# Documenso

> Open-source document signing, hosted or on your own servers

Documenso is an open-source alternative to DocuSign for sending documents to be signed, with templates, direct signing links, teams, an API and webhooks. It can be used as a hosted service, with a free plan of 5 documents a month, or run on your own infrastructure, where the Community Edition is free. Business and Enterprise editions add support and commercial license terms for production use.

- **Category:** E-Signatures & Proposals
- **Made by:** Documenso, Inc.
- **Website:** https://documenso.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026

## Pricing

Documenso has a free plan. Paid plans start at $25 per month, billed yearly ($300 a year).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Hosted Free plan: 5 documents a month with up to 10 recipients each, no credit card required.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | Hosted by Documenso: 5 documents a month, up to 10 recipients per document. |
| Individual | $25 per month, billed yearly ($300 a year) | Unlimited documents for one person, API access for personal use, email support and a premium profile name. |
| Teams | $40 per month for up to 5 users, billed yearly ($480 a year) | Unlimited documents, one team, API access for automation and embedded signing; extra users $8 a month each. |
| Platform | $250 per month, billed yearly ($3,000 a year) | Unlimited documents, users and API access, white-label embedded signing and integration support over Slack. |
| Community Edition | $0 | Self-hosted: you run it on your own servers with no usage limits and community-only support; meant for testing and evaluation. |
| Business and Enterprise | Custom | Self-hosted or cloud licenses sold through sales, with the enterprise feature set, priority support and AATL certificates. |

Read from https://documenso.com/pricing on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Documenso before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Documenso's pricing page lists a yearly saving on each plan: $60 on Individual, $120 on Teams and $600 on Platform. Source: https://documenso.com/pricing

## Key features

- **Open source:** The code is public, so it can be inspected, changed and run on your own infrastructure with no per-signature fees.
- **Templates and direct links:** Save reusable templates and switch on a direct link for any of them, so recipients can fill and sign without logging in.
- **Teams:** The Teams plan gives a shared team space with 5 users included and more added for $8 a month each.
- **API, webhooks and Zapier:** Every paid plan includes API access, with webhooks and a Zapier integration for automating sends and follow-ups.
- **Embedded signing:** Teams can embed signing in their own site or app, and the Platform plan removes Documenso's branding for white-label use.
- **Compliance documentation:** Documenso publishes compliance pages on the ESIGN Act, UETA, 21 CFR Part 11, SOC 2 and HIPAA, and the Enterprise license adds compliance features.

## Good for

- Developers and companies that want an open-source signing tool they can host
- Products that need signing embedded inside their own app
- Casual signers who need fewer than 5 documents a month

## Worth knowing

- Unlimited documents on paid plans are subject to a fair-use policy.
- The free Community Edition is aimed at testing and internal trials, with community support only; production support needs a paid license.
- Self-hosting means running and maintaining the servers yourself; Business Edition license prices are not published.
- The pricing page shows yearly prices only; paying monthly costs more, as each plan lists a yearly saving.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Documenso is an open-source take on Docusign: templates, direct signing links, teams and an API, hosted by them or run on your own server. Three people on Teams pay $40 a month billed yearly, with unlimited documents. It's thinner than the big names, though, with no phone app and Zapier as its only listed integration.

- **Value for money: C.** $40 a month for three on Teams, billed yearly, about $13 a head, for up to 5 users and unlimited documents. That's the middle of this category. The free Community Edition only costs nothing if you run your own server, so it doesn't lift the grade.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** The hosted free plan is 5 documents a month with up to 10 recipients each, and no card. Fine for casual signing, not 20 a month. The self-hosted Community Edition has no limits, but it's meant for testing.
- **Features: C.** Templates, direct links anyone can sign from, a team space, an API, webhooks and embedded signing. The basics are there, but the listing shows nothing on bulk send, signer ID checks or payments, and unlimited documents come under a fair-use policy.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. The hosted version is a normal web app with templates to set up. Running it yourself means looking after servers, which is real work.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with an API, webhooks, Zapier and embedded signing for your own site or app. No phone or desktop app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Documenso's own pages on 17 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among e-signature and proposal tools

- Documenso's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 3 of the 13 other e-signature and proposal tools we grade, and level with 2.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 0 of 13) and worst on features (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $25 a month, against a middle price of $11.50 for the category: 12 of the 13 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 6 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/e-signatures

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Your call.** You could make the core of Documenso for yourself: documents and templates. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $300 a year. Documenso is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself.

- You could make: Documents and templates: an app builder makes these well.
- You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Zapier among them, and has an API.
- You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: SOC 2 and HIPAA.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Zapier

**Tags:** Documents, Templates, Open source, Self-hostable, Public API

## Alternatives

- [OpenSign](https://toolgpa.com/tools/opensign): Open-source PDF signing with unlimited free signatures. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/documenso-vs-opensign)
- [Docusign](https://toolgpa.com/tools/docusign): E-signature service for sending, signing and tracking agreements. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/documenso-vs-docusign)
- [SignWell](https://toolgpa.com/tools/signwell): E-signatures priced by sender, with unlimited documents on paid plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/documenso-vs-signwell)
- [BoldSign](https://toolgpa.com/tools/boldsign): Low-cost e-signature app and API from Syncfusion. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/boldsign-vs-documenso)
- [Dropbox Sign](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dropbox-sign): E-signature app from Dropbox with unlimited requests on paid plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/documenso-vs-dropbox-sign)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026:

- https://documenso.com/pricing
- https://documenso.com/self-hosted
- https://documenso.com/features/direct-link
- https://documenso.com/features/zapier

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/documenso
Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).