A temp-mail.org alternative for people who want a real API and fewer ads.
If you came here because temp-mail.org is showing too many ads, because your favorite signup blocks @temp-mail.org addresses, or because you wish there was a public REST API — mailiy is the cleaner choice.
temp-mail.org is the most recognised name in the temp-mail space, and it works fine for the basic case: open the page, grab the address, paste it into a form. A lot of people just need that — which is why temp-mail.org ranks where it does. But three friction points have built up over the years: the ad density on the inbox view, the blocklist coverage (many signup providers explicitly reject @temp-mail.org addresses), and the lack of a fully public REST API for anyone who wants to test signup flows from CI.
mailiy was built around those three. The inbox view is ad-free on Premium and unobtrusively ad-supported on Free, the @mailiy.de alias domain does not share a blocklist entry with @temp-mail.org, and there is a proper REST API with bearer-token auth and a free tier of 500 calls per month. We are a German Kleinunternehmer, hosted in Frankfurt under GDPR — no third-country data transfer issues, no IP logging alongside your mailbox.
mailiy vs temp-mail.org
Side-by-side on the dimensions that actually matter for disposable mail.
Four reasons people switch from temp-mail.org.
A REST API that ships on the free tier
Bearer-token auth, predictable rate limits per plan, designed for Playwright and Cypress. Spin up a mailbox in beforeEach, poll the messages endpoint, optionally delete on teardown — 500 calls per month on Free is enough for a small CI suite, 100,000 calls on Pro for a serious one. temp-mail.org does not expose a comparable public endpoint without a paid plan.
An alias domain that is not on every blocklist
Many signup providers maintain blocklists of common temp-mail domains, and @temp-mail.org is on most of them. Premium gives you addresses on @mailiy.de — a newer, less-targeted domain that gets through more often. Pro adds full custom-domain support if you want to bring your own.
Privacy you can verify
We are a German Kleinunternehmer, hosted in Frankfurt, no data transfers outside the EU. No Google Analytics, no Meta Pixel, no IP logging alongside your mailbox. You can see the Caddyfile and the privacy policy in our public infrastructure — there is no opaque tracking layer between you and the inbox.
Six times the free lifetime
60 minutes on Free vs ~10 minutes on temp-mail.org. Long enough for most multi-step signup flows (confirmation mail → onboarding mail → first welcome) without needing to manually extend the address. On Premium and Pro the lifetime stretches to 30 days.
Where temp-mail.org is still fine
To be fair: if you just need a one-shot inbox to grab a confirmation code and never think about it again, temp-mail.org works. They have been around longer, they have a bigger domain pool, and their brand recognition sometimes means support agents are more likely to accept the address. mailiy makes sense when you care about API access, want a less-blocked domain, run CI against your own signup flow, or specifically do not want third-party trackers on your inbox view.
How to switch
There is nothing to migrate — disposable mailboxes do not carry state. If you were using temp-mail.org for one-off signups, just use mailiy.com next time. If you were paying for the temp-mail.org Premium plan for forwarding or longer TTL, our Premium tier covers 30-day mailboxes and an ad-free inbox view at €2.99/mo billed yearly. If you were paying for API access, you can drop in mailiy on the free tier today and upgrade when you actually run out of calls.
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