FaxTo vs MyFax: why received spam counts against your MyFax pages
MyFax has the longest free trial in the category at 14 days, and its Home Office plan is one of the cheapest ways to get a two-way fax line. The catch is structural: its allowance covers received pages as well as sent ones, so junk faxes arriving on your number consume pages you paid for. FaxTo charges credits only for pages you send.
Side by side
| What you are comparing | FaxTo | MyFax |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model — FaxTo leads on this | Credits — 1 credit = 1 page sent. Incoming pages cost nothing. | Monthly subscription; the allowance covers sent and received pages. |
| Entry plan — The other app leads on this | Not published yet — the app is pre-release | $12/month ($5 first month), or $8.25/month billed annually at $99/year. |
| Pages included — No meaningful difference | As many as you hold credits for. | 100 sent + 100 received per month on Home Office; $0.10 per extra page. |
| Cost of an unwanted incoming fax — FaxTo leads on this | Nothing — receiving does not consume credits. | Counts against the received-page allowance like any other fax. |
| Free trial — The other app leads on this | None published yet. | 14 days — the longest trial among the major fax services. |
| A fax that fails to send — FaxTo leads on this | No credit is charged; busy lines retried automatically. | Governed by the plan allowance — check current terms. |
| Receiving faxes — The other app leads on this | Dedicated US or Canada number on Pro. | Included on every plan. |
| Availability — The other app leads on this | Pre-release; not on the app stores. | Available now, iOS and Android apps. |
Figures on the right were read from the vendor's own pages on the dates listed below. Visit MyFax
Choosing between FaxTo and MyFax
FaxTo suits you if…
- You mostly send and rarely receive, so paying for a received-page allowance makes no sense.
- You do not want junk faxes eating an allowance you paid for.
- You fax a few times a year and want credits that do not expire.
- You want the failed-fax rule stated up front.
MyFax suits you if…
- You want to try a full two-way fax line free for two weeks before paying anything.
- You need a permanent incoming fax number on the cheapest possible plan.
- You send and receive in roughly equal measure, so a combined allowance fits your usage.
- You need a working service today.
The received-page problem
MyFax's Home Office plan includes 100 sent and 100 received pages a month. Received pages are counted the same way sent ones are, and a fax number does not get to choose what arrives on it. Junk faxes — the advertising blasts that have followed fax numbers for decades — land in that allowance and are billed at $0.10 a page once it is exhausted. This is not unique to MyFax, but MyFax states the split explicitly, which makes it easy to reason about.
FaxTo charges credits for pages you send. Incoming faxes on a Pro number do not consume credits, so an unwanted fax costs you attention and nothing else.
The trial is a genuine advantage
Fourteen days is long enough to test the thing that actually matters: whether the specific institutional fax line you need to reach accepts transmissions from this provider. Fax routing is not uniform, and a line that rejects one provider may accept another. If you have a single critical fax to send and you are unsure the recipient will receive it, MyFax's trial is the cheapest way to find out.
Where the credit model wins
At $99 a year billed annually, MyFax Home Office costs the same whether you send 1,200 pages or two. If your faxing is a handful of pages spread across a year — a return letter, a tax objection, a subscription cancellation — you are buying an allowance to leave it unused. Credits sit on the account until you spend them.
Frequently asked questions
Sources
Prices and plan contents change without notice. Each figure below was read from the linked page on the date shown — open it and confirm before you decide.
- MyFax — Plans and pricingchecked: 28 July 2026
- FaxTo — product facts taken from the app itselfchecked: 28 July 2026