Cheapinboxes review. Are they actually worth the savings

budget_tester · 2026-04-05 · 2,240 views

I'm always looking for ways to cut costs on cold email infrastructure, so when I found Cheapinboxes I figured it was worth a shot. Ordered 20 Google Workspace inboxes and ran them for 6 weeks.

The good: The price is genuinely low. If you're just testing cold email and don't want to commit a lot of money upfront, it's appealing. The accounts did arrive as real Google Workspace accounts, not SMTP. Basic DNS (SPF and DKIM) was set up on most of them.

The bad: 3 out of 20 inboxes had broken DMARC records that I had to fix myself. If you don't know how to troubleshoot DNS, you're stuck waiting for their email support which took 24 to 48 hours to respond. No pre-warming at all, so I had to run warmup myself for 3 weeks before sending. No Outlook option either.

Deliverability results: After warmup, inbox placement hovered between 62% and 68% on GlockApps tests. That's below where I need to be for client campaigns. Reply rates were sitting around 1.8% which is honestly painful when you know what's possible with better infrastructure.

My verdict: Cheapinboxes is fine if you're testing cold email on a tight budget and you're comfortable fixing DNS issues yourself. But when I started running campaigns that needed to generate revenue, I switched to PuzzleInbox. The deliverability jumped to 87% inbox placement and my reply rate doubled. The per inbox savings from Cheapinboxes disappear fast when half your emails never reach the inbox.