Email Security pricing across 6 tracked products: entry-tier median $2.00, top-tier median $5.00. Cheapest: FortiMail. Most premium: Proofpoint. Updated April 2026.
Email Security pricing varies across per-seat, per-usage, and enterprise-quoted tiers. Published list prices on vendor pricing pages form the basis of this benchmark; negotiated deals typically land 15-40% below list for teams over 20 seats.
Entry-tier median is $2.00, top-tier median $5.00. Negotiated enterprise deals typically land 15-40% below list.
| Product | Entry | Median | Top | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abnormal Security | $3.00 | $5.00 | $8.00 | month |
| Barracuda Email Protection | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 | month |
| FortiMail | $0 | $0 | $0 | month |
| Microsoft Defender for Office 365 | $2.00 | $3.50 | $5.00 | month |
| Mimecast | $0 | $0 | $0 | month |
| Proofpoint | $2.00 | $5.00 | $15 | month |
Low is the entry-tier price (often a free or starter plan). Median is the middle price across published tiers. High is the top published tier — enterprise contracts with negotiated discounts usually land 15-40% below the published high.
Across 6 tracked products, the entry-tier median is $2.00 and the top-tier median is $5.00. Individual products vary significantly — see the per-product table above.
FortiMail has the lowest entry-tier price in our tracked set.
Proofpoint has the highest top-tier list price among tracked products.
Prices are sourced from vendor pricing pages and automatically re-checked. Any tier marked 'custom' has no public list price; negotiated deals aren't shown here.