Is Mixmax or Right Inbox cheaper?

Mixmax starts at $29/user/mo (single copilot, billed annually) (free plan available). Right Inbox starts at $7.95 per user per month billed annually ($9.95 monthly) (free plan available).

Mixmax vs Right Inbox

An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.

The short answer

Editorial assessment

Right Inbox compared with Mixmax

Mixmax is the serious Gmail engagement platform, with multi-step multichannel rules, workflow automation, Salesforce sync, and real reporting, at several times the price. Right Inbox has no reporting and one channel. Mixmax suits a revenue team that will use the automation; Right Inbox suits individuals and small teams who want the features and none of the platform.

Choose Mixmax if

Gmail-based sales, success, and recruiting teams (and solo operators) who want sequences, tracking, scheduling, and AI assistance inside the inbox with near-zero setup, rather than a separate platform reps must be forced to log into.

Choose Right Inbox if

Solo founders, consultants, recruiters, and small Gmail-based sales teams who want tracking, sequences, and mail merge at a price that does not need justifying, and who value not having another application in their day.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Mixmax	Right Inbox
Category	Engagement	Engagement
Starting price	$29/user/mo (single copilot, billed annually) (free plan available)	$7.95 per user per month billed annually ($9.95 monthly) (free plan available)
Pricing model	Per-user subscription sold as three individually priced AI copilots or a discounted Suite bundle, with a custom-priced Teams plan for 5+ users; a free tier and metered add-ons (extra sequence recipients, dialer, SMS, branding) sit around the core plans.	Flat subscription with a very limited free tier, one per-user paid plan, and an unlimited-member team plan; annual billing saves about 20 percent.
Free plan	20 tracked emails/month, 50 sequence recipients/month, and basic features, usable indefinitely.	A Limited free plan for solo use with 5 emails per month, a maximum of 5 templates and 5 signatures, and unlimited embedded GIFs. Tracking, mail merge, sequences, CRM sync, recurring emails, and reminders are all excluded.
Free trial	14 days of the full Suite, no credit card; downgrades to the Free plan automatically	Not published as a fixed trial; the free Limited plan serves as the evaluation path
Best for	Gmail-based sales, success, and recruiting teams (and solo operators) who want sequences, tracking, scheduling, and AI assistance inside the inbox with near-zero setup, rather than a separate platform reps must be forced to log into.	Solo founders, consultants, recruiters, and small Gmail-based sales teams who want tracking, sequences, and mail merge at a price that does not need justifying, and who value not having another application in their day.
Setup time	Minutes for an individual (install the Chrome extension, connect Gmail); a few hours to a few days for a team rollout with CRM sync, shared templates, and workflow rules. Mixmax markets 10-minute setup against multi-week enterprise implementations, and for the core product that claim is credible.	Minutes. Install the extension, authorise Gmail, and the controls are in the compose window. The vendor claims a thirty-second install and that is not far off. Sequences and templates take another half hour to set up properly.
Learning curve	Low. The UI extends familiar Gmail patterns, and the copilots reduce configuration rather than adding it. Workflow rules and Salesforce sync tuning are the only areas needing real admin attention.	Effectively none. Every feature is a button in an interface the user already knows. The only concept requiring explanation is the difference between a sequence, which runs automatically, and a reminder, which brings a thread back for you to act on.
Platforms	Web app, Chrome extension (Gmail), API	Gmail and Google Workspace via browser extension, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Google Workspace marketplace installation
Compliance	SOC 2, GDPR	GDPR, Google Workspace security review for Gmail API access
Founded	2014	2011
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, US	Austin, Texas, United States
Ownership	Venture-backed	Owned by Ramp Ventures, a privately held operator-run holding company

Strengths and limitations

Mixmax

Strengths

Genuinely inbox-native: reps adopt it because it appears inside Gmail rather than demanding a second workspace, which is the single biggest failure mode of heavier engagement platforms.
Setup measured in minutes, not weeks; no implementation project, admin certification, or onboarding consultants required.
Scheduling is best-in-class for the category: embedded availability inside the email body still beats sending a booking link.
The copilot packaging lets buyers pay only for the job they have (inbox triage, meetings, or outreach) instead of one monolithic seat price.

