Dropbox Sign vs Xodo Sign (formerly eversign)
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Both sides assessedDropbox Sign compared with Xodo Sign (formerly eversign)
Xodo Sign, formerly eversign and now owned by Apryse, matches Dropbox Sign's unlimited-document model at $10 per user billed annually and undercuts its $17.50 Standard tier at $16 while adding unlimited templates, a genuine PDF editor, and support for multiple business entities under one login. Dropbox Sign has the better interface, conditional field logic, SSO, and Dropbox-native filing, but stops at four users. Growing past four people, or needing PDF editing, points to Xodo Sign.
Xodo Sign (formerly eversign) compared with Dropbox Sign
The closest match on this page: both offer unlimited signature volume at roughly the same seat price. Dropbox Sign has the cleaner interface, deeper Dropbox and Google integration, conditional fields, and SSO from $17.50, but stops dead at four users on self-serve. Xodo Sign counters with unlimited templates and PDF editing at $16, multiple business entities, and teams to 25. If your files live in Dropbox, take Dropbox Sign; if you also need a PDF editor or run several entities, take Xodo Sign.
Choose Dropbox Sign if
Small teams of one to four people who send documents for signature regularly and want a flat, predictable bill with unlimited requests, particularly Dropbox-native businesses whose files already live there, and anyone who found DocuSign's envelope allowances or interface heavier than the job required.
Choose Xodo Sign (formerly eversign) if
Small businesses that want unlimited document sending at the lowest credible per-seat price, teams who also need real PDF editing alongside signing, and anyone running several business entities from one account, particularly buyers weighing Dropbox Sign and SignWell who want a third quote.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Dropbox Sign | Xodo Sign (formerly eversign) |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Proposals | Proposals |
| Starting price | $0 (free plan), then $10.05 per month billed annually (Essentials) (free plan available) | $0 (free plan), then $10 per user per month billed annually (Basic) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Per-seat subscription with unlimited signature requests on every paid plan, plus a separate volume-based API product priced by monthly signature requests. | Per-seat subscription with unlimited documents on paid plans, credit metering for bulk sending and SMS, and a separately priced API product sized by monthly API documents. |
| Free plan | Three signature requests per month, with unlimited self-signing that does not count against the limit. | Three documents per month for one user with basic e-signature capability. |
| Free trial | Free trial available on the paid app plans, plus a permanently free API test mode | 7-day Professional trial with no credit card required, plus a free API sandbox |
| Best for | Small teams of one to four people who send documents for signature regularly and want a flat, predictable bill with unlimited requests, particularly Dropbox-native businesses whose files already live there, and anyone who found DocuSign's envelope allowances or interface heavier than the job required. | Small businesses that want unlimited document sending at the lowest credible per-seat price, teams who also need real PDF editing alongside signing, and anyone running several business entities from one account, particularly buyers weighing Dropbox Sign and SignWell who want a third quote. |
| Setup time | Fifteen minutes to send the first request. Connecting Dropbox or Google Drive and rebuilding your three most-sent documents as templates is an afternoon, and that template work is the difference between using it occasionally and using it by default. | Fifteen minutes to send a first document. An afternoon to rebuild your routine documents as templates, which is worth doing properly on Professional where templates are unlimited. |
| Learning curve | Low, and lower than DocuSign's by a clear margin. Signers need no account and no instruction. The only genuine learning is in conditional field logic on the Standard tier, which repays an hour of experimentation. | Low for sending and effectively zero for signers, who need no account. The PDF editing layer takes a little more exploration, and the credit system for bulk sending and SMS is the one thing worth understanding before you rely on it. |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android, Google Docs and Gmail add-ons, Microsoft Word add-in, Dropbox integration | Web, Mobile signing on any device, Google Docs and Drive integrations, Salesforce and Zoho integrations |
| Compliance | ESIGN Act (US federal), UETA (US state), eIDAS (simple electronic signatures), SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA support available, ISO 27001 via Dropbox's programs | Legally binding electronic signatures meeting United States and European authentication requirements, ESIGN Act and UETA for US agreements at the standard electronic signature level, eIDAS alignment for European agreements at the simple electronic signature level, Long-term validation (LTV) support, No eIDAS qualified or advanced electronic signature capability |
| Founded | 2011 | 2015 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | Vienna, Austria, with Apryse headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States |
| Ownership | Owned by Dropbox, Inc. (Nasdaq: DBX) | Owned by Apryse, the document technology company behind the PDFTron SDK and Xodo apps |
Strengths and limitations
Dropbox Sign
Strengths
- Unlimited signature requests on every paid plan, so the bill is a fixed number and volume planning stops being part of the purchase.
- Genuinely low entry price at $10.05 a month billed annually for a single user with unlimited sends, which undercuts nearly every comparable name-brand tool.
- A clean, fast interface that is markedly easier to learn than DocuSign, inherited from HelloSign's original positioning.
- SSO available from the $17.50 Standard tier rather than gated to enterprise, which is unusually generous.
Limitations
- The self-serve plan tops out at four users, which is an abrupt ceiling for a growing team and the main reason companies leave.
- API access is sold entirely separately at $75 to $300 a month, so embedding signing in your own product means a second subscription on top of app seats.
