SignNow vs DocuSign Pricing and the DocuSign vs SignNow Limits That Change the Bill

Here is the head-to-head on the numbers that matter, with a flat-rate plan in the third column for reference. Prices come from each vendor's published pricing page.

The pattern is clear. SignNow wins the sticker price at almost any team size because users are free. DocuSign wins recognition and integration depth. A flat-rate plan wins once the whole team sends more than the shared SignNow allowance, and it undercuts DocuSign from the first seat.

DocuSign sells its eSignature product in three self-serve tiers plus custom Enterprise. Annual billing is the cheaper way to pay: Standard is $30 per user per month billed yearly ($360 per seat) or $45 month to month, and Business Pro is $45 billed yearly ($540 per seat) or $65 month to month.

Worth knowing: DocuSign raised these published prices, and older articles still cite $10, $25, and $40 for Personal, Standard, and Business Pro. An envelope is one send package of one or more documents. On annual plans each seat includes 100 envelopes a year (10 a month on monthly billing), and extra envelopes run roughly $3.00 to $5.80 each on annual terms.

SignNow sells four plans, and every one includes unlimited users at no extra cost, so the price is per account, not per person. The yearly price is far lower than month to month, and the invite allowance is the same on every self-serve tier.

Three things stand out. First, users are free: a ten-person team pays the same $96 a year on Basic as one person does. Second, the allowance belongs to the account, not to each user. Yearly plans include up to 100 signature invites per account per year and monthly plans 10 per account per month, shared by everyone. Past that, SignNow moves the account to pay-as-you-go and bills each extra invite. Sending never stops, but the pay-as-you-go rate for Basic, Business, and Advanced is not published on the pricing page, and Enterprise starts at $1.50 per invite. Third, the counting is strict. Declined documents and cancelled invites count, and an open signing link counts each completed signature as a separate invite, while a document group sent to several recipients counts once. SignNow has no free plan, only a free trial. New customers can ask for a refund within 30 days of receiving the invoice, and subscriptions renew automatically.

There is no single winner. The right choice depends on how much the whole team sends and whether your counterparties expect a particular brand.

Pick SignNow if your account sends fewer than about 100 documents a year, whatever the size of the team. Basic at $96 a year with unlimited users is one of the cheapest real e-signature plans available, and Business at $180 a year adds bulk send and shared team templates. Its mobile and in-person signing are genuinely good. The catch is that the allowance is shared, and once you pass it each extra invite is billed at a rate SignNow does not publish.

Pick DocuSign if you want the most recognized signer experience, the deepest catalog of integrations, and your counterparties already expect the DocuSign flow by name. You pay per seat, $360 a year on Standard, but each seat brings its own 100 envelopes.

Pick a flat-rate tool if your team sends steadily past the SignNow allowance. SignSend Pro is $49 a month or $288 a year for up to 3 people with unlimited documents, and Business is $99 a month or $588 a year for up to 10 people with bulk send. Below roughly 100 documents a year SignNow Basic is cheaper. SignNow does not publish its pay-as-you-go invite rate, but if extra invites cost $1.50 (an assumption based on the Enterprise starting rate), Basic reaches $288 at about 228 invites a year, so SignSend Pro wins once a team sends more than roughly 19 documents a month. Against DocuSign Standard, SignSend Pro costs less from the first seat ($288 versus $360 a year). The signature is legally binding under the U.S. ESIGN Act and state UETA laws, signers never create an account, and every document gets an audit trail.

Say three people share the sending and the team sends 20 documents a month, 240 a year. Here is the yearly cost on each tool. SignNow does not publish its pay-as-you-go rate for Basic, Business, or Advanced, so the SignNow rows assume $1.50 per extra invite, the starting rate SignNow lists for Enterprise. Treat those rows as an estimate.

Read the send column first. At 240 documents a year, DocuSign Standard covers the volume because three seats bring 300 envelopes, but the seats cost $1,080. SignNow Basic is $96 for the whole team, and the 140 invites past the shared allowance push it to about $306 at the assumed rate, a little above SignSend Pro at $288 with no count at all. At lower volume SignNow is clearly cheaper: a team sending 8 documents a month (96 a year) stays inside the Basic allowance and pays $96. The crossover with SignSend Pro sits around 228 invites a year, roughly 19 a month, at the assumed rate. On monthly billing SignNow Basic stays below SignSend Pro's $588 until the team sends about 30 documents a month.