Short Answer
- Signing is free. DocuSign says a free signer account lasts forever and is always free to sign and store documents.
- Sending for others to sign is not free. DocuSign's signers page says that if you are collecting signatures from others, you need to upgrade to a paid plan. DocuSign's free account page points to a free premium trial for people who want to send.
- The cheapest paid plan is Personal. It is $10 a month paid upfront for a year, which is $120 billed annually, and it allows five sends a month.
All prices on this page are US dollars for one person, read on 2 November 2026. DocuSign's plans page said "Additional tax may apply" under every plan when we re-read it on 9 November 2026, and we could not tell whether it was printed earlier. Where we say "a year", we mean twelve months of the monthly price, and each sum was worked out in a script.
Free Options
DocuSign uses the word free for four different things. They do different jobs.
- Free signer account. DocuSign's free account page lets you upload a document, choose the only-signer option, drag in your signature, initials or dates, and send it back. It says "no obligation, no credit card required". If you only need to sign, this is the one.
- Sending to other people. This is not free. The signers page says you can sign and send back an unlimited number of documents for free, but collecting signatures from others needs a paid plan. The same page offers a free sample agreement to try.
- Free trial. DocuSign describes it as built for people who want to send agreements for signature and sign them, with many of the features of the Business Pro plan. It says no credit card is required, so nothing is charged when it ends.
- Demo and developer accounts. These are for testing and for building integrations. DocuSign says documents sent from a demo account are not valid as a binding contract. They are not for everyday use.
What we could not confirm:
- How long the trial lasts. The DocuSign pages we read for this page do not state a length, so we give no number. Check the sign-up page.
- What the free signer account cannot do. DocuSign says the free plan has many restrictions regarding its eSignature features and is available for one user per account. We found no list of the restrictions.
- How many documents a free account can send. Some other sites quote a fixed number of sends in total. We found no DocuSign page that gives one, so we do not repeat it.
If you only need to put your own signature on a PDF, you have other free routes. Our posts on signing a PDF on a Mac and on free e-signature options cover them.
Plans and Prices
DocuSign's plans page sells each plan on three billing terms. Its menu is named Subscription Type. It opens on Annual | Billed monthly, with Annual | Billed upfront and Monthly (month to month) as the other two, so a first-time visitor sees $11, $30 and $45 rather than the $120, $300 and $480 that many posts quote.
| Plan | Billing term | Cost, one person |
|---|---|---|
| Personal | Annual, billed upfront | $120 a year |
| Personal | Annual, billed monthly | $132 a year |
| Personal | Monthly | $180 a year |
| Standard | Annual, billed upfront | $300 a year |
| Standard | Annual, billed monthly | $360 a year |
| Standard | Monthly | $540 a year |
| Business Pro | Annual, billed upfront | $480 a year |
| Business Pro | Annual, billed monthly | $540 a year |
| Business Pro | Monthly | $780 a year |
US dollars for one person, read from DocuSign's plans page on 2 November 2026. On 9 November 2026 the page printed "Additional tax may apply" under each plan, and we could not tell whether it did so earlier. The month-to-month yearly figures are twelve months of the monthly price, which is $15, $45 and $65 a month.
The monthly prices on the page are $10, $25 and $40 paid upfront, $11, $30 and $45 on the annual commitment billed monthly, and $15, $45 and $65 month to month. Standard and Business Pro are priced per user. The page's own footnote says plans and pricing may be valid for new customers only.
What each plan adds, in DocuSign's own words on the same page:
- Personal. For individuals and sole proprietors. Five envelopes a month, stored agreements, reusable templates and an AI-assisted summary. The comparison table marks customized branding as not included.
- Standard. All Personal benefits, plus 100 envelopes per user per year, shared templates, real-time commenting, delegated signing and "your own branding". Up to 50 users.
- Business Pro. All Standard benefits, plus mobile-friendly web forms, collecting payments during signing, bulk sending, and drawing and other form fields.
- Enhanced. Contact sales. It has a custom envelope limit and is the only plan the page lists for advanced and qualified signatures.
Personal, Standard and Business Pro list simple electronic signatures only. We did not read DocuSign's Real Estate, nonprofit or developer pricing.
Envelope Limits
DocuSign counts sends in envelopes. The pricing page FAQ says an envelope is one electronic record that holds one or more documents, and it counts once however many documents, fields and signers it contains.
