Which online notary service is best?
The best online notary service depends on what you’re notarizing, because the platforms have converged on the same $25 sticker price and differentiate everything after it. On October 1, 2026, we checked the published pricing pages of seven platforms that offer remote online notarization — USA Notary, Proof (Notarize), OneNotary, NotaryLive, NotaryCam, DocuSign Notary, and BlueNotary — and recorded exactly what each one prints. The verdicts below come from those pages alone. The raw capture, including the billing unit each platform uses, is published as our online notary pricing study.
Prices checked 2026-10-01 against each provider’s published pricing page: USA Notary · Proof / Notarize (and its business page) · OneNotary · NotaryLive · NotaryCam · DocuSign Notary · BlueNotary. Prices change without notice; each provider’s live page controls.
How we check: for each provider we read its own pricing page for the price of one consumer online notarization and every add-on it prints, record each figure as printed, and write “not published” where the page prints none; we do not test checkout flows, negotiate custom rates, or claim that the list is complete or that any provider is cheapest for your paperwork. USA Notary (USA Notary Services LLC) is one of the seven providers compared and publishes this guide, so every competitor figure links to the page it came from, and our own row uses the rate on our pricing page.
- Best for a single personal document: a tie on entry price — all seven platforms print $25 (DocuSign: “Starting at $25”). USA Notary charges $25 per document, all-inclusive, with identity verification, the seal, and delivery covered by one price.
- Best published rate on additional seals: NotaryLive, which prints additional seals under “No Extra Charge For,” then BlueNotary at $8 per additional stamp, OneNotary at $10, and Proof at $15.
- Best published rate on additional signers: NotaryLive and BlueNotary at $5; Proof, OneNotary, and NotaryCam print $10.
- For signers outside the U.S.: four platforms address it, each on its own terms. NotaryCam is the only one of the seven whose pricing page prints a country count — “145 countries” — and it also prints a $79 fee for signers without a U.S. SSN; NotaryLive, BlueNotary, and DocuSign each state that signers abroad can be served (quoted in the FAQ below).
- For organizations: Proof sells business plans ($0 a month plus transaction fees, or $199 a month for Pro+), OneNotary prints Business Professional at $49 a month, NotaryLive prints Business at $59 a month, and DocuSign positions its own product for organizations notarizing 200 or more documents per year.
- Not built for consumers: DocuSign Notary itself — for individuals, DocuSign’s page routes you to its partner OneNotary.
Disclosure up front: USA Notary publishes this guide and appears in the comparison. That’s why every figure here carries the source page it came from, checked on October 1, 2026 — check any of them yourself.
What changed since July: this guide’s July 17 version said NotaryLive publishes no additional-seal price and that BlueNotary publishes no consumer price. We have corrected both. NotaryLive’s pricing page — which our July capture did not include — already listed additional seals under “No Extra Charge For” in archived copies from March 11 and June 13, 2026, and BlueNotary’s July 26 archived page printed its $25, $8, and $5 per-use rates in a business section that we did not treat as consumer pricing. Proof has also raised its add-on fees; the dated change log in our pricing study quotes each before-and-after.
What does each online notary service cost?
Advertised entry price is where every platform looks identical. The full published price list is where they separate.
What seven online notary pricing pages actually publish, checked October 1, 2026.
