# Tuta > tuta.com | Email; 1 record: free tier, limits, identity cost and evidence. HTML https://fshy.ajam.dev/p/tuta/ | JSON https://fshy.ajam.dev/api/v1/entity/tuta.json | how to read a record: https://fshy.ajam.dev/llms-full.txt ## Tuta (formerly Tutanota) - `email/tuta` | paid-only | evidence documented | binding write-gated | category end-to-end encrypted mailbox | tier Revolutionary - needs card no, phone no, ID no, institution no | verified 2026-11-04T05:33:22.975Z (live) | stale on 2026-12-05 - url https://tuta.com/pricing - free tier: no free custom-domain mailbox: the Free plan has 1 GB of storage and no custom domains; Revolutionary at €3 per month paid yearly adds 20 GB, 15 extra addresses and 3 custom domains | unit: none | metered on: none | read on: 2026-10-31 | source: [1] | note: Legend is EUR 8 per month paid yearly with 500 GB, 30 extra addresses and 10 custom domains. Prices include taxes. Free accounts are deleted after more than six months without a login. No sending cap number is published: the support page says email limits are calculated for each account from several variables, and limits for paying users are much higher. - per-object cap: 25 MB attachments on every plan | source: [1] - retention: 20 GB on Revolutionary; a Free account is deleted after more than six months without a login | source: [2] - egress: not applicable: a mailbox with no IMAP, POP or SMTP access from Tuta; mail is read and sent through the Tuta web, desktop and mobile apps, or through an unofficial bridge to Tuta's native API | metered: no | source: [3] - identity: anonymous | detail: signup asks the user to choose a new Tuta address and a password, and the vendor's sign-up guide states that it asks for no verification of any kind, no phone number among them; an account may be held for approval for up to 48 hours, which choosing a paid plan skips. Custom domains need a paid plan, paid by credit card, PayPal, or a gift card bought with Monero, Bitcoin or cash through a partner. - interface: unknown - limits: - retention-clamped: no IMAP, POP or SMTP access from Tuta: its own apps are the supported clients, and unofficial bridges reach the mail through Tuta's native API [3] - write-gated (binding): custom domains need a paid plan: 3 on Revolutionary, 10 on Legend, none on Free [1] - volume-quota: 20 GB of storage on Revolutionary, 1 GB on Free [1] - per-object-cap: 25 MB attachments [1] - request-rate: unverified: no sending cap number is published; email limits are calculated for each account from several variables, an account over its limit is stopped for a day or two, and limits for paying users are much higher [4] - limits note: no vocabulary kind names a removed mail protocol; it is filed as retention-clamped, as in the Zoho Mail record, and the true kind is a protocol gate - binding note: a custom domain needs a paid plan: the Free plan has none, Revolutionary at €3 per month paid yearly has 3 and Legend at €8 per month paid yearly has 10, so a custom-domain mailbox starts at the Revolutionary price. - interface detail: Tuta's own web, desktop and mobile apps; Tuta offers no IMAP, POP or SMTP, which it states it cannot offer with end-to-end encryption - tooling: Tuta's own web, desktop and mobile apps, open source under GPLv3 with Tuta's Rust SDK in the same repository; Tuta offers no IMAP, POP or SMTP. Unofficial open-source bridges serve IMAP and SMTP over Tuta's API: TutaBridge (Rust; a desktop app or a CLI binary) and tuta-proxy (Python or Docker; also CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV); the user installs and runs the bridge beside the mail client or script that uses it. - composes with: an end-to-end encrypted mailbox for up to 3 custom domains at €3 per month paid yearly (Revolutionary), or 10 at €8 per month (Legend), read and sent through Tuta's own web, desktop and mobile apps, or by a script or mail client through an unofficial IMAP and SMTP bridge to Tuta's API that the user installs and runs. - reliability: a Free account is deleted after more than six months without a login; a new signup may be held for approval for up to 48 hours - notes: A custom-domain mailbox at €3 per month paid yearly on Revolutionary, with 3 custom domains, 20 GB and 15 extra addresses; the Free plan carries no custom domain, so the verdict is paid-only. Tooling records the missing IMAP, POP and SMTP and the bridges that add IMAP and SMTP. - evidence note: plans and prices read from the rendered pricing page; protocol support read from vendor blog posts; no account was made - extras: - stale_after_days: 90 - evidence: - [1] 2026-10-31: Revolutionary is €3 per month paid