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Migadu

Email hosting priced by usage, not mailboxes

provisional — pending verificationProprietary

Arete score

4.5 / 5

Autonomy4

Return5

Efficiency4

Transparency5

ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →

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~ Provisional — seeded estimate by a human researcher; full rubric pass pending. Working notes ↓

Why it's listed

Migadu is listed in email hosting because it competes on utility: email hosting priced by usage, not mailboxes. It's built by an independent, bootstrapped team — no growth-at-all-costs pressure, no ad-tax passed to you. Licensed Proprietary; pricing: from $19/yr, public. Technically it's lean — it runs comfortably on modest hardware, which is exactly the proof-of-work efficiency we rank for. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.

Facts

License: Proprietary
Pricing: From $19/yr, public
Funding model: Bootstrapped
Self-hostable: No
Replaces: Google Workspace
Verification: Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

Evidence notes

Brutally honest pricing page incl. downsides

Recorded during the rubric pass — every score must carry evidence a stranger could re-check.

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Spotted a problem — trackers added, dark patterns, abandonment? Report a violation. Scores change when evidence does.