Relay is cheap and capable, so leaving usually means you need one specific thing it doesn't do. Three reasons account for nearly all of it: you're outside its 34 supported countries, you want aliases on a domain you own rather than @mozmail.com, or you want attribution rather than just masking. If none of those applies, staying is the sensible answer — at $11.88/year it's the best value in the category.
What you'd be giving up
Worth stating first. Relay's free tier gives 50 email masks including email tracker removal and a browser extension. Premium is $0.99/month, $11.88 billed yearly, adding unlimited masks, replies from the mask, promotional-email blocking, and a Relay subdomain so any word before the @ becomes a mask instantly. A phone-masking tier is $47.88/year and a bundle with Mozilla VPN is $83.88/year. Source: relay.firefox.com. Checked: 2026-08-19.
That's a lot for the money, backed by a non-profit-affiliated organisation. Any alternative should be judged against it rather than a strawman.
Reason 1 — You're outside the supported countries
Relay Premium is listed as available in 34 named countries. If you're not in one, the paid tier isn't an option and the free tier's 50 masks is your ceiling.
Alternatives with no such restriction: DuckDuckGo Email Protection (free, unlimited private addresses, replies, tracker removal), SimpleLogin, Proton Pass, addy.io, and Don't SPAM Me — anywhere you can register a domain.
Reason 2 — You want to own the namespace
Relay's subdomain feature is the closest thing to effortless alias creation: shop@yourname.mozmail.com works the moment you invent it. But mozmail.com is Mozilla's, so your subdomain sits inside their domain — leave Relay and every address needs replacing at every service using it.
For aliases on a domain you own: SimpleLogin Premium ($36/yr), Proton Pass Plus ($35.88/yr, bundled with a password manager), addy.io Pro (€3/mo, open source and self-hostable), or Don't SPAM Me (no subscription; you supply the domain). Why this matters more over time
Reason 3 — You want attribution
Relay masks your address well and tells you nothing about what happened to it afterwards. You can work it out by noticing which mask received the spam.
Don't SPAM Me does the noticing: per-alias spam statistics, an alert naming the new sender's domain when a mask is first contacted by someone other than the original company, and a running list of which companies leaked you.
What we don't have
Directly relevant if Relay is what you're used to: no reply-from-alias, no browser extension, and no email tracker removal. Relay does all three, two of them on the free tier. If you rely on any of them, we're a downgrade and you should stay. The direct comparison
Quick answer
| Reason for leaving | Go to |
|---|---|
| Outside the 34 supported countries | DuckDuckGo (free) or any own-domain service |
| Want the addresses to be yours | SimpleLogin, Proton Pass, addy.io, Don't SPAM Me |
| Want open source or self-hosting | addy.io |
| Want a password manager too | Proton Pass Plus |
| Want to know who leaked each address | Don't SPAM Me |
| Want to spend nothing at all | DuckDuckGo, or Relay's free 50 masks |
| Need replies, extensions or tracker removal | Stay on Relay |
Before you move
Your masks are on mozmail.com, so there's no migration — only re-addressing every account that uses one. Do it deliberately: critical accounts first, then let the long tail move as services email you. And move to your own domain rather than another provider domain, or you'll be doing this again. The migration
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