DuoboxWhat you pay when all you wanted was email
This page is for anyone about to pay for Google Workspace just to get name@yourcompany.com. We read the prices on each vendor's official website on 26 October 2026.
The real question is simple: do you need an office in the cloud, or do you need your company's email? If it's the second one, you're about to pay a lot for something you won't open.
Your first inbox is free
Before any table: with Duobox you start without paying. 1 person, 1 inbox, 1 domain and 10 GB, no card and no time limit. It's not a trial that expires after 14 days: it's the plan, and it stays that way as long as you're one person.
A company starts with what a company is: someone, a name and an address. When you add a second person, each one is $2 a month. On Google, the first person already pays $7 a month, on a one-year contract.
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In one line
DuoboxDuobox is your company's email: personal and shared inboxes on your domain, which open in the browser or in your phone's mail app, and an agent that can work them with the permissions you choose.
Google Workspace is an office in the cloud: email, documents, spreadsheets, video calls, calendar and Gemini, all bundled together and all per person.
Side by side
| DuoboxDuobox | Google Workspace (Business Starter) | |
|---|---|---|
| To get started | The first inbox is free: 1 person, 1 domain, 10 GB, no card | 14-day trial; then you pay |
| Price per person | $2 a month | $7 a month on a one-year contract; $8.40 month to month |
| Commitment | Monthly, no contract | Monthly, or annual at a discount |
| Storage | 50 GB per inbox, up to 10 inboxes per person | 30 GB per person, shared between email and Drive |
| Shared sales@ | Shared inbox: replies from sales@ and keeps its own history | With Google Groups or by delegating an account |
| Agent | Your agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any other MCP client), with permissions you pick one by one | Gemini inside Gmail |
| Live alongside, no move | Your domain stays where it is; the new inbox goes on a subdomain | — |
What you pay
| DuoboxDuobox | Google Workspace | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 person | $0 | $7 a month on a yearly contract, or $8.40 month to month |
| 5 people | $8 a month | $35 a month on a yearly contract, or $42 month to month |
| 5 people with sales@ and billing@ | $8 a month: shared inboxes are included in what each person already pays | $35 on a yearly contract, plus a group or an extra account for each address |
With Google you're also paying for documents, Drive and video calls. If you never open them, you pay for them anyway. With Duobox you pay for email, and if it's just you, you pay nothing.
Why Duobox
You start free, for real
No card, no trial that expires. Create the account, connect your domain and send the first email from your address.
The shared inbox is the centerpiece, not a workaround
sales@ is an inbox with its own history. The day someone leaves, the conversation with the customer stays right where it was.
One person, up to 10 inboxes
Whoever handles sales@, billing@ and their own email pays once, not three times.
An agent gets in with permissions, not with your password
Paste
https://mcp.duobox.io/v1/mcpinto Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, sign in with your account, and choose what it can do: read, leave drafts, send or manage. Whatever you didn't check, it doesn't do.No need to move
If your email is already on Google, your domain stays where it is and the new inbox lives next door, on a subdomain. And if one day you want to bring your old email over, it imports from Gmail in one pass.
Month to month
Add a person and remove them whenever you want. No annual contract, and no introductory price that changes later.
We also sell the domain
If you don't have one yet, and your email starts with it.
When to choose each one
DuoboxChoose Duobox if what you need is email on your domain, you want to start without paying, you have shared inboxes like sales@ and support@, and you want an agent to be able to answer in there without handing it the keys to everything.
Choose Google Workspace if your team works in Docs and Drive all day, you're on video calls every day, or you need the controls of a company with an IT department.
And there's a third option: leave Google where it is and add the shared inboxes, or your agent's inbox, in Duobox, on a subdomain. You don't migrate anything and there's no cutover day.
Questions we get
- Is the first inbox free forever?
- Yes, as long as you're one person with one inbox and 10 GB. You only pay once you add someone, a second inbox or more storage.
- Can I keep using Docs and Drive?
- Yes. Docs and Drive are still free with a Google account, and your company's email goes in Duobox.
- Can I bring my old email over from Gmail?
- Yes, it imports in one pass, and you can import again to bring over what's new.
- Will my email land in spam?
- The SPF, DKIM and DMARC records are published when you connect the domain. It's the same thing Google does, and it's the baseline for your email to get through.
DuoboxYour first inbox is free.
1 person, 1 inbox, 1 domain and 10 GB. No card and no time limit. When you add someone, $2 per person a month.
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