DDMARC vs ValimailValimail 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 is priced by quote.
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 need an Enforce tier, and all three are priced through a sales conversation.
Valimail publishes no enforcement prices, so there is nothing to plot against the slider. Their free Monitor tier covers unlimited domains, which beats anything on our price list if monitoring is all you need.
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 reached through a sales conversation, and none of the Enforce tiers has a public price.
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.
| Capability | DDMARC | Valimail |
|---|---|---|
| Core monitoring | ||
| DMARC monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| SPF and DKIM monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Aggregate reports (RUA) | Yes | Yes |
| Forensic reports (RUF) | Protect+ | Not documented |
| ARC chain monitoring | Growth+ | Not documented |
| Policy impact simulator | Protect+ | Automated instead |
| DNS and hosting | ||
| Managed DMARC record | Yes | Yes |
| Automated SPF (no manual edits) | Professional+ | Instant SPF |
| MTA-STS monitoring | Protect+ | Not documented |
| Managed MTA-STS hosting | Growth+ | Not documented |
| Managed BIMI logo hosting | Growth+ | Yes |
| TLS-RPT reporting | Protect+ | Not documented |
| Compliance and controls | ||
| FedRAMP authorization | No | Yes |
| SAML single sign-on | Enterprise | Yes |
| Contractual uptime SLA | Enterprise | 99.995% |
| US data residency | Yes | Yes |
| EU data residency | Yes | Not documented |
| Activity audit log | Every plan, 90 days | Yes |
| Commercial | ||
| Free plan | 2 domains, 30 days | Unlimited domains, monitoring |
| Paid entry price | $29/mo | Quote only |
| REST API access | Protect, $29/mo | Enterprise |
| Email volume cap | None on any tier | Priced on volume |
| Self-service signup | Yes | Demo required |
| Billing term | Monthly or annual | Annual |
| Published pricing above entry | Yes | No |
| Published partner pricing | Yes | Not published |
“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 October 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.
Different market. Every Enforce tier is priced through a sales conversation, aimed at enterprises where automated enforcement and FedRAMP authorization justify the spend. Ours starts at $29/mo on a card. If you are the kind of buyer their pricing is designed for, the gap is not the point; if you are not, it is the whole point.
FedRAMP, no: there is no authorization and none planned for 2026. SSO, yes, on Enterprise agreements: SAML 2.0 and OIDC single sign-on is provisioned as part of the contract. 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. Valimail has both, so if FedRAMP is the gate the comparison ends there.
Only the free tier. Monitor is free, and Enforce Starter, Premium and Enterprise are all quote-only. We publish every tier, from the free Monitor plan through Protect, Growth and Professional to a published Enterprise floor and the partner rates. Verified October 2026.
Both host the DMARC record itself, so neither of us makes you re-edit DNS every time the policy moves — that is the main thing the two products have in common. The difference is transport: we monitor MTA-STS from Protect and host the policy endpoint from Growth, and we could not find MTA-STS in Valimail’s public feature set at all.
Low effort, because none of your data lives in the platform. DMARC reports are generated by receiving providers, so switching means changing the rua= address in one DNS record — and DMARC allows more than one, so you can run both platforms in parallel for two weeks before committing. Ask and we will do the bulk of the work at no charge.
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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