- Personal: five envelopes every month. An envelope counts once it is sent, whether or not it is signed.
- Standard and Business Pro: up to 100 envelopes per user per year, or up to 10 per user per month on the Monthly term.
- Signing is not counted. DocuSign says it is always free for people to sign and return agreements sent through DocuSign.
- Going over. On Standard and Business Pro, DocuSign says each extra envelope is billed one by one in a pay-as-you-go way. For Personal, the page says to upgrade to Standard or Business Pro if you need more than five a month. The Standard and Business Pro rate is not on the plans page, and we could not read the support article it points to, so we could not confirm what it is.
At full use, the cost per envelope works out like this (60 envelopes a year on Personal, 100 on Standard and Business Pro). An envelope is not a signature, because one envelope can hold several signers, so treat these as a rough guide.
| Plan | Paid upfront | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Personal | $2.00 each | $3.00 each |
| Standard | $3.00 each | $4.50 each |
| Business Pro | $4.80 each | $6.50 each |
The Monthly column uses 120 envelopes a year for Standard and Business Pro, which is 10 a month. On the annual commitment billed monthly, the same sums give $2.20 for Personal, $3.60 for Standard and $5.40 for Business Pro.
Add-Ons
DocuSign sells two extras on the plans page, which DocuSign says can be added once you buy a Standard or Business Pro plan (Personal cannot buy them), and the page prints "additional tax may apply" beside both, as read on 9 November 2026.
| Add-on | Upfront view | Billed-monthly view |
|---|---|---|
| Send with SMS | From $0.40 each | From $0.36 each |
| Verify identity | From $2.50 each | From $2.40 each |
The page says these add-ons cannot be bought without a base plan. Its comparison table shows only ID verification as a bonus, "5 (one-time trial bonus)" on both Standard and Business Pro. The five one-time SMS deliveries appear only on the Standard plan card.
Billing Terms
These come from the FAQ on DocuSign's plans page.
- Annual, billed monthly. You commit to a one-year term and pay in monthly installments. You can cancel within the first 30 days without paying the remaining balance. After 30 days you owe the rest of the term, plus any taxes or overages.
- Refund. For annual plans bought on DocuSign.com, DocuSign offers a refund within 30 days of purchase, and the 30-day refund can be used once per customer. The page lists the annual plans for this and describes billed-monthly cancellation separately, so we read the two as separate rules.
- Monthly. You can cancel at any time and you will not be charged for the next month.
- Renewal. Plans renew automatically each month or each year. You can turn auto-renewal off in Account Settings.
- Signers. DocuSign says recipients of your agreements do not need an account to sign.
Three-Year Cost
Three years of each plan for one person, with the sums worked out in a script. Standard and Business Pro are per user, so five people on Standard paid upfront would be $1,500 a year, or $4,500 over three years.
| Plan | Billing term | Three years |
|---|---|---|
| Personal | Annual, billed upfront | $360 |
| Personal | Annual, billed monthly | $396 |
| Personal | Monthly | $540 |
| Standard | Annual, billed upfront | $900 |
| Standard | Annual, billed monthly | $1,080 |
| Standard | Monthly | $1,620 |
| Business Pro | Annual, billed upfront | $1,440 |
| Business Pro | Annual, billed monthly | $1,620 |
| Business Pro | Monthly | $2,340 |
Billing by the month on an annual commitment costs $12 a year more than paying upfront for Personal, and $60 a year more for Standard and Business Pro. Month to month costs $60, $240 and $300 a year more than paying upfront. These figures assume the list prices stay the same for three years, which DocuSign does not promise.
Choosing a Plan
There is no single best plan. It depends on what you do.
- To sign a document someone sent you, or sign your own and send it back: the free account costs nothing.
- To send a few agreements a month: Personal, from $120 a year paid upfront. Wrong if you send more than five a month, or need your own branding.
- For your own logo, shared templates or a small team: Standard, from $300 a year per user paid upfront. Wrong if you send more than 100 a year and do not want overage charges, or if you need payments or bulk send.
- For payments, web forms or bulk send: Business Pro, from $480 a year per user paid upfront. Wrong if you only send a few agreements a year.
- Not sure yet: use the free trial first, and check the trial's length on the sign-up page.
