Mimecast Pricing India 2026 — Email Security, Continuity & Archiving Plans

If your organisation relies on Microsoft 365 or on-premise Exchange for email, Mimecast is the most complete third-party email security layer you can add — covering threat protection, continuity, and archiving in a single platform.

This guide breaks down Mimecast pricing for India in 2026, what each plan includes, and how to decide which tier is right for your business.

What Mimecast Does — The Three Pillars

Before getting into pricing, it's important to understand that Mimecast is not just email security — it is a platform with three distinct capabilities:

1. Email Threat Protection Mimecast scans every inbound and outbound email for spam, phishing, malware, ransomware attachments, impersonation attempts, and malicious URLs. Its AI-powered Targeted Threat Protection (TTP) is specifically designed for sophisticated attacks — spear phishing, business email compromise (BEC), and CEO impersonation.

2. Email Continuity If your Microsoft 365 or Exchange server goes down — due to an outage, maintenance window, or cyberattack — your email continues functioning through Mimecast's continuity service. Users switch to the Mimecast portal or mobile app and continue sending, receiving, and accessing their email with no disruption.

3. Email Archiving Mimecast stores a tamper-proof copy of every email sent and received, with unlimited storage per user and up to 99-year retention. It includes full-text search, eDiscovery, and legal hold — critical for compliance with SEBI, RBI, IT Act 2000, and similar regulations.

Mimecast Plans — Feature Comparison

Mimecast Pricing in India 2026

Mimecast is priced per user per year. All users in your domain are typically included in the licence.

Core Email Security — Starting from ₹350/user/year

Core Email Security provides anti-spam, antivirus, basic anti-phishing, policy-based email routing, and outbound DLP. It replaces your existing email gateway with Mimecast's cloud-based infrastructure — MX records point to Mimecast, and all email flows through Mimecast before reaching your mailbox.

What Core includes in practice:

• 99.9% spam detection with very low false positive rate
• Antivirus scanning on all attachments (multi-engine)
• Basic URL analysis (links are checked at time of delivery, not at time of click)
• Policy-based routing — route specific email types differently
• Outbound DLP — block emails with sensitive data patterns from leaving your domain
• Admin console with delivery logs and message tracing

What Core does NOT include: URL click-time rewriting (Targeted Threat Protection), attachment sandboxing, impersonation protection, DMARC analytics, or email continuity.

Best for: Organisations that primarily need to replace a basic email gateway and reduce spam/malware — without needing the more advanced threat protection or continuity features.

Email Security + Continuity — Starting from ₹650/user/year

This is the tier most Indian businesses should consider. It adds Targeted Threat Protection (TTP) and email continuity — the two features that make Mimecast genuinely different from basic email security.

Targeted Threat Protection (TTP):

URL Protection (Safe Links): When a user clicks a link in an email, Mimecast intercepts the click in real time and checks the URL against its threat intelligence database at that exact moment. This catches malicious links that were clean when the email arrived but have since been weaponised — a common attack technique known as "delayed weaponisation."

Attachment Protection (Sandboxing): Suspicious attachments are detonated in a cloud sandbox environment before being delivered to the user. If the sandbox determines the attachment is malicious, it is blocked and the user receives a notification. The sandbox analysis typically completes in under 30 seconds for common file types.

Impersonation Protection: Detects emails that impersonate your CEO, CFO, or other executives by analysing display name patterns, domain lookalikes, and header anomalies. This is the primary defence against CEO fraud and BEC attacks — which are among the costliest cybercrimes affecting Indian businesses.

Email Continuity: A live, synchronised copy of your mailbox is maintained in Mimecast's cloud. If your Microsoft 365 tenant or Exchange server becomes unavailable:

• Failover is automatic — Mimecast detects the outage and begins routing directly
• Users receive a notification to switch to the Mimecast Continuity portal or mobile app
• Email continues flowing — both sending and receiving
• When your primary mail server recovers, email syncs back automatically

The continuity service maintains 30 days of email history — users can access their recent email during an outage as if nothing happened.

DMARC Analyser: Mimecast's DMARC Analyser shows you every email being sent from your domain — including from third-party services (CRMs, marketing tools, HR platforms) that may not be properly authenticated. This is critical for moving to DMARC enforcement (p=reject) without accidentally blocking legitimate email.

