Valimail Pricing and Valimail Enforce Pricing in 2026
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Valimail does not publish prices in 2026. Its Monitor plan is free, and Enforce Starter, Enforce Premium and Enforce Enterprise are all sold on a custom quote. Until September 2026 the pricing page showed Enforce Starter "starting at $5,000/year", so treat $5,000 a year as the floor for paid Valimail and expect Premium and Enterprise to cost well above it.
We sell DMARC and blacklist monitoring, so we have a stake in this comparison. Everything about Valimail below comes from its own pricing page as of October 2026, plus the archived $5,000 figure reported by third-party trackers. We also say plainly where Valimail is the better buy. Ask Valimail sales for a written quote before you decide, because quotes depend on your setup.
Valimail pricing table for 2026
| Plan | Published price | Who it is for | Key features |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monitor | $0 | Visibility before you commit | Sender identification by service name, BIMI, limited automated DMARC, 10 SPF lookups, 5 users |
| Enforce Starter | Custom quote (was "starting at $5,000/year" until September 2026) | Simple sending setups | Automated DMARC, unlimited SPF, downloadable and executive reports, notification center, unlimited users, onboarding help, dedicated account manager |
| Enforce Premium | Custom quote | Companies with many subdomains | Subdomain management and reports, automated DKIM, events log, smart alerts, forced MFA. API access is an add-on |
| Enforce Enterprise | Custom quote | Large and regulated organizations | API access, source IP data, configurable alerts, portfolios, SAML SSO, JIT provisioning, FedRAMP deployment, technical account manager |
| Amplify (BIMI add-on) | Custom quote | Brands that want their logo in the inbox | Faster BIMI setup and logo display control, works with Enforce |
Valimail says a quote is shaped by four things: how much email you send, how many domains and subdomains you have, how many sending services (Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk and so on) send as your domain, and the size of your organization. None of the plans lists a domain limit on the public page.
How much does Valimail cost?
Paid Valimail starts at about $5,000 a year, the Enforce Starter price Valimail displayed until September 2026, and moves to custom quotes for Premium and Enterprise. Monitor is free. Because Enforce Premium adds subdomain management and automated DKIM, and Enterprise adds API access, SSO and FedRAMP, a mid-size company should budget well above the Starter floor.
That $5,000 floor works out to about $417 a month. It buys a hosted, automated approach: Valimail manages your SPF so you stop hitting the 10 DNS lookup limit, walks you to a p=reject policy and gives you an account manager from the first paid tier. For a company with one domain and three sending services, that is a lot of service for the job. For a company with forty domains and a small IT team, the same automation can save weeks of DNS work.
Valimail Enforce pricing by tier
The three Enforce tiers stack. Starter covers automated DMARC and hosted SPF for a simple setup. Premium is where subdomains become manageable, which matters if marketing runs mail from news.example.com and support from help.example.com. Enterprise is the tier for organizations that need API access as standard, SAML single sign-on, source IP data and a FedRAMP deployment for US federal work.
Two details are easy to miss when you read the plan grid. API access is not included on Premium; it is a paid add-on there and only standard on Enterprise. And the free Monitor plan leaves out DKIM automation, subdomain views and most dashboards, so it shows you who is sending as your domain but does not move you to enforcement on its own.
Is Valimail free?
Valimail Monitor is free and shows which services send email as your domain, with limited automated DMARC, BIMI support and up to 5 users. It does not include automated DKIM, subdomain views, API access or the reporting dashboards. To reach a p=reject policy with Valimail doing the work, you need a paid Enforce plan on a custom quote.
What Valimail costs compared with other DMARC tools
| Vendor | Entry paid plan | Next tier up | Blacklist monitoring | Published pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valimail | Enforce Starter, about $5,000 a year (last published) | Premium and Enterprise, quote | Not listed | No |
| dmarcian | Basic, $19.99 a month billed yearly, 2 domains | Plus, $199 a month, 8 domains | Not listed | Yes |
| EasyDMARC | DMARC Plus, $35.99 a month billed yearly, 2 domains | Premium, $71.99 a month, 4 domains | Deliverability plan, quote | Partly |
| BlacklistMonitoring | Starter, $49 a month or $24 billed yearly, 10 domains and IPs | Business, $149 a month or $74 billed yearly, 100 domains and IPs | Included, 109 lists | Yes |
dmarcian and EasyDMARC prices are from their public pricing pages as of October 2026. We break dmarcian down tier by tier in dmarcian pricing in 2026, and compare EasyDMARC with us on the EasyDMARC alternative page.
