Send a one-time fax. $2.99, no subscription.
HelpMeFax charges a flat $2.99 to send a fax of up to 5 pages, with no subscription and no monthly fee. Create a free account, upload a PDF or a photo, enter any US or Canadian fax number, and pay for that one fax by card.
No machine, no phone line, nothing to install and nothing to cancel afterwards. Longer faxes step up by page band, and every price on this page is the whole price.
Can I send a fax without a subscription?
Yes. The account is free to create and every fax is priced on its own, so sending one fax costs you one fax.
There is no plan to pick before you can send, no card kept on file, no contract, no minimum and nothing to remember to cancel next month. You sign up, upload the document, see the price, and pay for that fax. If you never send another one, you are never charged again.
The account is free
Signing up costs nothing and does not ask for a card. You only reach a payment screen when you actually send a fax.
The fax is the purchase
One flat price per fax, based on the page count. What you see before you confirm is the total.
Plans are optional
Monthly plans exist for people who fax often and want a discount and extras, but they are never required to send a fax.
If you do end up faxing regularly, the optional plans are on the HelpMeFax pricing page: Starter is $10 a month for 10% off every fax, Professional is $25 for 20% off and one dedicated fax number, Enterprise is $99 for 30% off and five numbers. Start without one and decide later.
How much does it cost to send one fax?
A flat $2.99 for up to 5 pages to any US or Canadian fax number, with longer faxes priced by page band.
One price per fax, not a running meter. A 5-page fax and a 1-page fax both cost $2.99; a 25-page fax costs $8.99 whether it is 11 pages or 25. The cover page is included in the count.
| Pages in the fax | US & Canada | 14 international destinations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 5 pages | $2.99 | $5.99 |
| 6 to 10 pages | $4.99 | $9.99 |
| 11 to 25 pages | $8.99 | $17.99 |
| 26 to 50 pages | $14.99 | $29.99 |
| 51 to 100 pages | $24.99 | Not available - 50 pages is the international maximum |
| 101 pages and up | $0.15 per page | Not available - 50 pages is the international maximum |
Domestic means any fax number in the United States or Canada, at one rate, including toll-free numbers. The 14 international destinations and the rule that unlocks them are covered in international fax pricing, and every rate on the site is listed together on the pricing page.
What the $2.99 actually buys.
There is no separate charge for the cover page, for the retries, or for the confirmation. The price you confirm is the price you pay.
- A cover page, if you want one. Put your name and a callback number on it — it counts as a page in the band, and nothing more.
- Up to 30 automatic delivery attempts over about 24 hours if the line is busy or does not answer (3 attempts for international faxes). You do not pay per attempt.
- A delivery receipt email when the receiving machine accepts the fax, with the date and time — keep it as your proof of sending.
- Your document stored encrypted for 365 days on every plan and then deleted automatically, with the transmission record — date, destination, page count, result — kept in your history.
What does a fax cost the other ways?
Broadly three ways: a retail print-and-ship counter charges per page and costs you a trip, a monthly online fax plan charges a fixed fee every month whether you send anything or not, and pay-per-fax charges you once, for the fax you send.
Counter and monthly-plan rates change constantly and vary by location and provider, so the columns below say varies — check their current rate rather than quoting a number we cannot stand behind. Check the current rate before you compare.
Retail print-and-ship counter
- Per page, and usually more for the first page than the rest. Varies — check their current rate.
- A trip each way, the wait at the counter, and handing your document to a stranger to feed through a shared machine.
- No ongoing commitment, but you repeat the whole trip next time.
Monthly online fax plan
- A fixed fee every month, whether or not you send anything, usually with a page allowance and overage charges. Varies — check their current rate.
- Signing up, keeping a card on file, and remembering to cancel when you are done.
- Recurring until you cancel it.
Pay-per-fax at HelpMeFax
- $2.99 for 1–5 pages, $4.99 for 6–10, $8.99 for 11–25, $14.99 for 26–50, $24.99 for 51–100, then $0.15 per page at 101 and up.
- A few minutes in a browser. No machine, no phone line, nothing to install.
- No ongoing commitment. The account stays free and idle until you send again.
