Spark Mail Pricing: Plans, Cost and Free Tier

Spark Mail costs 99 euros a year for Plus and 229 euros a year for Pro, per user, or 10 and 22 euros per user per month if you pay monthly. The plan that costs nothing connects unlimited email accounts, which is unusually generous for this category. Enterprise is quote-only. Those are the figures the Spark pricing page returned on August 26, 2026.

One thing to settle before the numbers mean anything: Spark prices in the visitor's local currency, so a US buyer may be shown dollars at a similar level rather than the euro figures quoted here. The euros below are what the pricing page served when it was read for this article. Check it from your own connection before you commit a budget, because the plan boundaries below move less often than the currency does.

How much does Spark Mail cost?

Four tiers, two of which carry a published price. The annual figures are the ones to plan around, because Spark shows a struck-through list price next to them and the discount is real rather than a permanent fake sale.

Paying yearly saves about 17 percent on Plus and about 13 percent on Pro. That is a smaller annual discount than most email tools offer, so the case for locking in a year is weaker here than usual. If you are unsure whether the AI features will stick, monthly costs you roughly 21 euros extra across a year on Plus, which is cheap insurance against paying for eleven months you do not use.

Is Spark email free?

Yes, genuinely, and the plan that costs nothing is the main reason Spark keeps winning recommendation threads. It connects unlimited email accounts with cross-device sync, the Smart Inbox, a unified inbox across all of them, smart search, scheduled sends, snooze, set aside, reminders, mark as done, swipe actions, the command center, quick replies and dark mode. Most rivals cap the tier that costs nothing at one or two accounts. Spark does not cap it at all.

What it does not include is the part people upgrade for. The whole Enhanced Productivity block sits behind Plus: Priority, Gatekeeper, group by sender and domain, smart folders, mute threads, templates, the productivity integrations for Reminders, Todoist and Notion, and the CRM integrations. AI is metered rather than absent, which catches people out. Meeting Notes on the plan that costs nothing is five for the lifetime of the account, not five per month, and the AI Assistant can only see one month of email history.

What is the difference between Spark Plus and Pro?

Plus buys you the productivity features and a working AI quota. Pro buys you the team layer and removes the AI limits. Here is where each line actually sits:

The line that decides it for most small teams is file storage. Free and Plus both give the team 5 GB in total, shared across everyone. Pro gives 10 GB per member. A four-person team on Plus has 5 GB between them; the same team on Pro has 40 GB. That is an eightfold difference hidden in a row most people skim past.

What do the Spark Pro features marked SOON mean?

This is worth knowing before you sign an annual Pro contract. Three of the features Spark lists under Pro carry a SOON label on the pricing page itself, meaning they have not shipped: Workflows (custom rules to organize, forward and prioritize email), Auto-Drafts (draft replies written in your voice) and Auto-Labels (automatic categorization of incoming mail). Those three are exactly the automation people picture when they imagine an AI email client, and today they are roadmap rather than product.

There is a second limit on Auto-Labels that the footnote does not shout about: the description says it categorizes incoming Gmail emails. If your mail is on Outlook, iCloud, Fastmail or your own domain, that feature may not apply to you even after it ships. Salesforce and Pipedrive are listed as planned rather than available, so HubSpot is the only CRM connected today.

Does Spark offer a trial of Plus and Pro?

Yes. Spark runs a seven-day trial of both Plus and Pro when you subscribe directly in the app, and its support team says it will extend or reschedule the trial if you ask. Seven days is short for a tool you are meant to live in all day, so start the trial on a Monday rather than a Friday and connect every account you actually use, not just the busiest one. The Smart Inbox behaves very differently at two accounts than at six.

How much is Spark for a team?

Spark bills per user with no volume ladder, so the arithmetic is simple and it climbs fast. Five people on Plus is 495 euros a year. Five on Pro is 1,145 euros. Ten on Pro is 2,290 euros. There is no published discount band at any quantity, which is unusual: most per-seat email tools shave something off at ten or twenty-five seats.

Two practical notes. Spark licenses the subscription to the person, not the device, so a seat bought on iOS also covers that user's Windows, Mac and Android installs. And Spark warns on the page that features and usage may differ for users on legacy plans, so if your team has been on Spark for years, what you see in your account may not match the current table. Per-seat email is also one of those costs that quietly compounds once three or four tools are billing the same way, which is the sort of thing worth watching alongside the rest of the recurring software spend rather than approving in isolation.

Does Spark run on Windows and Linux?

Spark ships native apps for iOS, Android, macOS and Windows. There is no Linux build and no ChromeOS build, and there is no full web version, so a Linux desktop or a Chromebook cannot run it. That single gap sends a steady stream of people looking for something else, and it is the same gap that rules out eM Client, Mailbird, Canary Mail and Superhuman.

If Linux is your requirement, the realistic field is Thunderbird, Evolution or a browser-based board, and we go through it on our Linux email client page. On ChromeOS the options narrow to the Linux container or something that runs in a tab, which we cover on the Chromebook email client page and, for the Microsoft-specific version of the problem, on Outlook for Chromebook.

Is Spark email worth it?

For an individual, the honest answer is that you may never need to pay. Unlimited accounts, a real unified inbox and cross-device sync at no cost covers what most people came for. Upgrade to Plus when you find yourself wanting templates, smart folders and Gatekeeper, or when the five lifetime Meeting Notes run out and you want the transcription regularly. At 99 euros a year that is a fair price for a well-built client.

Pro is a team purchase and should be judged as one. If you have collaborators, shared drafts, assignments and shared inboxes like sales@ in daily use, the jump from 99 to 229 euros per person buys unlimited assignments, per-member storage and read statuses. If you are a solo user eyeing Pro purely for unlimited Meeting Notes and full AI history, do the sum first: 130 euros a year more, for a quota difference, on a plan whose three headline automation features have not shipped.

Spark compared with a browser based board

Being straight about where each one lands. Spark is a polished native client you install per device, with a Smart Inbox that groups and prioritizes mail so the important things float up. You still work the pile; Spark just orders it better. Inboxes is a browser board that connects every IMAP mailbox and runs an AI model over each message as it arrives, assigning a category and a spam verdict before you look at it. Nothing is installed, so the same sorted board opens on a Chromebook, a locked-down work laptop or a Linux desktop. It costs $29 a month flat for five mailboxes, with larger tiers above it, which is more than Spark and buys a different thing.

Choose Spark if you want a beautiful client on Apple or Windows hardware and your mail volume is manageable once it is grouped. Choose a browser board if the problem is triage volume across a lot of addresses, or if any machine you need to read mail on cannot install software. The line-by-line version, including the several places Spark wins outright, is on our Spark alternative page, and the wider field is on our roundup of the best app for multiple email accounts.

Prices in this article were read directly from the Spark pricing page on August 26, 2026. Vendor pricing moves, so treat any figure older than a few weeks as a starting point rather than a quote.