What is the best online fax service in 2026?
Faxes land in your inbox as PDFs, you reply from your laptop or phone, and the machine in the corner can finally go.
For most small businesses, our pick is Fax.Plus: the Basic plan costs $6.99 a month billed yearly ($83.99 a year) for 200 pages and a dedicated number, the lowest yearly bill for that volume among the ranked services. If you fax from your phone and want a contract you can walk away from online, iFax has no setup or overage fees. If you run a medical practice, mFax includes a HIPAA business associate agreement on every Business plan.
Most "best online fax" lists are written by one of the services they rank. We compared the official price pages instead, worked out the yearly cost for 100 pages a month, flagged the plans that cannot receive a fax, and checked how each service lets you leave.
The ranking is editorial: a sponsored spot is always labeled on its card, and no affiliate link changes a score.
The best online fax service for your needs
$83.99 a year for 200 pages
Best for faxing from a phoneNo setup or overage fees
Best for medical practicesBAA on every Business plan
Best for a home office100 pages in and out, $8.25 a month yearly
Best-known brandBest known name, harder to cancel
Best for a one-off batch500 pages for $5 the first month
The 5 online fax services compared
The ranking targets a US small business or practice that needs a fax number, wants incoming faxes in email, and sends a few dozen to a few hundred pages a month. Every price comes from the service's official pricing page.
| Best for | What sets it apart | Free plan | Team size | Visit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fax.Plus | Best overall | Lowest yearly cost for 200 pages | 4.2/5 | From $6.99/mo billed yearly | ✓ | Small teams, international | Visit → |
| 2 | iFax | Best for faxing from a phone | No overage, cancel online | 3.9/5 | From $12.49/mo (send only) | — | Mobile solo pros | Visit → |
| 3 | mFax | Best for medical practices | BAA on every Business plan | 3.7/5 | From $9/mo, $3 per team user | — | Clinics and practices | Visit → |
| 4 | MyFax | Best for a home office | Pages included both ways | 3.6/5 | From $8.25/mo billed yearly | — | Home office, light volume | Visit → |
| 5 | eFax | Best-known brand | Best-known name | 3.4/5 | Entry price shown: $14.99 | — | Higher-volume offices | Visit → |
Scores on five weighted criteria, detailed in the method. Prices read in 2026 on official pages, in US dollars. eFax shows only its entry price.
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How we compared and scored
This page is for the office manager, the solo practitioner or the small business owner who still gets faxes from a bank, a court, an insurer or a pharmacy, and wants them out of a machine and into an inbox. It does not cover enterprise fax servers wired into an EHR or ERP.
First filter: the service must receive faxes, not just send them. A send-only plan does not replace a fax line. Second filter: a price you can read on the official page. eFax shows only an entry price and stays in the ranking because so many people search for it, and its score reflects that.
The weights follow what costs a small office money. Real cost counts for 25%: monthly price, included pages, overage per page, yearly cost at 100 pages a month. Number and receiving counts for 25%: dedicated number, number porting, receiving on the entry plan. Contract and cancellation count for 20%: trial, online cancellation, overage and setup fees. Security and compliance count for 15%: HIPAA, BAA, where data is processed. Ease of use counts for 15%: email to fax, mobile app, team sharing.
Then we read user reviews, worst first. One complaint dominates the whole market: getting billed after trying to cancel. The next ones are the entry plan that turns out to be send-only and a fax charged twice after a retry.
- Real costMonthly price, included pages, overage, yearly cost at 100 pages a month.25%
- Number and receivingDedicated number, porting, receiving on the entry plan.25%
- Contract and cancellationTrial, online cancellation, setup and overage fees.20%
- Security and complianceHIPAA, business associate agreement, data location.15%
- Ease of useEmail to fax, mobile app, team accounts.15%
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Fax.Plus
Fax.Plus, built by Alohi, gives you the most for the least among the services we compared. Basic is $6.99 a month on a yearly plan, $83.99 in total, for 200 pages and one number. Monthly billing costs $8.99. Extra pages cost $0.10, and that rate drops as you move up: $0.07 on Premium, $0.05 on Business.
