Better Proposals vs Docusign
We give Better Proposals a 2.2 GPA and Docusign a 2.6, out of 4.0. Better Proposals grades higher on value for money. Docusign grades higher on features and ease of use. They get the same grade on the free plan and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Better Proposals
Proposal builder with e-signatures, payments and open tracking
Docusign
E-signature service for sending, signing and tracking agreements
How we grade them
| 2.2GPABetter ProposalsFair | 2.6GPADocusignGood | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | C$63 a month for three on Premium, billed yearly ($21 a head, $29 monthly), with 50 documents a month; Starter is one user and 10 documents. Against its own rivals that's mid-priced: dearer than Prospero at $12 a head, well under PandaDoc Business at $49. | D$75 a month for three on Standard, paying the year upfront ($25 a head, or $30 on the annual plan billed monthly). That's this category's dearest tenth, for 100 envelopes each a year, so your 240 fit with a little to spare. Web forms, payments and bulk send need Business Pro at $40. |
| Free plan and trial | CNo free plan, but a 14-day free trial with no card needed. That's long enough to build a proposal or two and send one to a real client. | CNo free plan, but a 30-day free trial, and the listing doesn't say it needs a card. After that even Personal is one user and 5 envelopes a month. |
| Features | CTemplates, a content library, interactive pricing tables, open tracking, signing and payment by Stripe, PayPal or GoCardless, with approvals on Enterprise. It does the proposal job fully, but that's a smaller job than general signing, and follow-up nudges are a $10 add-on. | BTemplates, signing order, an audit trail, reminders and AI summaries for signers, then web forms, payment collection and bulk send on Business Pro. It covers the whole job. SSO, HIPAA and Salesforce wait for the custom Enhanced plans, which a small team won't miss. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. It's a web app where the work is building proposals, templates and a content library, so there's some setting up before it pays off. | A4.9 from about 830,000 App Store ratings, the biggest following in this category by miles. Signers don't need an account either, which saves your clients a step. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb only, with Stripe, PayPal, GoCardless, HubSpot, Salesforce and Zapier, and an API from Premium. No phone or desktop app. | BWeb, iPhone and Android, with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox and Box on every plan, and 1,000+ integrations plus the API from Business Pro. There's no desktop app, so it stops at a B. |
| Best for | designed proposals that clients sign and pay | signing with the name every client knows |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Better Proposals and Docusign. How we grade
Price against what you get
Better Proposals starts at $13 a month for each person and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Docusign starts at $11 a month and scores 3.3.
Docusign scores higher and starts $2 a month lower. Of the other e-signature and proposal tools on the chart, 6 score higher than Better Proposals for less, and none scores higher than Docusign for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Better Proposals starts at $13 per user / month, billed annually ($19 billed monthly). Docusign starts at $11 per month, annual plan billed monthly.
- Only Docusign lists iOS and Android apps.
At a glance
| Better Proposals | Docusign | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $13 per user / month, billed annually ($19 billed monthly) | $11 per month, annual plan billed monthly |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 14-day free trial, no credit card required | 30-day free trial |
| Web | ||
| iOS | ||
| Android | ||
| Made by | Better Proposals | Docusign, Inc. |
| Price read from | betterproposals.io | ecom.docusign.com |
| Checked | Oct 17, 2026 | Oct 17, 2026 |
Who each one suits
Better Proposals
- Agencies and freelancers who send designed proposals and want to know when they are read
- Service businesses that take a deposit as the client signs
- Sales teams that need manager approval before a proposal goes out
Docusign
- Companies whose customers or partners already expect a Docusign envelope
- Sales and operations teams sending a steady volume of standard agreements
- Larger organizations that need SSO, compliance options and Salesforce links
Worth knowing
Better Proposals
- Starter allows one user and 10 documents a month; Premium raises it to 50, and only Enterprise removes the send limit.
- CRM integrations, the API and Zapier start at Premium, $21 per user / month billed annually.
