DMARCdrift vs URIports

This is the defining difference. URIports monitors DMARC alongside CSP (Content Security Policy), NEL (Network Error Logging), TLS-RPT, MTA-STS, Permissions Policy, and DNS from a single dashboard. If you're already thinking about consolidating your security-report monitoring — the stack that many production web apps produce across DMARC, CSP, and network error reporting — URIports handles it all and nothing else comes close at this price point. DMARCdrift monitors DMARC only. It doesn't handle CSP violations or TLS-RPT. If you want a single tool for everything, DMARCdrift isn't it.

URIports keeps 30 days of data on the Sand, Pebble, Pebble Plus, and Stone tiers (up to $30/month). Only the Mountain plan ($110/month) extends retention to 90 days. DMARCdrift Solo ($9/month) keeps 180 days. That gap matters for DMARC specifically: moving a domain from `p=none` to `p=reject` is a multi-month process. Being able to look back at 6 months of trend data — to see whether a source you authorized in March is still behaving consistently in August — is part of what makes policy enforcement safe. Thirty days of history is enough for operational monitoring but not for policy progression.

DMARCdrift fires specific DMARC-pattern alerts: when your alignment rate drops below a threshold, when new unauthorized IPs appear sending from your domain, when your DMARC or SPF record changes, or when operational issues like SPF lookup limits arise. URIports sends push notifications and email alerts, but the alert model is general — threshold-based notifications for any of the standards it monitors, not DMARC-specific pattern recognition. For developers who want to be paged when a specific DMARC issue occurs, DMARCdrift's alert logic is more opinionated and more directly useful.

URIports is marginally cheaper for comparable domain counts at the entry level. The Pebble plan (~$7/month) covers 5 domains. DMARCdrift Solo ($9/month) covers 15 domains. But URIports charges by reports received per month, not email volume — a distinction that can make pricing more or less predictable depending on your mail stream and whether you're also monitoring CSP and NEL (which generate their own report traffic). DMARCdrift's pricing is flat per tier — no quota surprises.

URIports runs on privately owned servers colocated in Netherlands data centers with explicit GDPR controls. They strip personal data from failure reports before storage. If EU data residency is a requirement — for compliance, for personal preference, or because you're building for EU customers — URIports is the right choice. DMARCdrift does not offer EU data residency.