Valimail will watch every domain you own for nothing. Enforcement is where the price appears.
Both platforms enforce DMARC through managed records, so neither of us makes you edit DNS by hand every time the policy moves. What separates them is how you buy, which compliance paperwork you need, and one free tier that is far more generous than ours.
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
Their monitoring is free at any size. Their enforcement starts at $5,000 a year.
The free Monitor tier covers unlimited domains and beats ours outright. What it will not do is enforce a policy or host a record — for that you are at Enforce Starter, billed annually, through a sales conversation.
At 5 domains, DDMARC is $387.67/mo cheaper — $4,652 a year. Their free Monitor tier is separate from this and covers unlimited domains — if monitoring is all you need, that beats anything on our price list.
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 enforce DMARC through managed records, parse aggregate reports into per-sender detail and generate what you publish. Listing those as wins would be padding. These are the differences worth weighing.
Published monthly pricing versus an annual contract
Ours is a monthly number you can start on a card today. Theirs is an annual commitment reached through a demo, and only the Starter tier has a public figure at all.
MTA-STS monitoring and hosting
Transport security is not in their public feature set. We monitor MTA-STS from Protect and host the policy endpoint from Growth, with the certificate renewals that go with it.
What it costs to find out
You can be reading real report data from us inside a day, on the free Monitor plan, without speaking to anyone. Reaching enforcement on their side means a demo, a quote and an annual signature before the first report lands.
A published partner program
If you resell, our partner tiers are on the pricing page with a rate you can model your margin against before any conversation. Theirs is a partner relationship, not a price list.
Where Valimail 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.
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Feature by feature.
“Not documented” means we could not find it stated in Valimail’s public materials, not that it is absent. Competitor facts verified from public sources, including Valimail’s pricing page, in September 2026— if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
The questions that decide it.
For monitoring, yes: Valimail Monitor covers unlimited domains and five users at no cost, where our free Monitor plan covers two domains with 30-day retention. If your job is to see who is sending as a large portfolio and nothing more, take theirs. Ours is the better plan only if you also want the reporting depth and the upgrade path behind it.
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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