DocuSign bills every user every month, whether you send 6 documents or 600. GoodSign charges $1.50 per document and nothing else. Here is how it stacks up against six other alternatives on their published prices.
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The yearly bill
Team of 3, sending 6 documents a month
Entry plans billed yearly. Workings in the comparison table.
For most businesses, the cheapest DocuSign alternative is GoodSign.
You pay $1.50 per document and nothing else. Your whole team can send, every document takes unlimited signers, and quiet months cost nothing. A team of three sending 6 documents a month pays $108 a year, against $1,080 on DocuSign.
Also worth a look: SignWell Light at $10 a month if one person sends weekly, or DocuSeal if you would rather host it yourself.
Entry plans side by side, plus what a real team of three pays in a year.
| BEST VALUE GoodSignPay per document | DocuSignStandard | SignWellLight | Dropbox SignEssentials | Zoho SignStandard | PandaDocStarter | AdobeAcrobat Standard | DocuSealCloud Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $1.50 per document | $30/user/mo | $10/mo | $15/mo | $10/user/mo | $19/user/mo | $14.99/mo | $20/user/mo |
| Yearly cost: 3 people, 6 documents a month | $10872 documents | $1,0803 seats | $360Business, 3 senders | $900Standard, 3 seats | $3603 seats | $6843 seats | $6123 team licences | $6003 seats |
| No subscription | Self-host only | |||||||
| Whole team at no extra cost | Unlimited users | Per user | Per sender | One seat | Per user | Per user | Per licence | Per user |
| Credits never expire | ||||||||
| No yearly document cap | 100 per user | 25 per user a month | Overage fees | |||||
| Bulk send on the entry plan | Business Pro | Standard plan | Enterprise | Business add-on | Acrobat Pro | 50 a month, then $0.20 | ||
| SMS delivery | One extra credit | Metered add-on | Business plan | Paid add-on | Business plan | Sales-only add-on | 20 SMS, then $0.20 | |
| API included in the price | Plus webhooks and MCP | From $600 a year | From $75/mo | Enterprise | From $40/mo | Sales only | $0.20 per document | |
| Free option | Free account, free self-signing | 30-day trial | 3 documents a month | 3 requests a month | 5 envelopes a month | 60 documents a year | Trial only | Self-host |
Published list prices in US dollars, checked September 2026, entry plan shown for each tool. Yearly cost for three people sending 6 documents a month (72 a year), each to two signers, uses the cheapest plan that covers three senders: DocuSign Standard, SignWell Business, Dropbox Sign Standard, Zoho Sign Standard, PandaDoc Starter, Acrobat Standard for teams and DocuSeal Pro, all billed yearly. PandaDoc now charges per-document overage on paid plans. Zoho shows prices in your local currency; its USD list price is shown. Prices change, so check each vendor's page before you buy.
Every tool here charges in one of three ways. Only one of them charges for what you actually send.
DocuSign, Dropbox Sign, Zoho Sign, PandaDoc and Adobe. Every seat is billed every month, whether that person sends 50 documents or none. Adding a colleague who signs twice a year costs a full seat.
SignWell charges for each person who sends. Good value for one sender, but every colleague you add raises the bill, and branding and SMS need a higher plan.
No subscription, no seats, no cap. $1.50 when a document goes out, with unlimited signers and your whole team included. Busy month or quiet month, you only pay for what you send.
Best for: any business that wants DocuSign's features without the per-seat bill
$1.50 per document. No subscription. Credits never expire.
SMS delivery and witness signing use one extra credit each. Custom branding, Google Drive and iFrame embedding are on the optional $10/user/mo PRO plan.
Best for: One person who sends every week
$10/mo per sender, billed yearly ($12 monthly). Free: 3 documents a month.
Best for: Teams already paying for Dropbox
$15/mo billed yearly for one seat (Essentials). Standard $25/user/mo. Free: 3 requests a month.