The break-even, stated plainly
A monthly plan only wins if you send enough faxes every month to beat $2.99 a time. Divide the monthly fee by $2.99: that is roughly how many faxes a month you have to send before the plan is cheaper, and every month you send fewer than that, you paid for faxes you did not send. For one document, one time, paying once is the cheaper arithmetic — and if your volume grows later, you can add a HelpMeFax plan then and keep the same account.
Is there a free way to send a fax?
Not at HelpMeFax, and we would rather tell you that than bury it. Creating an account costs nothing; every fax is paid for.
Sending a fax means placing a real phone call to a real machine, and that call costs money every time. Services that advertise no-cost sending generally pay for it another way — advertising in your document, a trial that turns into a subscription, or your data. HelpMeFax is paid for by the people who send faxes, which is why there are no ads and nothing is sold on.
What $2.99 buys is a 1-to-5-page fax to any US or Canadian number, the cover page, up to 30 automatic delivery attempts over about 24 hours, a delivery receipt email, and your document stored encrypted for 365 days and then deleted. No account fee, no per-attempt charge, no surprise line item.
How do I send a one-time fax?
Four steps in a browser, about five minutes: create a free account, upload the document, enter the fax number, and pay for that one fax.
Create a free account
Sign up with an email address and verify it. Creating the account costs nothing and there is no card on file, no contract and no monthly fee.
Upload your document
Drag in a PDF, JPG, PNG or GIF from your computer or phone, up to 25 MB. Add a cover page with your name and a callback number if you want one — it is included in the price.
Enter the fax number
Type any US or Canadian fax number. International destinations unlock after your first completed card payment, so a first fax goes to the US or Canada. The page shows you the page count and the exact total before you pay anything.
Pay for that one fax
Pay by card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express or Discover). The fax goes out, and you get a delivery receipt email when it lands.
The steps are the same on any device. If the document is a photo on your phone, sending a fax from an iPhone walks through the camera-roll details; if it is a file on a laptop or desktop, sending a fax from a computer covers that path.
What can I send, and where?
PDF, JPG, PNG and GIF files up to 25 MB, to any fax number in the United States or Canada at the domestic rate, or to 14 international destinations.
File types
PDF, JPG, PNG and GIF only, up to 25 MB per fax. Word documents are not accepted — save or export the file as a PDF first, which also guarantees the recipient sees the layout you intended.
Photos from a phone
Camera-roll photos upload as JPEG and work fine. If your phone hands over a HEIC file, it is not an accepted format: export that photo from the Files app as a JPEG or a PDF first, then upload it.
Page limits
Up to 500 pages in a single domestic fax, and up to 50 pages internationally. The cover page counts toward the total.
Where it can go
Any US or Canadian fax number, local or toll-free, at one domestic rate. Senders themselves need to be in the US or Canada.
The 14 international destinations
The United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Mexico, at the international ladder above. International sending unlocks after your first completed card payment — a fax or an account top-up — and is capped at 50 pages per fax.
There is no email-to-fax address
HelpMeFax is a browser page, not an email gateway. There is no address you can email a document to in order to send a fax, and nothing to install: you upload the file on the site and send it from there.
One-time sending does not give you a number of your own to receive on: outbound faxes go from shared HelpMeFax sending numbers, so put a callback number on the cover page. If you also need faxes coming back to you, receiving faxes online explains the dedicated-number add-on at $11.99 a month plus $0.05 per page received.
What happens if the fax does not go through?
It is retried automatically, at no extra charge, and if it still fails the failure email lets you ask for a refund review.
- Busy signals and unanswered lines are retried for you: up to 30 attempts over about 24 hours for a domestic fax, 3 attempts for an international one. You are charged once for the fax, not once per attempt.
- If every attempt fails, you get a failure email, and it links you to a refund review. Refunds are net of card-processing and per-attempt costs, so a refund is not always the whole $2.99.
- Two cases are not refundable: a fax the receiving machine actively rejects, and a fax sent to a number that turns out not to be a fax number. Check the digits before you send.
- You can stop it yourself. A fax that is queued, scheduled or still retrying can be cancelled from your account, and that cancellation refunds the full amount automatically to your HelpMeFax account credit, ready to spend on your next fax.
- Either way you get a delivery receipt email — success or failure, in writing, with the time.
One-time fax questions.
One fax. One price. $2.99.
Up to 5 pages for a flat $2.99, no subscription and no monthly fee. Creating an account is free; you pay per fax, by card, and there is nothing to cancel afterwards.