SimpleLogin Premium only earns its money once you cross 10 aliases or bring your own domain. Everyone else is fine on the free tier, and some people should never pay SimpleLogin at all.
Have I Been Pwned holds 17,845,484,926 addresses across 1,043 breaches. Every one of those was handed to a site by its owner and later lost. That is the problem aliasing exists to solve, and the free tier handles it better than the marketing admits.
What you get for nothing
Ten aliases. The pricing page lays it out plainly: 10 aliases, no bandwidth cap, replies from the alias, one mailbox, browser extensions, iOS and Android apps, and TOTP or WebAuthn login. Nothing metered, nothing throttled.
The reply part is the piece people underestimate. SimpleLogin calls it a reverse-alias. Mail lands on the alias; you hit reply; the answer goes back out from the alias. The site you are writing to never learns your real inbox. The docs explain it in a few short paragraphs, and free users get the whole mechanism.
Two extras punch above the price. Breach alerts through the Have I Been Pwned integration run on every plan, free included. One of your aliases shows up in a leak, you hear about it, you retire the alias. SimpleLogin says as much on its own blog. And the entire codebase is open source and self-hostable, stated on the homepage rather than buried in a compliance PDF.
SimpleLogin is open source, can be self-hosted and is 100% funded by the community. We do not use your data, track you or show you ads.
Read that funding line twice. The free tier is not a data-harvesting funnel. It is community-funded, and the paid tier keeps the lights on.
Where ten aliases starts to pinch
Do aliases properly, one per site, and ten runs out faster than it looks. Bank, health provider, main social accounts, the mobile operator: that is nearly the whole budget. One alias per site is what makes leak tracing possible, because the address that leaks names the leaker.
The ceiling does not bend. SimpleLogin's own FAQ says new alias creation stops at ten, including the automatic kind from catch-all and directories. The softener is decent: let Premium lapse and everything you built keeps working. You only lose the right to create more.
Pay for a year, build sixty aliases, then cancel. All sixty keep receiving and sending. You only lose the ability to create new ones past ten until you resubscribe. A friendlier exit than most subscriptions, and it is written into the official pricing FAQ.
Use the trial before you pay. New accounts get seven days of every premium feature, documented by SimpleLogin's own docs. Find out whether unlimited aliases is a need or a fantasy before you spend.
If you want the managed version without the bundle
SimpleLogin now lives inside Proton. If you would rather stay outside that orbit, there is another route: an independent alias service where the whole product is managed aliases. AliasFleet is the one I built and run. One alias per site, pause or kill any alias that leaks, two-way reply routing, and the free tier also starts at ten aliases (pricing is public).
The point is not the pitch. Aliasing does not require joining anyone's ecosystem. Aliases are permanent, managed identities, not throwaway addresses. The mechanism is the same whoever runs it, and the explainer on what an alias actually is covers it straight. The setup guide takes about two minutes.
Who gets their money's worth from Premium
$36 a year or $4 billed monthly, checked on the pricing page in October 2026.
| Free | Premium | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 | $36/year or $4/month |
| Aliases | 10 | Unlimited |
| Custom domains | No | Unlimited |
| Catch-all on your domain | No | Yes |
| Start a new email from an alias | No | Yes, via reverse-alias |
| Mailboxes | 1 | Unlimited |
| Subdomains and directories | No | 5 subdomains, 50 directories |
| PGP encryption on forwarded mail | No | Yes |
| Proton Pass | Free tier bundled | Premium bundled |
The same split, confirmed on SimpleLogin's own blog: up to ten aliases on free; $4 a month or $36 a year gets you Premium with PGP and custom domains.
Pay when one of these is true. You alias more than ten sites and the rationing is getting silly. You own a domain and want contact@your-domain.com; SimpleLogin walks through the family-domain setup itself. You want to start fresh conversations from an alias instead of only answering. You want PGP on your forwarded mail. That is the entire list.
A note on price history, since $36 came from somewhere. The old number was $30 a year. In November 2024 new-user pricing moved to $35.88 while existing subscribers stayed at $30, announced on the blog. Today's $36 is that figure rounded up. The pricing page is the authority here, not this article.
Who should stay free, and who should not pay at all
Stay free if you alias fewer than ten accounts. Bank, medical portal, main social accounts, kept apart. Replies and unlimited bandwidth mean the aliases you have work like real addresses.
Do not pay SimpleLogin at all if you already hold Proton Pass Plus. Proton's blog says Pass Plus includes SimpleLogin Premium, and it works in reverse too. Proton puts it plainly: if you hold both subscriptions, cancel one. This is the most common way people overpay for aliases, and the fix is two minutes in your account settings.
A few smaller points. Students, educational staff, activists, dissidents, journalists and charities can ask for discounts or free premium, per the pricing FAQ. Crypto through ProxyStore keeps even the subscription itself private. And one limit worth stating plainly: SimpleLogin only swaps the address a sender holds. If your real inbox is Gmail, your privacy still depends on that provider's policies, because forwarded mail lands there in the open. An alias is not encryption. As one independent review puts it, any relay service is a service you trust with your mail traffic.
The verdict
Pay the $36 if you use more than ten aliases or want your own domain. Stay free if a handful of aliases covers you and the service does the job. Check your Proton Pass subscription before paying anything. Honestly, the worst outcome here is not the price. It is paying for a second subscription you already own, or rationing aliases on free when $3 a month would end the rationing.
SimpleLogin is a serious, open-source, community-funded alias service owned by Proton. Whether it deserves your money is a simpler question than the marketing makes it. Count your aliases. Ten or fewer and you are done. More than ten, pay up.
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