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ghostBox vs Mailfence

It is a trade-off. Mailfence has the higher Safety grade (6.5 against 4.6), while ghostBox has the higher Privacy grade (6.9 against 5.9).

ghostBox

Small one-time-payment mailbox with IMAP, POP3, SMTP and webmail

Privacy

6.9/ 10

Fair

Safety

4.6/ 10

Caution

No ID mentioned KYC 1 Docs reviewed Full review →

Mailfence

Belgian OpenPGP email suite with a free tier and Bitcoin or Litecoin payment

Privacy

5.9/ 10

Fair

Safety

6.5/ 10

Fair

No ID mentioned KYC 1 Docs reviewed Full review →

Side by side

ghostBoxMailfence
Category Email Email
KYC policy No ID mentioned No ID mentioned
Custody N/A N/A
Sign-up Email required Email required
Open source No No
Tor onion address No No
Coins Not published BTC, LTC
Pay with Not published Card, Crypto, PayPal, Bank transfer
Fees €5 one-time fee for 256 MiB Free plan available; paid plans billed in advance (monthly, quarterly or yearly). Subscriptions are not refunded.
Limits 256 MiB storage; accounts are created manually on request Free accounts are suspended after 7 months of inactivity and deleted 5 months later.
Founded Not published 1999
Jurisdiction Not published Belgium
Incidents on record 0 0
Published tests (180 days) 0 0

Only ghostBox

Tor onion serviceNo-logs policyAnonymous operator

Both

No phone needed

Only Mailfence

5+ years operatingLegal entity disclosedRequires email

Where they sit among email

2 2 4 4 6 6 8 8 10 10 PRIVATE AND SAFE SAFE, ASKS MORE PRIVATE, LESS PROVEN PRIVACY GRADE → SAFETY GRADE → Proton Mail Privacy 7.2 · Safety 7.3 Tuta Privacy 6.5 · Safety 7.3 Posteo Privacy 7.8 · Safety 6.5 Onion Mail Privacy 7.4 · Safety 6.5 mailbox Privacy 7.0 · Safety 6.5 StartMail Privacy 6.2 · Safety 6.5 Mailfence Privacy 5.9 · Safety 6.5 Riseup Mail Privacy 7.2 · Safety 6.0 Disroot Privacy 6.7 · Safety 6.0 LNemail Privacy 8.5 · Safety 5.7 Mailum Privacy 7.8 · Safety 5.4 monocles Privacy 5.8 · Safety 5.0 cock.li Privacy 7.0 · Safety 4.8 NeroMail Privacy 8.4 · Safety 4.6 ghostBox Privacy 6.9 · Safety 4.6
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Questions

Is ghostBox or Mailfence safer?

Mailfence has the higher Safety grade: ghostBox 4.6, Mailfence 6.5, out of 10.

Does ghostBox or Mailfence require KYC?

ghostBox is KYC level 1 (no ID mentioned). Mailfence is KYC level 1 (no ID mentioned).

Which has more incidents on record?

ghostBox has 0 and Mailfence has 0 documented incidents in the registry.

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