CraneMail lifetime email hosting: the $75-$3,000 one-time price ladder, plan by plan

Lifetime email hosting is a crowded promise, and most offers hide the size of the storage and the domain limits until checkout. NameCrane's CraneMail lifetime ladder publishes both — but the steps between the sizes are not what you might guess, and the pricing works out very differently at the bottom rung than at the top.

The CraneMail lifetime ladder: $75 to $3,000 one-time

The entry CraneMail Lifetime 250G is $75 one-time for 250GB of combined mail and cloud storage. The 500G plan is $150, 750G is $225, and 1TB (1000G) is $300. From there the ladder scales linearly at $300 per terabyte: 2TB is $600, 3TB is $900, 4TB is $1,200, 5TB is $1,500, and it runs up to the CraneMail Lifetime 10000G at $3,000 one-time for 10TB.

Primary domains double with storage size

The domain counts published are 15, 50, 75, 100, 200, 300 and up to 1,000 primary domains — with each figure paired with a doubled promotional allowance (for example "up to 15 25" on the 250G plan, and 1,000/2,000 on the 10TB tier). Domain aliases and mailboxes per domain are unlimited, and every tier is capped at 600 sent emails per hour per domain.

What one-time actually buys you

Every lifetime plan includes the same suite: webmail plus IMAP/POP/SMTP/EAS/MAPI+EWS access, CalDAV/CardDAV calendars and contacts, SpamExperts inbound filtering and outbound relaying, a mail migration tool, cloud storage with file sharing, FTP/SFTP and Rclone access, and online meetings with team chat. On a per-gigabyte basis the ladder is flat — exactly $300 per terabyte above the 750G step — so the only meaningful choice is how much storage you need today, not which rung is best value. Note the entry tier's arithmetic: the 250G plan at $75 is the same $300/TB rate minus the rounding, so there is no hidden "sweet spot" discount mid-ladder.

For monthly-billed email hosting instead, the CraneMail subscription ladder runs from the CraneMail 100G at $25 a year down to CraneMail 10TB at $55 a month — one of the few services that publishes a price at both ends of the size range. Compare the full CraneMail line-up, subscriptions and lifetimes, on the NameCrane catalogue page.