# How DontMailMe compares

Most unsubscribe tools are free because *you* are the product, or paid because privacy is sold back to you. DontMailMe is neither: free, open-source, and it never sees your data.

| Feature | DontMailMe | Unroll.me | Cleanfox | Leave Me Alone | Clean Email | Mailstrom |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | **Free (pay what you want)** | Free | Free | Paid | Paid | Paid |
| Open source | **Yes** | No | No | No | No | No |
| Inbox stays in your own cloud | **Yes** | No | No | No | No | No |
| Sells or shares your data | **No** | Yes¹ | Yes² | No | No | No |
| Uses official RFC 8058 standard | **Yes** | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Available in the EU (GDPR) | **Yes** | No³ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Plants trees & shows CO₂ | **Yes (default)** | No | Yes | Optional (paid) | No | No |
| Agent / MCP-ready | **Yes** | No | No | No | No | No |
| Code you can audit | **Yes** | No | No | No | No | No |

## The honest version

- **Unroll.me and Cleanfox** are free because their parent businesses (Slice/Rakuten Intelligence and Foxintelligence, both now part of NielsenIQ since 2021) have monetized anonymized data derived from users' inboxes. In 2019 Unroll.me settled U.S. FTC allegations that it deceived users about sharing inbox-derived data (it neither admitted nor denied the allegations), and Unroll.me now geo-blocks the EU/EEA rather than comply with GDPR.
- **Leave Me Alone and Clean Email** are genuinely privacy-minded paid options — but still closed-source services that process your inbox on their servers, for $19–$100/year. DontMailMe gives the same privacy goal as an architecture, not a promise.
- **Mailstrom** is a capable paid bulk manager with its own AI features, but offers no interface for the AI agents that increasingly do this work.
- **Gmail's built-in "Manage subscriptions"** (July 2025) is manual, one sender at a time, Gmail-only, and Google sees everything. DontMailMe is set-and-forget, cross-client, and keeps your data out of anyone's hands.

¹ Unroll.me's parent business has shared anonymized data derived from users' inboxes; in 2019 Unroll.me settled FTC allegations that it deceived users about this (neither admitting nor denying them).
² Cleanfox is operated by Foxintelligence (now part of NielsenIQ), which has monetized anonymized purchase/transaction data derived from users' inboxes.
³ Unroll.me redirects EU/EEA visitors to a suspended-service page rather than offering the product under GDPR.

*Competitor pricing and policies as publicly published in 2026, subject to change.*

Related: [FAQ](https://dontmailme.org/faq.md) · [How it works](https://dontmailme.org/how-it-works.md) · [Try Gmail setup](https://dontmailme.org/gmail.md)