Question 1

How much does e-signature software actually cost per year?

Accepted Answer

It depends on which of two things your vendor meters. DocuSign meters envelopes — it caps even its $30/user/month Standard and $45/user/month Business Pro plans at 100 envelopes per user per year, and it publishes no per-envelope overage price — past the cap you move up a plan, and unlimited envelopes are quoted only through its sales team. PandaDoc, Dropbox Sign and SignWell meter seats instead, and place no published cap on volume. So at 200 documents a month across 5 senders, DocuSign works out at ≈ $8,640 a year while Evenseal is $588 — but at one sender sending ten documents a month, SignWell's Light plan is $120 against our $190, and it is genuinely cheaper.

Question 2

Why does DocuSign get so expensive at higher volume?

Accepted Answer

Because its envelope allowance is quoted per user per year, and there is nothing else to buy. DocuSign caps even its $30/user/month Standard and $45/user/month Business Pro plans at 100 envelopes per user per year, and publishes no per-envelope overage price — past the cap you move up a plan, and unlimited envelopes are quoted only through its sales team. Once your volume passes the allowance, the only self-serve way to cover it is to add users — so a five-person team sending 200 documents a month needs enough users to cover 2,400 envelopes a year, which is how ≈ $8,640 happens. That figure is our arithmetic over DocuSign's published per-user price, not a price DocuSign quotes: above the published plans it sells unlimited envelopes through its sales team.

Question 3

Is Evenseal always the cheapest option?

Accepted Answer

No, and this calculator will show you where it isn't. At a single sender, SignWell's Light plan ($120 a year) and Dropbox Sign's Essentials plan ($120.60 a year) both come in under our $190. What changes the answer is scale in either direction: volume, because we never meter documents, and senders, because our Team plan covers five for one price — at five senders it is $588 against SignWell's from $648 and PandaDoc's $1,140.

Question 4

Do recipients or signers cost extra?

Accepted Answer

No, on any of these services. Every vendor on this page charges for the people who SEND documents, not the people who sign them. That is why the calculator asks for senders rather than headcount — a ten-person company where two people send contracts is a two-sender account everywhere here. On Evenseal, signers never need an account at all.

Question 5

Where do these prices come from, and how current are they?

Accepted Answer

Each figure is read from the vendor’s own live pricing page, and the source link and the date it was last checked are printed next to every table on this page. The figures live in one file in our codebase, and an automated test fails our build once any of them ages past 45 days — so a stale number breaks the build rather than sitting here quietly. Prices are USD, annual billing (the cheaper option almost everywhere), excluding tax.

Question 6

What does the calculator deliberately not include?

Accepted Answer

Anything we would have to guess at. Where a vendor publishes an entry price but not the figure a scenario needs — Dropbox Sign’s per-seat rate above its two-seat minimum, or the top of SignWell’s $12–15 extra-sender range — the table says “from”, and shows the floor rather than extrapolating. Where published self-serve pricing runs out entirely, it says “no published price”. That applies to us too: Evenseal’s own plans stop at five senders, and past that the calculator gives our own product no price either.

Service	Plan	Cost per year	Why
SignWell	Business	$360−$228 vs Evenseal	Business is $30 a month billed annually with 3 senders included, so 2 senders costs the same as 3.
Dropbox Sign	Standard	from $420	Standard enforces a 2-seat minimum and starts at $420 a year billed annually. That is where the tier begins, not a quote for 2 seats, so it is the floor.
PandaDoc	Starter	$456−$132 vs Evenseal	$19 per seat per month billed annually × 2 seats. Volume is uncapped; the seat count is the whole bill. Starter is capped at 5 templates.
Evenseal	Team	$588	$49 a month covers 5 sender seats and any volume — the price is the same at 2 senders as at 5.
DocuSign	Standard	≈ $1,080	DocuSign does not publish a price for this volume. Its allowance is 100 envelopes per user per year with no per-envelope overage to buy, so covering 300 envelopes a year would mean paying for 3 users at $30 each — this figure — even though only 2 people send. DocuSign's own answer here is to move up a plan (which does not lift the cap) or contact its sales team.

Scenario	Evenseal	DocuSign	PandaDoc	Dropbox Sign	SignWell
FreelancerOne person, a handful of contracts a month — 5/month, 1 sender	$0	$132	$0	$120.60	$120
Solo consultantOne person, a contract or two a week — 10/month, 1 sender	$190	≈ $720	$228	$120.60	$120
Small agencyThree people sending client agreements — 40/month, 3 senders	$588	≈ $1,800	$684	from $420	$360
Property managerTwo people, leases and renewals all year — 100/month, 2 senders	$588	≈ $4,320	$456	from $420	$360
Recruiting teamFive people sending offer letters and NDAs — 200/month, 5 senders	$588	≈ $8,640	$1,140	from $420	from $648

E-signature cost calculator

There are only two ways an e-signature bill grows

What a year costs, five ways

Where Evenseal wins, and where it doesn’t

How these numbers are worked out

One price, whatever the counter says

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