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Communication — End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland
Communicationfreemiumest. 2014
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 25.4 · 2/4
25.4
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
34
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
15
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
34 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 34 probesavg response 2365 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
proton.me
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
#7,314
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

ProtonMail's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://proton.me/mail) when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. Its Pulse Index is 25.4 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 15 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 7 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Gmailcommunicationcurated19.6+1.0→ redirected
Tutanotacommunicationcurated24.90.0→ redirected
Mailfence secure and private emailcommunicationsimilar75%8.90.0■ inactive
Tresoritproductivitytag-overlap75%48.50.0● live
One Passwordproductivitytag-overlap75%16.90.0— unverified
Protonsecuritytag-overlap69%49.70.0● live
LastPass Familiesproductivitytag-overlap67%49.70.0● live
Virtual payment cards in 1Passwordproductivitytag-overlap63%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelfreemium
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternatives7
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:08Z200protonmail.ch → proton.me1934redirected_offsite
2026-08-26 09:39Z200protonmail.ch → proton.me2054redirected_offsite
2026-08-19 14:00Z200protonmail.ch → proton.me1713redirected_offsite
2026-08-11 00:35Z200protonmail.ch → proton.me1809redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 06:29Z200protonmail.ch → proton.me2527redirected_offsite
2026-08-05 18:48Z200protonmail.ch → proton.me1987redirected_offsite
2026-07-30 18:02Z200protonmail.ch → proton.me3481redirected_offsite
2026-07-23 09:23Z200protonmail.ch → proton.me3320redirected_offsite
2026-07-22 09:26Z200protonmail.ch → proton.me2540redirected_offsite
2026-07-21 09:27Z200protonmail.ch → proton.me2443redirected_offsite
2026-07-20 09:54Z200protonmail.ch → proton.me2472redirected_offsite
2026-07-19 09:06Z200protonmail.ch → proton.me2711redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 08:47Z200protonmail.ch → proton.me1840redirected_offsite
2026-07-17 09:08Z200protonmail.ch → proton.me2278redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · ProtonMail · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/protonmail · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.