| Platform | Entry price (as printed) | Additional seal | Pricing unit | Notable published extras |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USA Notary | $25 per document | Not published — each document is $25 all-inclusive | Per document | Flat rate covers ID check, video session, seal, delivery |
| Proof / Notarize | $25 with the Notarize Network | $15 | Per seal | $10 per additional signer $15 on-demand witness $4 eSign per transaction |
| OneNotary | $25 (1 stamp, 1 signer) | $10 | Per notarization/seal | $10 per additional signer $15 OneNotary witness free pay-as-you-go tier |
| NotaryLive | $25 per session | No extra charge (“No Extra Charge For: Additional Seals”) | Per session (first 25 pages included) | $5 per additional signer $5 per additional 25 pages $10 on-demand witness |
| NotaryCam | $25 Per Seal (includes one signer) | Not published | Per seal | $10 per additional signer $79 fee for signers without a U.S. SSN real-estate closings from $199 |
| DocuSign Notary | “Starting at $25*” via partner OneNotary | Not published | — | Own product aimed at orgs notarizing 200+ documents/year |
| BlueNotary | $25 per notarization (first seal) | $8 per additional stamp | Per notarization (first seal) | $5 per additional signer $0 witness if you provide your own Notary Pro $27/month (for notaries) |
Four of the seven platforms print an additional-seal rate: Proof, OneNotary, BlueNotary, and NotaryLive. The other three do not — USA Notary bills per document, NotaryCam prints “$25 Per Seal” with no separate additional-seal rate, and DocuSign routes consumers to a partner with a “starting at” price — so a second seal can’t be priced from the NotaryCam or DocuSign pages. When a platform doesn’t print a number, we say “not published” rather than guessing — and you should treat any figure a comparison site invents for those cells with suspicion.
What do “per seal,” “per document,” and “per session” actually mean?
The pricing unit is the single most confusing thing about comparing online notary services, and none of the platforms explains it side by side. The three units are not interchangeable:
- Per seal (Proof, OneNotary, NotaryCam, BlueNotary): a seal is one notarial act. These platforms print $25 for the first seal and, where they publish a rate, bill each additional seal separately — $15 at Proof, $10 at OneNotary, $8 (an “additional stamp”) at BlueNotary. NotaryCam prints “$25 Per Seal” and no separate additional-seal rate.
- Per document (USA Notary): the document is the unit. USA Notary’s pricing page states the $25 “flat rate covers identity verification, a live video session with a commissioned notary, the electronic notarial seal, a tamper-evident certificate, and instant digital delivery — with no hidden fees.”
- Per session (NotaryLive): the meeting is the unit. NotaryLive’s pricing page prints “$25/ Session” with “First 25 Pages Included,” prints “Additional Seals” and “Additional Signatures” under “No Extra Charge For,” and defines a session as “a live notarization completed with one of our certified online notaries.” Its homepage still prints “$25 per Session*” with an asterisk that has no footnote on that page.
Before you pick a platform, count the seals your paperwork needs — the notary certificate blocks on the document tell you — and run the arithmetic in that platform’s unit. The checklist for telling a genuine notarization from a fake one stays the same on every platform; the billing math does not.
How does each platform compare?
USA Notary
USA Notary charges $25 per document with everything included, as published on its pricing page. There is no consumer subscription; commissioned notaries who use the platform professionally pay a separate membership starting at $19.95/month. The service connects signers in all 50 states with commissioned notaries over a recorded video session — the mechanics are covered in how USA Notary runs a remote session. This is our platform, which is exactly why every competitor figure in this guide links to its source.
Proof (Notarize)
Proof — the company behind Notarize — prints $25 with the Notarize Network, $15 for each additional seal, $15 for each on-demand witness, $10 for each additional signer, and eSign at $4 per transaction on its consumer page. Its business pricing page prints the same per-transaction rates for the Pro plan ($0 a month plus transaction fees) and adds Pro+ at $199 a month, where in-house notary meetings cost $15 plus $5 per additional seal. Its network is available 24/7 per both its consumer and business pages. The fees have moved in 2026 while the $25 entry price held: archived copies of the consumer page print, in order, $10 per additional seal, $10 per witness and $5 per additional signer on May 18; $15, $10 and $10 on June 25; and $15, $15 and $10 on September 3.
OneNotary
OneNotary prints $25 for one stamp and one signer, $10 for every additional seal, $10 for every additional signer, and $15 for a OneNotary witness. Its pay-as-you-go business tier is free with no monthly commitment, and it claims 24/7 availability. DocuSign’s footnote says its “Anytime notarization” is “a service provided by our partner OneNotary.” OneNotary’s $10 additional-seal rate sits between BlueNotary’s $8 and Proof’s $15.
