{
 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "sanebox",
 "name": "SaneBox",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "sanebox.com",
 "category": "Operations & Workflow",
 "task": "Writing & inbox",
 "summary": "Email triage that moves low-priority mail out of the inbox and works with any provider. The honest catch: you are paying monthly to filter mail that modern email clients increasingly sort for free.",
 "best_for": "heavy-email professionals drowning in a cluttered inbox who want AI triage that works across any mail client",
 "skip_if": "your inbox is manageable or your mail client's built-in filtering already handles it — you don't need to pay for this",
 "honest_knock": "It works with any email provider, which is a genuine advantage over the built-in tools in Gmail and Outlook. But you are paying monthly to filter mail that modern clients increasingly sort for free. The value is real only if your inbox is genuinely overwhelming and native filters are not cutting it. Price it on the plan you would actually keep: the headline rate is a two-year commitment, and month to month the same Snack plan is $9.49 rather than $4.54.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$4.54",
  "entry_price_terms": "Snack (1 email account, 2 features) · per month on a two-year prepay ($109 every 2 years)",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(amounts unchanged since 18 Aug 2026; re-verified 24 September 2026 against the plan data that sanebox.com/pricing embeds for its client-side price cards) Three plans, and the advertised price is the two-year rate. Snack $4.54/mo billed $109 every 2 years, $5.42/mo billed $65 annually, or $9.49 month to month: 1 email account and 2 of the Sane features. Lunch $7.46 ($179 every 2 years) / $9.08 ($109 a year) / $15.99: 2 accounts and 6 features. Dinner $22.04 ($529 every 2 years) / $26.58 ($319 a year) / $42.99: 4 accounts and every feature, plus phone support. The free trial is 7 days with all features on up to 4 accounts. Education, non-profit and government get another 25% off on request during the trial.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-24",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "built-in email filters or Superhuman",
  "why": "native or premium email tools"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/sanebox.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/sanebox-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/sanebox/",
  "vendor_site": "https://sanebox.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://try.sanebox.com/7wul6weu1xvd",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "sanebox:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "sanebox:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "sanebox:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "sanebox:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}