A 10minutemail alternative when 10 minutes is not enough.
If you have ever sat watching the 10-minute countdown while a slow confirmation mail crawls through, or hit a "domain not allowed" wall because every blocklist knows @10minutemail.com — mailiy gives you 60 minutes by default, a less-blocked domain, and a REST API on top.
10minutemail is the canonical name in the temp-mail space — short, memorable, exactly what it does on the tin. The strength is also the weakness: a fixed 10-minute timer is too short for many real signup flows, especially anything that sends a delayed confirmation, a verification code that arrives after a moderation step, or a sequence of onboarding mails. The other constraint is the domain — @10minutemail.com is on every public blocklist by now, so a lot of services will refuse the signup outright.
mailiy keeps the same zero-friction promise (open the page, get an inbox in under two seconds, no signup, no account) but extends the default free lifetime to 60 minutes, ships the @mailiy.de alias domain on Premium for sites that block @mailiy.com, and exposes a proper REST API with bearer-token auth — including 500 free calls per month for CI use.
mailiy vs 10minutemail.com
Same zero-signup promise, larger envelope around it.
Four things 10minutemail will not give you.
Six times the breathing room
A 60-minute default lifetime covers almost every real-world signup flow without intervention. 10minutemail forces you back to the tab every ten minutes to top up the timer. If you forget, the address dies mid-flow and you start over with a new one — which means the verification mail bounces.
A domain that is not on every blocklist
@10minutemail.com has been blocked by mainstream signup providers for years. Premium gives you addresses on @mailiy.de — a different TLD, not in most public blocklists, far more likely to get through. Pro lets you bring your own custom domain entirely.
A REST API for CI testing
Bearer-token auth, predictable rate limits, designed for Playwright and Cypress signup-flow tests. The free tier covers 500 calls per month at 10 req/min — enough for a small CI suite. 10minutemail has no public API at all, so any CI use case is off the table.
Multiple parallel inboxes
Free already gives you 3 concurrent mailboxes, Premium 50, Pro 1000. 10minutemail is single-inbox by design — refresh the page and the previous inbox is gone. If you need to juggle several signups in parallel (different test accounts, different vendors), that is friction you do not need.
Where 10minutemail is still fine
If you literally need one mail in the next ten minutes, you do not care about an API, and the service you are signing up to accepts @10minutemail.com — 10minutemail does what it says and the UX is hard to beat. mailiy makes sense the moment your flow takes longer, the moment you hit a blocklist, or the moment you want to script the whole thing.
How to switch
Nothing to migrate — these are stateless throwaway inboxes. Open mailiy.com, click Generate, paste the address into whatever signup you would have used 10minutemail for. If you want the longer 30-day lifetime, the alias domain or the API, Premium is €2.99/mo billed yearly. Pro is €4.99/mo for the custom-domain and 1000-mailbox tier.
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