108 on yearly billing, and Fastmail Individual costs $168 on its printed 36-month plan. For a household, Family works out to $18 per member per year, half what separate Pro accounts cost on yearly billing. These totals are our arithmetic, not vendor quotes.

Gotchas. The addy.io FAQ says a Free account over its bandwidth has incoming mail rejected with a "user over quota" error until the next month. Senders that get that error often add the alias to a suppression list and never retry. Lite gets one free reset a year; after that a reset costs $5, or mail is deferred while the sender retries. Cancelling deactivates custom domains, extra usernames, extra recipients and any shared-domain aliases beyond 10, though resubscribing within 90 days restores them.

Paying. addy.io takes card or PayPal through Stripe, cryptocurrency for yearly plans only, the iOS and Android app stores for Lite and Pro, and voucher codes sold on its subscription page and by ProxyStore. Duo and Family are not sold through the app stores, and there is no student discount.

Alternative prices come from SimpleLogin pricing, Fastmail pricing and Proton Pass pricing, read the same day. For Firefox Relay Premium on its own, check the current price on Mozilla's site.

Methodology. We read addy.io's pricing page, FAQ, terms and subscription help articles on November 9, 2026, plus the pricing or product pages of five alternatives. Totals multiply printed prices only. Want the next breach notice that tells you which alias to retire? Cyberpresso sends it in its free newsletter.

Free fits someone who only receives mail on aliases: newsletters, store receipts and forum sign-ups. Unlimited standard aliases cover that well, provided monthly volume stays near the 140 average emails addy.io estimates for 10MB. A busy shopping alias with image-heavy promotions burns through it faster.

Lite fits most individuals who use aliases for real accounts. Replying from an alias lets you deal with a support desk or a seller without revealing your address. A custom domain matters as much: you can leave addy.io later without changing every login. Pair it with a manager from our password manager ranking so each account gets its own address and password.

Pro fits heavy users and anyone running several domains. Unlimited bandwidth removes the bounce risk entirely, and 20 custom domains suit a consultant keeping clients apart. Households should look at Family before buying separate Pro accounts.

Skip addy.io if you would rather have aliases inside a password manager or a full mailbox. SimpleLogin bundles Proton Pass premium features at the same yearly price as Pro, and Fastmail gives you an inbox with Masked Email built in. A company that needs phishing filtering on staff mail wants our email security tools instead.