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Helo vs CitrusMail

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Helo compared with CitrusMail
Detail HeloCitrusMail logo CitrusMail
What it doesAn email delivery service that actually delivers Free, open source email client with mail, calendar, contacts and AI
StageEstablished Not given
FoundedNot given Not given
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Pricing modelPaid Open source
Pricing$5/month platform fee plus $0.00035 per email. No tiers, volume commitments, or overage fees. Includes 1,000 free test emails. Not given
Key features
  • Email API and SMTP integration
  • Separate transactional and promotional email sending
  • Multi-tenant environment support
  • Customer isolation for platform senders
  • Spam detection and sender reputation protection
  • Custom domain support
  • Email performance analytics
  • SDKs in multiple programming languages
  • Domain and suppression management
  • Email tracking and opens/clicks monitoring
  • Mail over IMAP or POP3 with search by sender, date and attachments
  • Calendar with CalDAV sync in day, week, month and year views
  • Contacts with CardDAV sync with email, phone, company and birthday fields
  • Read receipts showing Delivered, Opened or Bounced status
  • AI summaries, replies and questions using your own API key
  • Message and reply translation between languages
  • Custom signature for each mailbox
  • Built-in settings for Gmail, iCloud, Outlook, Yahoo, Fastmail, Zoho, GMX, Yandex and Proton Bridge
  • Open source template for building branded mail clients
What makes it different
  • No tier commitments or overage fees - usage-based pricing only
  • Bootstrapped and independent with no investors
  • Built for platforms sending email on behalf of users
  • Team with decades of email infrastructure and deliverability experience
  • Significantly cheaper than competitors at all volume levels
  • Free and open source under MIT licence with no restrictions on use, modification or resale
  • Works with any IMAP or POP3 mailbox including Gmail, iCloud, Outlook and others
  • Calendar and contacts integrated in the same window with mail
  • Bring your own AI from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI or Perplexity
  • Build your own branded desktop app by customising the open source template
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)6 −1 (down) since last check11 −1 (down) since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)62
Citation Flow (Majestic)2728
Referring domains (Majestic)11441

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