# eFax review (2026): is it worth $15.83 a month, billed yearly? > Online fax by email, web and apps, with personal and business plans Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA. eFax is an online fax service from Consensus Cloud Solutions. Faxes are sent and received by email, in a web portal, from a Windows print-to-fax app and from iPhone and Android apps, with a local or toll-free number or one transferred in. Personal and Business plans are bought online, while eFax Corporate, with the API and healthcare integrations, is sold through sales. - **Category:** Online Fax - **Made by:** Consensus Cloud Solutions Inc. - **Website:** https://www.efax.com - **Runs on:** Web, Windows, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you fax abroad on Personal, which covers pages to the US and Canada only. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, eFax is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $15.83 per month for 200 pages, billed annually ($18.99 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 7-day free trial of the Personal plan, with up to 200 pages. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Personal | $15.83 per month for 200 pages, billed annually ($18.99 billed monthly) | One user and one fax number, pages to the US and Canada, 10 cents per extra page. First month $4.99 on monthly billing. | | Business | $33.33 per month for 500 pages, billed annually ($39.99 billed monthly) | Five users and one number, pages to 51 countries, 7 cents per extra page and a signed BAA. First month $14.99 on monthly billing. | | Corporate | Custom | Plans built with sales, with the full eFax API, an admin portal, a dedicated account manager and HITRUST certification. | Read from https://www.efax.com/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with eFax before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save up to 17% with annual billing** (Annual discount): eFax's pricing page lists Personal at $15.83 a month billed annually against $18.99 monthly, and Business at $33.33 against $39.99. Source: https://www.efax.com/pricing - **Reduced first month on monthly plans** (Other savings): The pricing page takes $14 off the first month of Personal ($4.99) and $25 off the first month of Business ($14.99) on monthly billing. Source: https://www.efax.com/pricing ## Key features - **Email to fax:** Send a fax by emailing the document to the recipient's number, and get incoming faxes in your inbox. Included on every plan. - **Local, toll-free and ported numbers:** Choose a local or toll-free number, or transfer the one you already have. Business adds extra numbers at $5 a month each. - **Print-to-Fax desktop app:** A free Windows 10 app sends faxes from the print menu of other programs, with up to 10 documents per fax and over 200 file types. - **Mobile apps and e-signatures:** iPhone and Android apps send and receive faxes, and you can sign a fax electronically before sending it. - **Searchable fax storage:** Every plan keeps sent and received faxes in online storage that can be searched later. - **Corporate, API and healthcare tools:** eFax Corporate adds a REST API and admin portal, and Consensus sells add-ons for Epic workflows, AI data extraction and FedRAMP-authorized government faxing. ## Good for - Individuals and small offices faxing within the US and Canada - Healthcare offices that need a signed BAA on a self-serve plan - Large organizations that want a sales-led plan with an API ## Worth knowing - The Personal plan covers pages to the US and Canada only and does not include a signed BAA; Business does. - Pages over the plan cost 10 cents each on Personal and 7 cents on Business, and international rates vary by country. - Extra users on Business are $10 a month each and extra numbers $5 a month each. - The desktop app is for Windows; no Mac app is listed. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. eFax sends and receives faxes by email, in a web portal, from a Windows print menu and from iPhone and Android apps. Personal is $15.83 a month billed yearly for 200 pages, near the dear end of this category, it only covers the US and Canada, and a signed BAA needs Business at $33.33. - **Value for money: C.** Personal is $15.83 a month billed yearly ($18.99 monthly) for one number and 200 pages, past the start of this category's dearer quarter at $14.95. Faxing abroad and a signed BAA need Business at $33.33. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 7-day trial of Personal with up to 200 pages, and no free plan after it. The listing doesn't say whether the trial takes a card. - **Features: B.** Email to fax, local, toll-free or transferred numbers, a Windows print-to-fax app, phone apps with e-signing and searchable storage on every plan, with an API on Corporate. That covers the job, split across its plans. - **Ease of use: B.** No store rating on record. Email to fax is on every plan, so you send by attaching a document to an email, and the apps are there if you want them. - **Platforms and integrations: A.** Web, Windows, iPhone and Android, with Dropbox, Google Drive and Epic, and a REST API on Corporate. There's no Mac app, and the API is only on the plan sold through sales. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from eFax's own pages on 23 October 2026. eFax's pricing page turned our reader away on 24 October 2026, so its prices are as the listing has them. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among online fax services - eFax's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 9 of the 10 other online fax services we grade. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (A, above 7 of 10) and worst on value for money (C, above 2). - Its paid plans start at $15.83 a month, against a middle price of $9.15 for the category: 8 of the 9 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/online-fax ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace eFax you would be making fax numbers connected to the phone network. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.8 is higher than 9 of the 10 other online fax services we grade. It costs $189.96 a year. - You could not: Fax numbers connected to the phone network. - You could not: Apps for Windows, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Dropbox, Google Drive and Epic among them, and has an API. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Dropbox, Google Drive, Epic **Tags:** Online fax, Public API ## Alternatives - [MetroFax](https://toolgpa.com/tools/metrofax): Low-cost online fax by email, web and mobile app for small businesses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/efax-vs-metrofax) - [Fax.Plus](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fax-plus): Online fax by web, email, desktop and mobile apps, priced by pages. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/efax-vs-fax-plus) - [iFax](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ifax): Online fax apps and fax API, with HIPAA plans and AI fax reading. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/efax-vs-ifax) - [Sfax](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sfax): HIPAA cloud fax for healthcare offices, with print drivers and an API. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/efax-vs-sfax) - [Documo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mfax): HIPAA cloud fax for healthcare, formerly mFax, with a fax API. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/efax-vs-mfax) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://www.efax.com/pricing - https://www.efax.com - https://www.efax.com/free-fax - https://www.efax.com/features/efax-print-to-fax - https://www.efax.com/integrations - https://www.efax.com/about-us Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/efax Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).