Temp Email with Premium Upgrade
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NukeMail premium keeps your inbox active longer and removes all ads. You get up to 20 email addresses and gain access to exclusive domains. Pay $3/week...
Pay-As-You-Go, Not a Subscription
NukeMail premium uses a pay-as-you-go model. You buy time in blocks of one week for $3, one month for $9 or three months for $20. You pay once and get the premium features for that duration. When the time runs out you are back to free. There is no auto-renewal and no recurring charge. You won't have any anxiety about needing to cancel before you get billed next month.
This model exists because subscriptions don't fit how most people use temporary email. You might need it a lot for one week while signing up for a bunch of services. Then you won't touch it for months. A subscription charges you for those idle months. Pay-as-you-go means you only pay when you're actually using the service.
If you buy more time while you still have days left, the new purchase adds to your existing balance. Buy a week when you have 3 days remaining and you get 10 days total. This helps you top up before a busy period without losing any time you already paid for.
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 paid time lasts 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 accounts also come with zero ads because the ad slots do not even render. You get access to premium-only domains that stay out of public rotation for better blocklist avoidance. Your account also enters a three-month dormant period after your paid time expires. This gives you a generous window to re-up if you want to keep your addresses.
Unlocking a Locked Inbox
A premium account 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 13 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 premium time expires all addresses enter the dormant state at the same time.
Pricing Rationale
The pricing is meant to be affordable for individuals and sustainable for the service itself. You can pay $3 per week which is about the cost of a coffee. The $9 per month option is similar to a streaming subscription but you don't have to worry about a recurring commitment. The 3-month option for $20 provides the best value per day if you know you need the service for a longer period.
You won't find a yearly plan or a lifetime option here. A yearly plan forces you to predict your needs too far in advance. Lifetime plans are mathematically impossible for any service with ongoing server costs. The three tiers (week, month and 3 months) cover every common use case without making the decision process too complex.
NukeMail uses Stripe to handle payments so your credit card number never touches their servers. Stripe processes the transaction and sends a confirmation webhook to NukeMail to update your premium status. NukeMail doesn't store any payment details in their own database because they only keep a Stripe customer reference for processing your account.
After Premium Expires
Once your paid time expires 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 two-week window free users get.
Your email addresses stay reserved while the account is dormant. No one else can register them. New emails sent to those addresses are silently discarded because the inbox isn't active. The addresses remain yours if you choose to re-up with another premium purchase.
If you don't buy a new token for three months, NukeMail deletes your access code, all your addresses and every message you saved. 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 status expires before anything gets deleted.