Compare
Compared with what, exactly?
There are three real ways to get cold-email sending infrastructure: build it by hand, push messages through a relay, or buy Workspace seats and configure them yourself. Each page below takes one of those seriously — including the part where it beats us.
01comparisons
The three comparisons.
Approaches rather than brands, for a reason we would rather state than leave you to infer.
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Infrabox vs. doing it by hand
Registrar, Admin Console, DNS records, verification, DKIM, a credential per mailbox. Everything the manual path actually contains, and when it is still the right path.
Read the comparison - 02
Infrabox vs. a generic SMTP relay
Relays move messages. Mailboxes are places mail lives. Why that distinction decides whether replies reach you at all.
Read the comparison - 03
Infrabox vs. buying Workspace seats directly
Same mailboxes underneath, different amount of work on top. What you gain, what you give up, and who should choose which.
Read the comparison
02editorial note
Editorial note
Why there are no competitor names on these pages.
Because we would have to make things up. We know exactly what our own product does — we wrote it, and every number on this site cites the file it came from. We do not know what a competitor shipped last week, what their price is after a negotiation, or which of the boxes in their feature list are ticked today.
A comparison table where one column is verified and the other is guesswork is not a comparison. So the other column here describes a method; every claim in it is either definitional or a statement about our own product, and none of it asserts anything about somebody else’s software.
The trade-off is that these pages are less satisfying than a scoreboard. We think that is the correct trade-off.
Rather see the product?
The eight steps are the whole mechanism, with the typical duration of each. Authentication and deliverability covers what the DNS records do and where we stop making claims. Pricing is two line items, and the calculator will put your numbers into them.
Still not sure which of these you are?
Tell us what you are sending, how much of it, and what you have already tried. If the answer is one of the other three approaches, we will say so.