Best for: Most Indian businesses — especially those on Microsoft 365 who want protection against phishing, BEC, and email downtime.

Advanced + Archiving — Starting from ₹950/user/year

The full platform adds email archiving on top of everything in the Continuity tier.

Email Archiving: Every email sent and received is stored in Mimecast's tamper-proof cloud archive. Key features:

• Unlimited storage — no mailbox size limits, no PST files, no personal archive folders to manage
• 99-year retention — covers the most stringent regulatory retention requirements
• Full-text search — search across all archived email by sender, recipient, subject, or body content
• eDiscovery — legal and HR teams can place custodians on legal hold and export evidence packages
• Delegated access — managers can access the archived email of their team members for compliance
• Mobile access — archived email is searchable from the Mimecast mobile app

Compliance applications in India:

• SEBI / IRDA: Mandates email retention for regulated financial advisors and insurance companies
• RBI: Email records relevant to banking and NBFC operations
• IT Act 2000: Electronic records preservation requirements
• Legal disputes: eDiscovery capability for producing email evidence in commercial litigation

Best for: Financial services, legal firms, healthcare, government-adjacent organisations, or any business subject to regulatory email retention requirements.

How Mimecast Compares to Alternatives

Key difference: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 (at a similar price to Mimecast Continuity) does not include email continuity — if M365 goes down, your email goes down. Mimecast's continuity feature is a material differentiation, particularly for organisations where email downtime has direct business impact.

Mimecast and Microsoft 365 — How They Work Together

The most common deployment in India is Mimecast protecting a Microsoft 365 tenant:

Email flow:

Sender → Mimecast (threat scanning) → Microsoft 365 mailbox

Configuration:

1. MX records updated to point to Mimecast's inbound connectors
2. Outbound connector created in M365 to route outbound email through Mimecast
3. IP allowlisting in M365 Exchange so Mimecast's IPs bypass Defender's spam filter (avoid double scanning)
4. Continuity configured with M365 OAuth connection for mailbox sync

Cloudfy handles all of this as part of the onboarding process. You do not need to do any technical configuration yourself.

Volume Pricing and Discounts

Mimecast pricing improves with user count:

Multi-year commitments:

• 2-year: ~10% off
• 3-year: ~15% off

What to Expect at Onboarding

When you buy Mimecast through Cloudfy Systems:

1. MX record update: Cloudfy provides you with the new Mimecast MX records. Your DNS provider updates these — email flows through Mimecast within the TTL period (typically 15 minutes to 1 hour)
2. SPF update: Your SPF record is updated to include Mimecast's sending infrastructure
3. M365 connector setup: Cloudfy configures inbound and outbound connectors in your M365 admin centre
4. Policy configuration: Cloudfy configures spam, phishing, TTP and DLP policies to baseline settings, then adjusts based on your requirements
5. DMARC setup: If you don't have DMARC configured, Cloudfy sets it up in monitoring mode (p=none) initially, so you can see your email sending landscape before enforcement

FAQ — Mimecast Pricing India

Is Mimecast available on monthly subscription? Mimecast is sold as an annual subscription. Monthly options may be available at a premium — contact Cloudfy for options.

Do we need Mimecast if we already have Microsoft Defender for Office 365? Defender for Office 365 provides good threat protection but does not offer email continuity (if M365 goes down, email goes down) or email archiving. If continuity or archiving is important for your business, Mimecast adds capabilities that Defender cannot provide.

Can Mimecast protect on-premise Exchange Server? Yes. Mimecast works with on-premise Exchange (2013/2016/2019) as well as Exchange Online (M365). The MX-based architecture means Mimecast is mail server agnostic.

What happens to Mimecast archiving if we cancel? If you cancel Mimecast archiving, you can export your archived email to PST or EML format before cancellation. Mimecast provides an export tool for this purpose. Cloudfy assists with archiving exports if required.

Is GST invoice available for Mimecast purchases? Yes. Cloudfy Systems provides a GST invoice (GSTIN: 09AAOFC1060G1ZK) for all Mimecast purchases in India.

For exact Mimecast pricing in India with GST breakdown, contact Cloudfy Systems — certified Mimecast partner.

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