Productivity
Fastmail
Last updated 2026-08-09 · benchmark measured 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible
Fastmail is a paid email service offering private, encrypted email with calendars and contacts.
Is Fastmail production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Fastmail 85 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Fastmail (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Security; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 88/100
- Accessibility — 97/100
- Security — 100/100
- Privacy — 25/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 100/100
- Discoverability — 85/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 149 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.
Who built it
Rob Mueller · product account @Fastmail
Who it's for
individuals · couples · privacy-conscious users · professionals · business users
Pricing
Individual: $6/month ($5/month yearly, $4.75/month 24-month, $4.67/month 36-month); Duo: $10/month ($8/month yearly, $7.60/month 24-month, $7.47/month 36-month)
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