- The Nudge follow-up tool is an add-on at $10 per user a month, and custom template design starts at $1,495.
Docusign
- Standard and Business Pro include 100 envelopes per user a year on annual plans, or 10 a month on monthly plans; envelopes past the allowance are billed one by one.
- Annual plans paid monthly are a one-year commitment: cancelling after the first 30 days means paying the rest of the year.
- SMS delivery costs from $0.36 a message and ID verification from $2.40 an attempt, after five of each included once on Standard and Business Pro.
- SSO, Salesforce and NetSuite integrations, HIPAA support and data residency are sold only with the custom Enhanced plans.
Key features
Better Proposals
- Templates and content library
- Unlimited templates and the content library of reusable sections come with every plan, along with merge tags and a Word importer.
- Interactive pricing tables
- Clients can pick options in a pricing table inside the proposal, and totals are recalculated as they choose.
- Open tracking and notifications
- See when a client received, opened and read a document, with live notifications on every plan.
- Signatures and payments
- Clients sign in the document with built-in digital signatures and can pay at once through Stripe, GoCardless or PayPal.
- Branding
- Every plan allows full brand customization, and fonts can come from Google Fonts, Adobe Fonts or your own files; a custom domain starts at Premium.
- Team review
- Enterprise adds simultaneous editing, inline comments, manager approvals before sending and locked content sections.
Docusign
- Send and sign
- Upload a document, drag on signature and form fields, set a signing order and send it. Signers do not need a Docusign account.
- Templates
- Reusable templates on every plan; Standard adds templates shared across the team, and Business Pro adds locked templates.
- Audit trail and reminders
- Each envelope keeps a real-time audit trail and shows whether it was sent, delivered or completed, with automatic reminders to signers.
- Web forms and payments
- Business Pro adds mobile-friendly web forms that feed a signing flow, payment collection at signing and bulk sending to many recipients.
- AI help for signers
- AI-generated summaries and a question-and-answer panel explain an agreement to signers, and AI can suggest where fields should go.
- Integrations and API
- Cloud storage and Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace links on every plan; the API and over 1,000 partner integrations start at Business Pro.
Plans
Better Proposals
Starter$13
per user / month, billed annually ($19 billed monthly)
One user and 10 documents a month, with e-signatures, interactive pricing tables, payments, the content library and analytics.
Premium$21
per user / month, billed annually ($29 billed monthly)
Unlimited users and 50 documents a month, plus a custom domain, CRM integrations, expiry dates, API, Zapier and onboarding forms.
Enterprise$42
per user / month, billed annually ($49 billed monthly)
Unlimited documents, plus content locking, simultaneous editing, inline comments, manager approvals and advanced permissions.
Docusign
Personal$11
per month, annual plan billed monthly ($132 a year)
One user and 5 envelopes a month, with reusable templates, an audit trail and AI summaries for signers.
Standard$30
per user / month, annual plan billed monthly ($360 a year)
Up to 50 users and 100 envelopes per user a year, with shared templates, comments, custom branding and delegated signing.
Business Pro$45
per user / month, annual plan billed monthly ($540 a year)
Adds web forms, payment collection, bulk sending, conditional fields, locked templates and API access, still 100 envelopes per user a year.
EnhancedCustom
Sold through sales for more than 50 users: custom envelope limits, SSO, organization management and Salesforce document generation.
Ways to pay less
Better Proposals
- Annual discount
Save up to 35% with annual billing
Better Proposals lists Starter at $13 per user a month billed annually against $19 monthly, Premium at $21 against $29 and Enterprise at $42 against $49.
Docusign
- Annual discount
Save up to 33% on an annual plan
Docusign's pricing page says the annual plan billed monthly saves up to 33% against month-to-month billing, which has a lower envelope allowance.
- Annual discount
Lower price for paying the year upfront
Docusign's eSignature page lists Personal at $10, Standard at $25 and Business Pro at $40 per user a month when billed annually ($120, $300 and $480 a year).
