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Cold Email Mailbox Calculator

Enter your target daily outreach volume and instantly see how many mailboxes, domains and dollars it takes, side-by-side across Google, Microsoft, Azure and IMAP/SMTP.

Mailbox Calculator

How many mailboxes do you need?

Size mailboxes, domains and monthly cost for your outreach, and see what you save vs typical infra resellers.

How many emails each contact receives in your sequence

15 emails/day, Safe
3 mailboxes/domain, Optimal
That's 2,045 emails/day
45,000 total emails/month (Mon–Fri)
You'll need
46
domains
137
mailboxes
Google infra$2.50/mailbox
Cost / 1k emails$7.61
DeliverabilityHighest
Monthly total$342.50
Savings with Icemail
$137/mo
$1,644 a year, 29% lower infra cost
Competitor
$479.50/mo
Icemail
$342.50/mo

Apples-to-apples vs Inframail, Zapmail, Mailreef · Google infra ($3.50 / mailbox).

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Compare all providers · 45,000 emails/mo
✦ Recommended
Google
Highest
$342.50/mo
Mailboxes137
Domains46
Cost / 1k$7.61
Daily warmup2,045
Microsoft
High
$342.50/mo
Mailboxes137
Domains46
Cost / 1k$7.61
Daily warmup2,045
Lowest cost
Azure
Good · built for scale
$150/mo
Mailboxes410
Domains5
Cost / 1k$3.33
Daily warmup2,045
IMAP/SMTP
Good · isolated IP
$162/mo
Mailboxes82
Domains9
Cost / 1k$3.60
Daily warmup2,045
Monthly cost
Google
$342.50
Microsoft
$342.50
Azure
$150
IMAP/SMTP
$162
14-day warmup timeline
Live at full volume

Based on 22 weekday sending days/month and provider daily limits. Estimate only.

How the calculator works

We start from your daily outreach volume, the number of cold emails you want to send per day. Each provider has a safe daily send cap per mailbox (15/day for Google & Microsoft, 5/day for Azure, 25/day for IMAP/SMTP) and a maximum number of mailboxes per domain.

The calculator divides your daily volume by the per-mailbox safe limit to compute mailboxes needed, then divides mailboxes by the per-domain cap to compute domains needed. Cost is then derived from each provider's pricing model, per-mailbox for Google/Microsoft, flat per-domain for Azure and IMAP/SMTP.

Warmup mode: by default warmup is treated as parallel (in addition to outreach). Flip to Strict if your platform counts warmup against the daily cap, the calculator will double mailboxes accordingly.

Use this to plan budget: spread risk across providers (e.g. Google for primary + Azure for volume), or pick a single provider based on cost-per-send at your scale.

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