Business adds five members on one account for $27.99 a month yearly, which suits a front desk shared by several people. Extra numbers cost $4.99 a month each, and Fax.Plus sells numbers in many countries, which helps if you deal with partners overseas.
The catch is HIPAA. Only Enterprise, at $79.99 a month yearly, comes with HIPAA compliance and a signed BAA. A small practice handling patient records pays a big jump for it. The free plan is a test drive: 10 pages in total, no number, no receiving.
- $83.99 a year for 200 pages
- Overage gets cheaper as you scale
- Numbers in many countries
- ✓Lowest yearly cost for 200 pages among the ranked services
- ✓Monthly billing available
- ✓Five members on Business
- ✗HIPAA only on Enterprise
- ✗Free plan cannot receive
- ✗Overage at $0.10 on Basic
The default pick for a non-medical small business. If you need HIPAA on a small budget, iFax Plus or mFax gets you there for less than Enterprise.
iFax
iFax is built around its mobile app: snap the document, type the number, send. The pricing page makes three promises that answer the market's main complaints: no setup fees, no overage fees, and cancellation online. Yearly billing takes 20% off.
Read the plan names carefully. Basic, at $12.49 a month for 200 pages, only sends. To receive faxes, and so to actually replace a fax line, you need Plus at $24.99 a month, with 500 pages and one number. Plus also brings HIPAA compliance, which makes it the cheapest route to HIPAA among the receiving plans we compared with a public price.
For an office that receives a handful of faxes a month, Plus is expensive next to Fax.Plus Basic. You pay for the app and the clean contract.
- Mobile app first
- No overage fees
- HIPAA on Plus
- ✓Cancel online
- ✓20% off yearly
- ✓500 pages on Plus
- ✗Basic cannot receive
- ✗Plus costs far more than Fax.Plus Basic
- ✗One number on Plus
The right call if you fax from your phone and want a contract you can leave in two clicks. If you sit at a desk and receive little, Fax.Plus costs far less.
mFax
mFax is made by Documo, a company focused on healthcare and regulated industries. Pricing starts at $9 a month, and team plans add $3 per user. Every Business plan comes with HIPAA coverage and a signed business associate agreement, so you do not need to reach an enterprise tier to get it.
Health data is processed in the United States only. For a US practice that is a plus, since it keeps patient records under US jurisdiction. The per-user model also scales well for a front desk with three or four people.
The public price page shows a starting price rather than a full plan grid, so check the page allowance for your volume before you sign.
- BAA on every Business plan
- Per-user team pricing
- US-only health data processing
- ✓BAA without an enterprise tier
- ✓Built for healthcare
- ✓Cheap extra seats
- ✗Page allowances not shown next to the entry price
- ✗Less useful outside the US
- ✗Fewer consumer-friendly extras
The pick for a small medical practice. If you have no patient data, Fax.Plus gives you more pages for less.
MyFax
MyFax splits its allowance into pages sent and pages received, which makes the bill easy to predict. Home Office costs $12 a month, or $8.25 a month billed yearly, for 100 pages each way. Small Business moves to 300 + 300 for $25 a month ($20.83 yearly), Power to 600 + 600 for $45 ($37.50).
Extra pages cost $0.10. The trial lasts 14 days and you can cancel online, which already puts it ahead of the most famous name on this list.
It is a plain service: no HIPAA promise on the price page and fewer team features than Fax.Plus. For a home office, that is fine.
- Separate send and receive allowances
- Cancel online
- 14-day trial
- ✓Predictable bill
- ✓$99 a year for 100 + 100 pages
- ✓Clear plan steps
- ✗No HIPAA on the price page
- ✗Fewer team features
- ✗Overage at $0.10
A safe, simple choice for light use. If you need more pages for the same yearly budget, Fax.Plus Basic includes 200.
eFax
eFax is the name most people type into Google, and its plans cover the full range: Personal with 200 pages for the US and Canada, Business with 500 pages and five users, Corporate on quote. The pricing page shows a headline entry price of $14.99 without naming the plan it applies to, extra pages cost $0.10, extra users $10 and extra lines $5. Yearly billing saves up to 17%.
