Last updated September 12, 2026
If you need one signature on one document, the honest answer is that DocuSign does not sell that. It sells subscriptions, and the smallest one is an annual commitment.
These are the plans on DocuSign's own pricing page. The envelope limits matter as much as the prices: an "envelope" is one document sent to one set of signers, and every plan caps how many you get.
| Plan | Price | Users | Envelope limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | $11/month · $132/year | 1 | 5 per month |
| Standard | $30/user/month · $360/user/year | up to 50 | 100 per user per year |
| Business Pro | $45/user/month · $540/user/year | up to 50 | 100 per user per year |
| Enterprise | Custom — contact sales | 50+ | Custom |
Read from DocuSign's plans and pricing page in September 2026. Prices change without notice — check the current page before relying on any of this.
Divide the yearly price by how many documents you actually send. This is where subscriptions get expensive for occasional senders, because the denominator is small.
| Documents you send in a year | DocuSign Personal ($132/yr) | Pay-per-envelope at $1.00 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $132.00 each | $1.00 total |
| 5 | $26.40 each | $5.00 total |
| 12 | $11.00 each | $12.00 total |
| 30 | $4.40 each | $30.00 total |
| 60 (the plan's ceiling) | $2.20 each | $60.00 total |
Personal allows 5 envelopes a month, so 60 a year is the most the plan permits.
The plan never gets cheaper per document than $2.20, because it runs out of envelopes before it runs out of year. That is the part most comparisons miss: the cap, not the price, sets the floor — and that floor is more than twice $1.00.
If a trial is being offered when you look, it will cover a single document. Trials are time-limited and are designed to roll into a paid plan, so put the cancellation date in your calendar the day you start one. A trial solves a one-off document; it does not solve the second one six months later.
Genuinely often. If you send documents weekly, need reusable templates, want bulk send, have a team that shares a workspace, or need it wired into Salesforce or a CRM, you are buying software, not signatures — and $360 a year for a seat is ordinary business software pricing. At that point per-document billing is the wrong shape and you should not use it.
The mismatch is specifically at the low end: a landlord with one lease, someone selling a car, a contractor with an occasional statement of work. A subscription priced for daily use is a bad fit for four documents a year.
Being straight about it: no saved templates, no dashboard of past sends, no team seats, no CRM integrations, no single sign-on. Those are real things and some people need them. What you keep is the part that makes a signature a signature — consent, a full review of the document, an attestation of intent, and an audit certificate. Those come from the ESIGN Act, not from a price tier.