A will in England and Wales costs anywhere from £10 to £1,500. The gap is not legal validity — it is who checks the document, and who answers when it fails.
Eight services dominate the UK online will market in 2026. Some are SRA-regulated, meaning the Solicitors Regulation Authority oversees them, and you have access to the Legal Ombudsman if the will is drafted incorrectly. Others use unregulated will writers who carry professional insurance but no statutory complaints scheme. All of them produce documents that comply with the Wills Act 1837 once properly signed and witnessed.
| Service | Single will | Mirror wills | SRA regulated | Key feature |
| ActiveWills | £9.99 (disc.) | £14.99 (disc.) | No | Cheapest entry; Trustpilot 4.9 |
| LegalWills.co.uk | £49.95 | ~£80 | No | Unlimited free updates |
| Make a Will Online | £60 | £90 | Yes (Innovation Scheme) | Solicitor-checked; Trustpilot 4.8 |
| Farewill | £90–£100 | £135–£160 | Yes | National Will Writer of the Year 2019–2022 |
| Which? Wills | £95–£99 | £149–£156 | Yes (SRA panel) | Telephone solicitor review included |
| Properwills | £129 | £199 | No | 48-hour turnaround; 5 years free updates |
| Octopus Legacy | £150 | £250 | Supervised SRA | Charitable giving + trust options |
| Co-op Legal Services | £99–£150 | £185–£245 | Yes | Only fully SRA-regulated online will firm |
Prices verified against each provider’s publicly listed UK rates between August and September 2026. Discount codes, seasonal offers, and bundle deals may reduce these figures. ActiveWills prices reflect a current promotional discount. All prices exclude VAT where applicable.
Farewill — Four-time National Will Writer of the Year, with a subscription you may not need
Farewill won the National Will Writing Firm of the Year award at the British Wills and Probate Awards in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. On Trustpilot it holds 4.9 stars from over 18,000 reviews — the highest public rating in this comparison.
Pricing starts at £90 for a single will and £135 for mirror wills through MoneySavingExpert’s discount link, or £100 and £160 through Farewill’s standard pricing.
Fifteen minutes online is the typical completion time — answer questions about your estate, beneficiaries, and executors, then a specialist checks the document before it is sent to you for signing. Farewill is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The subscription model charges £10 per year for unlimited updates, which means a will kept for ten years costs £190 in total — more than a one-off from a solicitor if you never change it.
Farewill also offers a telephone-based service at £240 for a single will and £380 for a pair, where a specialist talks you through the questions instead of an online form.
If your estate is unlikely to change — no house moves, no second marriage, no new children — a one-time will from a cheaper provider may cost less over the same period than Farewill’s subscription.
Co-op Legal Services — The only online will writer regulated as a firm, not just by a panel solicitor
Co-op Legal Services is regulated by the SRA in its own right, not through a panel of external solicitors reviewing documents produced by non-regulated staff. That distinction matters because it means every person handling your will at Co-op is subject to the SRA Code of Conduct, and you have access to the Legal Ombudsman if the service falls short. No other major online will provider in this comparison can match that.
A single will costs £99 through MoneySavingExpert’s link, £150 direct, or up to £245 for mirror wills. The price includes telephone access to a solicitor throughout the process — you are not filling in a form alone and hoping the review catches everything. Free lifetime storage of the signed will is included, and you can make the will online, over the phone, by video, or in person at a Co-op Legal Services office.
Farewill completes a will in a day or two from online submission. Co-op involves a phone call, a draft, and a review cycle that takes longer. If you need a will signed this week, Co-op may not be the fastest choice. If you want regulated assurance and a human being answering your questions about guardianship or inheritance tax, it is the safest one.
Make a Will Online — The cheapest will that carries SRA approval
Make a Will Online charges £60 for a single will and £90 for a pair. Every document is checked by a qualified solicitor before it is released. The company is the only specialist online will provider to receive consent from the SRA under its Innovation Scheme, which gives it regulatory standing that generic template services do not carry.
You answer questions online, review the draft, and once a solicitor checks it, the final document is released. Physically bound copies cost an extra £15. Optional printing and postage is available at the same price.
A Trustpilot rating of 4.8 from 1,800 reviews sits behind the service, which has operated since 2008 and is a member of the Society of Will Writers. For estates in England and Wales that are straightforward — a single property, a few specific gifts, clear beneficiaries — this is the cheapest regulated option in the comparison. The company is explicit that its service is designed for simple wills, and advises anyone with a large estate, overseas property, or complex family arrangements to see a traditional solicitor instead.
Which? Wills — Consumer champion with a solicitor review built into the price
Which? Wills charges £95 for a single will through the MoneySavingExpert discount, or £99 at standard rates, with mirror wills at £149 to £156. The price includes a telephone review by a qualified solicitor — not a will writer or a paralegal — before the document is finalised.
Which?’s online form takes about 30 minutes to complete. You can save your progress and return later. Which?’s support team is available by phone or email for questions during the drafting stage.
Which? also operates a review service where a dedicated will expert reads through your completed will before you sign it. That step is included in the headline price, which makes Which? one of the few providers on this list where the solicitor review is not an optional add-on but a standard part of the product.
If you bundle a Lasting Power of Attorney with a Which? Will, you can save up to 30% on the combined package. That is worth considering because a will and a power of attorney are often needed together, and the combined discount brings Which?’s pricing closer to the cheaper providers.
Octopus Legacy — Best for charitable giving and trusts, but the price reflects it
Octopus Legacy charges £150 for a single will and £250 for a pair. Trust wills start at £450. The service is supervised by an SRA-regulated solicitor, which gives it a layer of regulatory oversight that sits between Co-op’s full SRA coverage and the unregulated providers on this list.