Cancellation is where it loses points. You cannot cancel from your account settings: eFax asks for your fax number and the last four digits of your card, by phone or chat. Its public reviews are full of customers who say they kept getting charged after trying to leave.
The service itself works and the brand is everywhere, which matters if you port a number your clients already know. Just set a reminder before the trial ends.
- Best-known fax brand
- Business plan with 5 users
- Number porting
- ✓Plans for every volume
- ✓Up to 17% off yearly
- ✓Widely recognized
- ✗No cancellation from account settings
- ✗Repeated billing complaints after cancellation
- ✗Full plan prices not shown on the grid
Ranked for its reach, not its contract. If you want to leave whenever you like, the four services above make that much easier.
What an online fax service really costs per year
Plans are priced per month, per year, per user or per page. Here is the yearly cost for three typical profiles, using official prices on the cheapest plan that fits.
You mostly receive
Fax.Plus Basic: $83.99 a year, since the free plan cannot receive. MyFax Home Office: $99 a year with 100 pages each way. FAXAGE Unlimited Inbound: $19.95 a month plus a $5 setup fee, for unlimited inbound. iFax: Plus at $24.99 a month, because Basic cannot receive. mFax: from $108 a year at $9 a month. The cheapest way to keep a number is Fax.Plus Basic.
100 pages a month
Fax.Plus Basic: $83.99, with 100 pages to spare. MyFax Home Office: $99, as long as you stay under 100 each way. mFax: from $108. MetroFax Essential: $119.52 a year, but with 550 pages included. iFax Plus: $24.99 a month, minus 20% on yearly billing. On a light month, MyFax is the closest rival.
A team faxing daily
Fax.Plus Business covers 1,000 pages and 5 members for $27.99 a month billed yearly. eFax Business covers 500 pages and 5 users, with $10 per extra user. mFax adds $3 per user. At this volume, ask whether some of these documents should move to e-signature instead.
- Does the entry plan receive faxes, or only send?
- Is the price per month, per user or per page?
- What does an extra page cost?
- Can you port your current number?
- Can you cancel from your account settings?
- Is a BAA included, and on which plan?
What to know before you pick
Three questions come up again and again in forums. Most comparison lists skip them.
HIPAA starts at different plans
HealthcareIf you send patient data, you need a service that signs a business associate agreement. mFax includes one on every Business plan. iFax brings HIPAA on Plus at $24.99 a month. Fax.Plus reserves it for Enterprise at $79.99 a month yearly. MyFax shows no HIPAA promise on its price page.
- Cheapest BAA
- mFax Business
Send-only plans do not replace a fax line
PlansA fax number is useless if people cannot fax you back. iFax Basic and the Fax.Plus free plan only send. If you are cancelling a landline fax, check that the plan includes a receiving number before you port anything.
- Send only
- iFax Basic, Fax.Plus Free
Keep every confirmation
LegalA fax is a copy of a document, not a signature. What makes it useful as evidence is the transmission record: date, time, number, pages. Check that your service lets you export it, and keep a copy for anything that matters, and use e-signature when you need a binding signature.
- Keep
- The transmission record
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Other options worth knowing
These come up often in searches. They are not ranked because they do not sell a standalone fax plan, bill in a way that is hard to compare page for page, or only cover a narrow case.
Dropbox Fax: a one-off batch
One-offThe former HelloFax offers 500 pages for $5 the first month. Handy for a single big batch. Number porting works for the US and Canada only.
- Intro offer
- $5 the first month
RingCentral: fax inside a phone system
Phone systemRingCentral includes fax in its RingEX phone system, with no price for fax alone. Worth it only if you are replacing your business phone system at the same time.
