# eSignatures.io review (2026): is it worth paying for? > Pay-per-contract e-signatures with an API and no monthly fee Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. eSignatures is an online signing service that charges per contract sent instead of a monthly subscription. Contracts are built as responsive text rather than PDFs, and every feature is open to every customer. It can be driven from a browser, an API, Zapier or Make, or through AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT. - **Category:** E-Signatures & Proposals - **Made by:** eSignatures.com - **Website:** https://esignatures.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you need advanced or qualified eIDAS signatures, as only simple ones are offered. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, eSignatures.io is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $0.49 per contract, prepaid in credits from $50. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** Free trial offered; its length and limits are not stated on the pages read. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Credits | $50 one-time top-up, used as you go | About 100 contracts at $0.49 each. Larger top-ups add bonus credits, down to $0.20 a contract at $100,000. Credits do not expire. | Read from https://esignatures.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with eSignatures.io before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **40% discount for non-profits** (Nonprofit): The pricing page states a 40% discount for non-profit organizations. How to claim it is not described on the page. Source: https://esignatures.com/pricing - **Bonus credits on larger top-ups** (Other savings): Credit purchases from $500 add 5% to 150% extra credits, lowering the effective fee from $0.47 to $0.20 per contract. Source: https://esignatures.com/pricing ## Key features - **Flat fee per contract:** A contract costs the same whether it has one signer or fifteen, two pages or twenty. There are no seat fees and no envelope caps. - **Mobile-first contracts:** Contracts are responsive text instead of PDFs, so signers on a phone do not have to pinch and zoom. The signed result is delivered as a PDF. - **API, Zapier and Make:** A single API request sends a contract, and the service also connects to Zapier and Make. Contracts can be drafted and sent from Claude or ChatGPT. - **Signer checks:** Signers can be asked for a one-time code by email or SMS, or for a live photo ID check. Photo ID checks cost $2.99 each and SMS delivery $0.09 per message. - **Links, kiosk mode and bulk send:** A contract link lets anyone sign, can be embedded on a site or shared as a QR code, and kiosk mode lets people sign one after another on a shared tablet. - **Data location and branding:** Contracts can be stored in the US, Frankfurt, London, Sydney or Canada. Your logo, company name, fonts and email domain can be used in the signing flow. ## Good for - Low-volume senders who do not want a monthly subscription - Developers adding signing to an app through the API - Teams sending the same agreement to many people, such as waivers ## Worth knowing - Only simple electronic signatures are offered; advanced and qualified signatures under eIDAS are not. - Live photo ID checks ($2.99) and SMS delivery ($0.09 per message) are billed on top of the $0.49 contract fee. - The pages read describe a free trial but do not state its length or limits. - Signed contracts are kept for a mandatory three years, according to the site. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. eSignatures.io charges $0.49 a contract from prepaid credits, with no subscription, and it's built around an API plus Zapier and Make. It only does simple electronic signatures, and ID checks and SMS cost extra on top. If you sign under the legal levels Europe asks for, it won't do. - **Value for money: C.** $0.49 a contract from a $50 top-up, with credits that don't expire. The category's figures can't price this, and what you pay depends on how many you send: 100 contracts is $49, and ID checks ($2.99) and SMS ($0.09) are extra. - **Free plan and trial: D.** The pages describe a free trial but give no length or limits, and there is no free plan. - **Features: C.** Flat fee per contract, mobile-first contracts, API, Zapier and Make, signer checks, links, kiosk mode and bulk send. Gap: only simple electronic signatures, with no advanced or qualified eIDAS signatures. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You connect it through its API, Zapier or Make, or send from the dashboard, so there's setup first. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with Zapier, Make, Google Drive, WordPress, HubSpot, Salesforce, Claude and ChatGPT connections and an API. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from eSignatures.io's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among e-signature and proposal tools - eSignatures.io's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 19 of the 78 other e-signature and proposal tools we grade, and level with 18. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 12 of 78) and worst on free plan and trial (D, above 20). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/e-signatures ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace eSignatures.io you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 41 of the 78 other e-signature and proposal tools grade higher. - You could make: Documents and templates: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. 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, Make, Google Drive, WordPress, Claude, ChatGPT, HubSpot, Salesforce **Tags:** Documents, Templates, Public API, Workflow automation, AI features ## Alternatives - [SignWell](https://toolgpa.com/tools/signwell): E-signatures priced by sender, with unlimited documents on paid plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/esignatures-io-vs-signwell) - [BoldSign](https://toolgpa.com/tools/boldsign): Low-cost e-signature app and API from Syncfusion. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/boldsign-vs-esignatures-io) - [Documenso](https://toolgpa.com/tools/documenso): Open-source document signing, hosted or on your own servers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/documenso-vs-esignatures-io) - [Signable](https://toolgpa.com/tools/signable): UK e-signature service priced by envelopes, with unlimited users. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/esignatures-io-vs-signable) - [OpenSign](https://toolgpa.com/tools/opensign): Open-source PDF signing with unlimited free signatures. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/esignatures-io-vs-opensign) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://esignatures.com/pricing - https://esignatures.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/esignatures-io Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).