SaneBox Pricing: SaneBox Cost Per Plan and Which One You Actually Need

SaneBox costs $9.49 a month for Snack, $15.99 for Lunch and $42.99 for Dinner on monthly billing. Paid yearly the same plans are $65, $109 and $319, and a two-year prepay brings them to $109, $179 and $529, which works out to $4.54, $7.46 and $22.04 a month. Every plan has a 7-day free trial, and schools, non-profits and government agencies get 25 percent off. Those figures come from the plan data SaneBox's own pricing page loads, not from a review site.

The price is the easy part. What decides your bill is that each plan is capped twice: by how many mailboxes it covers (1, 2 or 4) and by how many SaneBox features you are allowed to switch on (2, 6 or all of them). Most people who feel short-changed by SaneBox bought the cheap plan and then found the feature they wanted was locked. This page works through which plan you actually need, what the trial does, what a team pays, and when a filter is the wrong thing to buy at all.

How much does SaneBox cost per month?

SaneBox repriced its three main plans in July 2026 (the plan codes in its pricing data carry a 202607 date), so figures in older articles may not match what you are charged today. Current prices:

Plan	Mailboxes	Features you can use	Monthly billing	Yearly	Two years
Snack	1	2	$9.49/mo	$65/yr ($5.42/mo)	$109 ($4.54/mo)
Lunch	2	6	$15.99/mo	$109/yr ($9.08/mo)	$179 ($7.46/mo)
Dinner	4	All	$42.99/mo	$319/yr ($26.58/mo)	$529 ($22.04/mo)

SaneBox's plan data prices the yearly plan at 43 percent off monthly on Snack and Lunch and 38 percent off on Dinner, and the two-year plan as roughly half off. Those are real savings, and they are also why the headline numbers on comparison sites look so low. When an article says "SaneBox from $4.54 a month", it is quoting the two-year prepay, which is $109 paid up front.

Which SaneBox plan do you actually need?

Work backward from the features, because that limit bites before the price does. SaneBox's plan data lists eight core features: SaneLater (mail that can wait), SaneBlackHole (senders you never want to see again), SaneNews (newsletters), SaneNoReplies (sent mail nobody answered), SaneNotSpam (rescues real mail from your spam folder), DIY folders you train yourself, snooze folders such as SaneTomorrow and SaneNextWeek, and SaneCC (messages where you were only copied).

• Snack gives you two of them on one mailbox. SaneLater plus SaneBlackHole is the classic pair, and for a single person whose problem is pure noise that is often enough.
• Lunch gives you six on two mailboxes. This is the plan for someone with a work address and a personal one, or anyone who wants reply tracking and the news folder as well as the basics.
• Dinner unlocks everything, including snooze and SaneCC, across four mailboxes. At $42.99 monthly it is a big step up from Lunch, so it is worth paying yearly if you land here.

The mailbox count catches people too. A founder with their own address, a shared hello@ and a personal Gmail has three, which means Dinner, not Lunch. Before you let a filter tool price you by mailbox, ask whether the real fix is to read every IMAP mailbox in one place and filter once, because checking four inboxes is a separate problem from any one of them being noisy.

Does SaneBox have a free trial?

Yes, and it is shorter than most articles say. SaneBox's own FAQ offers a 7-day free trial for each plan, and its home page promises "7 days of premium features". A lot of third-party reviews, including some ranking for this query, still print 14 days. Plan your evaluation around seven.

Seven days is enough to learn whether the filtering is accurate for your mail, but only if you spend it on your real inbox. Move a few misfiled messages each day so it learns, and by day five check how many minutes you spent in the inbox compared with a normal week. That number, not the feature list, is what you are paying for.

Cancelling is done from the SaneBox dashboard at any time. SaneBox asks whether to keep or remove the folders it created, and because it only moves mail on your server rather than holding it, nothing is lost either way.

Is there a SaneBox discount?

Two kinds. The built-in one is billing length: yearly roughly halves the monthly price on Snack and Lunch, and two years takes it lower still. The other is by organization type: SaneBox gives 25 percent off any plan to educational, non-profit and government organizations. There is no free plan to fall back on after the trial, which SaneBox defends directly in its FAQ on the grounds that a free email service has to make its money from your data.

