DDMARC vs AgariThese two are not competing for the same purchase, and the price list is why.
Agari is one line item in an enterprise email-security suite, bought through procurement with an implementation partner. We are a DMARC platform you can start on a card this afternoon. Most of what follows is not a feature comparison — it is a question about how your organization buys software, and there is a wrong answer in both directions.
Free plan: 2 domains, no card, no expiry · Trial: card required, billed on day 15 unless you cancel · 14-day money-back on new paid plans
One of us publishes a price.
Agari publishes no pricing; every tier is a custom quote, and the free-trial page routes to a demo request.
Agari publishes no pricing at all, so there is nothing to plot against the slider. Ours is on the pricing page at every rung, including the Enterprise floor.
List prices, monthly, at the stated domain count. Plans are not like for like: see the matrix for what each includes.
Four things, not thirty-seven rows.
Both products monitor DMARC, parse aggregate reports and take you to enforcement. Listing those as wins would be padding. These are the differences that matter — and two of them are about procurement, not product.
Published pricing and self-service signup
The largest practical difference between the two products is not a feature. It is whether you can find out what it costs and start today, or whether the first step is a calendar invitation.
Managed MTA-STS hosting
Agari hosts BIMI records on its own DNS infrastructure. We could not find MTA-STS hosting in their public materials, so you may be keeping that policy endpoint running yourself — that is ongoing work, not a line item.
A point solution or a suite
Agari is one component of Fortra’s email security portfolio, and much of its value comes from being bought alongside the rest. We do email authentication, transport security and brand indicators, and nothing else. Neither is better in the abstract.
How long before you see a report
Publish a record and our first parsed aggregate report usually lands inside 24 hours, on the free Monitor plan. An Agari deployment starts with a scoping conversation and an implementation plan — deliberately, and it is the right shape for a large estate.
Where Agari is the better buy.
If none of these is you, switching costs an afternoon and no data: DMARC reports are generated by receiving providers, so migrating is a change to one DNS record. Ask and we will do the bulk of it at no charge, including running both platforms in parallel while you decide — the offer and the details are below.
Leaving Agari (Fortra) for a reason not listed here? The Agari (Fortra) alternatives roundup covers the reasons and names the cheaper fix →
Feature by feature.
| Capability | DDMARC | Agari (Fortra) |
|---|---|---|
| Core monitoring | ||
| DMARC monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| SPF and DKIM monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Aggregate reports (RUA) | Yes | Yes |
| Forensic reports (RUF) | Protect+ | Yes |
| ARC chain monitoring | Growth+ | Not documented |
| Policy impact simulator | Protect+ | Not documented |
| DNS and hosting | ||
| Managed BIMI hosting | Growth+ | Yes |
| Managed MTA-STS hosting | Growth+ | Not documented |
| MTA-STS monitoring | Protect+ | Not documented |
| TLS-RPT reporting | Protect+ | Not documented |
| Hosted SPF and SPF flattening | Professional+ | Not documented |
| Threat and brand | ||
| Lookalike domain detection | Professional+ | Brand Protection |
| Threat intelligence feeds | No | Yes |
| SIEM and SOAR integration | Webhooks and API | Native |
| Sender reputation scoring | Yes | Yes |
| Enterprise controls | ||
| SAML single sign-on | Enterprise | Yes |
| Role-based access control | Growth+ | Yes |
| Activity audit log | Every plan, 90 days | 13-month retention |
| Contractual uptime SLA | Enterprise | Yes |
| EU data residency | Yes | Not documented |
| Commercial | ||
| Published pricing | Every tier | None |
| Free plan | 2 domains | Demo only |
| REST API access | Protect, $29/mo | Included in contract |
| Email volume cap | None on any tier | Not documented |
| Self-service signup | Yes | No |
| Guided deployment included | Enterprise | Yes |
| Published partner pricing | Yes | Not published |
“Not documented” means we could not find it stated in Agari (Fortra)’s public materials, not that it is absent. Competitor facts verified from public sources in October 2026— if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
The questions that decide it.
Agari publishes no pricing; every plan is a custom quote, and the free-trial page routes to a demo request. We publish every tier — free Monitor, Protect at $29, Growth at $69, Professional at $99, a published Enterprise floor and the partner rates. If you need a number before a meeting, that difference is the comparison.
For a large enterprise consolidating on Fortra’s email security suite, with brand-abuse threat intelligence and a SOC workflow in scope: yes. For a team that wants DMARC, SPF, DKIM, MTA-STS and BIMI handled well without a procurement cycle: no. The two are not competing for the same purchase.
Yes, on Enterprise agreements: SAML 2.0 and OIDC single sign-on is provisioned as part of the contract, not switched on from the dashboard. Self-serve plans sign in with an emailed link or code, a passkey, Google or a Microsoft work or school account; there are no passwords. If SSO is a requirement, raise it before purchasing so it is written into the agreement from day one.
It hosts BIMI records on its own DNS infrastructure but not MTA-STS, as far as we can find in their public materials. We host both from Growth, including the certificate renewals — that is ongoing operational work you either carry or do not.
Agari is stronger here. Agari Brand Protection does real-time brand-abuse monitoring with threat intelligence feeds and native SIEM integration. We detect lookalike registrations from Professional and give you a dated evidence trail for a registrar abuse report — useful, but not a SOC workflow, and we would not claim otherwise.
Low effort on the technical side, because none of your data lives in the platform: switching means changing the rua= address in one DNS record, and DMARC allows more than one, so you can run both in parallel first. The hard part of leaving Agari is usually contractual, not technical. Check your term before you plan a date.
Run both for two weeks.
Point the same domain’s reports at both platforms — DMARC lets you send to more than one address. Two weeks of side-by-side data settles this better than any comparison table, including this one.
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