Octopus’s approach to charitable legacy is what sets it apart from the other providers on this list. The platform allows you to include charitable gifts in your will and provides information about the inheritance tax benefits of doing so, which is unusual among online providers. If you intend to leave a portion of your estate to a charity, Octopus makes that easier to do correctly than a standard will form.
Octopus also offers trust-based will packages for estates that need more than a straightforward distribution. Those start at £450 and include the kind of tax planning advice that would normally require a meeting with a solicitor.
At £150 for a single will, Octopus is more expensive than Farewill and Make a Will Online, neither of which requires a separate trust package for basic estate planning. If you do not need the charitable giving route or the trust option, the lower-cost providers cover the same ground.
Properwills — Fixed fee, 48-hour turnaround, five years of free updates
Properwills charges a fixed £129 for a single will and £199 for a couple. The fee includes everything — the online questionnaire, a legal expert review, and the final document delivered to you. There are no add-ons for printing or postage.
Properwills promises a will checked by a legal expert and ready to sign within 48 hours of submission. That is faster than any other provider in this comparison. The online questionnaire takes less than 15 minutes to complete, and the interface is the most intuitive interface among the eight providers in this comparison.
The pricing includes five years of free, unlimited updates to the will. After five years, updates are charged separately at rates that are not published upfront. Over a ten-year period, that means Properwills costs £129 for the first five years and then whatever the update fee is for years six to ten — something to confirm before you commit. Properwills is not SRA-regulated. The legal experts who review the documents are qualified will writers, not solicitors in all cases, so the Ombudsman route that applies to Co-op and Which? does not apply here. The company’s Age Space discount code (AGESP12) brings the price down by 12%.
LegalWills.co.uk — Unlimited free updates and the lowest base price among established providers
LegalWills.co.uk starts at £49.95 for a single will. That is the lowest base price among the established providers on this list — ActiveWills is cheaper only with its current promotional discount. Mirror wills cost approximately £80.
The service allows unlimited free updates to the will. If your circumstances change — a new child, a house move, a divorce — you can log in and update the document without paying again. None of the other providers in this comparison offer free unlimited updates as a standard feature; Farewill and Make a Will Online charge annual subscription fees for the same privilege.
For an additional £69, a solicitor reviews the will. Without that add-on, the will is produced from an online template checked by will-writing staff, not regulated solicitors. For a straightforward estate, the template may be adequate. For estates involving trusts, overseas assets, or blended families, the solicitor review is worth the extra cost.
LegalWills.co.uk operates mainly through its own website and does not maintain a Trustpilot profile that is active enough to produce a representative score. Customer reviews on third-party sites are limited compared to Farewill and ActiveWills.
ActiveWills — £9.99 for a single will, but the full price is what the market charges
ActiveWills charges £9.99 for a single will and £14.99 for a pair at its current promotional discount. Those prices are the lowest in this comparison by a wide margin — the next cheapest provider, LegalWills.co.uk, starts at £49.95.
ActiveWills runs regular promotions, so the £9.99 price may not be available when you read this. The standard prices are £19.99 for a single will and £29.99 for mirror wills. The comparison between ActiveWills and the regulated providers should be made against the standard rate, not the discount.
ActiveWills holds a Trustpilot score of 4.9, making it one of the highest-rated services on this list by customer feedback. The process takes about 10 minutes and the platform includes a live chat facility for questions while you complete the form. There is no solicitor review included in the discount or the standard price. ActiveWills is not SRA-regulated. The will produced is legally valid once properly signed and witnessed, but if the drafting contains an error, there is no Legal Ombudsman route and no SRA Compensation Fund to cover the cost of correcting it. For a simple estate where the will is genuinely straightforward, that risk is low. For anything involving more than one property, children from multiple relationships, or inheritance tax considerations, the cost of an error is far higher than the saving.
The Regulation Gap — Why Two Wills at the Same Price Are Not the Same Product
A will produced by a DIY template and a will produced by Co-op Legal Services can both be legally valid under the Wills Act 1837. The difference is what happens if one of them is wrong.
SRA-regulated providers — Co-op Legal Services, Which? Wills, Farewill in this comparison — are covered by the Legal Ombudsman scheme. If a will drafted by Co-op contains an error that leads to a dispute or financial loss, you can escalate to the Ombudsman without going to court. Unregulated providers carry professional indemnity insurance but no statutory complaints route.
Probate disputes, contested estates, and inheritance tax that could have been avoided — the cost of an incorrect will typically runs to tens of thousands of pounds. The difference between a £60 will and a £150 will is £90. The difference between a correct will and an incorrect one is substantially more.
Whether the person reviewing your will is qualified to spot the issues your estate actually has matters more than the headline price.
Which Service Should You Use in 2026
A straightforward estate — one property, clear beneficiaries, no second marriage, no overseas assets — is well served by Make a Will Online at £60 or Farewill at £90. The solicitor review that both include catches the common drafting errors. ActiveWills at £9.99 works for the simplest cases, provided you accept that no solicitor looks at the document before you sign.
A firm that wants regulated assurance and telephone support gets more from Co-op Legal Services than from any other provider on this list, because Co-op is the only one regulated as a firm. The extra cost over Farewill covers a direct route to the Legal Ombudsman and a solicitor on the phone before you submit anything.
Charitable legacies or a trust arrangement call for Octopus Legacy, despite the higher price, because the other providers do not handle those structures with the same depth.
A will needed within two days — a surgery, a house purchase, a change in health — is Properwills’s strongest use case. No other provider in this comparison publishes a 48-hour turnaround as a standard service level.
