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At-a-Glance Comparison
Every figure below comes from each provider's own published pricing or documentation on that date. Where a provider does not publish an answer, we say so rather than guess. Every price is an entry-level plan against an entry-level plan. No volume discounts, no enterprise pricing, no assumed tiers.
Cost per envelope
Integration time
Embedded signing on cheapest plan
Workspaces with its own API key
White label per workspace
EU data residency
AI assistant support
Firma.dev
€0.049
Hours. Docs MCP writes it
Yes. Available
Yes. Created by API, own key per workspace
Yes. Own logo, sending domain and email templates per workspace
Yes. EU-hosted as standard
Two servers
Docusign
~€5, not published
Weeks. Approval required
Contact sales, no public information found
None found
None found
Enterprise tier only. US by default
Yes. Available
SignNow
€2.016 per invite
Days to weeks. No docs MCP
Yes, entry Professional tier
None found
None found. Account-level branding only
None found
None found
Dropbox Sign
€1.30
Days to weeks. No docs MCP
No. Starts at €240/month
None found
None found. Account-level branding only, and that requires Premium
Premium tier only
None found
Adobe Acrobat Sign
~€1.76
Weeks. Custom quote
Enterprise tier only
None found
None found. Account-level only, and Adobe branding cannot be removed
Not automatic. Requires implementation setup
None found
PandaDoc
~€0.88
Days to weeks. No docs MCP
Available
None found
None found. Account-level email white labeling only
Business tier only
None official
Integration times are our estimates, reasoned from what each provider publishes. Everything else is their own stated figure.
At €0.049 per envelope, roughly 5 cents USD, that puts Firma.dev 102 times cheaper than Docusign, which is the provider most of these comparisons are really about, and cheaper than every other provider in the table. The saving holds at every volume, because there is no tier to climb to reach it.
Where Firma.dev wins, and where it does not
when Firma.dev is the better choice
Transparent per envelope pricing
You want a published per envelope price with no seats, minimums or contracts
Embedded signing and editor included
You need embedded signing and an embeddable editor included at the entry price
Multi-tenant, isolated workspaces
You are building multi-tenant software and need a separate, isolated workspace per customer
EU hosting as standard
You are in the EU or UK and want EU hosting as standard rather than as an upgrade
when to Look elsewhere
Need qualified e-signatures (QES)
Some EU jurisdictions require QES for matters such as family law and government filings. We support SES and AES
Need a single all in one vendor
You want a single vendor for proposals, CPQ and document generation as well as signing
Need notarisation or wet ink signing
You need notarisation or wet ink signing as part of the same product
Switching cost outweighs savings
Your team is already deep in another vendor's ecosystem and switching cost outweighs the saving
Integration time is the number nobody publishes
Every provider on this page will tell you its API is easy. None of them tell you how long it takes to send your first real, legally binding document, because for most of them the answer involves someone else's approval.
Docusign is the clearest case. Its published Go-Live process requires an integration key to complete 20 consecutive successful API calls, then pass a review, before it will work in production. That review takes about a week by Docusign's own estimate. Adobe does not publish an API rate card at all, so the first step is a quote rather than a commit.
With Firma.dev you sign up, take the API key, and send a real envelope. Creating and sending is a single call:
That returns a 201 with the request already in sent status. No consent flow, no envelope definition, no separate call to change the status afterwards.
Ralio, a five-person fintech in London, pointed Claude Code at our docs and had it working before the coffee went cold.
It was purely in terms of setup, like two to five minutes. I've been using Claude Code to set it up, so it was super straightforward.
Ghali Bennani, Co-Founder, Ralio
MoXi, which came from Docusign and SignNow, had it talking to its loan origination system inside two days.
The other half of the speed story is our Docs MCP server. Point Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or GitHub Copilot at it and the assistant reads our full API reference and writes the integration itself. Docusign shipped an MCP server in 2026, and it is worth knowing about, but it is a set of four tools for calling its own APIs and triggering workflows. It does not read the documentation and build your integration for you.
It feels like it was built for the developer as opposed to kind of an afterthought and stitched together.
Greg Bujak, VendorFlow
A seperate workspace for every one of your customers
This is the difference that does not show up in a price comparison, and it is the reason most of the SaaS teams we work with chose Firma.dev.
Workspaces let your application create an isolated environment for each of your own customers or business units, provisioned through the API. Each one has its own API key, its own templates and documents, its own envelope usage, its own branding and sending domain, and its own webhook secret. Nothing is shared between them.
This is not the same as embedded signing, which only places a signing screen inside your app. Every provider on this page offers embedded signing in some form. None of them offer per-workspace isolation.
I was super impressed by the segmentation of workspaces. I see where we can go with this.
Greg Bujak, VendorFlow
Creating one is a single call to POST /workspaces. Keys are managed per workspace, with regenerate-api-key and expire-pending-api-keys for rotation, so revoking one customer's access never touches another's.
For a SaaS product that means genuine tenant isolation, provisioned by your code as customers sign up. For an agency running client work it means every client cleanly seperated, each seeing your branding and your sending domain, with usage tracked per client so it can be billed on without anyone reconciling a spreadsheet. Adding your tenth client costs nothing but the envelopes they send, because there are no seats to buy.
What it costs
€0.049 per envelope, roughly 5 cents USD. Pay as you go. No monthly minimum, no contract, no per-seat fees, and no charge for the envelopes you do not send.
One Envelope, One Price
An envelope is priced once regardless of how many recipients it has, how many times they open it, or how often it gets forwarded. That distinction matters most against SignNow, which bills per invite rather than per envelope, so a single document going to three people costs three times as much.
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