DocuSign charges $10-65/user/month with annual contracts. FairSign charges $0.30 per envelope with no subscription. For a 5-person team sending 100 documents/month, that's $360/year vs $1,500/year. Same legal validity (ESIGN Act, UETA, eIDAS). Same audit trails. Same encryption.
DocuSign pioneered e-signatures. Then they pioneered the subscription trap: per-seat pricing, annual contracts, auto-renewal, and feature gating. You don't need to pay $25/month to put a signature on a PDF.
Every person who sends a document needs their own license. 5 people = 5 seats = $125-325/month. Even if most of them send 2 documents a month.
DocuSign pushes annual billing. Cancel mid-year? You still pay the rest. The Business plan doesn't even offer monthly billing.
DocuSign's #1 complaint on review sites. Auto-renews for another year. Cancellation process is deliberately difficult. Charges appear after you thought you cancelled.
API access requires Business plan ($25/user/mo). Bulk send requires higher tiers. Templates are limited on lower plans. You pay more to unlock features, not to use more.
DocuSign's price stays the same whether you send 5 or 500 documents. FairSign charges for what you use.
DocuSign charges $25/month because they can. Here's what a signature actually costs to deliver — and what we charge.
Same legal validity. Same audit trails. Same encryption. $0.30 per signature instead of $25/month per seat.
5 free envelopes. No credit card required.