# FaxBetter review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Free fax-to-email number, with a paid plan for sending faxes Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. FaxBetter is an internet fax service that gives each account a toll-free fax number. The free account only receives faxes, up to 50 pages a month, while the Premium subscription adds sending, unlimited storage and 500 pages a month. Faxes arrive as searchable emails with a PDF attached, and support is by chat, ticket and phone. - **Category:** Online Fax - **Made by:** FaxBetter (since 2006) - **Website:** https://www.faxbetter.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you need to send on the free plan, as free accounts only receive. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, FaxBetter has a free plan, and paid plans start at $5.95 per month, billed $142.80 every 2 years ($9.95 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Free account: a toll-free number for receiving only, 50 pages a month, 30 days of storage, no credit card. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | FaxBetter Free | $0 | Receive faxes only, 50 pages a month, 30-day storage. The number expires without a fax from a new sender every 7 days. | | FaxBetter Premium | $5.95 per month, billed every 2 years ($9.95 billed monthly) | Send and receive, 500 pages a month, unlimited storage. Also $95.40 a year ($7.95 a month); all terms renew automatically. | Read from https://www.faxbetter.com/secure/SignupTollFree.aspx on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with FaxBetter before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Longer terms cost less per month** (Annual discount): Premium is $9.95 a month, $7.95 a month on a $95.40 year (20% off) and $5.95 a month on a $142.80 two-year term (40% off). Source: https://www.faxbetter.com/secure/SignupTollFree.aspx ## Key features - **Toll-free number for every account:** Each account gets a dedicated toll-free fax number; on Premium it does not expire, and extra lines can be bought or ported in at sign-up. - **Searchable faxes by email:** Incoming faxes arrive as an email with a PDF attached, so email search and existing spam filters work on them. - **Sending on Premium:** Premium can send PDF, TIFF, Word, Excel, JPG, HTML or text files as a fax. The free account cannot send. - **Page allowance and rollover pages:** Premium includes 500 pages a month, with non-expiring rollover pages sold from $0.02 a page. - **Storage:** Premium keeps faxes in unlimited lifetime storage, while free accounts keep them for 30 days from receipt. ## Good for - People who only need to receive occasional faxes at no cost - Light senders who accept a 2-year or 1-year prepaid term ## Worth knowing - The free account cannot send faxes and keeps the number only while it receives a fax from a unique sender every 7 days. - The lowest Premium price needs a 2-year prepayment of $142.80; a year is $95.40 and monthly billing is $9.95, all auto-renewing. - Support hours are limited to business hours, with a 855 number, chat and a ticket system. - No desktop or mobile app is offered; the pages read describe email and the web account. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. FaxBetter gives every account a toll-free number and delivers received faxes as email PDFs. The free account receives only, with 50 pages a month, and the number lapses without a fax from a new sender every 7 days; the cheapest Premium price needs a 2-year prepayment. - **Value for money: B.** Premium is $5.95 a month, but only if you prepay $142.80 for 2 years. A year is $95.40 and monthly billing is $9.95, which is the category's middle price. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Free accounts get a toll-free number to receive 50 pages a month with 30 days of storage, no card. They can't send, and the number lapses if no new sender faxes it every 7 days. - **Features: C.** Premium sends and receives 500 pages a month with unlimited storage and searchable PDFs by email. Rollover pages cost extra and the free account can't send. - **Ease of use: B.** No store rating on record. Faxes arrive in your inbox as PDFs and there is nothing to install. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web and email only. No desktop or mobile app is offered. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from FaxBetter's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among online fax services - FaxBetter's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 10 of the 20 other online fax services we grade, and level with 7. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 13 of 20) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $5.95 a month, against a middle price of $9.14 for the category: 3 of the 15 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 3 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/online-fax ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace FaxBetter 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 costs $71.40 a year. - You could make: Documents: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Fax numbers connected to the phone network. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Online fax, Documents ## Alternatives - [eFax](https://toolgpa.com/tools/efax): Online fax by email, web and apps, with personal and business plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/efax-vs-faxbetter) - [MetroFax](https://toolgpa.com/tools/metrofax): Low-cost online fax by email, web and mobile app for small businesses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/faxbetter-vs-metrofax) - [FaxBurner](https://toolgpa.com/tools/faxburner): iPhone fax app and email-to-fax service with a free temporary number. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/faxbetter-vs-faxburner) - [HumbleFax](https://toolgpa.com/tools/humblefax): Flat $10 a month online fax with no page limits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/faxbetter-vs-humblefax) - [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/fax-plus-vs-faxbetter) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.faxbetter.com/secure/SignupTollFree.aspx - https://www.faxbetter.com/Options.aspx - https://www.faxbetter.com/Learn.aspx - https://www.faxbetter.com/About.aspx Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/faxbetter Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).