Best electronic signature software: nine tools compared on price, limits and free plans

Best electronic signature software: the nine tools at a glance

SignWell Light is the lowest-priced plan with unlimited sending among the nine e-signature tools compared here: $12 a month, billed monthly, for 1 sender. Signaturely Personal is $25 a month, billed monthly, for 5 signature requests, and Signaturely Business is $50 per user a month with unlimited requests, as read on October 10, 2026. Every price in the table is on monthly billing, so the nine sit on one basis.

The nine are Signaturely, SignWell, Docusign, Dropbox Sign (formerly HelloSign), airSlate SignNow, PandaDoc, Zoho Sign, BoldSign and Adobe Acrobat Sign, which in the plan priced here is the e-signature part of Adobe Acrobat, a PDF suite.

A Docusign envelope is one electronic record sent for signature, however many documents or signers it holds. A Signaturely signature request is one document sent out for signature, counted when it is sent.

Unlimited sending on a small budget: SignWell Light and Dropbox Sign Essentials

SignWell Light is $12 a month, billed monthly, for 1 sender, with unlimited documents and 5 templates per sender. Dropbox Sign Essentials is $20 a month, billed monthly, for 1 user, with unlimited signature requests and 5 templates. Both are one-person plans.

SignWell's FAQ says its paid plans carry no charge based on the number of people who sign, and Dropbox Sign counts a sender as someone who uploads, signs and sends documents. A second sender adds $12 a month on SignWell Light's Monthly view; at Dropbox Sign it means Standard, $30 per user a month, billed monthly, for 2 or more users.

For a handful of documents a month: Docusign Personal and the free plans

Docusign Personal is $15 a month on its Monthly subscription type for 5 envelopes a month, or $10 a month on Annual, Billed upfront ($120 billed annually). Signaturely Personal also allows 5 a month with 1 template and costs more on monthly billing, $25 against $15. Docusign has no free plan on the pages read. A reader leaving it can start at Docusign alternatives.

Among the free plans, SignWell Free allows 3 documents a month, Zoho Sign Free 5 envelopes a month for a single user, and BoldSign Essential 25 envelopes a month. Signaturely's free account sends 1 free document a month after the trial, and the cheapest electronic signature software list prices the first paid step at each vendor.

For teams: Signaturely Business, airSlate SignNow and BoldSign

Signaturely Business is $50 per user a month, billed monthly, with unlimited requests and templates. Its pricing card lists team management and custom business branding for Business, and its help center documents team members and roles. It suits a team that assigns roles and shares templates by folder. airSlate SignNow Business is $20 a month with unlimited users, but every airSlate SignNow plan carries 100 invites a year.

On BoldSign's Monthly view, Growth is $15 per user a month for 50 envelopes per user a month, and Business is $25 per user a month with unlimited envelopes and templates. The best electronic signature software for small business list sets the starter plan and the next plan up for seven of these tools.

When signing is part of a bigger job: PandaDoc and Adobe Acrobat

PandaDoc Starter is $35 a month, billed monthly, with unlimited e-signatures. PandaDoc Business is $65 per seat a month on the same basis and adds quotes and approval workflows. Adobe's e-signature tools sit inside Adobe Acrobat: Acrobat Standard is $24.99 a month on Monthly, Adobe's US price, and Adobe's plan comparison marks signing documents, requesting signatures and tracking responses on Standard, Pro and Studio. Adobe's page shows a free trial button on Pro and Studio, not on Standard.

Both suit a reader who needs signing as one step in a larger document job. A reader who needs signatures alone can start with the single-purpose plans above, or read the Signaturely review for the plans in detail.

How the prices were read and what the units mean

Each price is the monthly-billing price on the vendor's own pricing page, in US dollars, read on October 10, 2026. Zoho Sign's figure is its US list price, taken from the price data its page loads. Adobe's was read with the page's US country setting. The unit differs by tool: per sender at SignWell, per user at Zoho Sign, BoldSign and Signaturely Business, per plan at airSlate SignNow.

Trials run from 7 days at Signaturely and airSlate SignNow to 30 days at Dropbox Sign and BoldSign, among the tools that print a length. Signaturely's 7-day trial is on its home page, and its pricing page and help center do not name the plan it runs on. Docusign and Adobe print no trial length, and SignWell offers no trial.