These two are the same company. US Legal Forms, pdfFiller and signNow are all airSlate brands, and the Premium tier of either of the first two hands you all three products.
On annual billing they cost exactly the same: $15 a month, $180 a year. On monthly billing pdfFiller is $40 and US Legal Forms is $59, which is $228 a year apart for a package containing the same subscriptions.
I run Ecommerce Paradise, and the useful question here is not which is better. It is which front door matches the job you came to do, because the core is identical and only the extras differ.
Paying Monthly? Use the pdfFiller Door
Same three products, $40 a month against $59. On annual billing both are $15 and you can choose purely on features.
The Prices, Side by Side
| pdfFiller | US Legal Forms | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry plan, annual | $8 a month (Basic) | $8 a month (Basic) |
| Entry plan, monthly | $20 a month | $39 a month |
| Middle plan | $12 a month (Plus) | None |
| Top plan, annual | $15 a month (Premium) | $15 a month (Premium) |
| Top plan, monthly | $40 a month | $59 a month |
| Top plan, cost per year | $180 | $180 |
| Refund window | 180 days | Not stated on the pricing page |
Two things fall out of that table immediately.
First, if you pay annually the top tiers are the same price and the decision is purely about which extras you want. Second, if you pay monthly, pdfFiller is cheaper at both the entry level and the top, by $19 a month either way.
pdfFiller also has a middle tier that US Legal Forms does not. Plus at $12 adds reusable templates and fillable fields without the eSignature product, which is a real option if you send the same document repeatedly but never need a counterparty signature.
What Both Premium Tiers Contain
This is the part people get wrong, so it is worth stating plainly. Buy Premium from either brand and you get all three products.
| Product | What it does | In pdfFiller Premium | In US Legal Forms Premium |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Legal Forms library | 85,000+ state-specific legal templates | Yes | Yes |
| pdfFiller | PDF editing, form filling, fillable form builder | Yes | Yes |
| signNow | eSignature workflows and signing requests | Yes | Yes |
So neither brand is “the forms one” or “the PDF one” at the Premium level. They are the same bundle with different packaging and different bonus items on top.
Where they genuinely diverge is at the entry level, and that divergence matters more than the Premium comparison for most buyers.
The Entry Tiers Are Completely Different Products
| pdfFiller Basic, $8 | US Legal Forms Basic, $8 | |
|---|---|---|
| Edit and fill PDFs | Yes | No |
| Convert PDF to Word and back | Yes | No |
| Merge, split, reorder pages | Yes | No |
| 85,000-form legal library | No | Yes |
| Send documents for signature | No | No |
Same price, opposite products. pdfFiller Basic is a PDF editor with no legal library. US Legal Forms Basic is a legal library with no editor.
That is the cleanest way to choose at the $8 level. If documents arrive in your inbox and need filling in, you want pdfFiller. If you need to produce a document that does not exist yet, you want US Legal Forms.
Neither $8 tier can send a document out for signature. That is Premium on both sides, and it catches a lot of people who assume signing is table stakes.
The Bonus Items on Each Premium Tier
| pdfFiller Premium adds | US Legal Forms Premium adds |
|---|---|
| Web form data collection | Completion services for a last will, power of attorney and living will, described as a $300 value |
| Custom branding on documents | 50% off business entity formation, a discount of up to $150 |
| Payment collection through forms | |
| Attachments and role-based advanced workflows | |
| Advanced recipient authentication |
The split is not subtle. pdfFiller’s extras are business workflow features. US Legal Forms’ extras are personal legal services.
If you are running documents through a store, collecting information from customers, or branding what you send to suppliers, pdfFiller’s list is the one that will actually get used.
If you are sorting out a will or forming an entity in the next few months, the US Legal Forms extras are worth more than the whole subscription, and at the same annual price they are effectively free.
Which Door for Which Job
| What you are actually trying to do | Buy | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Fill in supplier forms that arrive as PDFs | pdfFiller Basic | $8 a month annually |
| Send the same document repeatedly | pdfFiller Plus | $12 a month annually |
| Find and download a specific legal template | US Legal Forms Basic | $8 a month annually |
| Everything, plus business workflow features | pdfFiller Premium | $15 a month annually |
| Everything, plus a will or an entity formation | US Legal Forms Premium | $15 a month annually |
| Everything, paying monthly | pdfFiller Premium | $40 against $59 |
| One document, once | Either Basic, one month, then cancel | $20 to $39 |
The last row is worth expanding on. US Legal Forms’ own FAQ notes that since moving to a subscription model, a month of access costs less than a single form used to. So a single month is the cheapest legitimate route to one document, provided you actually cancel.