yearly, taxes included | capture: sha256:746c55744a105811987f24841380929375022f03fc9602dd53edc78a53707a28 | quote: ### Revolutionary Most popular €3 /monthPaid yearly Save €7.20 Includes taxes. - [1] 2026-10-31: Legend is €8 per month paid yearly | capture: sha256:746c55744a105811987f24841380929375022f03fc9602dd53edc78a53707a28 | quote: €8 /monthPaid yearly Save €19.20 - [1] 2026-10-31: Free has 1 GB, Revolutionary 20 GB and Legend 500 GB | capture: sha256:746c55744a105811987f24841380929375022f03fc9602dd53edc78a53707a28 | quote: | Storage | 1 GB | 20 GB | 500 GB | - [1] 2026-10-31: Free has no custom domains, Revolutionary 3 and Legend 10 | capture: sha256:746c55744a105811987f24841380929375022f03fc9602dd53edc78a53707a28 | quote: | Custom domains | - | 3 | 10 | - [1] 2026-10-31: Revolutionary adds 15 extra addresses | capture: sha256:746c55744a105811987f24841380929375022f03fc9602dd53edc78a53707a28 | quote: | Extra email addresses | - | 15 | 30 | - [1] 2026-10-31: attachments are capped at 25 MB | capture: sha256:746c55744a105811987f24841380929375022f03fc9602dd53edc78a53707a28 | quote: | 25 MB attachments size | - [1] 2026-10-30: the Tuta apps are open source | capture: sha256:43754b417952dd921acdedb9d0b5d8d5fe37fe6a80719f2a8c1a25d21a637d81 | quote: Fully open source clients - [3] 2026-10-30: there is no IMAP or POP access | capture: sha256:14df5dc98a263855ee4c5e015e5f65a473365a89f49f69d47be95947eba4b7be | quote: Tutanota as a fully encrypted email service does not support IMAP and Pop - typical email protocols that usually allow people to download their emails locally to a desktop client or a mobile app. - [5] 2026-10-30: Tuta does not support IMAP | capture: sha256:f4cdb37803657c53feb163d540ae3031eb45f01099f25d507ff48cd7d159e36e | quote: In contrast to StartMail, Tuta does not support IMAP since it is fully encrypted. - [2] 2026-10-30: Free accounts are deleted after six months without a login | capture: sha256:174a6736c8194add9b64e01a3505e1843a89302e696f60e3683e9937462ae94f | quote: Free accounts are deleted if you do not log in for a period longer than six months. - [6] 2026-10-30: signup needs no phone number | capture: sha256:de0074d15d2d1407ba335017b9f69a7fad6dbcef41af79b00edda686f1e85b5c | quote: Tutanota is one of the few anonymous providers that lets you create an email address without a phone number for free - even when you sign up via Tor. - [6] 2026-10-30: an account may be held for approval for up to 48 hours | capture: sha256:de0074d15d2d1407ba335017b9f69a7fad6dbcef41af79b00edda686f1e85b5c | quote: In case your account gets marked for approval, you will be able to start using it within 48 hours after registration once it has been approved. - [6] 2026-10-30: a paid plan skips the approval hold | capture: sha256:de0074d15d2d1407ba335017b9f69a7fad6dbcef41af79b00edda686f1e85b5c | quote: This process can easily be skipped by choosing one of the paid plans in Tutanota. - [7] 2026-10-30: paid plans take card or PayPal | capture: sha256:6ac5fcfe872261550c7c80dc95946dbd88184e4a177b25449bcdff8b7a5999ee | quote: When booking a paid subscription in Tuta, you can pay via Credit Card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express), via PayPal, or via bank transfer. - [7] 2026-10-30: a gift card can be bought with Monero, Bitcoin or cash | capture: sha256:6ac5fcfe872261550c7c80dc95946dbd88184e4a177b25449bcdff8b7a5999ee | quote: You can already buy Tuta gift cards with the cryptocurrencies Monero or Bitcoin or with cash via our partner - [1] 2026-10-31: custom domains need a paid plan: none on Free, 3 on Revolutionary, 10 on Legend | capture: sha256:746c55744a105811987f24841380929375022f03fc9602dd53edc78a53707a28 | quote: | Custom domains | - | 3 | 10 | - [8] 2026-10-31: TutaBridge is a third-party bridge that serves IMAP and SMTP over Tuta's API | capture: sha256:cd680d751d0f09f499d1a746cfa11cf60eefb985adf0aff82d77800cd5014fb9 | quote: A local IMAP/SMTP bridge that talks to Tuta's API and handles the end-to-end encryption transparently, so your favourite desktop client just works. - [4] 2026-10-31: Tuta offers no IMAP, POP or SMTP and supports no third-party mail client, for end-to-end encryption | capture: sha256:fd28ce4d177bba35019008afa188fdc955d514f5120bf69d92035ec0f928cd10 | quote: Tuta does not support the use of third-party email clients or the protocols IMAP/POP3/SMTP as we cannot guarantee end-to-end encryption of your data. - [9] 2026-10-31: Tuta supports only its own apps, and tuta-proxy translates IMAP, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV to Tuta's native API | capture: sha256:591566843bfd8415fafa72ecd0d7c6fb47b23c12e0ca4611223208152feaa188 | quote: It