The price gap is large because the products are not the same. Valimail sells automation and a managed path to enforcement. dmarcian, EasyDMARC and BlacklistMonitoring sell visibility: they read your DMARC aggregate reports, show every IP sending as your domain and tell you what to fix, and your team makes the DNS changes. If your team can edit DNS records, the visibility tools cost a fraction of the price.
What $5,000 a year buys elsewhere
Take a US company with 12 domains: a main brand, two regional brands, a few product domains and some defensive registrations that never send mail. Here is what that company pays per year with each option.
- Valimail Enforce: from about $5,000 a year, likely Premium if those brands use subdomains, quote only.
- dmarcian: Plus covers 8 active domains for $2,388 a year, so 12 active domains push it to Enterprise at $5,988 a year. Parked domains that send nothing are free on paid plans.
- BlacklistMonitoring: Business covers 100 domains and IPs for $888 a year billed yearly, with DMARC report parsing up to 1,000,000 messages a month, SPF, DKIM and DMARC record monitoring and blacklist checks on 109 lists every 15 minutes.
The math changes if nobody on staff can own DNS. Then the hosted SPF and the account manager in Valimail are what you are really paying for, and a cheaper reporting tool would just hand your team work it cannot do.
Costs to budget for beyond the Valimail quote
A DMARC project rarely ends with the DMARC tool. Budget for three more things.
First, staff time to fix each sending service. Every platform that sends as your domain needs SPF or DKIM alignment, and someone has to log into Salesforce, your help desk and your billing system to set up DKIM keys. Valimail automates more of this than most, but not all of it.
Second, blacklist and reputation monitoring. DMARC proves a message came from you. It does not tell you that your sending IP just landed on Spamhaus or Barracuda, and a listing blocks mail that passes DMARC perfectly. Valimail's plans do not list blacklist monitoring, so teams usually add a separate tool such as our blacklist monitoring service, which alerts within 5 to 60 minutes depending on plan.
Third, compliance reporting. Enforcement at p=reject is now expected by Google and Yahoo for bulk senders since February 2024 and by Microsoft for Outlook.com since May 2025, and auditors increasingly ask to see it. If you track that evidence across frameworks, a dedicated tool for mapping security controls to compliance obligations keeps DMARC records next to the rest of your audit trail.
Is Valimail worth the price?
Valimail is worth it for large organizations with many sending services, many subdomains and no spare DNS staff, and for federal contractors who need a FedRAMP deployment. For a small or mid-size US business that can edit its own DNS, a reporting tool at $300 to $2,400 a year usually reaches the same p=reject result for much less.
Be honest about which company you are. If you send from 25 SaaS platforms and your IT team is two people, the managed approach pays for itself. If you send from Google Workspace, one marketing platform and one transactional provider, you are buying automation for a job that takes an afternoon.
Does Valimail have an API?
Valimail includes API access on Enforce Enterprise and sells it as an add-on on Enforce Premium. Monitor and Enforce Starter have no API. If API access to DMARC findings and blacklist listings is what you need, our Scale plan includes a REST API and signed webhooks for $1,499 a month, and Business and up send signed webhooks.
Cheaper Valimail alternatives for DMARC and blacklist alerts
If the Valimail quote is more than the job is worth, there are three practical routes.
- Reporting plus your own DNS edits. Upload aggregate reports to a DMARC report analyzer, fix each failing source and step your policy from none to quarantine to reject over a few weeks.
- Continuous DMARC monitoring. DMARC monitoring on our Starter plan watches 10 domains and IPs for $24 a month billed yearly and flags record changes, new senders and authentication failures.
- Monitoring plus blacklist alerts in one plan. Business at $149 a month, or $74 billed yearly, adds 100 domains and IPs, 15 minute checks, inbox placement tests, Teams and webhooks.
Every one of these assumes your team makes the DNS changes. That is the real line between Valimail and the rest of the market.
How to get a fair Valimail quote
Go into the sales call with numbers, not a vague description. List every domain you own and mark which ones send mail. Count the services that send as your domain; the free Monitor plan or a week of DMARC reports will show you. Note your monthly email volume and whether you need subdomain management, SSO or an API. Ask for the price per year, the term length, what happens when you add domains mid-contract and whether onboarding is included.
Then compare the quote with a published-price tool for one billing cycle. Run a check on your main domain with the tool at the top of this page to see your current SPF, DKIM, DMARC and blacklist status, and you will know before the call how much work is really left.