Gmelius Pricing in 2026: The Number, and the Churn Behind It

Gmelius pricing in 2026 runs from $19 to $40 per user per month on annual billing, with a quote-only Enterprise tier above that. Most pages ranking for this query make you request a quote to see a number; this one just tells you, and shows the history, which is stranger than a price rise: Gmelius has used four different cheapest tiers in six years, retired the cheap ones entirely for two years while the floor sat at $24, and introduced today's $19 entry tier in 2026. Below: the current plans in full, the five-year history from archived captures, and how the numbers compare.

What Gmelius costs in 2026

Three published plans, billed annually, plus a quote-only Enterprise. The number to watch alongside the seat price is the conversation cap: Gmelius meters how many email conversations a plan can handle per month, so the plan you need is set by your volume as much as your team size.

Figures from Gmelius's own pricing page, captured January 2026 and current as of July 2026. The conversation caps are the differentiator that a seat price hides: a small team on high volume can be pushed to Growth or Pro by the cap, not the headcount. For contrast, Drag does not meter conversations at all; its tiers are set by features and seats, not email volume.

The history: most vendors raise prices, Gmelius churns them

Most vendors raise prices. Gmelius churns them. The cheapest way into the product has been called Plus, Starter, nothing at all, and now Meli, and it has cost $9, $7, $24, and $19 along the way. If you bought Gmelius on the strength of its entry price in any given year, the plan you bought may not have existed two years later. That is the pattern to price in: not the number, the turnover.

Capture by capture, the cheapest paid seat went:

• $9 in early 2021 on the Plus plan, with Growth at $19 the top standard tier and a genuinely free Forever Free plan still visible.
• $7 in 2022 on a new Starter tier, cheaper than the year before.
• $24 through 2023, 2024, and 2025, once Plus and Starter were retired and Growth became the floor. A monthly-billed Flex tier appeared at $15 in 2023, but it was not an annual per-seat plan and did not last.
• $19 in 2026 when the Meli tier arrived below Growth, the first time in three years the cheapest plan cost less than $24.

The endpoints are $9 to $19, up more than a hundred percent across the window. But read the middle: the cheapest way into Gmelius cost $24 in 2024 and 2025, more than it costs today. This is not a company that raised its entry price and held it; it is a company that kept rebuilding the bottom of its lineup. The same 2026 page still carries the fingerprints of a recent increase higher up: its embedded page data lists Growth at $24 and Pro at $36, last year's numbers, while the visible prices read $25 and $40, so the schema is holding the pre-bump figures a beat behind the page.

One detail from the archives worth sitting with: Gmelius's entire 2021 range, nine to nineteen dollars, ends exactly where its 2026 range begins.

Does Gmelius have a free plan?

No, not anymore. A genuinely free Forever Free plan was visible on Gmelius's pricing page in early 2021, but it was removed within the year and has not returned. What Gmelius offers today is a 7-day free trial of the Growth plan, which is a trial, not a free tier. If a permanently free plan is what you are after, it is worth knowing that this one existed and was retired, rather than assuming it is still there because an old article says so. Drag does not have a free plan either, and says so plainly: it runs a 7-day trial from $12 a seat.

Gmelius vs Drag: the full range

Costed for a five-person team on annual billing, tier by tier:

Five people on Gmelius Pro cost $200 a month; the same team on Drag's most expensive plan costs $120, and there is no higher Drag tier to be moved up into.

When Gmelius is the better fit

Price is one axis, and it is not the only one. Gmelius is a genuinely capable product, and there are teams it suits better than we would:

• You live in Trello. Gmelius's two-way Trello sync is its standout feature, turning emails into Trello cards and back. If your team runs its work in Trello and wants email wired into those boards, that is real, and Drag's boards live in Gmail rather than syncing out to Trello.
• You want email sequences and a meeting scheduler in the same tool. Gmelius bundles drip sequences and a scheduler alongside the shared inbox. If you want sales-style sequencing in the same subscription, it is there.
• Kanban inside shared email is the whole ask. Gmelius and Drag both do this well; if Trello sync and sequences tip the balance, Gmelius earns the look.

We make the same concessions on our Gmelius alternative page. Where Drag wins is the pricing shape this page is about: one lineup, AI included in a flat tier, no conversation caps, and a top price of $24 that does not move.

If the history above is why you're reading this page, ours is on the same charts: one increase in five years, and $24 is the top of the whole range. Start a 7-day trial of Drag, no card required, from $12 per user per month.

For the wider field, see the best Gmelius alternatives and the full five-year support tool pricing history this page draws its charts from.