ShieldMarc vs EasyDMARC
A straight comparison for UK MSPs deciding between the two.
ShieldMarc is a UK-owned, EU-hosted alternative to EasyDMARC, with flat pricing (£0, £50 or £100 per month annual) for 1, 25 or 100 domains, where EasyDMARC prices its published plans by the email volume you choose and caps each at a few domains. EasyDMARC is a capable platform with a polished interface, so it is a fair comparison. Where ShieldMarc differs is one flat price for teams managing more than a handful of domains, a proprietary threat model plus AI on paid tiers, and UK-owned, EU hosted infrastructure. We describe how EasyDMARC prices rather than quoting its prices, which change often: the pricing model below is from EasyDMARC's business pricing page, checked 19 October 2026, where it publishes prices in euros.
Check current prices on EasyDMARC's pricing page before you decide. ShieldMarc's plans and prices, in pounds and excluding VAT, are on our pricing page.
Flat plans for multi-domain teams
EasyDMARC prices DMARC Plus and DMARC Premium in euros by the monthly email volume you pick, each capped at a few domains, with a saving for annual billing; its Deliverability and Enterprise plans are custom priced through sales (checked 19 October 2026). ShieldMarc Professional is £50/mo annual for 25 domains and 1M messages, and MSP is £100/mo annual for 100 domain slots and 5M messages.
Threat model + AI
Every ShieldMarc plan runs each DMARC report row through our proprietary threat model. On paid plans and the free trial, an AI model then reasons on top for deep analysis when you ask. EasyDMARC runs its own in-house scoring only.
No surprise billing, no rope-in scale-up
EasyDMARC prices its published plans by monthly email volume, and beyond them you talk to sales, so your invoice moves as your volume moves. ShieldMarc MSP includes 5 million messages a month, with no hard cap. Go over, reports keep parsing. Consistently over for 3 months, we reach out. The price you see is the price you pay.
How each prices (checked 19 October 2026)
| Feature | EasyDMARC | ShieldMarc |
|---|---|---|
| Published prices | In euros, for DMARC Plus and DMARC Premium; Deliverability and Enterprise: Email Trust show “Custom” and go through sales | In pounds, for every plan: Professional £50/mo and MSP £100/mo billed annually, excluding VAT |
| What the price depends on | The plan and the monthly email volume you choose; Plus and Premium each cap domains at a few | The plan alone: 25 domains and 1,000,000 messages/mo on Professional, 100 domain slots and 5,000,000 messages/mo on MSP |
| Free plan | None on its business price list | Starter: 1 domain, 10,000 messages, 20 free tools, AI explanations on free tools included |
| Free trial | On DMARC Plus and Premium, no credit card required | 30 days with 10 domains, no card required |
| Billing | Monthly, or annual at a saving | Monthly or annual: Professional £70/mo or £50/mo annual, MSP £130/mo or £100/mo annual |
| How you buy | Self-serve trial on Plus and Premium; Deliverability and Enterprise through sales | Self-serve on every published plan |
| Overage handling | Choose a higher volume on a published plan, or talk to sales beyond it | No hard cap, 3-month grace, no surprise billing |
| Expansion pricing | Per-tier upgrade or sales contact | +50 domain slots for £40/mo (published) |
| Enterprise tier purpose What actually triggers a custom quote | Triggered by volume or domain count exceeding the published tier: outgrow the listed plan and the next step is a sales conversation. | Triggered by formalised SLA, regional hardware hosting, or specific compliance frameworks. Standard scale stays on published MSP + buckets. |
| Can you estimate your cost upfront? | No above the published tier. | Yes, for every standard case. Enterprise is only for compliance / hosting specifics. |
Features and depth
| Feature | EasyDMARC | ShieldMarc |
|---|---|---|
| Analysis engine Threat model on every plan; AI on paid plans and the free trial, on demand only. We combine both. | AI Agents on DMARC Premium and above: they read reports, name unknown senders and suggest the record change (its pricing table, checked 20 October 2026) | Proprietary threat model + AI |
| Automated AI background jobs | Its AI Agents read your reports for you on DMARC Premium and above (checked 20 October 2026) | None on customer data. AI on your data fires only when a user asks for it |
| Subdomain policy (sp=) detection | Policy detected | sp= scored independently, weaker-than-p flagged as a distinct control failure |
| SSL, DNS, DNSSEC, MTA-STS, TLS-RPT, CAA and uptime monitoring | Managed MTA-STS and TLS reporting from DMARC Premium; SSL certificate, DNS and uptime monitoring only on the custom-priced Deliverability and Enterprise plans; no DNSSEC or CAA monitoring listed (its pricing table, checked 20 October 2026) | All included on paid tiers |
| Brand TLD grouping (MSP) | Not advertised | TLD variants count as one slot |
| Free security tools | Free lookups for DMARC, SPF, DKIM, BIMI, MTA-STS and DNS, no signup | 20 tools, 4 with AI explanations |