Limitations

Gmail is the center of gravity; Outlook support exists but the product is visibly built Google-first, making it a poor standard for Microsoft shops.
Multichannel depth is thin: calling and SMS are add-ons and LinkedIn steps are shallow next to platforms that treat phone and social as first-class sequence channels.
Sequence recipient caps make it structurally wrong for high-volume cold outbound; it is engagement tooling for real relationships, not a volume sender.
Teams-plan pricing is opaque (quote-only), so comparing true multi-seat cost against Outplay or Reply.io requires a sales conversation.

Right Inbox

Strengths

The Team plan covers unlimited members for a flat $16.95, which inverts the economics of every per-seat competitor once you have more than two people.
Feature coverage is unusually broad for the price: tracking, sequences, mail merge, templates, reminders, recurring emails, notes, inbox pause, and encryption are all in the same plan.
Nothing important is gated behind a higher tier, so the price you see is the product you get.
Reminders and recurring emails address follow-up discipline directly, which is where most small-team pipelines actually leak.

Limitations

Gmail only. No Outlook add-in exists at any price, which disqualifies any team on Microsoft 365 outright.
Email is the only channel. No LinkedIn steps, no SMS, no dialer, no call tasks, and no plan to add them.
There is no reporting layer worth the name: no sequence-level conversion analysis, no rep comparison, no funnel view.
Sending is capped by your own Gmail account with no rotation, relay, warm-up, or secondary domains, so high-volume cold outreach is both impossible and inadvisable here.

Pricing compared

Mixmax

Per-user subscription sold as three individually priced AI copilots or a discounted Suite bundle, with a custom-priced Teams plan for 5+ users; a free tier and metered add-ons (extra sequence recipients, dialer, SMS, branding) sit around the core plans.

Inbox Copilot$29
Meeting Copilot$29
Engagement Copilot$49
Mixmax Suite$89
Mixmax for TeamsCustom

Priced per copilot, Mixmax is cheap to start and easy to right-size: a founder can get real value at $29, and $89 for the Suite undercuts typical per-seat pricing at Outreach or Salesloft by a wide margin while covering most of what an SMB team actually uses. The economics thin out at volume, though: metered sequence recipients plus paid dialer, SMS, and recipient packs mean an outbound-heavy team can assemble a total cost that approaches mid-market platforms that bundle those channels, and at that point the buyer is paying inbox-native convenience prices for platform-scale work.

Right Inbox

Flat subscription with a very limited free tier, one per-user paid plan, and an unlimited-member team plan; annual billing saves about 20 percent.

Limited$0
Professional$7.95
Team$16.95

This is the best raw capability-per-dollar in the Gmail engagement class, and it is not close. A solo founder pays $95 a year for tracking, sequences, mail merge, templates, reminders, and recurring emails. A five-rep team pays about $203 a year in total, against roughly $2,100 for Yesware Premium and $2,940 for Streak Pro at the same headcount. The reason it can price this way is that it declines to be a platform: no reporting, no pipeline, no CRM, no channels beyond email, no deliverability infrastructure, and no manager view. If none of those matter to you, nothing else in the category comes close on price. If any of them do, the cheap subscription is a false economy because you will end up buying a second tool.

Editorial verdict on each

Mixmax

Mixmax remains the strongest argument that most teams never needed a sales engagement platform, they needed their inbox to do more. For Gmail-based SMB and mid-market teams, founders, and recruiters, it delivers the daily 80 percent (sequences, tracking, scheduling, follow-through, CRM hygiene) with adoption that happens by default and pricing that starts at $29. The 2026 copilot packaging sharpened that story rather than diluting it. But the same architecture that makes it frictionless caps its ceiling: metered sequence volume, add-on channels, and Gmail-first design mean volume outbound shops, Microsoft orgs, and enterprises wanting revenue intelligence should look at Outplay, Reply.io, or the enterprise incumbents instead. Buy Mixmax for follow-through, not firepower.

Read the full Mixmax profile

Right Inbox

Right Inbox is the best value in Gmail sales tooling and it wins that title by refusing to grow into a platform. For $7.95 a user, or $16.95 for an entire unlimited team, you get tracking, sequences, mail merge, templates, reminders, recurring emails, private notes, and encryption with nothing held back for a higher tier. For a solo founder or a small team that already has a CRM, the arithmetic against Streak or Yesware is barely worth doing. Just be clear about what you are not buying: no Outlook, no reporting, no LinkedIn or phone, no deliverability infrastructure, and a free plan that is decorative. If any of those turn out to matter, the cheap subscription becomes the first of two, and you would have been better off starting one tier up.

Read the full Right Inbox profile

Mixmax profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Right Inbox last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.