BoldSign vs DocuSign Pricing and DocuSign vs BoldSign Cost per User for a Small Team

BoldSign costs $0 to $15 per user a month billed yearly, plus a $99 a month plan for unlimited users. DocuSign costs $11 a month for one light user and $30 to $45 per user a month for teams, all on annual commitments. Both raise the price sharply for month to month billing. BoldSign advertises its yearly rate as a 40 percent saving, and on Growth the gap is larger than that.

BoldSign prices are taken from BoldSign's pricing page and DocuSign prices from DocuSign's eSignature plans page. BoldSign also sells an Enterprise API plan that starts at $30 a month with 40 envelopes included and $0.75 for each one after that. If you want the DocuSign side in more depth, the DocuSign pricing breakdown covers every plan, add-on and overage rule.

A team of three pays $180 a year on BoldSign Growth, $540 on BoldSign Business, $1,080 on DocuSign Standard and $1,620 on DocuSign Business Pro. At ten users the same four plans cost $600, $1,800, $3,600 and $5,400. The table uses yearly billing throughout and adds SignSend, which charges one price for a group of people.

Read the Growth column with its limits in mind. Each Growth user gets 50 envelopes a month and the account gets 10 templates, and bulk send is not available on that plan at all. A team that fits inside those limits will not find a cheaper paid option than BoldSign Growth until it reaches ten people.

Once a team needs unlimited sending, the comparison is BoldSign Business against a group plan. From two senders up, SignSend Pro at $288 is below BoldSign Business. From four to ten senders, SignSend Business at $588 is below it too, and it includes bulk send to 200 recipients, which BoldSign bills as an add-on. BoldSign Premium at $1,188 a year also covers unlimited users, but its 250 envelopes a month are shared by everyone.

Against DocuSign the gap is wider at every row. If you are adding people to an existing DocuSign account, the page on what it costs to add a DocuSign user shows the prorated math seat by seat.

Yes. BoldSign is half the price of DocuSign or less on every comparable plan. BoldSign Business at $180 per user a year is half of DocuSign Standard at $360, and it removes the 100 envelope yearly allowance. BoldSign Growth at $60 per user a year is less than half of DocuSign Personal at $132, and Growth lets you add colleagues while Personal is locked to one user.

The envelope rule matters as much as the sticker price. A DocuSign Standard seat that sends ten contracts a month uses its yearly allowance in ten months, and the rest is billed pay as you go. The same sender on BoldSign Business, or on SignSend, never runs a meter. If your volume is the reason you are shopping, the DocuSign envelope limits by plan are worth reading before you renew.

BoldSign is not cheaper on everything. Bulk send, text message delivery, WhatsApp delivery, identity verification and knowledge based authentication are pay as you go add-ons on Business and Premium, and BoldSign's pricing page does not print a rate for them. Ask for those rates in writing if your workflow depends on them.

For sending a PDF, collecting signatures and keeping an audit trail, BoldSign does the same job as DocuSign. Both produce signatures that are valid under the U.S. ESIGN Act and UETA. Both offer templates, reminders, signing order, in person signing and mobile apps. BoldSign's Business plan adds single sign-on, custom roles and a HIPAA option at a price below DocuSign's entry team plan.

DocuSign is ahead in three places. First, reach: hundreds of prebuilt integrations, including the real estate form libraries that agents use daily. Second, recognition: some banks, title companies and procurement departments name DocuSign in their own policies. Third, depth above signing, such as contract lifecycle management and identity products sold as separate lines. A two to ten person office that sends engagement letters, leases, offer letters or vendor agreements rarely uses any of the three.

BoldSign comes from Syncfusion, a US developer tools company founded in 2001, and its pricing page lists SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR. It is a newer product than DocuSign with a far smaller review count, so run the 30 day trial with your own documents before moving a team onto it.

Per user pricing stops being the cheapest model at two senders with unlimited volume, and at about ten senders even on BoldSign's lowest paid plan. That is where a group plan wins. SignSend Pro covers up to 3 people for $288 a year and SignSend Business covers up to 10 for $588, with unlimited documents and signers, templates, automatic reminders, signing order, deadlines and an audit trail printed into every signed PDF. Business adds bulk send to 200 recipients and your company name on the signing page.

Three situations where that math works out:

• Two or three people who send every week. BoldSign Business is $360 to $540 and DocuSign Standard is $720 to $1,080. SignSend Pro is $288.
• Five to ten people with uneven volume. One coordinator sends 200 documents a month and the rest send a handful. Per user plans charge all of them the same. SignSend Business is $588 for the group.
• Seasonal bulk sends. Annual renewals, policy acknowledgments or waivers to a list of 200 people are an add-on at BoldSign and need Business Pro at DocuSign. They are included in SignSend Business.

And three where it does not. One person sending fewer than 25 documents a month can stay on BoldSign Essential for nothing. One to four light senders pay less on BoldSign Growth. SignSend has no API, does not send by text message, does not check signer ID and does not sign HIPAA agreements, so a team that needs any of those should buy BoldSign Business or DocuSign. SignSend accepts PDF uploads up to 20MB, so documents in other formats are saved as PDF first.

For a wider field than these two, the e-signature pricing comparison lists ten vendors by yearly cost, and the DocuSign alternative page covers the switch itself.

Download your completed envelopes and their certificates before the DocuSign term ends, then start new documents in the replacement. Signed PDFs stay valid wherever they are stored. What you lose on cancellation is access to the account, so export first.

1. Check the renewal date in DocuSign under Plan and Billing. Annual plans renew automatically, and DocuSign asks for notice before the renewal date.
2. Export completed documents with their certificates of completion. Keep each PDF and certificate together in your own storage.
3. List your templates. BoldSign offers an import tool for DocuSign templates. On other tools you upload the PDF again and save it as a template once.
4. Run one live document in the new tool with a real signer, and read the audit trail it produces.
5. Turn off auto renewal on the old account once nothing is waiting for a signature there.

Teams of 3 to 10 comparing other per sender tools can use the same checklist with the SignWell alternative cost table.