Does AstraVerify replace a DMARC report analyser?

No. It checks the records and tells you what to publish. If you need to see who is sending as your domain before enforcing, use dmarcian, EasyDMARC or a similar platform for the reports. Many small businesses on one mail provider never need one.

Why does AstraVerify check the website too?

Because the same owner, the same DNS and the same trust question apply to both. A domain whose mail cannot be spoofed and whose site search engines and AI assistants can read is what customers and their assistants treat as real. One check covers both halves.

Is the AstraVerify check really free?

Yes. The check, the report, the shareable link and the seal are free without an account. Monitoring and fix packages are paid.

Are the scores comparable across tools?

No. Each tool has its own scoring, and MXToolbox and the DMARC platforms report findings rather than a single score. Compare the findings, not the numbers.

AstraVerify vs MXToolbox, dmarcian and EasyDMARC: how to choose

All four read the same records: MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC. They are built for different jobs. MXToolbox is a diagnostics toolbox for anyone running mail or DNS. dmarcian and EasyDMARC are DMARC platforms: they receive the aggregate reports your DMARC record asks for and turn them into a picture of who is sending as your domain. AstraVerify is a domain check for the owner of a business domain: both email authentication and whether search engines and AI assistants can find and quote the site, with the exact record to publish for each fix, and no account.

This page is written by AstraVerify, so read it with that in mind. It tries to say plainly where each tool is the right choice, including where AstraVerify is not.

Side by side

Question	AstraVerify	MXToolbox	dmarcian	EasyDMARC
Built for	Owners of a business domain who want one answer: is this domain set up right, and what exactly do I change	Mail and DNS administrators diagnosing a specific problem	Organisations deploying and enforcing DMARC across senders	Organisations deploying DMARC, with hosted SPF, DMARC and BIMI management
One check, no account	Yes: two scores, all records and fixes on one page, shareable link	Yes for individual lookups (MX, SPF, DMARC, blacklist)	Yes for the free inspector tools	Free lookups; the dashboard needs an account
Processes DMARC aggregate reports (rua)	No	In the paid Delivery Center product	Yes, this is the core product	Yes, this is the core product
Shows the exact record to publish	Yes, for every finding, with a Verify button after you publish it	Shows the current record and errors; fixes are on you	Yes for DMARC and SPF, with guided deployment	Yes, with hosted records you manage in their console
Search and AI crawler readiness (robots.txt, sitemap, metadata, structured data, llms.txt, fetch as GPTBot)	Yes, scored alongside email	No	No	No
Blacklist and mail-server diagnostics (RBLs, SMTP test, open relay)	No	Yes, the broadest set	No	Limited
Ongoing monitoring	Weekly rescan with an email within a day of any change, per domain	DNS, blacklist and uptime monitors on paid plans	Continuous, through the reports	Continuous, through the reports
Public trust badge	Yes, an embeddable seal that reads "Email authenticated" only when SPF, DKIM and DMARC are enforced	No	No	No
Use from an AI assistant	Yes: Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP client can run the check and read the report	No	No	No
Pricing model	Free check; monitoring per domain per month, 14-day trial; fixed-price fix packages	Free tools; subscriptions for monitoring and Delivery Center	By number of domains and message volume	Free tier with limits; plans by domains and volume

When AstraVerify is the right tool

You own or manage a business domain and want to know, in one page, whether mail from it can be spoofed and whether the site is readable by Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude.
You want the record itself, not a description of the problem: the SPF string, the DKIM CNAMEs for your provider, the DMARC record, the robots.txt group, the JSON-LD block.
You are an agency, MSP or registrar and want a shareable report and a badge for clients, or want the check inside your assistant workflow.
You send a normal business volume through Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 and do not need to analyse thousands of DMARC reports.

When you need dmarcian or EasyDMARC instead

If your domain sends through many systems (CRM, helpdesk, billing, marketing platform, a few developers' scripts) and you are moving to p=reject, you need to see the aggregate reports before you enforce, or you will block legitimate mail. That is what a DMARC platform does: it receives the XML reports at the rua address, groups them by source, and tells you which senders pass and which do not. AstraVerify tells you that your DMARC record exists and what its policy is; it does not read the reports. Both dmarcian and EasyDMARC also offer hosted SPF to stay under the ten-lookup limit and BIMI setup, which AstraVerify does not.

When MXToolbox is the right tool

Something is broken and you need to find out where: a blacklist listing, an SMTP banner problem, a DNS propagation question, an open relay test, a header analysis of a specific bounced message. MXToolbox has a lookup for almost everything and has for years. It is the reference toolbox for mail administrators. It is not written for a domain owner who wants a plain answer and the fix, and it does not look at the website at all.

Using them together

They are not exclusive. A common pattern for a small business: run the AstraVerify check, publish the records it gives you, turn on monitoring so you hear when something changes. If you later grow into many sending systems, point the rua address in your DMARC record at a DMARC platform and use it to reach p=reject safely; the AstraVerify report will show the new policy on the next check. Keep MXToolbox bookmarked for the day a bounce needs a header analysis.

Frequently asked questions

Does AstraVerify replace a DMARC report analyser?: No. It checks the records and tells you what to publish. If you need to see who is sending as your domain before enforcing, use dmarcian, EasyDMARC or a similar platform for the reports. Many small businesses on one mail provider never need one.
Why does AstraVerify check the website too?: Because the same owner, the same DNS and the same trust question apply to both. A domain whose mail cannot be spoofed and whose site search engines and AI assistants can read is what customers and their assistants treat as real. One check covers both halves.
Is the AstraVerify check really free?: Yes. The check, the report, the shareable link and the seal are free without an account. Monitoring and fix packages are paid.
Are the scores comparable across tools?: No. Each tool has its own scoring, and MXToolbox and the DMARC platforms report findings rather than a single score. Compare the findings, not the numbers.

Check your own domain. The scan shows your live records, a score out of 100 and the exact record to publish for each fix.