How Much Does Cora Cost? AI Email Assistant Pricing

How much does Cora email assistant cost has a two-number answer and a much longer real one. Cora publishes two subscription tiers on its own site, and the gap between them is not a feature gap. It is a mailbox count.

That changes the calculation. The upgrade decision becomes arithmetic rather than judgment — you never guess whether the expensive tier unlocks the thing you came for. It also means the figure on Cora's pricing page is not the figure you will actually spend.

This page prices Cora the way you will actually buy it: as an add-on to a Gmail stack you already pay for, not as a replacement for it. Everything below was checked against cora.computer in August 2026.

The short answer: what Cora costs and what you get#

Cora is a recurring subscription, not a one-off purchase. There are two published plans — Professional and Unlimited — each billed monthly or annually, with the annual option priced below twelve months of monthly billing. A 7-day free trial comes before either.

Professional includes two email accounts. Unlimited removes that ceiling. Both plans ship the same capability set: AI inbox screening, pre-drafted responses, twice-daily Briefs, and technical support. There is no capability held back behind the higher tier.

A third route exists: Cora is also sold inside a bundle from the same publisher alongside other apps — a different subscription with a different scope from buying Cora alone.

One hard constraint decides whether any of this applies to you: Cora works with Gmail and Google Workspace. Its own site states that Outlook and other providers are not supported yet. If your mail is not on Google, the price question is moot.

Professional vs Unlimited: the boundary is mailboxes, not features#

Most AI email tools gate capability by tier. The cheap plan gives you triage, the mid plan adds drafting, the top plan adds whatever the marketing page is currently excited about. You end up buying a tier to reach one feature and paying for six you will not touch.

Cora does not do that. Both tiers carry the identical feature set, and the line between them is how many mailboxes you connect. That makes the decision unusually clean.

Practically, it collapses to one question: how many email accounts do you want screened? One or two, and Professional is the whole product. Three or more, and you are on Unlimited — not because you needed more capability, but because you crossed a count.

Name what that avoids. A common pattern here is usage-metered pricing where tiers are sold as multiples — five times, twenty times — without the vendor publishing what one unit of usage is. Cora's boundary is a number you can count before you pay.

The criteria that actually decide this purchase#

Buyers who regret this purchase almost never regret the figure. They regret a structural thing they did not check. These are the seven that move the real cost:

• What the plan boundary is priced on — mailbox count, per seat, or metered usage. This decides whether your bill grows with your accounts, your team, or your volume.
• Additive or substitutive — does it replace something you already pay for, or stack on top of it?
• Provider coverage — whether the subscription survives a future move to Outlook or IMAP.
• What it is permitted to do — read and draft, or read, draft and send. This decides how much manual work is left after you pay.
• Retroactivity — does it work on the mail already in your inbox, or only on mail that arrives after you switch it on?
• Trial shape and exit cost — how cheaply can you find out you were wrong, and must you prepay a year for the good rate?
• Data posture — what happens to your mail, which model providers see it, and whether anything is trained on it.

Scoring Cora against those criteria#

Why the read-only limit is the most important row in that table#

Cora cannot send email. That is not an inference from a missing feature — it is stated on Cora's own site as a permission boundary, alongside the claim that it cannot delete mail either.

Read it as a price signal and it looks like a limitation. Read it as a safety guarantee and it is the strongest one in this category. An assistant that is structurally incapable of sending cannot send the wrong thing on a bad day, cannot be talked into it by a crafted email, and cannot surprise you while you are asleep. Approval-gated agents — including ours — rely on product behaviour to achieve that. Cora achieves it at the permission layer, which is a harder guarantee.

It also sets the shape of what you are paying for. Cora hands you a screened inbox, a twice-daily Brief, and a draft; you still press send. If the expensive part of your email day is deciding and typing, that is most of the job. If it is that nothing closes without you, no plan tier fixes it.

Worked example: what three mailboxes actually costs#

Take a founder with three accounts — a personal address, a company address, and a shared investor alias that forwards to them. They want all three screened and briefed.

