eSignatures.com vs Signaturely
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 assessedeSignatures.com compared with Signaturely
Signaturely charges $25 a month for five signature requests and $50 a seat for unlimited, with an app built for humans clicking through a familiar interface. eSignatures.com charges 49 cents a contract with an API-first design and no subscription. Signaturely is the more conventional product; eSignatures.com is roughly a tenth of the cost at typical small-business volumes and dramatically cheaper for embedded signing.
Signaturely compared with eSignatures.com
eSignatures.com charges $0.49 per contract with no subscription, unlimited users, and API included, which is dramatically cheaper for anything above a handful of documents. Signaturely offers a conventional application with a familiar interface and a signing flow designed for humans rather than for developers. If your sending is programmatic or high volume, eSignatures.com wins outright; if you want an app you open and click through, Signaturely is the more normal product.
Choose eSignatures.com if
Teams whose contract sending is driven by software rather than by people, high-volume senders who would be punished by per-seat pricing, businesses with many occasional senders who should not each need a licence, and anyone building signing into their own product who balked at Dropbox Sign's $250 to $300 a month embedded signing tier.
Choose Signaturely if
Solo operators and very small teams who send a handful of straightforward documents a month, value a signing flow their clients will never need help with, and prefer buying from a small bootstrapped company over a large one, plus developers who want cheaper entry-level API tiers than Dropbox Sign charges.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | eSignatures.com | Signaturely |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Proposals | Proposals |
| Starting price | $0.49 per contract (free trial) | $0 (limited free account), then $20 per month billed annually (Personal) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Pure pay-per-contract with no subscription, no seats, and no send limits. Credits are purchased in advance, with bonus credits at higher purchase volumes reducing the effective per-contract rate. | Per-user subscription with a request-capped personal plan and an unlimited business plan, plus an entirely separate three-tier API product priced by monthly signature requests. |
| Free plan | No | A free account with a very small monthly allowance, currently described on the pricing page as one document per month, with full legal validity retained. |
| Free trial | Free test account with unlimited test contracts, which carry a demo watermark | A 7-day trial with unrestricted sending, after which the account reverts to the limited free tier |
| Best for | Teams whose contract sending is driven by software rather than by people, high-volume senders who would be punished by per-seat pricing, businesses with many occasional senders who should not each need a licence, and anyone building signing into their own product who balked at Dropbox Sign's $250 to $300 a month embedded signing tier. | Solo operators and very small teams who send a handful of straightforward documents a month, value a signing flow their clients will never need help with, and prefer buying from a small bootstrapped company over a large one, plus developers who want cheaper entry-level API tiers than Dropbox Sign charges. |
| Setup time | An hour to send a first contract from a simple template, and one to three days to convert your real contract set into templates with placeholders. That conversion is the entire implementation cost and it is front-loaded. | Ten minutes. Sign up, upload a document, drag fields, send. There is genuinely nothing to configure, which is the product's stated reason for existing. |
| Learning curve | Low for the dashboard and low for developers, since sending is a single API call with JSON. The genuine learning is in template design: deciding what should be a placeholder, what should be a signer field, and what should be conditional. | As close to zero as this category gets, for both senders and signers. That is the whole value proposition and it holds up. |
| Platforms | Web dashboard, Mobile-first responsive signing on any device, API-driven sending, Contract links and QR codes | Web, Mobile browser signing, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and Box integrations |
| Compliance | ESIGN Act (US federal), UETA (US state), eIDAS and UK eIDAS at the simple electronic signature level, Electronic Communications Act 2000 (UK), UECA and PIPEDA (Canada), Electronic Transactions Act 1999 (Australia) and 2002 (New Zealand), ECTA and POPIA (South Africa), ISO 27001 certified, HIPAA under a business associate agreement, 21 CFR Part 11 (FDA), GDPR | ESIGN Act (US federal), UETA (US state), GPEA (US federal), eIDAS (simple electronic signatures), Electronic Transactions Act 1999 (Australia), More than sixty international electronic signature frameworks per the vendor |
| Founded | 2015 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | Melbourne, Australia | California, United States |
| Ownership | Privately held and independently owned | Bootstrapped and independently owned |
Strengths and limitations
eSignatures.com
Strengths
- No subscription, no seats, no send limits, and therefore no overage traps, which removes the single most common source of unexpected bills in this category.
- Unlimited users at no cost, which is decisive for organizations with many occasional senders.
- API, webhooks, and embedded signing are included at the same per-contract price, where Dropbox Sign charges $250 to $300 a month for the equivalent.
- Mobile-first responsive contracts are a genuinely better signing experience than a PDF shrunk onto a phone screen.
Limitations
- No proposal creation whatsoever: no designed sales document, no content library, no pricing tables, no engagement analytics.
- The template-based model means existing PDFs and Word contracts must be converted before you can send them, which is real up-front work that a PDF-field competitor avoids.
- No free plan for occasional users; free test contracts carry a demo watermark and are not usable for real agreements.
- Simple electronic signatures only, with no eIDAS qualified or advanced signature capability for EU regulated documents.
