We launched the Proton family plan over a year ago. Since then, many of you have asked for a more affordable option. Today, we are excited to introduce Proton Duo, our new plan designed to make online privacy more accessible.
You might consider safeguarding online privacy a personal duty, but what about your loved ones? If your partner still depends on Big Tech for their emails, documents, or photos, their sensitive information remains at risk.
For a limited time only, we are offering Proton Duo for $14.99/month with a one-year plan: that’s $60 in annual savings. This is a forever discount, so if you sign up for the promotion, you’ll keep this price forever.
Proton Duo includes:
2 users with separate logins
1 TB of storage to share + 15 GB of bonus storage every year
Full access to Proton Mail, Proton Drive, Proton Calendar, Proton Pass, and Proton VPN
Everything included in Proton Unlimited ($60 yearly savings compared to two separate subscriptions).
How to get started
Sign up for Proton Duo or upgrade your existing plan.
If your family member doesn't already have a Proton account, they can create one for free.
Invite your family member to your Proton Duo plan.
Use our Easy Switch tool to move your emails, calendars, and contacts from other providers to Proton in just a few clicks. Whether you're already using Proton or new to our community, Proton Duo makes it easier than ever to protect what matters most.
At Proton, we're on a mission to improve everyone's privacy on the internet. By choosing Proton, you're taking a stand for privacy—not just for yourself but also for your loved ones.
I pay for proton mail and I’m so sick of every company trying to do this stupid fucking pricing plan. I don’t understand why they can charge 19.99 for the same service BUT if I pay upfront for an entire year or two, you get a discount. It’s not a limited fucking supply, my guys!
No thanks, chief. There are way too many things going on in this life to hand you that amount of money upfront. It just makes me look at those ridiculous prices and wonder why I just cant give you fucking 11.99 a month!
Money now is worth more than the same amount of money later. There'd rather get paid up front. Plus it locks you in rather than risking you dropping off after a couple of months
It's to do with having a consistent income for them. Taking a hit to monthly costs is potentially worth it if you can guarantee the income for a period of time. It's the same reason why regular savings accounts have higher interests than a standard account.
Welcome to literally everything? It's called volume-based discount. Just like if you buy a box of cookies from the grocery store, you'll pay a fuckton more than if you buy a pallet of cookies from the exact same company.
The main thing keeping my partner from leaving Big Tech services is that Proton Calendar and other basic functionality sucks balls. The pricing plan is great but for the love of God, fix the basics and stop with all the new nonsense like AI and crypto.
yeah, same thing here. like, how can I explain my wife that is less technical than me, that "hey, this Proton service is great for privacy and all, but you won't have Calendar widgets and notifications when I add stuff to our shared calendars", and she will be like "why?" and I will be doomed. I can accept those things, cause I care more about privacy, but she doesn't and she prefers functionality over that
That sounds like me and my wife.
She's not going to give up her calendar, photos, etc. She's always asking me, so what keyboard do you use? What calendar do you use? What xyz do you use? And I'm always saying... yeah, you don't want to go there. Just use what you want.
I really wish they'd support WebDAV sync or something for drive, then they wouldn't have to build a client. Their Linux support is always really poor IMO and it's frustrating. You'd think a privacy oriented company would support the most privacy conscious os
@proton_lynx@asdfasdfasdf I don't think a Linux client for Proton Drive is at the top of the priority list. It would be a good business practice by Proton to tell us why that is, if indeed it is the case.
Yeah I’ve been kinda surprised and annoyed at the speed with which Proton has gone from “we’re getting our shit together” to “here is a decent professional product” to “let’s add some bullshit that no one is asking for!”
For my use case of simply wanting to have myself and my wife on a custom domain email, this is still unreasonably expensive. I don't care about the other offered services as I have everything else that I need running on my own server but email is safer to run off premises.
I currently do this with mailbox .org, I spend 4 euros a month for 2 accounts (3+1). This allows us to use the same domain, share storage and sync calendars. Mailbox also stacks up pretty well against proton in security and privacy just doesn't have a free plan and some of the little extras. It also supports catchall and full filtering if you really wanted to save the extra euro and use one account.
That would work if they wanted separate domains. I don't think they could share it without the family plan or this new plan.
Hoping for that exact solution myself for a better price as I have everything else they offer covered
I’m not seeing the option in the UI to switch plans, I only have one custom domain and am well under the storage limits. I put in a help request since it seems like this may be just a me thing. Thanks!
Indeed, I only use Mail and VPN but still have to pay for all of them. I did consider just paying for Mail and getting VPN from Mullvad but then I only get 10 SimpleLogin emails which is nowhere near enough
Literally have been warring with myself internally for like 2 months on if it was worth it to rope my parents in to the family plan to make it worth it for my wife and I, this is perfect!
The 500g wasn't quite enough storage for both of us using my account, 1TB will be perfect
Split password managers is going to be a lot better than using my account with different categories or vaults or whatever they call them, plus we can still share the ones we want to share anyway
Really should get into the habit of using their calendar so I can whine with everyone else about how it sucks, I guess
Don't love more services doing the "pay us for longer time and get a discount" but it's been worth it for 6 months do fuck it, let's try the year out