# Proof > Online notarization, e-signatures and ID checks, formerly Notarize Proof, the company formerly known as Notarize, runs online notarization: signers meet a commissioned notary by video at any hour, either from its on-demand Notarize Network or from a business's own notaries. The same platform sends documents for e-signature and verifies identities, with separate plans for real estate closings. Businesses pay per transaction, with or without a monthly plan. - **Category:** E-Signatures & Proposals - **Made by:** Notarize, Inc. dba Proof.com - **Website:** https://www.proof.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing Proof has a free plan. Paid plans start at $199 per month, plus transaction fees (Pro+). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Pro plan: no monthly fee, but each transaction is charged: $25 per Notarize Network meeting, $4 per e-signature transaction and $4 per identity check. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Pro | $0 | No monthly fee; pay $25 per notary meeting and $4 per e-sign transaction or ID check. Notarize, Sign and Identify, audit logs and reusable templates. | | Pro+ | $199 per month, plus transaction fees | Adds API access, custom branding, custom fields, signing order and groups, and your own in-house notaries at $15 a meeting. | | Premium & Enterprise | Custom | Sold through sales: volume transaction rates, SSO and SCIM through Command Center, Proof Defend fraud monitoring, dedicated SLAs and premier support. | Read from https://www.proof.com/pricing on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Proof before buying. ## Key features - **Online notarization:** Signers meet a commissioned notary over video, 24/7, from the on-demand Notarize Network, and the notarizations are accepted in all 50 states. - **In-house notaries:** On Pro+ and the title plans a business can onboard its own notaries at a lower meeting rate and send overflow to the Notarize Network. - **E-signatures:** Send documents for signature at $4 a transaction. Pro+ adds signing order, signing groups and different signer requirements on one document. - **Identity verification:** Identify checks a signer's identity to the NIST IAL2 standard for $4, with a $25 live meeting with a trusted referee when needed. - **Real estate closings:** Title and lender plans bring seller-side, cash and mortgage closings online, with links to ResWare, SoftPro 360, Encompass and SimpleNexus. - **Fraud monitoring:** Proof Defend, on the custom-priced plans, flags suspicious transactions and checks video frames for deepfakes during notary sessions. ## Good for - Businesses whose customers need documents notarized without an office visit - Title agencies and lenders closing real estate deals online - Teams that want notarization, e-signing and ID checks in one account ## Worth knowing - Transactions cost extra on every plan: a Notarize Network meeting is $25, plus $15 per extra seal, $10 per extra signer and $15 per on-demand witness. - Using your own notaries, the API and custom branding need Pro+ at $199 a month; SSO and SCIM need the custom-priced Enterprise plan. - Individuals use the Notarize site and app instead, at $25 per notarization; that account also signs documents at $4 per transaction. - Title agencies and lenders have separate plans with their own per-closing rates, and the lender plan is priced through sales. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Proof, which used to be Notarize, puts a real notary on a video call at any hour, and the result is accepted in all 50 states. It also sends documents for signing and checks IDs. There's no monthly fee to start, but nothing is free either: every notary meeting is $25 and every signing $4. - **Value for money: C.** Graded against its own alternatives, as notarization is its main job. Pro has no monthly fee: $25 a notary meeting, $4 per signing or ID check. For plain signing that soon passes DocuSign's $11 a month. Your own notaries, the API and branding need Pro+ at $199. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free. Pro costs nothing a month, but every notarization, signing and ID check is charged, and there's no trial. That's paying as you go, not trying it out. - **Features: C.** It does notarization fully: on-demand notaries 24/7, your own notaries on Pro+, ID checks to NIST IAL2 and online real estate closings. As a signing tool it's basic below Pro+, though, where signing order, signing groups and the API start. - **Ease of use: B.** No store rating on record, but there's next to nothing to set up for a one-off: upload the document, and the signer checks their ID and meets a notary by video, at any hour. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with ResWare, SoftPro 360, Encompass and SimpleNexus for real estate closings and an API on Pro+. No desktop app, and the integrations are all for title and lending. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Proof's and Notarize's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among e-signature and proposal tools - Proof's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 1 of the 20 other e-signature and proposal tools we grade, and level with 4. - It stands best on ease of use (B, above 15 of 20) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $199 a month, against a middle price of $11 for the category: 20 of the 20 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 4 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/e-signatures ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Proof you could make: documents and templates. What surrounds it you could not. The 3 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 15 of the 20 other e-signature and proposal tools grade higher. It costs $2,388 a year. - You could make: Documents and templates: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: It plugs into other products, ResWare, SoftPro 360 and Encompass among them, and has an API. - You could not: People on the other end: referees. No app builder makes those. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with ResWare, SoftPro 360, Encompass, SimpleNexus **Tags:** Documents, Templates, Public API ## Alternatives - [Docusign](https://toolgpa.com/tools/docusign): E-signature service for sending, signing and tracking agreements. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/docusign-vs-proof) - [signNow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/signnow): E-signatures with unlimited users and a yearly invite allowance. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/proof-vs-signnow) - [Dropbox Sign](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dropbox-sign): E-signature app from Dropbox with unlimited requests on paid plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dropbox-sign-vs-proof) - [Adobe Acrobat Sign](https://toolgpa.com/tools/adobe-acrobat-sign): Adobe's e-signatures, sold inside Acrobat plans or on their own. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/adobe-acrobat-sign-vs-proof) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026: - https://www.proof.com/pricing - https://www.proof.com - https://www.proof.com/notarize - https://www.notarize.com/pricing - https://www.notarize.com/ - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notarize/id1022005141 Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/proof Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).