Email on Acid vs GreenMail
No clear leader: Email on Acid (57.7) and GreenMail (55.9) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for email testing dev. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Email on Acid
Tests email campaigns across 100+ email clients and devices to identify rendering issues, validate content for inbox compatibility, check accessibility compliance, and detect deliverability problems before sending.
GreenMail
GreenMail is a lightweight testing tool that simulates SMTP, POP3, and IMAP email servers for application testing. It allows developers to extract, verify, and modify test messages within a contained environment while supporting SSL encryption.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Email on Acid
From $99/month. 7-day free trial.
- Basic$99/month, $0.15 per preview overage
- 1,000 email previews per month
- 100+ email preview clients and devices
- Unlimited users
- API access
- Overage charges for additional previews
- Premium$199/month
- 2,000 email previews per month
- 100+ email preview clients and devices
- Unlimited users
- Accessibility tests (WCAG 2.2 / European Accessibility Act compliance)
- HTML code analysis
- +2 more
- CustomContact sales
- Custom preview allotments
- Phone and chat support
- Dedicated support documentation
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Email on Acid or GreenMail: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.