Yes, Debug Mail has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes access to 1 project, access for up to 2 team members, and Forwarding up to 1 email per day. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $1.50/mo, and no credit card is required to sign up.
About
Debug Mail is a hosted fake SMTP server for testing application email flows. Developers point their app to app.debugmail.io and use the project login, password, and port shown in the dashboard to capture outgoing messages instead of delivering them to real recipients.
The service supports team-based projects, shared mailboxes, email viewing in HTML or plain text, .EML downloads, and forwarding to real addresses. The pricing page lists a perpetual free plan with 1 project, 2 team members, unlimited test emails per day, 1 forwarded email per day, and 10MB mailbox storage per team.
- Hosted fake SMTP server
- 1 project on free plan
- 2 team members included
- Unlimited test emails per day
- 1 forwarded email per day
- 10MB mailbox storage per team
- HTML and plain-text viewer
- .EML email downloads
Free Tier Value
This free tier is genuinely usable for a small team: it includes one project, two members, unlimited test emails, and a small amount of forwarding and storage. Compared with the cheapest paid Silver plan at $2 per user per month, it delivers roughly three-quarters of the core day-to-day capability but with much tighter collaboration and forwarding limits, so about $1.50/month is a fair buyer-style estimate. A credit card is not required, and the offer is perpetual but capped.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- Access to 1 project.
- Access for up to 2 team members.
- Unlimited test emails per day.
- Forwarding up to 1 email per day.
- 10 MB mailbox storage per team.
See Debug Mail pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Silver
- projects
- 10
- team members
- 20
- test emails/day
- unlimited
- forwarding emails/day
- 100
- mailbox storage/team
- 1GB
- forwarding rules/project
- 1
- 10 projects
- 20 team members
- Unlimited test emails per day
- 100 forwarding emails per day
- 1 forwarding rule per project
- 1GB mailbox storage per team
- IMAP soon
- REST API
Gold
- projects
- unlimited
- team members
- unlimited
- test emails/day
- unlimited
- forwarding emails/day
- unlimited
- mailbox storage/team
- 5GB
- forwarding rules/project
- 20
- Unlimited projects
- Unlimited team members
- Unlimited test emails per day
- Unlimited forwarding emails per day
- 20 forwarding rules per project
- 5GB mailbox storage per team
- IMAP soon
- REST API
Pricing extracted from Debug Mail's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Debug Mail free forever?
Yes. Debug Mail has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
Does Debug Mail require a credit card?
No. You can start on Debug Mail's free tier without entering card details.
What happens when you exceed Debug Mail's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. Debug Mail's cheapest paid plan is Silver at $2 / seat / month.
What is Debug Mail's free tier worth?
Debug Mail's free tier is worth about $1.50 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 47/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
