Compare PDF Verified

Compare PDF Verified with DocuSign, Adobe, Smallpdf, Sejda, DigiSigner, pdfFiller and more eSignature tools, and with the top online stamp & seal makers, on price, verification and features.

Drop your document here and sign it now. PDF, Word and Excel all work: a .docx or .xlsx is laid out in your browser exactly as it was written, so there is nothing to convert first. Add a signature, a date, a company stamp or a watermark, then download it sealed. Free to start, no account, and the file is never uploaded to open it.

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See every provider side by side in one table, price per signed document, envelope limits, verification and what each plan includes.

What is the best free DocuSign alternative?

There is no single best one, there is the one that fits how often you sign. If you send a handful of documents a month, look for a free DocuSign alternative with a permanent free tier rather than a 14 or 30 day trial, because a trial that ends is not free, it is a delay. PDF Verified signs three documents a month free forever, with no card, no watermark on the result and no account needed for the person receiving it. DocuSeal is the open source eSignature alternative worth knowing if you are willing to host it yourself. SignWell, Xodo Sign and SignRequest all run small monthly free allowances with an account.

A DocuSign alternative for small business

Per-seat pricing is what makes DocuSign awkward for a small business: a five person company buying five seats pays for five whether one person sends everything or not. An eSignature tool with no per user pricing changes the arithmetic completely. PDF Verified charges for finished documents, $1.50 each, or $15 a month for unlimited, and everyone in the business can send. There is no seat to allocate, no admin to reassign a licence, and nobody sharing a login because the second seat was not worth it.

eSignature software that does not charge per envelope

The envelope is the unit most of the industry bills in, and it is the unit that catches people out: an allowance of 100 envelopes a year sounds generous until a busy month eats a quarter of it. PDF Verified has no envelope allowance. The Business plan is unlimited documents, and pay as you go is priced per completed document, so a quiet month costs nothing rather than wasting an allowance you already paid for.

DocuSign competitors, and how to read a comparison

Most lists of DocuSign competitors are ranked by who paid for the placement or by who wrote the list. A more useful sort is by price shape, because that is the thing that actually differs: per seat (DocuSign, Adobe Sign, Dropbox Sign, PandaDoc, SignNow), free with a monthly ceiling (SignWell, eversign), open source and self-hosted (DocuSeal), or per finished document, which is where we sit. Every other difference is smaller than that one.

DocuSign vs Adobe Sign, and where we sit

DocuSign vs Adobe Sign usually comes down to which ecosystem you are already in: Salesforce and procurement workflows pull towards DocuSign, Acrobat and Creative Cloud pull towards Adobe Acrobat Sign. Both are real enterprise products and both are priced like it. PDF Verified is not trying to be either. It is electronic signature software for the case they serve badly: someone with a document to get signed today, who does not want a seat, a suite or a sales call, and who wants the signed file to be something anyone can check afterwards by scanning the QR code on it.

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What PDF Verified is, and what it is not

A stamp identifies who issued a document. It is evidence rather than a formality that makes a document binding on its own, and it should only ever be made and applied for a business or an office you are authorised to act for: a mark that imitates another organisation in order to pass a document off as theirs is forgery in most places. Where a registry, a bank or a counterparty requires a particular form of seal, that requirement comes from them.

PDF Verified is a tool for preparing, signing, stamping and checking documents. It is not a law firm, a compliance service or a forensic examiner, and nothing here is legal, financial or compliance advice. Requirements differ by country, by document type and by the party asking, so check what applies to your document before you rely on it, and take advice where the document matters. You are responsible for the documents you create, sign and send, and for having the authority to do so: signing or stamping in somebody else name, or as an organisation you do not represent, is forgery whatever tool is used. To the extent the law allows, we accept no liability for how a document made with this tool is used or relied on. The full position is in our terms of service.