- You want to pay monthly per domain rather than a year up front: $6 per domain per month on Unspam, against $250 per domain per year on Valimail Essentials
- You manage more than 5 domains self-serve. Essentials stops at 5 domains per account; Unspam holds up to 500 in one account at a published price
- You want an API and an MCP server on the plan you buy online. Valimail's API is an add-on on Starter and Premium and included on Enterprise, all quote-only
- You also test campaigns before sending: spam score, seed-list inbox placement across 7 providers and client previews
A Valimail alternative billed monthly per domain, with pre-send testing in the same account
Valimail, a DigiCert company, is a DMARC-as-a-service platform that hosts your records through DNS delegation. Unspam charges $6 per domain per month, first domain included, leaves your DNS where it is and adds pre-send testing.
Compared from public pricing and product pages, November 2026.
Which one fits you?
- You only need to see your DMARC data for free. Monitor costs nothing, needs no card, covers all of your domains and emails a weekly report, though the guided path to p=reject starts on Essentials
- You want the records hosted: DMARC by NS or CNAME, Instant SPF macros that avoid the 10-lookup limit, DKIM by NS delegation, and MTA-STS hosting on Enforce. Unspam hosts no records
- You need BIMI with a mark certificate from DigiCert, opt-in privacy-safe failure reports, TLS reporting (free on Monitor too), webhooks, SAML/SSO or a FedRAMP option, or MSP packages sold through Pax8
Why teams move from Valimail to Unspam.
Monthly per-domain billing past 5 domains
Valimail's self-serve tier, Essentials, is $250 per domain per year billed annually and stops at 5 domains per account; above that, Enforce is quote-only. Unspam is $6 per domain per month with the first domain included, billed monthly or 15% off annually, for up to 500 domains in one account.
Your DNS stays where it is
Valimail enforces by taking over records through NS or CNAME delegation. Unspam needs one DNS record: it generates a DMARC record, or adds its reporting address to the one you have with your policy unchanged. It then checks each domain against p=quarantine and p=reject and lists what stands in the way.
Pre-send testing Valimail does not offer
Valimail sells Monitor, Essentials, Enforce and Amplify, none of which tests a message before it goes out. Unspam runs spam score tests, seed-list placement across Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, Zoho, ProtonMail, AOL and GMX, client previews and email verification for single addresses and whole lists, in the same account as your DMARC reports, with tests priced per test on the same Custom plan.
An API without a sales call
Valimail's API is an add-on on Enforce Starter and Premium and included on Enterprise, and every Enforce tier is priced by quote. Unspam's REST API and MCP server come with the self-serve Custom plan from $5/mo, and the MCP server lists your DMARC domains and reads their reports next to spam test and placement results.
Unspam vs Valimail, feature by feature.
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Feature
Unspam
Valimail
Free plan or trial
First domain free on the Custom plan
Monitor: free reporting, no card, guided enforcement on paid tiers
First paid plan
$5/mo Custom plan minimum, then $6 per domain per month
$250 per domain per year (Essentials)
Aggregate (RUA) report monitoring
Yesfirst domain free
Yes
Sending sources named and classified
YesESP, own, forwarder, spoofing
Yes
Guidance to p=reject
Yespolicy readiness checks
YesEnforce and Essentials, not Monitor
Failure (RUF) reports
No
Partialopt-in RUF+, Enterprise only
Hosted DMARC record
No
YesEssentials and Enforce, NS or CNAME
Hosted SPF / SPF flattening
No
YesInstant SPF on Essentials and Enforce
Hosted DKIM
No
YesNS delegation on Enforce; hosted on Essentials
BIMI
Partialchecked in spam tests
YesAmplify add-on; hosted in Essentials
MTA-STS / TLS reporting
No
YesMTA-STS hosting on Enforce only
Alerts
No
Yesemail alerts on Monitor; webhooks on Enforce
Scheduled email reports
Yesweekly, every Monday
Yesweekly on Monitor; executive reports on Enforce
API access
YesCustom plan
Yesadd-on, included on Enterprise
MCP server
YesCustom plan
No
MSP / multi-tenant
Partialup to 500 domains in one account
YesDMARC Core and DMARC Pro, Pax8
Managed enforcement service
No
Partialpaid Valicare support, TAM on Valicare+
Pre-send email testing
Yesspam score, placement, previews, verification
No
Compared from public pricing and product pages, November 2026.
What each one costs.
- Custom $5/mo
DMARC monitoring at $6 per domain per month, first domain included at no charge, up to 500 domains, 15% off annual billing. Aggregate reports, named sending sources, policy readiness checks, a weekly email summary, REST API and MCP server. Spam tests, inbox placement and previews are priced per test in the same plan.
- Free $0
Spam tests, inbox placements, previews and heatmaps each month, no card. DMARC monitoring is not included.
- Monitor Free
Aggregate reports, named sending sources, 5 users, up to 10 SPF lookups, limited automated DMARC, a weekly emailed DMARC report, new-sender and suspicious-sending email alerts, TLS reporting, BIMI Simulator
Automated DMARC is listed as limited on Monitor, and the guided path to quarantine and reject is on Essentials and Enforce. Valimail promises free visibility across all of your domains; the pricing page gives no domain limit.
