Compared
Ruber vs Proton Mail
Proton built the most private mailbox available and is very good at being that. If the strongest possible privacy for personal mail is what you are buying, buy it from them — this page will not talk you out of it.
| Capability | Ruber | Proton Mail |
|---|---|---|
| Access | ||
| Connect any IMAP client | Direct | Through Proton Mail Bridge |
| Building on it | ||
| Create mailboxes from code | REST API and signed webhooks | Admin interface |
| Run the mail plane in your own cloud | Postfix, Dovecot and Rspamd in your VPC | — |
| White-label the whole surface | On the your-cloud mail plane | — |
| Commercial | ||
| What you are billed for | One price for one person on Personal and Pro; per user on Business — extra addresses included | Per user |
| Privacy posture | ||
| Zero-access encryption | — | Yes |
| Published third-party audits | — | Yes |
— means not part of that product's published offering at the time of checking. It is not a statement about what either of us is capable of.
Where it goes against us
Proton is zero-access encrypted, open source and independently audited. We are none of those things — no audit, no certification, and message bodies stored in a form we could read. If that is what you are buying, buy it from them.
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