If ProtonMail Plus is too expensive for you, there is a free plan. It's very possible to use ProtonMail without paying.

The issue with lifetime plans is that this is a service, not a commodity.

You will cost ProtonMail money in server time, storage costs, and bandwidth costs, and those costs continue over time. A one time payment has to be large enough to cover all your potential use going forward.

A very limited quantity of lifetime plans were offered previously, at $1337 each.

There is no feasible way for a one time payment to cover the recurring costs of having you as a customer, without being prohibitively expensive.

Don't agree at all. Should be even more expensive in the Pro. Great service has his price.

I disagree, paying 12 cent a day for secure email and its the benefits is not too expensive.

Yes, I hate and never use "recurrent" online payments - for a couple of filters or something I don't want to have to remember to pay yet another bill monthly or yearly .. 1time for basic stuff!

Hi,

Check your competitors, for example - Tutanota.
Premiun account - 1GB storage + 5 email alias = 1,2 EUR per month.
I am already their Premium user for such conditions. As for me - not everyone needs 5 GB and Custom domain.
Do the same and I will buy your Premium too.

Thanks.

Just bought a lifetime discount for 45% for plus if I renew every 2 years. Lets see how that goes.

A 1€ option would be great!
The current free plan has not enough functionality to be worth a donation. I would love to contribute, but 4-5€ is too much for me, and it offers a lot I don't need/want.

So, an additional option would be nice containing:
Everything FREE-plan has + 1GB + 50folders/labels + custom filters
To me these are basic email needs that every email provider should offer, and I would be more than willing to pay 1€/month for this.

as much as a user would like it, it is just not feasible.

1) protonmail provides services, not commodities.

2) it's risky. as a company, protonmail can go to a different direction than you were hoping, and you're stuck with it for life.

3) to be economically feasible, it would have to be in sort of a insurance plan style, paying a premium price over some years. This would not be a popular choice

So 2 years plus should give you lifetime plus? The amounts must be way higher.

That would be a nice option.

What do you consider a good amount?

I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I like to keep my number of subscriptions minimal. It's just healthy. Basically. I would pay a good amount to get a lifetime subscription on plus / pro. Thoughts?

I would love to be able to chip in a little a month but i am a student and cannot afford approximatly £40 a year. If there was a cheaper option, i.e £1 a month i would definatly buy it, it could have 1 email adress, 1GB storage, no forced signature and 500 messages a day, as it would put it price to fretures proportinal on the list.

I’ll just repeat what I wrote ten months ago*: 4€/month would be reasonable if that was the whole cost. But the actual cost is a multiple of that... Why? Because a security minded person needs multiple accounts (not just e-mail aliases). Free accounts don’t rectify this obstacle because TOS prohibit multiple free accounts. (Please, correct me if I am wrong.)

*) My comment from November 7, 2016 9:04 PM. (Displayed in user history as “Nov 8, 2016” for some reason.)

Same thought...Personnaly, i'd give 1€/mth per GB of storage.
As a basic user, i don't need 5GB and all these features you get with the PLUS plan.

mailbox.org is 1€/Month.

Posteo is € 12 annually. I would pay € 24 for Proton.

For me personally is not just about supporting ProtonMail with money but simply having a load of features that I am not using. For example, I would gladly opt-out of custom domains and lower allowed storage (5GB is too much for me as a light user) if that would lower my price plan.
Just to mention - originally I only opted-in for a paid plan as it included ProtonVPN and that was a great deal (~50€ for mail and VPN). As ProtonVPN has been launched (and is now at a quite steep price, compared to other well-regarded VPNs), all the use I am getting out of my payments for ProtonMail Plus is being able to use 2 extra aliases (which I cannot even delete)... If I could opt-out of some premium features I would gladly use the saving for ProtonVPN as I simply can't afford paying for both at the moment.

i agree, i really want to support protonmail but the plan that they have are way too much expensive to afford for me in this moment