The best e-signature for a few documents a month

The short answer, by how often you send

• One or two documents, ever: Attest's Free plan covers your first 2 documents, in total, with the same encryption and proof as every paid document.
• A few a month, and only the price matters: a free monthly allowance elsewhere costs nothing (the table below lists them).
• A few a month that matter, such as client contracts, leases, NDAs, offer letters or a bill of sale: Attest's Signing plan, $5 a month for up to 20 documents, with no annual commitment.
• You need identity checks, qualified signatures or templates: compare the services that offer them, such as PandaDoc, Zoho Sign and Youtrust.

What a few documents a month cost

As published on each vendor's pricing page on October 12, 2026, in US dollars for a US visitor unless marked:

Service	Free allowance	Lowest paid plan: monthly billing / annual billing	What the paid plan covers
Attest	2 documents, in total	Signing: $5 a month, month to month	20 documents a month
DocuSign	30-day trial	Personal: $15 / $11 a month	5 envelopes a month
Dropbox Sign	3 signature requests a month	Essentials: $20 / $15 a month	Unlimited requests, 1 user
Adobe Acrobat	2 e-signature transactions every 30 days, with a free Acrobat account	Acrobat Standard: $24.99 / $14.99 a month	E-signatures inside Acrobat
PandaDoc	5 documents a month, 2 recipients each	Starter: $35 / $19 per user a month	Unlimited documents
Zoho Sign	5 envelopes a month, single user	Standard: $12 / $10 per user a month	25 envelopes per user a month
SignNow	7-day trial	Business: $20 / $8 a month	10 invites a month, or 100 a year
Youtrust (formerly Yousign)	2 signature requests a month	One: €11 / €9 a month, excluding VAT	10 requests a month
Documenso	5 documents a month	Individual: $25 a month, billed yearly ($300); no monthly price published	Unlimited documents
DocuSeal	10 request emails a month	Pro: $20 per user a month, or $200 per user a year	Unlimited signature requests
OpenSign	"Unlimited e-signatures"	Not needed to send; Professional ($29.99 / $9.99 a month) adds the API and bulk sending

SignNow's pricing app tests other prices and invite packages, so some visitors see different figures. Among the paid plans at their default prices, as published on October 12, 2026, Attest's $5 is the lowest monthly price, and the only one under $10 with no annual commitment. Most free plans above renew every month, which suits occasional, low-stakes paperwork; Attest's Free plan covers your first 2 documents, in total, with the same encryption and proof as every paid one.

What free plans leave out

Free plans are a fair deal for occasional, low-stakes paperwork. Read their limits before you rely on one for a contract:

• PandaDoc Free eSign allows 2 recipients per document, and its help center lists the audit trail on Starter and higher.
• Zoho Sign Free is for a single user, and Dropbox Sign Free includes no templates.
• Youtrust Free allows 2 requests a month, each with up to 5 signers.

What none of them changes: none of these services, free or paid, describes encryption that keeps its own systems out of your documents. We compared 21 e-signature services in October 2026, Attest and 20 others, and Attest was the only one that end-to-end encrypts every document, for every signer, by default.

Why $5 can beat free for the documents that matter

When you send only a few documents, each one tends to matter: a client contract, a lease, a loan between friends, an offer letter. Four things decide whether that document holds up later.

1. Who can read it. Attest encrypts every document in your browser before upload and stores it only as ciphertext it can't read. Only you and the people you send it to can open it.
2. What happens after you stop paying. Occasional senders cancel subscriptions, and many services keep your proof in your account: PandaDoc says a completed document is available to a recipient "for 6 months after completion", and Dropbox Sign moves a cancelled account to its Free plan, where "You can still log in to access your signed documents". An Attest signed copy needs no account at all: it carries the original document, the full evidence and an open-source verifier inside, checked against the Horizen public blockchain, so it keeps verifying after you cancel, and even if Attest is gone.
3. Who signed it. Each signer approves with a passkey, a cryptographic key only the signer controls, unlocked with Face ID, Touch ID, Windows Hello or the device PIN. The passkey signs a statement naming the exact document, by its fingerprint, and everything that signer entered.
4. Who can check it. Anyone you show it to, such as a landlord, a lender or a court, can verify it free, with no account, at attest.datahubz.com/verify or with the verifier inside the file.

How Attest's plans work for occasional senders

• Free: 2 documents sent for signature, in total, not per month. Each document you send for signature counts against both allowances: it uses one of the 2 documents and one of that month's 10 records.
• Signing: $5 a month for 20 documents sent for signature each calendar month (UTC), renewing on the 1st. It is a monthly subscription you can cancel any time.
• Mistakes don't cost you: a document you void before anyone signs, or a draft you discard, is given back to your allowance; once anyone has signed, it counts even if you void it.
• Signing what others send you is free: a document someone sends you through Attest uses none of your documents. Signing a PDF you upload yourself, with Sign a document yourself, uses one.
• Signers never pay and need no account, on any plan.
• More than 20 in a month: new documents wait for the next month, or Pro is $49 a month with 10,000 records a month.

On the Signing plan, a completed agreement is anchored on the blockchain the moment it's complete; on Free, within about 10 minutes.

Choosing by situation

Your situation	Good fit
A one-off lease, bill of sale or NDA	Attest Free: 2 documents, in total
3 to 20 contracts a month you may need to prove later	Attest Signing: $5 a month
Up to 5 low-stakes forms a month, for free	Zoho Sign, PandaDoc or Documenso free plans
Signers whose identity must be verified with an ID	A service with ID checks, such as DocuSign, PandaDoc or Zoho Sign
A qualified signature required by EU law	A qualified trust service provider, such as Youtrust

Getting started on Attest

1. Go to attest.datahubz.com/sign and click Start free, then sign in with the link Attest emails you.
2. Set up your signing key with a passkey and a recovery phrase, once.
3. Open Documents, click New agreement, upload your PDF (up to 8 MB), add your signers and place their fields.
4. Click Create and send. Each signer opens their link and sets up a passkey; for a signer new to Attest, click Unlock it for … in the email Attest sends you, confirm in the agreement, and approve with your passkey. Each signer then approves with their passkey, and everyone receives the same sealed copy.