Tutti vs Missive: which team inbox fits your team?

The short answer

Missive is a flexible, affordable team inbox with chat, tasks, and many channels, where AI drafting depends on your plan and provider setup. Tutti is narrower and deeper on AI for email: every conversation is labeled automatically, replies are drafted from the full thread with unknowns left as [placeholders], and a reviewer approves before anything sends. Pick Tutti when reply quality and review matter most; pick Missive for a low per-seat price and multichannel chat.

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Tutti vs Missive at a glance

	Tutti	Missive
Built for	Communications teams handling press, partner, event, and outreach email	Small teams that want email, chat, and tasks in one collaborative app
Mail providers	Gmail and Google Workspace	Gmail, Outlook, and IMAP
Other channels	Email only, on purpose	SMS, WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram
AI labeling	Automatic, into your own labels, on every conversation	Through rules and AI features on paid plans
AI reply drafts	Every thread, from the full conversation, auto-draft per label	AI drafts on paid plans, with provider setup that varies by plan
Approval before send	Built-in review queue for members' drafts	Shared drafts and internal comments
Pricing model	One flat plan per workspace	Per user, three tiers
List price, 5 people	$250/month, everything included	$90 to $225/month billed monthly

Missive prices are list prices from Missive's pricing page in September 2026 ($14 to $36 per user billed annually, $18 to $45 monthly).

What Missive is built for

Missive is a well-loved collaborative inbox. Teammates can chat inside any email thread, assign conversations, share drafts, turn mail into tasks, and bring SMS, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram into the same app. It is affordable per seat, works with Gmail, Outlook, and IMAP, and suits small teams that want one place for all their conversations.

Missive's AI features let you draft and rewrite messages and build AI-powered rules, with support for several model providers. It is a flexible toolbox: powerful when someone on the team configures it, and quiet when nobody does.

What Tutti is built for

Tutti starts from a different question: what if every important email already had a good reply waiting? It is an AI shared inbox for teams on Gmail, where the AI does the first pass on everything without being asked:

Every conversation is labeled into the categories your team defines, such as Press, Partnerships, or Events.
Replies are drafted from the entire thread, not just the latest message, in your team's tone.
Missing facts stay as [placeholders], like [launch date] or [press kit link], for a person to fill in.
Nothing sends without a person. Members submit drafts; owners and admins approve and send in one click.

AI drafting: a toolbox vs a default

In Missive, AI is something you reach for while writing or wire into rules. In Tutti, AI is the default path for every thread. Turn on auto-draft for a label and every new conversation under it gets a draft before anyone opens it. The approval queue then shows reviewers exactly what is ready, with the full thread and recipients in view.

This matters most for teams where reply quality is the job: a partnerships lead who needs every proposal answered the same day, or a press team that cannot afford a made-up quote. Tutti's model is told to use only the thread and the contact details you provided, and to bracket anything it does not know.

Pricing for a five-person team

Missive is cheaper per seat. Five people on Missive cost $90 per month on Starter (which is capped at five users and leaves out rules, integrations, and the API), $150 on Productive, or $225 on Business when billed monthly.

Tutti is $250 per month per workspace for up to 5 teammates, and there is only one plan, so AI labeling, AI drafts, templates with tokens, shared contacts, search, approvals, Gmail label mirroring, and roles and permissions are all included. Your first workspace gets a 14-day free trial with no credit card. If AI drafting and review are why you are buying a shared inbox, compare Tutti with the Missive tier that includes the AI and rules you need.

Privacy and data handling

Tutti imports only threads that match one of your labels; everything else stays in Gmail and is never stored. AI runs on zero-data-retention providers, so email content is never stored or trained on by the model provider. Mail credentials are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM, sign-in is Google OAuth only, and every workspace is isolated from every other.

Setup and switching

Both tools connect to your existing Gmail. With Tutti, you connect each account with one Google click, name your labels, and the AI sorts and drafts the unread backlog without sending anything. Labels are mirrored back to Gmail, so anyone still working in Gmail sees the same organization, and replies go out from the original account.

The bottom line

Missive is a great general-purpose team inbox if you want many channels, internal chat, and the lowest per-seat price. Tutti is the better fit when your team lives in Gmail and wants AI to do the sorting and first drafts on every conversation, with a human approving every reply.

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Which should you choose?

Choose Tutti if

You want AI to label incoming mail and draft replies without prompting it each time

You need a built-in review step where members draft and reviewers approve

You want only label-matched mail stored, with the rest left in Gmail

You want AI included, with zero-data-retention providers, on one plan

Choose Missive if

You want the lowest per-seat price and your team is very small

You need SMS, WhatsApp, Messenger, or Instagram alongside email

Internal team chat and tasks inside the inbox matter more than AI drafting

Frequently asked questions

What is the main difference between Tutti and Missive?

Missive is a general collaborative inbox that spans many channels. Tutti is an AI-first shared inbox for Gmail: it labels each conversation, drafts the reply from the entire thread, and routes the draft through an approval step before a person sends it.

Is Missive cheaper than Tutti?

Per seat, often yes: Missive lists $14 to $36 per user per month billed annually as of September 2026. Tutti is a flat $250 per month per workspace with up to 5 teammates and every feature, including AI, so the gap narrows as a team adds AI and seats.

Does Tutti invent details in AI drafts?

No. Tutti's drafts use only the thread and the contact details you provide. Anything unknown is left as a [bracketed] placeholder for a person to fill in.

Can Tutti and Missive both connect to Gmail?

Yes. Missive supports Gmail, Outlook, and IMAP. Tutti focuses on Gmail and Google Workspace, connecting any number of Gmail accounts to one shared workspace inbox.

Competitor details come from each vendor’s public website and pricing page as of September 2026. Products change, so check the vendor for current plans. Missive is a trademark of its owner; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by it.