NotaryLive
NotaryLive’s pricing page prints “$25/ Session” for its Basic pay-as-you-go plan, with “24/7 Access to a Certified Online Notary” and “First 25 Pages Included.” Add-ons are “$5 per Additional Signer,” “$5 per Additional 25 Pages,” and “$10 per On-Demand Witness,” and additional seals and signatures sit under “No Extra Charge For.” Its homepage prints “$25 per Session*,” “24/7/365,” and “Valid in all 50 states.” Businesses get a Business plan at $59 a month with “$23 per Session, Billed Monthly,” and a separate bulk page prints $23 per document at 20–50 documents a month and $20 per document at 51–200.
NotaryCam
NotaryCam prints $25 Per Seal, including one signer, on its consumer card (labelled “All Other Documents (non real estate closing)”), with a “24/7 notary network” and “145 countries.” The trade-offs are printed on the same card: “$10 per additional signer” and a “$79 Signer(s) without US SSN fee,” the largest add-on fee in this comparison. The page prints no separate additional-seal rate. Its Real Estate Closings card starts at $199 and prints “Available 7am - 11pm ET”; a Wills & Trusts card ($175 per document) shown in a July 3 archived copy is no longer on the page.
DocuSign Notary
DocuSign’s notary page serves two audiences. Individuals are routed to partner OneNotary at “Starting at $25.*” DocuSign Notary itself — the in-house product — is described as “a good fit for enterprises and organizations that notarize 200 or more documents per year,” and the same FAQ says organizations “must supply their own notaries public.” Its page also states signers can be located “anywhere in the U.S. or internationally” as long as the notary complies with the law of their state and is seated in a supported state.
BlueNotary
BlueNotary’s pricing page now opens with a consumer option — “I need something notarized,” “Starts at just $25” — and prints “Per notarization $25” for the first seal, “Additional signer $5,” “Additional stamp $8,” and “Witness $0” with the note “you provide,” and prints no separate price for a witness the platform supplies in that consumer cost panel. The same page sells Notary Pro to notaries at $27 a month billed monthly or $297 a year (about $24.75 a month — the annual price divided by 12), and business plans “From $47/notary/mo.” If you’re a notary choosing software, that is a different comparison, covered platform-by-platform, with published fees and payouts, in our best RON platforms for notaries comparison.
Which online notary is cheapest for multiple documents?
Run the published rates for a job that needs two seals — a common scenario for powers of attorney paired with a supporting affidavit:
- NotaryLive: $25 — “$25/ Session,” additional seals under “No Extra Charge For,” first 25 pages included (the page does not say how many documents one session may cover)
- BlueNotary: $33 — $25 first seal + $8 additional stamp
- OneNotary: $35 — $25 first notarization + $10 additional seal
- Proof/Notarize: $40 — $25 first seal + $15 additional seal
- USA Notary: $50 — $25 × 2 documents, each all-inclusive
- NotaryCam / DocuSign: not computable — NotaryCam prints “$25 Per Seal” with no additional-seal rate, and DocuSign prints only “Starting at $25”
The arithmetic flips as documents get bigger: a per-document rate covers a document no matter how many notarial acts it needs, while per-seal billing grows with every certificate block. And every total above assumes the platform’s published price is the whole story — on NotaryCam and DocuSign, whose pages print incomplete consumer price lists, it may not be. Whichever you choose, confirm online notarization is accepted for your document and state before the session; per the National Association of Secretaries of State, 47 states and the District of Columbia have laws allowing remote e-notarization. For a broader look at what notarization should cost across channels — including in-person and mobile options — see how much a notary costs, and if you need one outside business hours, 24/7 online notarization is exactly what the online channel is for.