# FlareMail vs Agentic Inbox Agentic Inbox is Cloudflare’s open-source reference client. FlareMail is the hosted inbox you open without deploying it. HTML: https://sendwithflare.com/articles/flaremail-vs-agentic-inbox/ **Keyword:** flaremail vs agentic inbox **Audience:** developers deciding between a hosted inbox and Cloudflare’s official reference app ## Short answer FlareMail is a web inbox for Cloudflare-powered email — a hosted inbox, while Agentic Inbox is Cloudflare’s official self-hosted reference app. First three domains are free; Pro is $10/month for 12 domains; Agency is $60/month unlimited. FlareMail vs Agentic Inbox is hosted product versus official reference app. Agentic Inbox is Cloudflare’s open-source inbox, Apache-2.0, with 8,165 GitHub stars. You deploy it. There is no hosted product. The price is your Cloudflare bill. FlareMail is the opposite shape: an account, the app, and a domain, with FlareMail operating the Worker, D1, and R2. ## Hosted inbox or a stack you operate FlareMail is for people who already run on Cloudflare and do not want to provision the mail stack. You create an account, open the app, and connect a domain. The setup guide says about five minutes. One step sits outside the app: an Email Routing rule to the flaremail-api Worker. FlareMail operates the Worker, D1, and R2. Agentic Inbox is the self-hosted path in this comparison. You clone it and you keep it running. That can be the right trade when the mail must live in your Cloudflare account, or when a feature below is the reason you are here. ## Side by side Same job, different operator. Price on the FlareMail side is the domain plan, not a claim that self-hosting is free. ## What the FlareMail screen actually is The inbox list above is the web app from this product, with obviously fake mail so the screenshot does not use a customer account. The sign-in form at app.sendwithflare.com is only the account door. It is not the inbox. ![FlareMail web app with a fictional message open from Northwind Booth](/assets/articles/flaremail-message.webp) *A message open in the FlareMail web app. The mail is fictional sample data (paperlantern.example), captured from this repo so the screenshot is the real UI.* ![FlareMail sign-in form at app.sendwithflare.com](/assets/articles/flaremail-signup.webp) *The public sign-in form at app.sendwithflare.com. Use it to create an account. It is not the inbox.* ## What Agentic Inbox is actually good at Agentic Inbox is a serious reference, and that is its strength. Inbound mail uses Email Routing. Each mailbox is one Durable Object plus SQLite. Attachments go to R2. A Workers AI agent can draft replies, and it requires confirmation before send. MCP is at /mcp. Production requires Cloudflare Access. Setup is a deploy plus Access secrets, a catch-all routing rule, and Email Service. If you want Cloudflare’s own AI-draft pattern inside your account, this is the codebase that shows it. If you want to skip provisioning Worker, D1, and R2, that is the job FlareMail is selling. ## Which one to pick Pick Agentic Inbox when you want the bits in your account and you will operate them. Pick FlareMail when you want the inbox without becoming the person who provisions Worker, D1, and R2. Start on [onboarding](/onboarding/) and use the [setup guide](/help/setup-guide/). First three domains are free. Pro is $10/month for 12 domains, then $1 per extra domain. Agency is $60/month unlimited. ## Other FlareMail comparisons The same hosted-versus-self-host question, for the rest of the field: - [FlareMail vs Mailflare](/articles/flaremail-vs-mailflare/) - [FlareMail vs Quickinbox](/articles/flaremail-vs-quickinbox/) - [FlareMail vs Orange Inbox](/articles/flaremail-vs-orange-inbox/) - [FlareMail vs Email Explorer](/articles/flaremail-vs-email-explorer/) - [FlareMail vs Postern](/articles/flaremail-vs-postern/) - [FlareMail vs Doota](/articles/flaremail-vs-doota/) - [FlareMail vs cf-mail](/articles/flaremail-vs-cf-mail/) - [FlareMail vs Reccado](/articles/flaremail-vs-reccado/) - [FlareMail vs cloudflare-email](/articles/flaremail-vs-cloudflare-email/) - [FlareMail vs AgentBox](/articles/flaremail-vs-agentbox/) Create an account on [onboarding](/onboarding/), then follow the [setup guide](/help/setup-guide/). The guide’s outside step is an Email Routing rule to the flaremail-api Worker. ## FAQ **Is Agentic Inbox a hosted FlareMail competitor I can sign up for?** No. It is Cloudflare’s self-hosted reference app. You deploy it. There is no hosted product. **Can the Agentic Inbox AI send mail on its own?** The Workers AI agent can draft replies, and it requires confirmation before send. **What does FlareMail cost?** First three domains are free. Pro is $10/month for 12 domains, then $1 per extra domain. Agency is $60/month unlimited. ## Related - [FlareMail vs Quickinbox](/articles/flaremail-vs-quickinbox/index.md) - [FlareMail vs Reccado](/articles/flaremail-vs-reccado/index.md) - [Cloudflare Email Routing SMTP: How Sending Fits Into a Cloudflare Mail Setup](/articles/cloudflare-email-routing-smtp/index.md) ## Start [Onboarding](https://sendwithflare.com/onboarding/) · [Pricing](https://sendwithflare.com/pricing.md) · [Setup guide](https://sendwithflare.com/help/setup-guide/)