BoldSign Pricing Plans and BoldSign API Pricing with the Real Cost per User

BoldSign publishes four web plans and one API plan, and the pricing page has a Yearly and a Monthly toggle. These are the US dollar prices on both views of BoldSign's own pricing page, cross-checked against the in-app purchases in its iPhone app, where Growth and Business sell for $59.99 and $179.99 a year.

The third-party pages that rank for this query do not agree with each other. One lists Growth at $10 and Business at $20, another treats the free plan as a trial. The table above is the one that matches both BoldSign's site and its app store listing.

The toggle on BoldSign's pricing page reads Yearly, Save 40%. Do the arithmetic plan by plan and only one tier matches it.

So the badge is accurate for Business, understates Growth and overstates Premium. If you are deciding whether to commit for a year, the number that matters is the one on your row. A Growth seat paid monthly costs three times the yearly rate, which is the biggest monthly penalty in BoldSign's lineup and one of the biggest in the category.

BoldSign charges per sender on Growth and Business, so the bill grows with headcount. Premium flips that: unlimited users, but a shared ceiling of 250 envelopes a month. Here is what each option costs a year on yearly billing.

Two things fall out of this table. First, Growth is the cheapest column at every size, as long as each sender stays under 50 envelopes a month and nobody needs bulk send. Second, Premium only becomes cheaper than Business at 7 senders on yearly billing ($1,188 against $1,260), and at 6 on monthly billing ($138 against $150). Below that, Premium is the expensive way to buy the same features.

BoldSign has a free plan, and it is a real one for a single person. Essential gives one user 25 envelopes a month and 2 templates at $0, with audit trails and reminders. The limit that ends it for a business is the users line: Essential cannot add a second user, so the moment a colleague needs to send, someone pays.

Paid plans carry a 30-day free trial. BoldSign's FAQ says trial limits depend on the plan and on the email domain you sign up with, and that accounts opened with Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail or Yahoo addresses get a more limited trial. The Growth and Business trial allows 50 documents, 10 users and 15 signers per document.

BoldSign sells the API separately from the web plans. The web plans, including Premium, show API envelopes as sandbox only, so sending from your own software in production means the Enterprise API plan.

• From $30 a month, with 40 API envelopes included.
• $0.75 per envelope after the first 40, pay as you go.
• 2 users included, $28 a month for each extra user.
• A free sandbox for testing, with documents watermarked as a test document and deleted after 14 days.

At 100 envelopes a month the API plan works out to $30 plus 60 times $0.75, or $75 a month. At 300 it is $225. If your product sends contracts on its own, this is the plan to price, and it is something SignSend does not offer: SignSend has no API.

Yes, by about half at every team size, and without DocuSign's envelope meter on the Business tier. DocuSign Standard is $30 per user a month billed yearly and includes 100 envelopes per user a year. BoldSign Business is $15 per user a month with unlimited envelopes.

We compare the two in more depth, including integrations and limits, on our BoldSign vs DocuSign page.

Count senders and count envelopes, then read the answer off this list.

• One person, under 25 envelopes a month. Essential at $0. Nothing beats free.
• One to ten people, each under 50 envelopes a month, no bulk send. Growth at $5 per user billed yearly. It is the cheapest paid plan in the category per seat.
• Senders who go over 50 a month, or need bulk send and shared templates. Business at $15 per user. This is the plan most teams end up on.
• Seven or more senders who together stay under 250 envelopes a month. Premium at $99 a month.
• Your own software sends the documents. Enterprise API from $30 a month.

If you land on Business with two or three people, price a flat plan before you buy seats. SignSend Pro is $288 a year for up to 3 people with unlimited documents, templates and signing order, which is less than two Business seats. See our e-signature pricing comparison for the same math across every major vendor.