Proton AG has up to date its providers underneath a unified design. The logos for all the corporate’s providers have been up to date with a contemporary design. The icons look similar to Google’s fashion. And as anticipated, Protonmail.com now redirects to Proton.me, which is the model’s new id.
Aesthetic enhancements apart, there are some necessary modifications to the providers that it provides. Your electronic mail addresses @protonmail.com, @pm.me, @protonmail.ch, and customized domains stay the identical.
Proton’s new plans
We can’t be discussing the free tier as a result of it hasn’t gained a lot. However, I ought to point out that free customers can declare a free [email protected] electronic mail tackle free of charge till June eighth. In the event you missed the earlier alternative, go and get your free alias now.
Let’s check out the pricing and options of the paid plans. All customers who had been subscribed to a plan earlier than Might twenty fifth 2022, have been upgraded to a brand new Proton plan that greatest matches the outdated plan, with out a rise within the price. This features a bump within the cloud space for storing as properly.
The factor is, Proton is making use of a particular low cost for outdated customers, to permit them to resume on the outdated charges. If a consumer decides to modify to a special plan, they must hand over on this particular low cost. e.g. if you wish to improve from Plus to Limitless, you’ll lose your low cost.
Proton Visionary and Lifetime Subscribers are getting a particular improve, they get 3000 GB of space for storing, that is proper 3TB, on Proton Drive. You should use as much as 100 electronic mail addresses on the service. That is a fantastic reward for supporting Proton.
There are 2 new plans from the corporate: Proton Limitless and Proton Enterprise. So in complete, there are 4 tiers: Proton Free, Proton Mail Plus, Proton Limitless and Proton Visionary.
Proton Mail Plus
That is the fundamental premium plan provided by Proton, and it prices the identical as earlier than, with the costs beginning at $4.99 a month, and goes as much as $47.88 for one 12 months ($3.99/month), or $83.76 for 2 years ($3.49/month). However the Mail Plus plan provides extra advantages than earlier than. Customers get 15GB of space for storing (shared throughout Proton’s providers) which is an additional 10GB on prime of the 5GB they’d earlier.
ProtonMail Plus permits subscribers to make use of as much as 10 electronic mail addresses (beforehand 5), entry to Proton Drive, and Proton Calendar and Bridge. Catch-all, which collects emails from all addresses in your area, is now out there for Proton Plus customers, this was beforehand locked within the Skilled plan.
Proton Limitless
Proton’s Limitless plan provides the very best of each worlds for Mail and VPN customers. It grants 15 electronic mail addresses, Proton Drive, Calendar, Bridge, and all of the bonuses from the premium VPN plan. It helps 1700 servers in 60+ international locations, and no restrictions equivalent to P2P downloads. To prime all of it, it additionally provides customers a whopping 500GB of cloud storage. The costs for Proton Limitless begin at $11.99/month, $119.88 for one 12 months ($9.99/month), or $191.76 for 2 years ($7.99/month).
Proton Enterprise plans are primarily the identical as the non-public Mail Plus and Limitless plans, however permits including extra customers and are therefore dearer.
Proton Skilled, Household and Visionary Plans
ProtonMail Skilled plans have been migrated to Proton Enterprise Necessities. This additionally means that there’s a greater hole between the costs of the Mail Plus and Limitless plans, so it’s in a approach a rise within the costs. Consult with my earlier article for screenshots of the outdated plans and their costs.
Proton Visionary plans are now not out there for buy. ProtonMail has additionally discontinued its household plan. If you wish to embrace extra customers in your plan, you will need to go for the Enterprise Plan, which is kind of costly on a per-user foundation. Talking of which, add-ons are now not out there for private plans, if you wish to customise your plan, it’s worthwhile to go for a Marketing strategy.
Proton VPN plan costs for brand new subscribers
Proton has scrapped its ProtonVPN Primary plan. For example a consumer is simply within the VPN service, (not the e-mail), they will now not subscribe to ProtonVPN for $5 a month. However wait, it does present $5 a month, does not it? Not likely, that possibility is just legitimate for a 12 months’s subscription, as in it prices $5/month yearly, you will need to pay the total quantity for 12 months,
The brand new starter plan for the VPN service prices $9.99 a month. That appears like a 100% value hike, however it’s simply the outdated ProtonVPN Plus plan being rebranded as the fundamental tier. Check out Mullvad VPN for instance, they nonetheless supply VPN providers at $5 a month.
Apparently, customers who had been on ProtonVPN Primary plans have been upgraded to Limitless, in order that they get to pay $5 a month for Mail and VPN. However those that had been on Mail Plus and VPN Plus bundle, say they need to pay $12 for a similar options. So, there’s positively a little bit of inconsistency with regard to the plan upgrades.
You may learn Proton’s article to study extra in regards to the pricing. The web site’s design is a bit too shiny and colourful for my liking.
Are you pleased with Proton’s new costs? What you consider the brand new design?
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