only officially supports its own apps (web, desktop, Android, iOS). This proxy bridges the gap: it runs locally on your machine and translates standard protocols (IMAP, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV, WebDAV) to Tuta's native API - [8] 2026-10-31: Tuta's Rust SDK is part of the GPLv3 tutanota repository, and TutaBridge builds on it | capture: sha256:cd680d751d0f09f499d1a746cfa11cf60eefb985adf0aff82d77800cd5014fb9 | quote: TutaBridge links Tuta's Rust SDK (part of the GPLv3-licensed [tutanota](https://github.com/tutao/tutanota) project), so it is distributed under the same license. - [8] 2026-10-31: TutaBridge ships a CLI binary besides its desktop app | capture: sha256:cd680d751d0f09f499d1a746cfa11cf60eefb985adf0aff82d77800cd5014fb9 | quote: Prefer the command line? Every release also ships a single CLI binary per OS (run it from a terminal; it has no extension, so double-clicking won't work). - [8] 2026-10-31: the IMAP and SMTP bridges are unofficial | capture: sha256:cd680d751d0f09f499d1a746cfa11cf60eefb985adf0aff82d77800cd5014fb9 | quote: Tuta has no official bridge on purpose. - [9] 2026-10-31: tuta-proxy runs under Python or Docker | capture: sha256:591566843bfd8415fafa72ecd0d7c6fb47b23c12e0ca4611223208152feaa188 | quote: Python 3.10+ or Docker - [10] 2026-10-31: Tuta's own repository holds a tuta-sdk directory | capture: sha256:daea319d531c4e37697693cb495617d5b0c0a18cb12c946bb3e3dc7654ef0e56 | quote: | [tuta-sdk](https://github.com/tutao/tutanota/tree/master/tuta-sdk 'tuta-sdk') | - [10] 2026-10-31: Tuta's client repository is licensed GPL-3.0 | capture: sha256:daea319d531c4e37697693cb495617d5b0c0a18cb12c946bb3e3dc7654ef0e56 | quote: [GPL-3.0 license](https://github.com/tutao/tutanota#GPL-3.0-1-ov-file) - [2] 2026-10-31: Free accounts are deleted after more than six months without a login, as the record states | capture: sha256:174a6736c8194add9b64e01a3505e1843a89302e696f60e3683e9937462ae94f | quote: Free accounts are deleted if you do not log in for a period longer than six months. - [4] 2026-11-02: limits for paying users are much higher than for free users, and the page gives no number | capture: sha256:55d063c00d71157df9880381046ed213acaea1e1de576ba81deb288129776c55 | quote: If you need to send more emails immediately, please upgrade to any of our paid plans as limits for paying users are much higher. - [4] 2026-11-02: Tuta calculates email limits for each account from several variables | capture: sha256:55d063c00d71157df9880381046ed213acaea1e1de576ba81deb288129776c55 | quote: Yes, Tuta uses different variables to calculate email limits for individual accounts. - [4] 2026-11-02: an account that exceeds its email limit is stopped from sending for a day or two | capture: sha256:55d063c00d71157df9880381046ed213acaea1e1de576ba81deb288129776c55 | quote: Please wait a day or two to send new emails again. - [6] 2026-11-02: the vendor's sign-up guide states that signup asks for no verification of any kind | capture: sha256:b08f74f1b41166112747ba0b641e1ea91a725b38a0a5d9c98f1db69b2101b4cf | quote: Tutanota does not ask for any kind of verification when signing up and it does not log IP addresses - [6] 2026-11-02: the vendor's sign-up guide lists choosing an address and a password as the signup step | capture: sha256:b08f74f1b41166112747ba0b641e1ea91a725b38a0a5d9c98f1db69b2101b4cf | quote: In the Tutanota sign up page simply choose your email address and create a strong password. - [1] 2026-11-04: Revolutionary is still EUR 3 per month paid yearly | capture: sha256:746c55744a105811987f24841380929375022f03fc9602dd53edc78a53707a28 | quote: €3 /monthPaid yearly Save €7.20 Includes taxes. - [1] 2026-11-04: Revolutionary still has 3 custom domains, Legend 10 | capture: sha256:746c55744a105811987f24841380929375022f03fc9602dd53edc78a53707a28 | quote: | Custom domains | - | 3 | 10 | - [1] 2026-11-04: Revolutionary still has 15 extra addresses, Legend 30 | capture: sha256:746c55744a105811987f24841380929375022f03fc9602dd53edc78a53707a28 | quote: | Extra email addresses | - | 15 | 30 | - [1] 2026-11-04: storage is still 1 GB, 20 GB and 500 GB | capture: sha256:746c55744a105811987f24841380929375022f03fc9602dd53edc78a53707a28 | quote: | Storage | 1 GB | 20 GB | 500 GB | - sources: - [1] https://tuta.com/pricing - [2] https://tuta.com/support - [3] https://tuta.com/blog/offline-support - [4] https://tuta.com/support/howto - [5] https://tuta.com/blog/tuta-vs-startmail - [6] https://tuta.com/blog/anonymous-email - [7] https://tuta.com/support/payment - [8] https://github.com/spartanz51/tutabridge - [9] https://github.com/peix2/tutaproxy-public - [10] https://github.com/tutao/tutanota