Dropbox Sign alternative
HelloSign Alternative with Seats and API in One Plan
HelloSign, now Dropbox Sign, charges per user and sells its API as a separate product. A HelloSign alternative for a growing team should bundle both. SignElectronically includes 10 seats in Plus for $74 a month on yearly billing, and the API in Pro.
Monthly cost for 10 people who send
$25 per user per month
10 seats included, bulk send and webhooks
Billed as $888 yearly
Dropbox Sign public list price, checked 2026-10-10. API not included in its figure.
Plan by plan
SignElectronically Plus next to Dropbox Sign plans
Prices are public list prices in US dollars. Where we could not confirm a plan detail from the public page, the cell sends you to the vendor instead of guessing.
| Compared | SignElectronically Plus | Dropbox Sign Essentials | Dropbox Sign Standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| List price | $149/mo, or $74/mo billed yearly | $15/mo | $25 per user/mo |
| Who it is sold to | A company, 10 seats included | A single sender | Teams of 2 or more users |
| Cost for 10 people who send | $149/mo at most | Not a team plan | $250/mo |
| How volume is stated | 500 envelopes per month | See the vendor plan page | See the vendor plan page |
| Signing order and reminders | Included | See the vendor plan page | See the vendor plan page |
| Bulk send from a CSV | Included | See the vendor plan page | See the vendor plan page |
| Webhooks | Included | API product | API product |
| REST API and embedded signing | In the Pro plan | Priced separately | Priced separately |
| Public page to verify a signed PDF | Included | See the vendor plan page | See the vendor plan page |
The second invoice
An API that is part of the plan
Webhook deliveries
https://app.yourproduct.com/hooks/esign ยท signed with HMAC SHA-256
- envelope.completed2026-10-09 09:16:02 UTC 200 delivered
- envelope.signed2026-10-09 09:15:58 UTC 200 delivered
- envelope.viewed2026-10-09 09:12:40 UTC 200 delivered
- envelope.sent2026-10-08 14:00:13 UTC 503 retried
- envelope.sent2026-10-08 14:00:43 UTC 200 delivered
Teams often start with a signing app and add an integration a year later, when the CRM or the customer portal should send documents by itself. With a separately priced API that moment brings a second product, a second quota and a second invoice.
Here the path is one line long. Webhooks arrive with Plus. The REST API and embedded signing arrive with Pro, on the same account, with the same templates and the same envelope quota.
- Create envelopes from templates with prefilled fields
- Embed the signing step in your own product
- Signed webhook events for sent, viewed, signed and completed
- One monthly envelope quota for the app and the API
For the whole office
What a seat means here
A seat is a colleague who prepares and sends documents. It is not a license you buy one at a time. Starter comes with 3, Plus with 10 and Pro with 25, and the people who sign never use one.
That changes who gets access. With a per user price, companies hand logins to two or three people and everyone else asks them for a favor. With seats in the plan, the recruiter, the office manager and the account lead each send their own documents and see their own status list.
If you are weighing several vendors, the same seat arithmetic is laid out for the market leader on our page about DocuSign alternatives.
Switch from Dropbox Sign
Six steps from the old tool to the new one
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1
Download what is signed
Export completed documents and their audit trails from Dropbox Sign and file them in your own storage. They remain valid without the subscription.
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2
Recreate your templates
Upload each PDF, place the fields and name the signer roles. Keep the same role names you used before, so colleagues recognise them.
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Invite the senders
Add the colleagues who send documents and give each a role. Seats are part of the plan, so nobody has to share a login.
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4
Point your integration here
If you used the API, create a key on Pro, map your template ids and register your webhook URL. Events are signed, so your endpoint can verify the sender.
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Run both for one cycle
Send new documents from SignElectronically and let open requests finish in the old tool. Cancel it once nothing is pending.
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6
Check the first sealed PDF
Open the completed file in a PDF reader, look at the signature panel and confirm the same file on the verify page.
Reasonable worries
Three objections worth answering
HelloSign is simple and we like that
Simplicity is the right thing to protect. The editor here is one screen, with the field palette on the left and the page in the middle. Try it on the homepage and judge it against what you use today.
We only have four users
Four users on Standard are $100 a month at list price. Plus is $74 a month on yearly billing with room for six more people, and Starter at $24 fits if three of you send.
Rewriting an integration is work
It is, and it is bounded work. Most integrations make one call to create a signature request and listen for one completion event. Both have a direct counterpart here, and the electronic signature audit trail is fetched with the sealed PDF.
Questions
HelloSign alternative FAQ
Sign a PDF and inspect the result
Place a signature on your own document on the homepage. No account is needed for the first try.