MxToolbox Alternative for Blacklist Monitoring

The short answer

If you mainly need to know when a sending domain or IP lands on a blacklist, and you send from more than five domains, BlacklistMonitoring costs less per domain than MxToolbox and checks more often. If you need inbound mailflow monitoring, SPF flattening or a managed delivery service, MxToolbox covers those and we do not.

Most teams who look for a MxToolbox alternative hit the same wall. The free account monitors one domain once a week, and the first paid plan, Delivery Center at $129 a month, covers 5 domains. An agency with 30 client domains or a cold email team with 40 secondary domains outgrows that fast.

MxToolbox vs BlacklistMonitoring side by side

MxToolbox prices are from its public pricing page and can change, so confirm them there before you decide. Our prices are on the pricing page, and yearly billing halves them, so Starter works out to $24 a month.

Why teams switch from MxToolbox

• Domain caps. Both Delivery Center plans stop at 5 domains. Agencies, cold email teams and SaaS companies with separate marketing and transactional domains pass that on day one.
• Weekly checks on the free plan. A Spamhaus or Barracuda listing can cost a full week of sends before a weekly check sees it. Our plans recheck every 60, 15 or 5 minutes.
• Alerts without the fix. Each of our alerts names the list, the return code, the likely cause and the removal link for that list, so the person on call knows what to do next.
• Client reporting. Agencies get separate workspaces per client and white label reports they can send under their own name.
• Team chat alerts. Slack and Microsoft Teams channels mean the right person sees a listing while it is still small.

Who BlacklistMonitoring fits best

We built it for businesses whose revenue depends on email reaching the inbox. Cold email agencies running dozens of rotating domains use the agency deliverability monitoring setup. Email marketing agencies send clients monthly reports from the white label deliverability reports feature. Ecommerce and SaaS teams watch their transactional IPs and domains so password resets and order emails keep landing.

If you send from one domain through Google Workspace and rarely change anything, the MxToolbox free monitor may be enough. Once you manage more than a handful of domains or clients, the cost per domain and the check frequency start to matter more than the size of the free toolkit.

How to move your monitoring over in 15 minutes

1. 1 Export or copy the list of domains and IPs you watch in MxToolbox.
2. 2 Create your account and paste them into the bulk add box. Domains and single IPs are accepted, and the Scale plan also takes CIDR ranges.
3. 3 Point your DMARC rua address at the reporting address shown in your workspace, next to the MxToolbox address if you want to run both for a month.
4. 4 Connect email, Slack, Teams or a webhook as your alert channel and send a test alert.
5. 5 Keep MxToolbox running in parallel for one billing cycle, compare the alerts, then cancel the plan you no longer need.

What you get on every plan

Every plan checks each domain and IP on 109 DNS blacklists, including Spamhaus ZEN and DBL, Barracuda, SpamCop, SURBL and UCEPROTECT, and watches the SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX, PTR and BIMI records behind them. When something changes, you get an alert with the exact record or listing that broke. The blacklist directory explains each list and its removal process, and the blacklist monitoring page covers the monitoring engine in more detail.

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