- No proposal creation whatsoever: no content library, no pricing tables, no engagement analytics, no designed output.
- Simple electronic signatures only; no Qualified Trust Service Provider status and no eIDAS qualified or advanced signature capability for EU regulated documents.
Xodo Sign (formerly eversign)
Strengths
- Unlimited documents on both paid tiers at $10 and $16 per user billed annually, which is among the cheapest unmetered signing available anywhere.
- Advanced PDF editing on Apryse's document engine, so one subscription covers both editing and signing where most teams pay for two.
- Multiple business entities under one login, which is rare at any price and genuinely valuable for accountants, agencies, and multi-company founders.
- Explicit retention controls: auto-expiration, export, and permanent deletion of signed documents, published more clearly than most competitors bother to.
Limitations
- No proposal creation of any kind: no editor for sales documents, no content library, no pricing tables, no engagement analytics.
- Bulk sending and SMS are credit-metered, with only ten of each on Professional and volume credits reserved for Enterprise, which is the hidden cap in place of a document limit.
- The API is a separate subscription starting at $50 a month for 50 documents, which is expensive against per-contract vendors and against PandaDoc's free-plan API.
- Custom branding is Professional-only, so $10 Basic customers send unbranded documents to their clients.
Pricing compared
Dropbox Sign
Per-seat subscription with unlimited signature requests on every paid plan, plus a separate volume-based API product priced by monthly signature requests.
- Free$0
- Essentials$10.05
- Standard$17.50
- PremiumQuoted
The flat model is the point. At 20 documents a month, one Essentials seat costs $10.05 billed annually and covers it entirely; DocuSign Standard would cost $30 a month and still run out of envelopes over the year. At 200 documents a month the comparison becomes lopsided: Dropbox Sign still costs $10.05 for one sender or $70 for a four-person Standard team, while a per-envelope or per-allowance vendor would be into the hundreds. Against per-contract pricing it is closer, since eSignatures.com at $0.49 a contract would run $98 a month at that volume, so Dropbox Sign wins on the app side and loses only if your sends are concentrated in bursts. The value collapses in two places: at five users, where the self-serve ceiling forces a quote, and at the API, where a $75 to $300 monthly platform fee sits on top of everything and makes PandaDoc's free-plan API look extraordinary by comparison.
Xodo Sign (formerly eversign)
Per-seat subscription with unlimited documents on paid plans, credit metering for bulk sending and SMS, and a separately priced API product sized by monthly API documents.
- Free$0
- Basic$10
- Professional$16
- EnterpriseQuoted
At 20 documents a month, Basic at $10 per user billed annually covers it with room to spare, matching Dropbox Sign Essentials and undercutting DocuSign Standard by two thirds. At 200 documents a month nothing changes, because paid plans are unmetered, so a single Professional seat at $16 still covers the lot while DocuSign would need roughly two dozen seats to supply the equivalent envelope allowance and signNow would add over $2,000 a year in overage. That unmetered behaviour is the core of the value case and it holds at any volume a small business will reach. Two things pull the other way. Bulk sending and SMS are credit-metered rather than included, so a business whose volume is concentrated in mass sends will hit a wall the document count never shows. And the API at $50 a month for 50 documents is poor value against eSignatures.com's $0.49 per contract, so machine-driven signing belongs elsewhere. Judged as a human-operated unlimited signing tool with a PDF editor attached, it is one of the best-value products on this page.
Editorial verdict on each
Dropbox Sign
Dropbox Sign is the best flat-rate e-signature deal available to a very small team. Ten dollars a month billed annually for one user with unlimited requests, or $70 a month for four users with branding, bulk send, conditional fields, and SSO, is priced well below what the same job costs at DocuSign, and the interface is meaningfully easier. Buy it if you are one to four people who sign documents regularly, especially if your files already live in Dropbox. Two things should stop you: the self-serve plan ends at four users, so a growing team runs into a sales conversation rather than an upgrade button, and the API is an entirely separate purchase starting at $75 a month, which makes it a poor choice for embedding signing into your own product when PandaDoc includes API access on a free plan. And as always in this half of the category, do not expect it to write your proposal; it signs what you already wrote.
Read the full Dropbox Sign profileXodo Sign (formerly eversign)
Xodo Sign is the quiet third quote a small business should get when it is deciding between Dropbox Sign and SignWell, and it often wins. Ten dollars a seat billed annually for unlimited documents is as cheap as unmetered signing gets, and $16 adds unlimited templates, custom branding, in-person signing, and, uniquely at this price, a genuine PDF editor running on Apryse's engine plus an AI contract summarizer. Multiple business entities under one login is a small feature that will decide the purchase outright for accountants and multi-company founders. Two caveats keep it off the top of the list. Bulk sending and SMS are credit-metered, so mass senders hit a ceiling the unlimited document count conceals, and the API at $50 a month for 50 documents is poor value next to per-contract vendors. The published compliance dossier is also thinner than DocuSign's or eSignatures.com's, so if a procurement checklist is coming, check what you need is actually documented. As a human-operated signing tool for a small team that also wrangles PDFs, it is excellent value.
Read the full Xodo Sign (formerly eversign) profileDropbox Sign profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Xodo Sign (formerly eversign) last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.