eSignatures.com vs Youtrust (formerly Yousign)
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 Youtrust (formerly Yousign)
Youtrust, the French provider formerly called Yousign, is the European choice: a qualified trust service provider on the EU Trusted List issuing advanced and qualified eIDAS signatures directly, with plans from 9 euros a month. eSignatures.com stops at simple electronic signatures but costs a fraction as much and imposes no seats. If a European counterparty demands AES or QES, Youtrust is the answer; for ordinary commercial contracts at volume, eSignatures.com is far cheaper.
Youtrust (formerly Yousign) compared with eSignatures.com
eSignatures.com charges $0.49 a contract with no subscription and no seats, which is dramatically cheaper for ordinary commercial agreements at any volume. Youtrust costs several times more but is an EU Trusted List qualified trust service provider that can issue advanced and qualified signatures, which eSignatures.com cannot. If your documents only need simple electronic signatures, eSignatures.com wins on economics; if a European counterparty asks what level of signature you are offering, only Youtrust has an answer.
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 Youtrust (formerly Yousign) if
European businesses of any size that need eIDAS advanced or qualified electronic signatures without an enterprise contract, companies wanting EU-sovereign hosting and a French-regulated trust provider, and any small team whose counterparties or regulators ask what level of electronic signature a document carries.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | eSignatures.com | Youtrust (formerly Yousign) |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Proposals | Proposals |
| Starting price | $0.49 per contract (free trial) | Free, then 9 euros per month (One) (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 monthly signature request allowances on the lower tiers and unlimited requests above, plus per-signature metering for advanced and qualified electronic signatures. |
| Free plan | No | Two signature requests per month for one user, with unlimited self-signing, an inbox, automatic reminders, and basic tracking. |
| Free trial | Free test account with unlimited test contracts, which carry a demo watermark | 14-day free trial, alongside a permanently free plan |
| 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. | European businesses of any size that need eIDAS advanced or qualified electronic signatures without an enterprise contract, companies wanting EU-sovereign hosting and a French-regulated trust provider, and any small team whose counterparties or regulators ask what level of electronic signature a document carries. |
| 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. | Twenty minutes to send a first simple signature request. Qualified signature workflows take longer, because signer identity verification has to be understood and explained to counterparties who have not encountered it before. |
| 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. | Low for simple signing. Choosing correctly between simple, advanced, and qualified levels is the genuine learning curve, and it is a legal question as much as a product one; the documentation is good on this and it repays reading before you commit. |
| Platforms | Web dashboard, Mobile-first responsive signing on any device, API-driven sending, Contract links and QR codes | Web, Mobile browser signing, API-driven sending, HubSpot integration |
| 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 | eIDAS, as a qualified trust service provider on the European Union Trusted List, Qualified by ANSSI, the French national cybersecurity agency, Simple, advanced, and qualified electronic signatures (SES, AES, QES), Electronic seals (eSeal), ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, ESIGN and UETA for US-facing agreements at the simple signature level |
| Founded | 2015 | 2013 |
| Headquarters | Melbourne, Australia | Caen, Normandy, France |
| Ownership | Privately held and independently owned | Venture-backed private company |
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.
Youtrust (formerly Yousign)
Strengths
- An EU-regulated qualified trust service provider, qualified by ANSSI and on the European Union Trusted List, issuing qualified signatures directly rather than through a partner.
- Qualified electronic signatures sold by the unit at roughly 10 to 15 euros, which puts eIDAS QES within reach of a small business for the first time.
- All three eIDAS signature levels available in one product, so the level can be chosen per document rather than per contract with the vendor.
- A signature request carries up to 50 documents, making the monthly allowances far more generous in practice than an envelope count suggests.
Limitations
- No proposal creation at all: no editor, no content library, no pricing tables, no engagement analytics.
- Expensive for simple signatures; Plus at 23 euros per user is roughly double Dropbox Sign or Zoho Sign Professional for unmetered ordinary signing.
- Qualified and advanced signatures are metered on top of the subscription, so heavy QES use becomes the dominant line item quickly.
- The One plan's ten requests a month and one-user limit make it strictly a solo plan.
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.
Youtrust (formerly Yousign)
Per-user subscription with monthly signature request allowances on the lower tiers and unlimited requests above, plus per-signature metering for advanced and qualified electronic signatures.
- Free0 euros
- One9 euros
- Plus23 euros
- Pro38 euros
At 20 documents a month, Plus at 23 euros per user is roughly double Dropbox Sign's unlimited seat or Zoho Sign Professional, and if all you need are simple electronic signatures that premium buys you nothing you can point at. At 200 documents a month the comparison holds steady, since Plus and Pro are unmetered, so Youtrust remains competitive against allowance-based vendors like DocuSign and signNow while still losing on raw price to the cheapest unlimited plans. The calculation changes completely the moment qualified signatures enter the picture. Ten euros per qualified signature on an ordinary 23-euro subscription is a fraction of what enterprise QES arrangements cost, and unlike Zoho Sign it is issued directly by a listed EU trust service provider rather than routed through a partner. Buy Youtrust for the trust status, the EU sovereignty, and the ability to buy qualified signatures by the unit. Do not buy it as a cheap way to collect simple signatures, because it is not one.
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 profileYoutrust (formerly Yousign)
Youtrust is a specialist purchase and it should be evaluated as one. If you are a US business signing ordinary commercial agreements, 23 euros per user for unlimited simple signatures is roughly double what Dropbox Sign or Zoho Sign Professional charge for the same outcome, and you should buy one of those instead. If you are European, or if you sell into Europe and have ever had a legal team ask what level of electronic signature your contract carries, Youtrust is one of the very few affordable products with a real answer: it is a qualified trust service provider on the EU Trusted List, it issues advanced and qualified signatures directly rather than through a partner, and it sells them by the unit at roughly 10 euros rather than behind an enterprise contract. Add EU-sovereign hosting, ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, and an identity verification and fraud screening layer in the same platform, and it becomes the obvious European answer in this category. Just remember that it signs documents and does not write them, and that the rename from Yousign means half the internet still calls it something else.
Read the full Youtrust (formerly Yousign) profileeSignatures.com profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Youtrust (formerly Yousign) last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.