On that route pdfFiller’s monthly at $20 beats US Legal Forms’ at $39, but only pdfFiller Basic cannot reach the legal library. If the specific template is what you need, the $39 month is the one that gets it.
Annual Versus Monthly Is the Bigger Decision
The brand choice moves your bill by up to $228 a year. The billing term moves it by considerably more.
| Configuration | Cost for one year |
|---|---|
| pdfFiller Premium, annual | $180 |
| US Legal Forms Premium, annual | $180 |
| pdfFiller Premium, monthly | $480 |
| US Legal Forms Premium, monthly | $708 |
Monthly billing on the US Legal Forms side costs 3.9 times the annual rate. On the pdfFiller side it is 2.7 times. Both are far above the 20 to 40 percent premium this category normally charges for monthly convenience.
So the decision order is: pick annual first, then pick the door on features. Getting the billing term right is worth more than getting the brand right, and it is the easier of the two calls.
Forming an Entity Soon?
US Legal Forms Premium includes 50% off formation services at the same $15 a month. Price it against going direct before assuming it wins.
The Refund Windows Are Not the Same
pdfFiller states that full refunds are available within 180 days of subscription cancellation, requested through live chat or support email. Six months is unusually long for this category and it makes an annual commitment considerably less risky.
US Legal Forms’ pricing page does not state a refund window. Its FAQ says you can deactivate the subscription at any time, which is a different thing from getting money back on a prepaid year.
I could not find an equivalent 180-day guarantee stated on the US Legal Forms side, and I am not going to assume it applies because the parent company is the same. If a long refund window is part of why you would commit to a year, that is a point in pdfFiller’s favour, and it is worth confirming with support before you pay either way.
What Neither One Does
Worth saying clearly, because both brands market themselves close to the line.
US Legal Forms states plainly that it does not customise forms or provide legal advice. That is honest and you should take it at face value. A template encodes the ordinary case, and the moment your situation stops being ordinary the template stops helping.
Neither product reviews what you have signed, tells you whether a supplier’s dealer agreement is reasonable, or catches the clause that matters. For a routine NDA or a bill of sale that is fine. For a distribution agreement with real money attached, a template is the thing you take to a lawyer rather than the thing that replaces one.
Both are also hosted products. Your documents live in the vendor’s cloud, and that is convenient right up until you cancel. Export before you stop paying, on either side.
Why the Same Company Prices Two Doors Differently
This is worth understanding, because the pattern is not unique to airSlate and recognising it saves money elsewhere.
When one company owns several brands in adjacent categories, each brand prices against its own competitors rather than against the box’s contents. The forms brand is priced against other legal template sites. The PDF brand is priced against other PDF editors. The bundle behind both is the same bundle.
Annual pricing tends to converge, because the annual figure is the headline everyone compares and a visible mismatch would be awkward. Monthly pricing drifts, because far fewer buyers check it and it is where the margin quietly sits.
That is exactly what you see here: identical at $15 annually, $19 apart monthly. Nobody is doing anything underhanded. Two marketing teams set two prices against two competitive sets, and the overlap is only visible if you look at both.
The general habit worth taking from this: whenever a product’s pitch names other products as included, spend one minute checking what those named products cost bought directly, and whether any of them sells the same bundle from its own site. Sometimes the bundle is a real discount, which it is here on annual billing. Sometimes you are paying a brand premium for a checkout page.
What I Could Not Verify
Three gaps worth resolving with support rather than assuming, since neither pricing page answers them.
Which tiers of pdfFiller and signNow the US Legal Forms bundle includes. The page says a subscription to each is included. pdfFiller’s own page describes its equivalent bundle as carrying a signNow Premium plan, which suggests these are full tiers, but the US Legal Forms side does not name them.
What the formation discount is 50 percent of. The page describes a discount of up to $150, implying a base around $300, but names neither the provider nor the base price. Without both you cannot tell whether it beats going direct to a formation service.
Whether the 180-day refund applies on both sides. pdfFiller states it explicitly. US Legal Forms does not mention it, and shared ownership is not a reason to assume it carries across.
None of those are warning signs. They are ordinary pricing-page gaps, and a support chat answers all three in a few minutes. Ask before you pay rather than after.
Where This Sits for a Store
The practical uses in a high-ticket store are narrower than the 85,000-form figure suggests. Supplier and dealer agreements, contractor terms and NDAs, and the entity paperwork around formation. That is a handful of documents a year rather than dozens.
The sequencing matters too. Before you have suppliers there are no contracts to manage, so this is not a week-one purchase. What comes first is deciding what to sell, and the high-ticket niches list settles that.