What does SaneBox cost for a team?

The published plans are personal, priced per person by mailbox. For a team there is a separate SaneBox for Business, bought through a sales form rather than a checkout. It adds admin controls, company-wide rules, and Active Directory, Office 365 and Salesforce integrations (the Salesforce one only for Salesforce Enterprise customers). Business prices are not published; an account executive contacts you at the end of the trial.

If you buy the personal plans for each person instead, the arithmetic is simple and cheap. Five people on Lunch paid yearly is 5 x $109, or $545 a year. Five people on Dinner yearly is $1,595. For what it does, SaneBox is one of the least expensive tools a team can add.

The honest question is what that money buys. A filter decides which messages each person sees. It does not answer the client, move the meeting, file the invoice or chase the proposal that went quiet. If those are where your team's hours go, our SaneBox comparison sets out where a filter stops and an assistant that does the work starts.

Does SaneBox AI drafting cost extra?

It is not clear from the pricing page, and that is worth knowing before you buy for it. SaneBox's help center describes Reply Draft (SaneDrafts): AI-written replies in your tone that appear in your Drafts folder within 10 to 15 minutes of a message arriving, skipping receipts, newsletters and automated mail, and never sent automatically. The same article says the feature is "available on plans that include AI features". The plan data on the pricing page lists the eight filtering features for each plan and does not list Reply Draft on any of them.

So if drafting is the reason you are looking at SaneBox, ask support which plan includes it during the trial, and turn it on to see the drafts before you pay. If drafting is the main job, a dedicated AI email assistant will usually do it better, since writing is its core product rather than an addition.

Is SaneBox worth the money?

For the right person, clearly yes. If you are one professional getting 150 messages a day and answering 20 of them, $65 a year to keep the other 130 out of sight is one of the best-value purchases in software. It works in the mail app you already use, on every device, and it connects to more mail systems than almost anything else: Gmail, Microsoft 365, iCloud, Yahoo, Fastmail, and any IMAP, Exchange or ActiveSync server.

It is not worth it when the mail that matters is already reaching you. Filtering cannot shorten the time it takes to answer a client, book three people into a meeting or enter an invoice into your books. Buyers in that position tend to try SaneBox, like it, and find their week looks the same.

SaneBox pricing compared with the alternatives

These tools overlap with SaneBox but do different jobs, so compare on what you need done, not just the monthly number.

Tool	Price	What you get for it
SaneBox	$9.49 to $42.99/mo monthly; from $65/yr	Filters low-priority mail into folders inside your existing app. Moves mail, never sends
Superhuman	$25 Starter, $33 Business per user/mo annual ($30 and $40 monthly)	A faster email client with AI drafting, for Gmail and Outlook
Fyxer	$30 or $50 per seat/mo, 25% off annually	Inbox sorting, drafts in your voice, meeting notetaker
Jace	$25 per user/mo, $20 billed yearly	AI drafts and labels in Gmail
Serif	$30, $50 or $200/mo, 10% off yearly	AI drafts, labels, meeting recorder, task tracker
OfficeAgent	$149/mo for one person, $399/mo for up to 10, about 20% off yearly	Drafts replies, books meetings, files documents, enters data and chases follow-ups, each step approved by you

SaneBox is the cheapest line on that table by a wide margin, and for noise it is the right buy. The others cost more because they write, and the last one costs more because it also does the work behind the message. Our comparison of the best AI email assistants covers the drafting tools in depth, the Superhuman comparison covers the client-replacement route, and email management software for teams covers shared inboxes for people answering support@ together.

Questions to answer before you pay for SaneBox

• Which two, six or eight features will I actually use, and which plan switches exactly those on?
• How many mailboxes do I need covered, counting shared and personal addresses?
• Am I buying to see less mail, or to get through the mail I see faster?
• Do I need AI drafts, and has support confirmed which plan includes them?
• Is yearly billing worth it after a 7-day trial, or should the first month be monthly?
• Does our organization qualify for the 25 percent education, non-profit or government discount?

If the honest answer to the third question is "get through it faster, and get the follow-up work done", start with OfficeAgent's flat office pricing and a 14-day money-back guarantee instead. If it is "see less of it", SaneBox is a good, inexpensive answer, and Lunch paid yearly is where most people should start.