Home / Mektup vs Google Workspace
ComparisonMektup gives you a real inbox on your own domain - priced per domain, not per seat - plus a REST API and MCP server your AI agent can use directly. Google Workspace bundles email with Docs, Sheets, Drive, and Meet, billed per person, whether or not your team touches any of it.
Google Workspace is a full office suite - Gmail plus Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Meet, and Calendar - sold as one bundle, billed per user per month. If the only thing you actually need is hello@yourdomain.com working, you're paying for a lot you won't touch, and the price scales with every person you add, not with how much email you actually send.
Mektup is deliberately narrower: real inbound and outbound email, a webmail dashboard, IMAP/SMTP for whatever client you already use, and contact forms - priced per domain, not per person. A REST API and native MCP server expose the same operations for an AI agent, something Google Workspace wasn't built around (its API surface is OAuth-delegated access to an existing human account, not programmatic domain/mailbox provisioning).
| Mektup | Google Workspace | |
|---|---|---|
| Real inbox (send + receive) | Yes | Yes |
| IMAP/SMTP for any mail client | Yes | Yes |
| Billing model | Per domain | Per user, per month |
| Docs, Sheets, Drive, Meet included | No (not the point) | Yes |
| Built-in website contact forms | Yes | No |
| REST API for provisioning mailboxes | Yes | Admin SDK, more complex setup |
| MCP server for AI agents | Yes, native | No |
| Free tier | 1 domain, 3,000 emails/mo | No free tier |
| Starts at | Free | ~$7/user/mo (annual) |
This is where the billing model matters most - Google Workspace cost scales with headcount, Mektup's doesn't.
| Mektup | Google Workspace | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 people, 1 domain | $48/mo (Pro, 5 team members included) | $35-42/mo (Business Starter, $7-8.40/user) |
| 15 people, 1 domain | $48/mo + $2/mo × 10 extra seats = $68/mo | $105-126/mo |
| Storage | 15GB per domain (Pro) | 30GB pooled per user (Business Starter) |
Google Workspace pricing per public pricing pages as of this page's last update - confirm current numbers at workspace.google.com/pricing. Google Workspace's per-user storage is much larger since it's pooled across Drive/Photos too, not just mail - not an apples-to-apples comparison at the storage level, just at the mail level.
Mektup doesn't build Docs, Sheets, Drive, or Meet - it isn't trying to be an office suite. If your team needs those tools day to day, you'll want Google Workspace (or similar) for that specific job. For the email itself - the thing both products are actually selling you - Mektup gives you the same real inbox for a fraction of the per-seat cost, priced per domain instead of per person.
For email alone, usually yes, and the billing model is fundamentally different. Google Workspace Business Starter is about $7-8.40 per user per month - a 5-person team pays $35-42/month minimum. Mektup's Pro tier is $48/month flat for up to 25 domains and 5 team members included, so cost doesn't scale with headcount the same way.
No. Google Workspace bundles Gmail with Docs, Sheets, Drive, Meet, and Calendar - a full office suite. If you only need a working inbox on your domain, that's the entire value of Mektup: real email, without paying per seat for tools you may already use elsewhere.
Only through Google's OAuth-based Gmail API, which is built for a human account owner to grant delegated access, not for spinning up and provisioning new mailboxes programmatically. Mektup's REST API and native MCP server let an agent register a domain and create a mailbox from scratch, in the same session, with no OAuth consent flow.