- Price
- Included in RingEX
FAXAGE: cheap lines, billed by the minute
BudgetFAXAGE prices per line: Lite at $3.49 a month with nothing included, Professional at $7.95 with 300 inbound and 300 outbound, Unlimited Inbound at $19.95, Small Office at $29.95 with unlimited inbound and 400 outbound. Every plan has a $5 setup fee and overage at $0.05 a minute. It suits a tech-savvy office that wants the lowest monthly fee; the minute-based billing makes page costs harder to predict.
- Price
- From $3.49 a month per line
MetroFax: lots of pages per dollar
VolumeMetroFax sells Essential at $11.95 a month ($9.96 billed yearly) with 550 pages, Best Value at $14.95 ($12.46) with 1,050 pages, and Professional at $37.95 ($31.63) with 3,000 pages. No activation fee, no contract, no early termination fee. The pricing page shows neither overage rates nor HIPAA, so ask before you send patient data.
- Price
- $119.52 a year for 550 pages a month
FaxZero: a free one-off fax
FreeFaxZero sends free faxes to the US and Canada: up to 3 pages plus a cover page, 5 faxes a day, with FaxZero branding on the cover and lower delivery priority. The paid option costs $3.29 per fax for up to 25 pages, paid through PayPal. It cannot receive faxes, so it never replaces a fax line.
- Free
- 3 pages, 5 faxes a day
Faxing to France or Europe
AbroadIf you need a French number, local services are cheaper: OVHcloud charges 0.99 € excl. VAT a month plus 0.02 € a sent page, and MonFax receives for free. Fax.Plus can supply a French number, but only after you file regulatory documents.
- Local pick
- OVHcloud, MonFax
What goes wrong after you sign up
These come straight from customer reviews. None of them show on a pricing page.
Signing up without checking how to leave
ContractThe number one complaint in this market. Search the help center for "cancel" before you enter a card. If it describes a phone call rather than a button, write down the trial end date and keep a written record of your request.
- Cancel online
- iFax, MyFax
Resending a fax without checking the log
BillingA fax that looks stuck often goes through anyway. Customers report the same fax sent twice and billed twice. Check the sent log before you hit send again, especially on long documents billed per page.
- Habit
- Check the log first
Closing your old line before porting
NumberIf you want to keep your number, do not cancel your current line yourself. The port request closes it. Cancel too early and the number is gone, along with every contact who has it saved.
- Order
- Port first, cancel after
Where to go from here
These pages pick up where this one stops, if you are also rethinking your phones or your paperwork.
Your questions about online fax
Can I fax online for free?
For a test, yes: the Fax.Plus free plan sends 10 pages in total, with no number and no receiving. FaxZero sends up to 3 pages plus a cover, 5 times a day, to the US and Canada, with its branding on the cover page. For anything regular, Fax.Plus Basic at $83.99 a year is cheaper than most people expect.
Can I receive a fax in my email?
Yes. Every ranked service delivers incoming faxes to your inbox as a PDF, provided your plan includes a receiving number. Tip: route them to a shared address such as the front desk, not to one employee's mailbox.
What is the cheapest online fax service?
For 100 to 200 pages a month, Fax.Plus Basic at $83.99 a year is the lowest among the ranked services. FAXAGE Professional costs $7.95 a month plus a $5 setup fee, but counts usage in minutes, not pages. MyFax Home Office follows at $99 a year for 100 pages each way. Dropbox Fax has a $5 first month for 500 pages, but only as an intro offer.
Which online fax service is HIPAA compliant?
mFax includes a BAA on every Business plan, iFax covers HIPAA on Plus at $24.99 a month, and Fax.Plus only on Enterprise at $79.99 a month billed yearly. Always get the signed BAA before sending patient data.
How do I cancel eFax?
Not from your account settings. eFax asks for your fax number and the last four digits of your card, by phone or chat. Do it before the trial ends, keep a written record, and watch your next statement.
Can I keep my current fax number?
Usually, yes, by porting it. eFax accepts ported numbers, and Dropbox Fax ports only US and Canadian numbers. Start the port before you cancel your old line, never after.
Is an online fax legally valid?
It has the same standing as any fax: a copy backed by a transmission record. Keep the confirmation with date, time and pages. For a contract that must bind the signer, use electronic signature instead.