Step one is the tier. Three connected mailboxes clears Professional's two-account ceiling, so they are on Unlimited. Note what did not happen: they did not upgrade to reach a feature. They upgraded to reach a count, and they knew that before they paid.

Step two is the part the pricing page does not show. Cora sits on top of Google Workspace, which they already pay per seat, and it does not remove a mail client because they keep using Gmail. The true monthly figure is Workspace plus Cora, with nothing coming off the other side of the ledger.

Step three is the residue. Cora screens, briefs and drafts three inboxes, and sends none of them. If the bottleneck was the volume of triage, that residue is small and the purchase is good. If the bottleneck was that forty threads a week need a short reply and a follow-up nobody chases, the residue is the whole problem — and it is still theirs after the subscription starts.

Red flags to check before you subscribe#

None of these are accusations. They are the places where the price a buyer expects and the price they pay come apart.

1. 1

   Third-party pricing pages disagree with the vendor

   Software directories, aggregator listings and old launch posts all carry Cora figures, and in August 2026 several of them disagreed with each other and with Cora's own site. Treat every number that is not on cora.computer as evidence a price was once true somewhere.

2. 2

   The annual discount asks you to decide before you know

   The trial is seven days; annual billing is cheaper per month. The discount is offered on a horizon far longer than the evidence you have. Take the monthly rate for the first cycle if you are unsure whether the screening matches your judgment.

3. 3

   The account ceiling counts connections, not people

   Professional's limit is two email accounts. A personal address, a company address and a forwarding alias can cross that line without adding a single colleague. Whether an alias counts as its own connection depends on how it is set up, so test yours during the trial, when finding out costs nothing.

4. 4

   The backlog is not included

   Cora's site says it only handles mail arriving after it is turned on. If ten thousand unread messages are the reason you are shopping, the subscription does not touch them. You still clear that yourself, once.

5. 5

   The bundle is a different purchase

   Buying Cora inside the publisher's multi-app bundle changes what you are subscribed to, what you keep if you cancel, and how support works. Compare the bundle against standalone deliberately rather than defaulting into it because it looked cheaper.

6. 6

   Provider lock is a future cost, not a current one

   Gmail-only is fine while you are on Gmail. It becomes a cost the day a client, an acquisition or a new job puts you on Microsoft 365, because the subscription cannot follow you there.

What we'd pick, and who should stop reading here#

If you are on Gmail, you like Gmail, and what you want is for the noise to be summarised twice a day so you can stop opening the inbox reflexively — buy Cora. Stop reading here. The Brief arrives as an email, which means it works on every device you already read mail on, with nothing to install and no habit to relearn. It is the best-executed digest in this category and the read-only permission posture is a stronger safety guarantee than anything an approval-gated agent can offer. On that specific job, it beats us.

Two conditions change that. Provider: Cora is Gmail and Google Workspace only, so if your mail lives on Outlook or IMAP, this is not a pricing decision you get to make. Completion: if the cost you want removed is not reading but replying and closing threads, a tool that cannot send will not remove it at any tier.

That second condition is where we come in, so read this paragraph knowing we build AI Emaily. We are a replacement for your client rather than a layer on top of it, across Gmail, Outlook and IMAP in one inbox. Because we send, the whole product is built around making that safe: Copilot holds every reply for your approval before it goes, Autopilot is gated and reversible, there is undo on sends and an audit log of every action the agent took. Drafting comes from a Personal Context brain and per-client profiles you set and edit, not from a model reading your archive to guess at you, and we do not train on your mail. Pricing is a 7-day free trial on Pro, then a subscription — there is no permanent free tier, and the trial takes a card and costs nothing if you cancel before day seven.

The honest trade: switching clients is real work that installing an add-on is not, our brief lives inside the client you would be moving to rather than arriving as mail in the inbox you already use, and an assistant permitted to send necessarily holds broader permissions than one that is not. If those read badly to you, buy the add-on instead. Our AI Emaily vs Cora page compares the two in full.