One of these is free with no limits. The other charges by the seat, every month. Here's how they stack up.
DocuSign invented this category and it's a serious product. It's also built and priced for big companies. You pay for every seat, your plan caps how much you can send each month, business plans push you toward annual contracts, and they want a credit card before you've sent a single document.
SignSimple is free. Upload a PDF, drag your signature and any other fields onto it, and send it. Nobody counts your documents, nobody charges per seat, and you never enter a card.
If you sign the occasional contract, send NDAs, or run a small business, you probably don't need a DocuSign subscription. You just need the document signed. SignSimple does that for $0.
What the same everyday signing costs on each.
| Plan | SignSimple | DocuSign |
|---|---|---|
| Personal use | $0 | About $10 a month, capped at 5 sends |
| Small team | $0 | About $25 per user, per month |
| Business | $0 | About $40 per user, per month |
| Annual cost for one user | $0 | $120 to $480 or more per year |
DocuSign prices are their publicly listed annual billing rates as of this writing, and they change over time. SignSimple is free with no usage limits.
The signing features most people actually use.
| Feature | SignSimple | DocuSign |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free forever | Paid subscription |
| Documents per month | Unlimited | Limited by plan |
| Signature requests | Unlimited | As few as 5 per month on entry plans |
| Per-user seat fees | ||
| Credit card required to start | ||
| Draw, type, or upload a signature | ||
| Signature, initial, date, name, email, company, title & stamp fields | ||
| Audit trail & certificate of completion | ||
| Email delivery of secure signing links | ||
| Recipients get their own copy & dashboard | ||
| Bulk personalized send (one upload, many recipients) | Included | Higher tiers only |
| Setup calls or annual contracts | None | Common for business plans |
Feature availability on DocuSign varies by plan tier.
We built SignSimple because we were tired of paying a subscription every month just to get a document signed. Putting a signature on a PDF has been figured out for years. It shouldn't cost you a seat license.
So we made the whole signing workflow free for everyone. Upload your document, place the fields, send it, and it comes back signed. No credit card and no sales call.
Upload a PDF and send it out for signature in a couple of minutes. It costs nothing.
No credit card. No limits. No subscription.