Best for: Businesses already on Zoho
$10/user/mo billed yearly (Standard), $16 (Professional). Free: 5 envelopes a month, one user.
Best for: Sales teams sending quotes and proposals
$19/user/mo billed yearly (Starter), $49 (Business). Free: 60 documents a year.
Best for: People who already pay for Acrobat
$14.99/mo for Acrobat Standard, $19.99 for Pro (annual, billed monthly).
Best for: Developers happy to host it themselves
Free open source, self-hosted. Cloud Pro $20/user/mo.
The features the others split across plans, seats and add-ons come with every GoodSign document.
Buy credits when you need them. They never expire, so a quiet month costs nothing and a busy one costs only what you send.
Invite everyone who needs to send. No seats, no per-user fees, no minimum team size.
One document, as many signers and pages as it needs, for one credit. Set a signing order, or let groups sign in parallel.
Send 5 documents this year or 5,000. There is no allowance to run out of and no overage bill.
Save a document once, reuse it forever, or send it to a whole list in one go. Included, not a higher tier.
Text signers their link, add SMS verification or a witness, for one extra credit each. No add-on plans to buy.
Automate sending from your own software or let an AI agent send for you. Same price per document, no developer plan.
Every signed PDF carries a full audit trail and is tamper-evident, valid under ESIGN, UETA and New Zealand and Australian law.
Sign your own documents free, forever. You only pay when you send a document to someone else.
DocuSign Personal is $11 a month for one user and 5 envelopes a month. Standard is $30 and Business Pro $45 per user per month, billed yearly, and both include 100 envelopes per user per year. An envelope counts when it is sent, signed or not. Past the cap, DocuSign publishes overage of $3.00 to $5.80 per envelope, two to almost four times GoodSign's $1.50. API access is a separate developer plan from $600 a year.
The full plan table and a savings calculator are on our DocuSign pricing page. If you want to keep DocuSign for some work, DocuSign pricing hacks shows how to cut the bill without leaving. The head-to-head is at GoodSign vs DocuSign, and the eSignature pricing comparison covers per-user, per-envelope and pay-as-you-go pricing in depth.
For most small teams it is a pay-per-document tool, because you only pay when a document goes out. GoodSign costs $1.50 per document with no subscription and no per-user fees: three people sending 6 documents a month pay $108 a year, against $1,080 on DocuSign Standard. For one person who sends every week, SignWell Light at $10 a month is also good value.
Yes, with limits. SignWell's free plan sends 3 documents a month, Dropbox Sign's 3 signature requests a month, and Zoho Sign's 5 envelopes a month for one user. DocuSeal is free if you host it yourself. GoodSign lets you sign your own documents free forever and charges $1.50 only when you send a document to someone else.
Yes. GoodSign charges $1.50 per document with no monthly fee. You buy credits when you need them and they never expire, so a month with no documents costs nothing. See GoodSign pricing.
Yes. An electronic signature is valid because of the law, not the brand of software. The US ESIGN Act and UETA, New Zealand's Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017, Australia's Electronic Transactions Act 1999, the UK Electronic Communications Act 2000 and the EU eIDAS Regulation all recognise electronic signatures for most documents. What matters is consent, intent and an audit trail, which every tool on this list provides. More in are electronic signatures legal?
Download your completed documents and their certificates of completion from DocuSign before your plan ends. Documents already signed stay valid whichever tool you use next. Then start sending new documents from the new tool; there is nothing to migrate.
DocuSign's developer plans start at $600 a year. GoodSign includes its API, webhooks and an MCP server for AI agents at the same $1.50 per document with no monthly fee. SignWell includes its API on every plan, and DocuSeal charges $0.20 per signed document on its Pro plan. Full breakdown in our eSignature API pricing guide.
GoodSign is $1.50 per document with unlimited signers and your whole team included. No subscription, credits never expire, and signing your own documents is free.
Free account. $1.50 per document, only when you send.
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