Data, hosting and privacy
| Feature | EasyDMARC | ShieldMarc |
|---|---|---|
| Company base | EasyDMARC, Inc. is a Delaware corporation, per its US terms, and EU customers contract with EasyDMARC B.V. in the Netherlands; its legal pages do not say how the two are related | UK owned and run |
| Default hosting | Global, US-touching | EU hosted, UK hosted on request on an enterprise plan |
| PII stored | Standard SaaS profile | Minimal by design: account emails, audit log, rare RUF headers |
| Subject to US CLOUD Act | EasyDMARC, Inc. is a Delaware corporation, per its US terms of use, so US authorities can require it to disclose data it holds or controls, wherever the data is stored (US CLOUD Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2713; checked 19 October 2026). EU customers contract with EasyDMARC B.V., a Dutch company, per its legal page. | UK company on EU servers, but reports arrive via Microsoft 365, raw report emails are archived in Cloudflare R2, and AI features call US providers |
| Third-party certifications | SOC 2 Type II | None held yet: Cyber Essentials first, then SOC 2 or ISO 27001, on the roadmap; our controls are documented on our Trust page |
Before you compare dashboards: any DMARC tool can only show the aggregate reports your domain asks receivers to send. On 16 October 2026, 26 of the 192 UK managed service providers (14%) in ShieldMarc's Q3 2026 audit received none, most because they published no reporting address (rua=). The free DMARC checker shows whether yours has one.
Conclusion
Where ShieldMarc has an edge
- Flat pricing for more than a handful of domains: £50/mo covers 25 and £100/mo covers 100 domain slots, billed annually. EasyDMARC's published plans cap domains at a few and price by email volume.
- 5 million DMARC messages/month on MSP, with no hard cap. No surprise billing.
- Paid-plan AI analysis combines our proprietary threat model with an AI model, on demand only. Every row is pre-enriched before the model sees it.
- Full stack in one dashboard on paid tiers: DMARC, SPF, DKIM, SSL, DNS, DNSSEC, MTA-STS, TLS-RPT, CAA, domain expiry, uptime, lookalike.
- Subdomain policy (sp=) scored independently, weaker-than-p flagged as a distinct control failure.
- UK-owned, EU-hosted infrastructure by default. UK-hosted environments available on request on an enterprise plan.
- Minimal personal data by design, documented in detail for DPIAs.
Where EasyDMARC stacks up
- SOC 2 Type II attestation today. If your procurement requires it as a hard gate, that may be decisive.
- A more mature product with a longer track record of production operation.
- Enterprise-tier add-ons that EasyDMARC has offered for longer, hosted SPF among them. ShieldMarc's hosted SPF (Dynamic SPF, on Professional and MSP) is new.
- A polished interface refined over several years.
Frequently asked questions
What is an alternative to EasyDMARC for small businesses?
For a single-domain small business, the closest like-for-like alternatives are dmarcian's Basic plan, which it pitches at small businesses with a single domain, and PowerDMARC's Basic plan, priced by email volume; both publish their prices, and their free plans are for personal domains only (checked 19 October 2026). ShieldMarc is the alternative built for UK MSPs and multi-domain IT teams: its first paid tier covers 25 domains for £50 per month (annual), it is UK owned with EU hosting by default, and it adds a proprietary threat model with AI analysis on demand. A free Starter tier covers one domain so you can evaluate it before committing.
How does ShieldMarc's pricing compare with EasyDMARC's?
It depends on how many domains you manage and how much mail they send. EasyDMARC prices DMARC Plus and Premium in euros by monthly email volume, each covering a few domains, and quotes its larger plans through sales (checked 19 October 2026); its pricing page has today's figures. ShieldMarc publishes flat prices in pounds: Professional covers 25 domains for £50 per month and MSP covers 100 domain slots for £100 per month, billed annually, excluding VAT. If you manage more domains than EasyDMARC's published plans cover, compare its quote with those figures.
dmarcian vs EasyDMARC: which is better for small business?
Both work well. dmarcian has deeper roots in the DMARC standard and prices its tiers in US dollars by active domains and legitimate mail volume; EasyDMARC prices DMARC Plus and Premium in euros by the email volume you choose, and has a polished interface (both checked 19 October 2026). Both publish monthly and annual prices and offer a free trial, so compare their pricing pages for your volume. For a single-domain small business either is a sound choice; dmarcian's free Personal plan is for non-business personal domains only. If you are an MSP or multi-domain IT team rather than a small business, the comparison changes: that is the case ShieldMarc's flat 25-domain and 100-domain plans on this page are built for.
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