If you are weighing DocuSign against Adobe, our DocuSign vs Adobe Sign post sets the two side by side.
Cheaper Options
Some other tools send documents for signature at a similar or lower yearly price. Here is the cheapest paid plan of each that we have priced, next to DocuSign's.
| Tool | Built for | Cost, one person |
|---|---|---|
| DocuSign Personal | Five sends a month | $120 a year |
| Zoho Sign Standard | 25 sends a month | $120 a year |
| SignNow | 100 invites a year | $96 a year |
| PandaDoc Starter | Proposals and signing | $228 a year |
US dollars for one person, billed yearly. DocuSign was read on 2 November 2026, and on 9 November 2026 its plans page printed "Additional tax may apply" under each plan; we could not tell whether it did so earlier. The other rows come from our free e-signature options post, which read each company's page on 23 October 2026 and checked again on 2 November, and we did not re-read them for this page. Sources: Zoho Sign's pricing and its price list, SignNow's plans and PandaDoc's pricing.
- Zoho Sign. Standard is $10 a user a month billed yearly, and Zoho also has a free plan with five envelopes a month. Your own logo starts on Professional at $192 a year.
- SignNow. It has no free plan. Its three fixed-price plans are $96, $180 and $360 a year, each listing 100 invites a year, and it lists custom branding on the $360 plan.
- PandaDoc. Starter is $19 a seat a month billed annually. It is built for proposals and documents with signing.
For a longer list with plan details, see DocuSign Alternatives.
Loop
Loop appears here for one narrow case: someone on a Mac who needs a plain signature on a PDF or a Word document, with a record of who opened it and signed it, and who does not want a yearly plan. Loop is a Mac app that turns a file into a link in your own name, and it costs $49 once for one person.
- Drop the file on the Loop icon in the menu bar, or choose File > New Link.
- Turn on Require Signature in the link settings, then place the Sign Here spots on the pages.
- Send the link yourself, in an email or message.
The person signing opens the link in a web browser, types their full name and presses Sign. No account is needed. Loop's record page says the signature is a typed name, a simple electronic signature, and that the email was typed by the signer and was not checked.
By criterion against DocuSign:
- Price. $49 once, against $120 a year for DocuSign Personal paid upfront. Over three years that is $311 less than Personal paid upfront ($360 minus $49), $491 less than Personal month to month, and $851 less than Standard paid upfront. These are not like for like, because the tools do different things.
- Sending. There is no envelope allowance in Loop. You make as many links as you like.
- Signing. A typed full name, with up to 12 Sign Here spots and up to 10 named signers.
Your own branded link, with notes on the exact second. $49 once.
Unlike a DocuSign trial, whose length we could not confirm, Loop's runs 14 days from the first time you open it, with no payment needed, and your signers see a small "Shared with Loop" badge until you add a licence. Signed documents are kept in your own Cloudflare account, where 10 GB costs nothing and Cloudflare bills you beyond it. Its pricing page, updated 30 October 2026, lists $0.015 per GB-month and no charge for downloads, and Cloudflare may ask for a payment method when you turn storage on, even at $0.
Limits
Loop is not a replacement for DocuSign, and we do not say it is legally equivalent. Here is what it does not do:
- It does not give you DocuSign's audit trail or legal workflow. The signature is a typed name, a simple electronic signature. It does not check who the signer is.
- It does not hold a document back until it is signed. Require Signature puts an email form in front of the file, and the file is readable after that. The email is checked for format only.
- It has no initials, drawn signatures or tick-box fields for the signer. The signer types a full name.
- It has no template library, bulk send, payment collection, web forms or a library of hundreds of integrations. Templates keep your own document with blanks.
- It does no identity checks, and no advanced or qualified signatures.
- It does not send the email. You paste the link into your own mail.
- It works from a Mac only. Readers can use a web browser.
- It is not free after the trial. The 14-day trial ends, then it is $49 once.
Whether a simple electronic signature is enough for your document is a question for you or your lawyer, and we give no legal view here. For the full comparison, see Loop vs DocuSign.
Method
On 2 November 2026 we read DocuSign's plans page in all three billing states, and its product, signer and free-account pages, plus its trial FAQ and trial guide. We could not read DocuSign's support articles because the site loads them with scripts, so the trial's length and the per-envelope overage rate are not confirmed. Other tools' prices come from our comparison pages.