Temp Email with Premium Upgrade
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NukeMail premium keeps your inbox active for as long as you're subscribed and removes the affiliate ads. You get up to 20 email addresses, up to 5 custom...
One Simple Monthly Plan
NukeMail premium is a $7 monthly subscription billed through Stripe. There is one plan, with no tiers to compare and no annual contract. Your premium features stay on for as long as the subscription is active.
You can cancel anytime from the Stripe Customer Portal, which you reach through the Manage subscription link. There is no retention call and no cancellation maze. When you cancel you keep premium until the end of the month you already paid for, and you are not charged again.
Because billing is monthly, a busy month costs the same as a quiet one. If you only need premium for a short project, subscribe for that month and cancel straight away. Premium stays active until the paid month ends.
What Premium Unlocks
The biggest premium feature is the extended inbox lifetime. Free inboxes lock after 24 hours. Premium inboxes stay fully active for as long as your subscription is active because there is no countdown timer and no lockout. If you are using a temp email for a project that spans days or weeks, premium makes that process easy.
Premium also boosts your address limit from 1 to 20 under a single access code. This helps when you're testing multiple signups. You can maintain separate addresses for different services or keep a general-purpose address alongside ones built for specific tasks.
Premium also removes the affiliate ads from NukeMail's ad slots. You get access to premium-only domains that stay out of public rotation for better blocklist avoidance, and you can verify up to 5 of your own domains and add addresses on them. If your subscription ends, your inbox enters a three-month dormant period. This gives you a generous window to resubscribe if you want to keep your addresses.
Unlocking a Locked Inbox
Premium lets you unlock an inbox that has already expired. Once a free user's 24 hours are up, the inbox enters a locked state. You can see sender names and subject lines in this mode but you can't read the actual email content. This locked state stays active for 2 more days.
If you realize after your inbox locks that you need to read an email, you might be in trouble. Maybe it's a confirmation code you forgot to copy or a receipt you need for an expense report. You can upgrade to premium and immediately regain full access. The locked emails are still there waiting for you, just behind a paywall.
This isn't a dark pattern. We don't hold your emails hostage. They get deleted during our normal cleanup cycle anyway. Premium just gives you the option to extend access if you need to keep your data. If you don't need that, you can always generate a fresh free inbox.
Multiple Addresses Under One Code
Free users get one email address per access code. If you upgrade to Premium you can have up to 20 addresses. You can put these on different domains and manage them all through the same code and the same inbox interface.
You can use this for tasks like testing a product that requires multiple user accounts. It also works if you need to sign up for the same service with different addresses to test various flows. You might also want to keep separate addresses for different types of signups so you can use one for shopping, one for social media and a third for newsletters.
All addresses tied to a single premium code share the same inbox view. Emails are grouped together but clearly show which address they were sent to. You can filter and manage these multiple streams without switching between separate inboxes. Once your subscription ends all addresses enter the dormant state at the same time.
Pricing Rationale
The price is meant to be affordable for individuals and sustainable for the service itself. At $7 a month it costs about the same as a couple of coffees, and it pays for the servers and domains that keep NukeMail running.
You won't find a yearly plan, a lifetime option or a stack of tiers here. A yearly plan forces you to predict your needs too far in advance. Lifetime plans don't work for a service with ongoing server costs. One monthly plan that you can cancel anytime covers every common use case without making the decision complicated.
NukeMail uses Stripe to handle payments, so your card number never touches NukeMail's servers. Stripe processes the payment and sends a webhook to NukeMail to update your premium status. NukeMail doesn't store any payment details in its own database. It only keeps a Stripe customer reference so your subscription can be managed.
After Premium Ends
Once your subscription ends your inbox enters a dormant state just like the free user locked state. You can view email metadata like the sender or subject but you cannot see the actual content. This dormant state lasts for three months. That is much longer than the 2-day window free users get.
Your email addresses stay reserved while the inbox is dormant. No one else can claim them, and they keep receiving new emails, which you can read again once you resubscribe. Like every message on NukeMail, each email is deleted 30 days after it arrives.
If you don't resubscribe within three months, NukeMail deletes your access code, all your addresses and every remaining message. The access code will stop working. This three-month window is long enough that you probably won't lose your data by accident. You would have to ignore NukeMail for an entire quarter after your premium ends before anything gets deleted.