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Updated August 6, 2026. Quick answer: the most documents per dollar of any product in this category, and the only one that will tell you plainly it cannot serve an entire state. If you live in Louisiana, stop here — WillMaker says in its own words that it does not handle Louisiana. Everyone else: the $149 Plus tier includes a living trust, which is a fraction of what the trust-first competitors charge.
What WillMaker publishes
Read from WillMaker’s own pricing page, August 6, 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $109 | Wills, health care directives, final arrangements |
| Plus | $149 | Everything in Starter plus a living trust, durable power of attorney, letters to survivors, transfer-on-death deed, and the download version for PC or Mac |
| All Access | $219 | Everything in Plus plus a one-year subscription to document organisation, secure storage and sharing with trusted advisors |
The purchase is a year, not a licence forever: “Access for one year from the date of purchase, with an option to extend annually for $39.99.”
A note on a figure you may see elsewhere: several third-party reviews describe the entry tier as “Basic”. WillMaker’s own page names it Starter, and lists three tiers at $109, $149 and $219. We are quoting the company, not the reviews.
The honest cons, from WillMaker’s own terms
Louisiana is not supported, and WillMaker says so itself: “Unlike the other states’ laws, Louisiana law is derived from the Napoleonic code… WillMaker doesn’t address Louisiana’s unique requirements.” That is an unusually honest thing for a vendor to publish and it should raise your opinion of the company, not lower it. If you are in Louisiana, start at what a will costs in Louisiana, where the notarial-will rules are set out.
Your documents do not stay available forever: “You will have access to your completed documents for 90 days after your revision period ends.” Print the signed original and store it properly. This is good advice for every product here, but WillMaker is the one that puts a number on the tail.
Revising after year one costs $39.99 a year. A will you never change is fine; a will you should have changed after a divorce and did not is the expensive kind. Budget for the renewal or diary a review date.
Refund terms are not published on the pricing page. Not stated is not the same as none, but it is not the same as generous either, and we will not guess.
Does it handle your state
WillMaker is the only product in this comparison that publishes a state it cannot serve. Take that seriously in both directions: it is a mark of honesty, and it is a hard stop if you are one of the people it names.
No will-making product can make a document valid if your state’s execution rules are not followed, and those rules vary more than people expect: witness counts differ, some states void a gift to a witnessing beneficiary, holographic wills are recognised in some states and not others, and a self-proving affidavit is mandatory in some places and merely convenient elsewhere. We publish those requirements with the statute cited for all 50 states and DC at will requirements by state, alongside POA execution rules and advance directive rules. Read your own row before you buy anything.
Who it is for, and who should buy something else
- Best value in the category for someone who wants a will, a health care directive, a power of attorney and a living trust in one purchase. At $149 the Plus tier includes a trust for less than a third of what the trust-first products charge.
- Read this before you buy the trust tier: a trust that is never funded does nothing at all. Funding a living trust is the step that decides whether the purchase was worth anything, and the will vs trust calculator does the arithmetic by state.
- Buy something else: you are in Louisiana, or you want your documents held indefinitely by the vendor rather than by you.
- Buy nothing yet: if you are not sure what you need, the gap-first checklist names what skipping each document actually costs, and the free routes are worth knowing before you spend.
How we reviewed this, and what would change the verdict
Every price and term on this page was read from the product’s own published pages on August 6, 2026 and is quoted with its wording intact. Where the company does not publish something, this page says “not published” rather than filling the gap from a competitor’s review — copied pricing is why this category is untrustworthy.
What would change this verdict: a change to the published price or terms, a state execution rule the product handles incorrectly, or a documented pattern of the product failing to deliver what its own terms promise. What would not: whether we earn anything. See editorial policy, methodology and corrections — if a figure here goes stale, tell us and it gets fixed with the date shown.
All five products side by side: online will makers compared. The whole machine: estate planning.
All the numbers, kept current. This page uses 4 figures from our claims register — every figure we track is on one page, each with the year it applies to and a plain statement of what makes it move.