If you want your team’s email addresses to come with the web hosting you already pay for, these eight hosts include email on their cheapest plan with no trial period. ScalaHosting, Hosting.com and SiteGround lead the group. Each one still comes with a catch, usually a cap on mailboxes, a small storage quota, a sending limit or a renewal well above the intro rate, so the right host for you is the one whose catch your team can work around.
| Host | Mailboxes on the entry plan | Time limit on the email | Storage or quota |
| ScalaHosting | Unlimited, per its shared hosting page | None, not a trial | Not stated per mailbox |
| Hosting.com | 5 on Starter | None, not a trial | 10 GB per mailbox |
| SiteGround | Unlimited | None, not a trial | 10 GB shared by all mailboxes |
| InMotion Hosting | Unlimited | None, not a trial | 5 GB per inbox on Launch |
| IONOS | 1 on Essential | None, not a trial | 2 GB |
| HostGator | Not stated | None for the basic mailboxes | Not stated |
| GreenGeeks | Up to 50 on Lite | None, not a trial | 250 MB default per new mailbox, adjustable |
| InterServer | Unlimited | None, not a trial | Not stated |
Why Some Big Names Aren’t Here
Hostinger, Bluehost and DreamHost all give you mail when you sign up, but only for a while. Hostinger lists its mailboxes as “free for 1 year” on every tier. Bluehost’s shared plans list “Pro Email – Free Trial”, a one-month trial that renews on its own at $2.50 a month. DreamHost’s cheapest plan, Web Hosting Launch, gives you 20 mailboxes for “3 Months Free”, and unlimited email only arrives on DreamPress and its managed VPS plans.
Every host ranked below lists email on its cheapest plan without a trial period or an end date. GreenGeeks email hosting belongs in that group too, because mail comes with the Lite plan and nothing on the plan marks it as a trial.
ScalaHosting
ScalaHosting is the one host here that includes sender-reputation tools with its shared plans. The hosting page lists blacklist monitoring, IP reputation checks, MX management and delivery tracking, along with unlimited mailboxes, forwarders and autoresponders. If your quotes have ever ended up in a client’s spam folder, those tools let you spot a blacklist listing early. ScalaHosting also sells a separate Business Email product, but everything described here is the mail that comes with hosting.
The entry plan, Mini, costs $2.95 a month and renews at $11.95, about four times the intro rate. It covers one website on 10 GB of storage, so a second site means moving up a tier.
Hosting.com
Hosting.com prints its email limits plan by plan. Email is part of every plan, and the plan matrix shows 10 GB per mailbox, a sending limit of 2,400 messages a day and a 100 MB maximum message size. You also get a catch-all address, spam filtering, instant mail delivery to phones and the option to restore a single mailbox from backup. Starter covers five websites and a free domain registration as well.
The catch is the count. Starter includes five mailboxes, and the sixth person on your team means moving to Pro, which has 20. Prices did not show on Hosting.com’s pages when checked.
SiteGround
SiteGround lists “Free email” on every plan and lets you create unlimited accounts on your domain at no extra cost. It also publishes its sending limit in plain numbers, 400 emails an hour from StartUp sites and 800 from GoGeek.
The storage works differently from the account count. All the mailboxes on a domain share one 10 GB pool, and five people who keep every attachment will fill it quickly.
InMotion Hosting
InMotion Hosting states storage per inbox right on the plan table, 5 GB each on Launch, 10 GB on Power and 20 GB on Pro, with unlimited addresses on all three. It is also unusually candid about shared servers. Its own page warns that a neighboring site flagged for spam can hurt email deliverability for your domain, and it offers a dedicated IP on Pro as the fix.
Launch costs $4.79 a month and renews at $14.99, the highest first-term price of any entry plan here. Launch support is chat and ticket only, with phone help starting on Power. Every InMotion plan comes with a 90-day money-back guarantee.
IONOS
IONOS keeps its entry renewal low, and the address it gives you is permanent. The Essential plan costs $4 a month for a one-year term, then $8 a month.
That plan includes one email address with 2 GB. Starter gives you two addresses, and the top Ultimate plan stops at five, each with 2 GB. That works for a one- or two-person business and not much bigger.
HostGator
HostGator‘s Hatchling plan includes POP3 email accounts with SMTP and webmail access, and it locks in $3.75 a month for 36 months before renewing at $10.99. The Titan-based Pro Email upgrade is an optional add-on, and the basic mailboxes work without it.
The plan page never says how many mailboxes you get or how much storage they have. The Pro Email trial is also easy to leave switched on at checkout, and it renews at $2.99 a month if you don’t cancel. First-tier support is chat only.
GreenGeeks
Lite, the cheapest GreenGeeks plan, comes with up to 50 email accounts, and Pro and Premium set no fixed count. You get IMAP access and SPF and DKIM support through cPanel.
Watch the default quota. New mailboxes start at 250 MB, so raise each one as you create it.
InterServer
InterServer filters outgoing mail at the relay. Messages leave through smart hosts that scrub them for spam, which lowers the chance that one careless account on the server hurts everyone’s delivery. It sells one shared plan, Standard, with unlimited email accounts and forwarders, webmail and outgoing SMTP. That plan costs $2.50 for the first month, $30 for a 12-month prepay, or $7 a month billed monthly.
InterServer doesn’t publish an email storage figure. There is also no higher shared tier to grow into, so the next step up is a VPS.
What Shared-Host Email Can Send
Sending Limits on Shared Plans
Every shared host caps how much mail one account can send. Some publish the number, like SiteGround’s hourly limit and Hosting.com’s daily one, and others describe their limits only by plan tier. A team sending replies, quotes and invoices rarely comes close. A newsletter to a few thousand customers will hit the cap, and that kind of sending belongs on a dedicated email marketing service.
SPF, DKIM and DMARC Rules
Since February 1, 2024, Gmail has required anyone sending to its personal accounts to use SPF or DKIM and to keep spam complaints under 0.3%. Bulk senders, those sending 5,000 or more messages a day, need SPF, DKIM and DMARC together, an aligned From domain, and one-click unsubscribe on marketing mail. A small business on shared hosting still needs SPF and DKIM on its domain, or its mail is more likely to be filtered.
Which Catch Can You Live With?
Each host on this list asks you to accept one trade.
2.ScalaHosting, if reputation tools matter more to you than room for a second website.
3.Hosting.com, if five mailboxes cover your team and you want every limit printed.
4.SiteGround, if you have many people who keep little mail, since they all share 10 GB.
5.InMotion Hosting, if each person needs guaranteed space and you can pay more at the start.
6.IONOS, if you are one or two people and care most about a low renewal.
7.HostGator, if locking in the intro price for three years matters and you can live without a stated mailbox count.
8.GreenGeeks, if up to 50 people need addresses and you are willing to raise each quota by hand.
9.InterServer, if you want one simple plan and don’t need a storage number in writing.
Every intro price printed here rises after the first term, so the renewal line is the one to read before paying.
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