Signaturely
Strengths
- Genuinely simple: the signing experience is short enough that no client has ever needed help with it, which is the main thing an e-signature tool is judged on.
- Broad published legal coverage, citing ESIGN, UETA, GPEA, eIDAS, Australia's Electronic Transactions Act, and more than sixty international frameworks.
- The API tiers are cheaper than Dropbox Sign's at entry, and embedded signing appears at $80 a month billed annually rather than $250 or more.
- A signature request is counted per document rather than per signer, so multi-party agreements do not multiply your usage.
Limitations
- Expensive for what it does: $25 a month for five requests and $50 a seat for unlimited is well above SignWell, signNow, Zoho Sign, and Dropbox Sign for the same job.
- The Personal plan's single template makes it unworkable for anyone with more than one recurring document, which pushes most real users to the $50 tier.
- Custom branding is Business-only, so lower-tier customers send documents carrying the vendor's identity to their clients.
- No conditional logic, calculated fields, document groups, or bulk send; the simplicity is real and it cuts both ways.
Pricing compared
eSignatures.com
Pure pay-per-contract with no subscription, no seats, and no send limits. Credits are purchased in advance, with bonus credits at higher purchase volumes reducing the effective per-contract rate.
- Pay as you go$0.49
- Volume credit purchasesFrom $0.49 down to about $0.20 per contract
- Non-profit pricing40 percent discount
At 20 documents a month, eSignatures.com costs $9.80, against $10.05 for a single Dropbox Sign seat, $10 for Zoho Sign Standard, $8 for signNow Business, and $30 for DocuSign Standard. It is competitive but not obviously superior at that volume, and the template conversion work counts against it. At 200 documents a month it costs $98, which loses to Dropbox Sign's unlimited $10.05 seat and Zoho Sign Professional's $16, and wins decisively against DocuSign, where covering 2,400 envelopes a year through per-user allowances would need roughly two dozen seats. The real case for this product is not raw volume, it is shape. If your sending is machine-driven, if you need embedded signing, or if you have many occasional senders who would each need a licence elsewhere, the absence of seats and platform fees changes the arithmetic completely: a twenty-person team sending forty contracts a month pays $19.60 here and $600 on DocuSign Standard. Judged on cost per unit of capability with no fixed commitment, this is the most efficient product in the category.
Signaturely
Per-user subscription with a request-capped personal plan and an unlimited business plan, plus an entirely separate three-tier API product priced by monthly signature requests.
- Free$0
- Personal$20
- Business$40
The arithmetic does not flatter Signaturely. At 20 documents a month you are forced onto Business at $40 a seat billed annually, which is $480 a year for a job Zoho Sign Professional does with unlimited envelopes at $192 a year, Dropbox Sign Essentials does at about $121, and signNow does at $96 plus modest overage. At 200 documents a month Business at least holds steady, since requests are unlimited, so a single sender still pays $40 a month while a metered competitor would be into overage, but eSignatures.com would charge $98 for the same 200 contracts with no seat at all. Where Signaturely genuinely competes is the API: $40 a month billed annually for 50 requests and $80 for embedded signing undercuts Dropbox Sign's $75 entry and $250 to $300 embedded tiers substantially, which makes it a reasonable choice for a small product with modest signing volume. Buy the API on price and the app on preference, because the app is not the cheapest way to do this.
Editorial verdict on each
eSignatures.com
eSignatures.com is the most economically rational product in the signing half of this category, and it wins on structure rather than on features. Forty-nine cents a contract with no seats, no subscription, no send limits, unlimited users, unlimited templates, and API plus embedded signing included is a pricing model that makes DocuSign's 100 envelopes per user per year and Dropbox Sign's separate $250-a-month API subscription look like relics. Add ISO 27001, HIPAA, 21 CFR Part 11, EU and UK data residency, and a standardized non-editable audit trail, and the compliance story is stronger than the price implies. Two things should give you pause. Your existing contracts have to be converted into templates before you can send them, which is a real day or three of work. And at moderate single-sender volumes, an unlimited plan from Dropbox Sign or Zoho Sign Professional is simply cheaper. Buy this when your sending is driven by software, spread across many occasional users, or embedded in your own product, which is precisely the shape of buyer that per-seat pricing punishes hardest.
Read the full eSignatures.com profileSignaturely
Signaturely is a likeable, deliberately simple product that costs more than it should. The signing flow is as frictionless as anything in the category, the published international legal coverage is broader than most small vendors bother to document, and the bootstrapped independence means nobody is going to reprice it to satisfy an investor. But $25 a month for five signature requests, with one template and no branding, is difficult to defend when Dropbox Sign gives one user unlimited requests for half that and Zoho Sign gives unlimited envelopes for $16 a seat. The Business plan at $50 a seat is priced against tools that do considerably more. Where Signaturely genuinely earns a place on a shortlist is the API, where $80 a month billed annually for embedded signing undercuts Dropbox Sign by a factor of three and makes it a sensible choice for a small product adding signing. Buy the API on the numbers, and buy the app only if the simplicity is worth the premium to you.
Read the full Signaturely profileeSignatures.com profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Signaturely last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.