The majority of companies bill for usage on a per-page sent or received basis, including extras like cover pages.  On pre-paid monthly plans, you are allotted a certain amount of included sent and received pages, or a total of both.  Once the included pages have been exhausted, overage is billed at a fixed rate per page sent or received.

Certain providers will bill by the minute instead of per page, and also often bundle their packages with an answering machine service or virtual telephone assistant.  Per minute billing is usually more economical if you tend to send faxes that are several pages long since the transmission time per page is usually after the first page has been sent.

The best way to compare plans on a value basis is to review the Cost per Page (CPP) or Cost per Minute (CPM) rates for included pages/minutes.  This number is determined taking the price and dividing it by the total pages or minutes included in the plan.  You should also take into account the pricing on overage minutes or pages.

You can easily compare the included CPP and CPM rates on our internet fax to email plan comparison chart.