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  "name": "Email software pricing 2026: findings data",
  "url": "https://donezoinbox.com/research/email-software-pricing-2026/",
  "publisher": "Donezo Inbox Research",
  "licence": {
    "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "applies_to": "This file's arrangement and coding of the rows, the definitions, and calculate.mjs, which belong to Donezo Inbox Research. Credit \"Donezo Inbox Research\" and link to the findings page.",
    "does_not_apply_to": "Vendors' names, logos, trademarks, page text and screenshots, which stay theirs; the Email Software Value Index page; Donezo Inbox's own name and logo."
  },
  "published": "2026-10-31",
  "note": "Every plan in the Email Software Value Index with the fields the three findings use, the finding each plan belongs to and the numbers worked out for it. Donezo Inbox's own plans and plans whose price is not confirmed are listed and flagged, and are in no finding. Run calculate.mjs next to this file to reproduce the results.",
  "definitions": {
    "pool": "Plans that are not Donezo Inbox's own and whose price was confirmed against the vendor's page (price_confirmed true, publisher false).",
    "finding_1": "Pool, US dollars, paid, listed on annual billing, features read, team or shared-inbox features 'yes', AI on the plan (ai_level not 'none' or 'not-stated'), seat cap absent or at least 10. Ten people a year = listed monthly price on annual billing x 12 x 10.",
    "finding_2": "Pool, US dollars, paid, and the page prints both an annual-billing price and a monthly-billing price for the plan. Annual cheaper % = (monthly - annual) / monthly x 100; monthly dearer % = (monthly - annual) / annual x 100.",
    "finding_3": "Vendors with at least one pool plan that is US dollars, paid and features read. For each such vendor that states a connector (MCP) on a plan: extra a person a year = yearly price of its first plan with the connector - yearly price of its cheapest paid plan, all on one billing term; every plan without the connector must be cheaper than every plan with it."
  },
  "results": {
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      "newest_read": "2026-10-31",
      "oldest_read_used": "2026-10-21",
      "records": 31,
      "products": 13
    },
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      "n_vendors": 12
    },
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      "donezo-pro",
      "donezo-team"
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        "vendor": "Spark",
        "plan": "Plus",
        "reason": "Spark's pricing varies by region, and its page did not give the same prices on every reading (the 15 and 21 October readings and the 31 October readings differ, in currency and amount). Nothing on the page ties a price to a reader, so no price is confirmed for this plan: it is listed with its totals withheld and is in no statistic.",
        "checked_on": "2026-10-31"
      },
      {
        "id": "spark-pro",
        "vendor": "Spark",
        "plan": "Pro",
        "reason": "Spark's pricing varies by region, and its page did not give the same prices on every reading (the 15 and 21 October readings and the 31 October readings differ, in currency and amount). Nothing on the page ties a price to a reader, so no price is confirmed for this plan: it is listed with its totals withheld and is in no statistic.",
        "checked_on": "2026-10-31"
      }
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      "max": 7680,
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      "monthly_median": 5100,
      "sensitivity_monthly_only_plans": {
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        "min": 2160,
        "max": 14400,
        "median": 4140,
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          "shortwave-business",
          "shortwave-premier",
          "shortwave-max"
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        "Missive",
        "SaneBox",
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      ],
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        "missive-productive",
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        "sanebox-snack",
        "sanebox-lunch",
        "sanebox-dinner",
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