Then comes supplier approval, which turns on your entity and your website rather than on your document tooling. The supplier outreach guide covers getting approved with real distributors.
The entity documents distributors ask for first are in the business formation guide. If you are at that stage, the US Legal Forms formation discount is worth pricing against the alternatives rather than taking on trust.
The Three-Year View
Software gets chosen on the monthly number and paid on the multi-year total, so here is the longer arithmetic.
| Configuration | One year | Two years | Three years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Either Premium, annual | $180 | $360 | $540 |
| Either Basic, annual | $96 | $192 | $288 |
| pdfFiller Premium, monthly | $480 | $960 | $1,440 |
| US Legal Forms Premium, monthly | $708 | $1,416 | $2,124 |
Three years of the same product runs from $540 to $2,124 depending on two checkboxes at signup. That is a $1,584 spread on a decision most people make in under a minute.
It is also a good argument for the quarterly subscription audit. Keep one list of every recurring charge with its renewal date and its renewal price, not the price you signed up at, and review it four times a year. That habit consistently finds more money than any individual purchasing decision.
How to Test Either One Properly
Both are cheap enough to test rather than research, and testing beats reading a comparison table including this one.
Take the last three documents you actually handled. The distributor application with the awkward table, the contractor agreement, the tax form that never fills in correctly. Run all three through whichever tier you are considering, end to end.
Include the part where you send it and somebody else opens it. That is where most failures live, because a document that looks right in your browser can arrive as something the other party cannot sign on a phone or has to create an account to view.
Then check what the downloaded file looks like. Some tools flatten formatting and some stamp branding on lower tiers, and both are things you would rather discover before sending to a supplier than after.
A week of that tells you more than any feature comparison, and on pdfFiller’s side the 180-day refund window means you can do it without much risk.
The Contracts Only Exist If the Suppliers Say Yes
We build high-ticket stores end to end, including the dealer applications and supplier approvals the paperwork actually comes from.
Common Questions
Are US Legal Forms and pdfFiller the same company?
Yes. Both are airSlate brands, along with signNow. The Premium tier of either brand includes all three products.
Which is cheaper?
On annual billing they are identical at $15 a month for Premium and $8 for the entry tier. On monthly billing pdfFiller is cheaper at both levels: $20 against $39 at entry, and $40 against $59 at Premium.
What is the actual difference between them?
At the entry tier, everything: pdfFiller Basic is a PDF editor with no legal library, and US Legal Forms Basic is a legal library with no editor. At Premium the core is identical and only the bonus items differ, with pdfFiller adding business workflow features and US Legal Forms adding will preparation and a formation discount.
Can either entry plan send documents for signature?
No. eSignature is Premium on both sides, at $15 a month on annual billing. This is the single most common misunderstanding about both products.
Which should I buy if I only need one document?
One month of whichever tier reaches it, then cancel. If it is a legal template you need US Legal Forms at $39 for the month. If it is a PDF somebody sent you, pdfFiller at $20 does it.
Does pdfFiller Plus include the legal forms library?
No. The 85,000-form library is Premium only on the pdfFiller side. Plus at $12 adds templates and fillable fields, not the library.
Which has the better refund policy?
pdfFiller states 180 days from cancellation. US Legal Forms’ pricing page states no refund window, only that you can deactivate anytime. Confirm with support before committing to a year on either.
The Short Version
Same company, same three products at the top tier, same $180 a year if you pay annually.
Choose pdfFiller if you edit documents other people send you, if you want the business workflow features, or if you are paying monthly for any reason. Choose US Legal Forms if you need the template library at the cheap tier, or if a will or an entity formation is on your list this year.
And pay annually whichever you pick. That decision is worth more than the brand choice by a wide margin.
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Trevor Fenner is an ecommerce entrepreneur and the founder of Ecommerce Paradise, a platform focused on helping entrepreneurs build and scale profitable high-ticket ecommerce and dropshipping businesses. With over a decade of hands-on experience, Trevor specializes in high-ticket dropshipping strategy, niche and product selection, supplier recruiting and onboarding, Google & Bing Shopping ads, ecommerce SEO, and systems-driven automation and scaling. Through Ecommerce Paradise, he provides free education via in-depth guides like How to Start High-Ticket Dropshipping, advanced training through the High-Ticket Dropshipping Masterclass, and fully done-for-you turnkey ecommerce services for entrepreneurs who want a faster, more hands-off path to growth. Trevor is known for emphasizing sustainable, real-world ecommerce models over hype-driven tactics, helping store owners build scalable, sellable, and location-independent brands.
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