- Essentials $250/year/domain up to 100,000 emails/month, $450/year/domain up to 500,000
Self-serve upgrade from a Monitor login, no sales call. Automated SPF (Instant SPF), DKIM and DMARC, a guided path from p=none to p=quarantine to p=reject with instant rollback, new-sender alerts, BIMI hosting, optional Common Mark Certificate
Up to 5 domains per account, billed annually per domain. CMC listed at $750 (50% off, a limited-time promotion); bundles with a CMC at $1,000/year and $1,250/year.
- Enforce Starter Contact us for custom pricing
Unlimited users and SPF lookups, automated DKIM, downloadable and executive reports, webhooks, onboarding help, dedicated account manager; API as an add-on
- Enforce Premium Contact us for custom pricing
Starter plus subdomain reports and configuration, automated task list, smart alerts, forced MFA, custom metadata; API as an add-on
- Enforce Enterprise Contact us for custom pricing
Premium plus API, privacy-safe RUF+, source IP CSV export, configurable alerts, portfolios, DKIM and sender continuous protection reports, SAML/SSO, JIT provisioning, FedRAMP option
- Amplify Contact us for pricing
BIMI add-on: helps acquire and manage a VMC or CMC
How these prices work
- Monitor and Enforce prices are from Valimail's pricing page; Essentials prices are from its Essentials page, which is not linked from the main navigation.
- Essentials is billed annually per domain, all Enforce tiers are quote-only, and Valimail offers no trial.
- MSP pricing is per domain through the Pax8 marketplace.
Every Valimail plan and price in full
Compared from public pricing and product pages, November 2026. Valimail is a trademark of its respective owner. Unspam is not affiliated with or endorsed by Valimail.
Trying Unspam alongside Valimail
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Add your domain
Enter it in DMARC Reports. The first domain is free on the Custom plan, and Unspam generates the record to publish or adds its reporting address to the record you already have.
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Publish one DNS record
Paste the value at your DNS provider. Your mail flow and your policy do not change, and every other report recipient in the record is kept.
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Read your first reports
Unspam verifies the domain once the record is live. Mailbox providers usually send their first aggregate reports 24 to 48 hours after that.
Unspam vs Valimail, answered.
Is Unspam a replacement for Valimail?
For reading aggregate reports, yes. Unspam's DMARC monitoring names each sending source, marks it compliant, partially failing, failing or unauthorized, and shows what blocks p=reject. It does not host DMARC, SPF or DKIM records, MTA-STS or BIMI, and it has no failure reports or alerts. If you want Valimail to manage those records for you, Unspam is not a replacement.
What does Valimail do that Unspam doesn't?
It runs your authentication records for you: hosted DMARC by NS or CNAME, Instant SPF macros that are not limited by the 10-lookup rule, DKIM by NS delegation and MTA-STS hosting on Enforce. It also offers BIMI with a DigiCert Common Mark Certificate, opt-in failure reports on Enterprise, email alerts and webhooks, SAML/SSO and a FedRAMP option. And its Monitor tier reads reports for free, which Unspam's Free plan does not.
How do the prices compare?
For 3 domains, Unspam is $12/mo ($6 x 2 after the free first domain), or $144 a year on monthly billing. Valimail Essentials is $250 per domain per year, $750 a year for 3 domains up to 100,000 emails a month each, and $450 per domain per year up to 500,000. For 5 domains, Unspam is $24/mo ($288 a year) and Essentials is $1,250 a year. At 6 domains or more Essentials is not available, and Enforce is quote-only. Valimail Monitor is free, and the guided path to enforcement starts at Essentials. See pricing.
Can I use Unspam alongside Valimail Monitor?
Yes. On Monitor your DMARC record stays a TXT record in your own DNS, so add Unspam's reporting address to its rua tag beside Valimail's. On Enforce, where _dmarc points to Valimail by NS, add Unspam's address as an extra reporting address in Valimail's DMARC record settings. Unspam verifies the record automatically, and first reports usually arrive 24 to 48 hours later. Some receivers honor only the first two rua addresses, so keep Unspam's among them.
Does Valimail have a free plan or a free trial?
Monitor is free with no card, and Valimail says it always will be: it names your sending sources and emails a DMARC report every week, while the guided path to quarantine and reject is on the paid Essentials and Enforce tiers. Valimail lists no trial of its paid tiers. Essentials is an upgrade you buy from a Monitor login, and Enforce is priced by sales. Unspam's Free plan covers spam tests, inbox placement and previews but not DMARC monitoring, which starts on the Custom plan ($5/mo minimum) with the first domain included.
How do I move from Valimail Enforce to Unspam?
Follow Valimail's own offboarding steps: note the senders and DKIM keys configured in Valimail, publish those keys and a complete SPF record in your own DNS, then remove the _domainkey and _dmarc NS records and publish a DMARC TXT record that keeps your current policy. Without Instant SPF your rebuilt SPF record must stay within 10 DNS lookups, so check it with the SPF checker first. Then add Unspam's reporting address to the new DMARC record. Unspam reads the reports; it will not host any of these records for you.