# FlareMail vs Quickinbox Quickinbox is a full web client on your Workers account. FlareMail is hosted, so you do not provision D1 and R2. HTML: https://sendwithflare.com/articles/flaremail-vs-quickinbox/ **Keyword:** flaremail vs quickinbox **Audience:** operators who want multi-domain Cloudflare mail and are weighing a 30-minute self-host setup ## Short answer FlareMail is a web inbox for Cloudflare-powered email — a hosted inbox, while Quickinbox is a self-hosted Workers client you deploy and wire to DNS. First three domains are free; Pro is $10/month for 12 domains; Agency is $60/month unlimited. FlareMail vs Quickinbox is hosted versus a Workers app you run. Quickinbox is self-hosted, MIT, with 407 GitHub stars. It is a full web client on Workers with D1 and R2. FlareMail does not ask you to create those resources. You open the app and connect a domain. One step sits outside the app: an Email Routing rule to the flaremail-api Worker. ## 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. Quickinbox 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 compose window in the web app, From set to hello@paperlantern.example](/assets/articles/flaremail-compose.webp) *Compose in the FlareMail web app. The From address is fictional sample data, 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 Quickinbox is actually good at Quickinbox’s strengths are the product surface and the interfaces around it. Threads, attachments, multi-domain, and multi-user are in the client. It also exposes REST, a CLI, and a hosted MCP with OAuth. Optional web push and Telegram are documented. The provider is Resend by default, or Cloudflare Email Service. The Cloudflare sending path requires a Workers paid plan. The setup wizard budgets about 30 minutes, mostly DNS. That is a fair budget for a self-hosted mail stack. FlareMail’s setup guide says about five minutes, because the Worker, D1, and R2 are already running. ## Which one to pick Pick Quickinbox 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 Agentic Inbox](/articles/flaremail-vs-agentic-inbox/) - [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 **How long does Quickinbox say setup takes?** The setup wizard budgets about 30 minutes, mostly DNS. FlareMail’s setup guide says about five minutes, plus one Email Routing rule outside the app. **Does Quickinbox include MCP?** Yes. REST, a CLI, and a hosted MCP with OAuth are part of the project. **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 Orange Inbox](/articles/flaremail-vs-orange-inbox/index.md) - [FlareMail vs cloudflare-email](/articles/flaremail-vs-cloudflare-email/index.md) - [Cloudflare Email Routing Send Email: From Receiving Mail to a Complete Workflow](/articles/cloudflare-email-routing-send-email/index.md) ## Start [Onboarding](https://sendwithflare.com/onboarding/) · [Pricing](https://sendwithflare.com/pricing.md) · [Setup guide](https://sendwithflare.com/help/setup-guide/)