Temp Email with Premium Upgrade
NukeMail premium extends your inbox lifetime, removes all ads, unlocks up to 10 email addresses, and gives 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 ($3), one month ($9), or three months ($20). You pay once, get the premium features for that duration, and when the time runs out, you are back to free. There is no auto-renewal, no recurring charge, and no "cancel before you get billed next month" anxiety.
This model exists because subscriptions are a poor fit for how most people use temporary email. You might need it intensively for a week while signing up for a bunch of services, then not touch it for months. A subscription charges you for those idle months. Pay-as-you-go means you only pay when you are actually using the service.
If you buy time while you still have time remaining, the new purchase stacks on top of your existing balance. Buy a week with 3 days left and you get 10 days total. This makes it easy to top up before a busy period without losing any time you have already paid for.
What Premium Unlocks
The most significant premium feature is extended inbox lifetime. Free inboxes lock after 24 hours. Premium inboxes stay fully active for as long as your paid time lasts, with no countdown timer and no lockout. If you are using a temp email for a project that spans days or weeks, premium makes that seamless.
Premium also increases your address limit from 1 to 10 email addresses under a single access code. This is useful for testing multiple signups, maintaining separate addresses for different services, or having a general-purpose address alongside purpose-specific ones.
Additional premium benefits include zero ads (the ad slots do not even render), access to premium-only domains that are kept out of public rotation for better blocklist avoidance, and a three-month dormant period after your paid time expires, giving you a generous window to re-up if you want to keep your addresses.
Unlocking a Locked Inbox
One of the most practical uses for premium is unlocking a locked inbox. When a free user's 24 hours expire, their inbox enters a locked state where they can see sender names and subject lines but cannot read the email content. This locked state persists for 13 more days.
If you realize after your inbox locks that you need to read an email — maybe 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, just behind a paywall.
This is not a dark pattern. The emails are not artificially held hostage — they would be deleted eventually anyway as part of the normal cleanup cycle. Premium simply gives you the option to extend access if you need it, rather than losing the data entirely. If you do not need it, generating a fresh free inbox is always available.
Multiple Addresses Under One Code
Free users get one email address per access code. Premium users can have up to 10 addresses, each on potentially different domains, all accessible through the same code and the same inbox interface.
This is useful for scenarios like testing a product where you need multiple user accounts, signing up for the same service with different addresses to test different flows, or maintaining separate addresses for different categories of signups (shopping on one address, social media on another, newsletters on a third).
All addresses under a premium code share the same inbox view. Emails are organized together but show which address they were sent to, so you can filter and manage multiple streams without switching between separate inboxes. When your premium time expires, all 10 addresses enter the dormant state together.
Pricing Rationale
The pricing is designed to be accessible for individual users while sustainable for the service. At $3 per week, it is roughly the cost of a coffee. At $9 per month, it is comparable to a streaming subscription but without the recurring commitment. The 3-month option at $20 offers the best per-day value for users who know they will need extended service.
There is no yearly plan and no "lifetime" option. A yearly plan would require predicting demand far in advance, and lifetime plans are mathematically unsustainable for any service that has ongoing server costs. The three tiers (week, month, 3 months) cover the range of use cases without overcomplicating the decision.
Payments are processed through Stripe, which means NukeMail never sees your credit card number. Stripe handles the payment, sends a webhook confirming success, and NukeMail updates your premium status. No payment information is stored in the NukeMail database beyond a Stripe customer reference for processing purposes.
After Premium Expires
When your paid time runs out, your inbox enters a dormant state similar to the free user locked state. You can see email metadata (sender, subject) but not content. This dormant state lasts for three months — much longer than the two-week window free users get.
During the dormant period, your email addresses are still reserved. No one else can register them. New emails sent to those addresses are silently discarded (since the inbox is not active), but the addresses remain yours if you choose to re-up with another premium purchase.
After three months of dormancy without a new purchase, the token, all addresses, and all messages are permanently deleted. The access code stops working. This generous window means even occasional users are unlikely to lose their data unexpectedly — you would need to ignore NukeMail for a full quarter after your premium expires.