Sign PDF Online Without Paying Per Signature
DocuSeal gives your team legally-binding eSignatures, audit trails, and 12 field types, all on your own infrastructure or our managed cloud. 152,800+ businesses have already signed with DocuSeal. One flat fee, unlimited documents.
Why Teams Leave DocuSign
Cost and control. Those are the two reasons.
Per-Seat Costs Compound Fast
DocuSign Standard runs $25 per user per month. A team of 10 paying $300 each year per seat adds up to 3K/yr before anyone sends a single envelope. Add the Business Pro tier at $40/user/mo and you are looking at 4.8K/yr for 10 users. DocuSeal on Opsily uses a flat monthly plan with no per-seat charges. Add your whole team, pay the same price.
Envelope Limits Create Friction
DocuSign Standard caps you at 100 envelopes per user per year. That is fewer than 2 per user per week. If your team runs contracts, intake forms, NDAs, and vendor agreements, you will hit that ceiling fast. DocuSeal has no per-envelope limits. Send as many documents as your workflow needs.
Vendor Lock-In Is a Real Risk
When your document history lives in a SaaS platform, leaving costs time and money. Exporting audit trails, migrating templates, and re-training your team all carry hidden costs. DocuSeal is open source. Your documents stay in your infrastructure. You own your data on day one and every day after.
Built for teams who need reliability
What DocuSeal Actually Gives Your Team
Not a stripped-down signing widget. A full platform to fill and sign PDF online, collect payments, and automate document workflows.
Twelve Field Types Built In
Signature, date, text, checkbox, file attachment, email, phone, dropdown, and more. DocuSeal handles complex forms, not just a signature line at the bottom of a PDF. Build intake forms, onboarding packets, or vendor agreements without a separate form tool. Everything is in one place.
Payments Inside the Signing Flow
DocuSeal integrates directly with Stripe. Your signer can pay a deposit or fee at the moment they sign, without leaving the document. This is how professional services firms, coaches, and agencies eliminate the gap between contract and payment. Fewer steps means faster revenue.
API, Webhooks, and Automation
Connect DocuSeal to Zapier, Make.com, or n8n to trigger signing workflows from your CRM, HR system, or project tool. Use the REST API to embed signing directly into your own product. Webhooks fire on every signature event so your stack stays in sync automatically.
Built for teams who need reliability
Sign a PDF Online in Four Steps
No PDF editor required. No software to install. Works from any browser.
Choose Your App
Select an app to get started.
Upload Your PDF
Drag your document into DocuSeal or fetch it from a URL. DocuSeal auto-detects existing form fields or you can place new ones manually. Supports multi-page PDFs.
Place Fields and Assign Signers
Drop signature, date, text, and checkbox fields onto the document. Assign each field to a specific signer. Set the signing order if multiple parties need to sign in sequence.
Send and Track Progress
Send a signing link by email or embed it directly in your product. DocuSeal sends automated reminders to anyone who has not signed. Track the status of every document from a single dashboard.
Download the Signed PDF
Once all parties have signed, DocuSeal generates a final PDF with a complete audit trail: timestamps, IP addresses, and signer identity verification. Legally binding in 180+ countries.
DocuSeal vs DocuSign: What You Actually Get
A side-by-side look at pricing, limits, and data control.
DocuSign pricing as of April 2026. Subject to change.
Pair DocuSeal With Your Existing Stack
DocuSeal connects with the tools your team already uses. Deploy the whole stack on Opsily with one flat monthly fee.
Open-source document signing and e-signature platform
GDPR Compliance and EU Data Residency
If your team handles contracts with European clients or operates under GDPR, where your signature data lives is not optional.
DocuSign charges extra for EU data residency. It is a paid add-on that many teams miss until an audit asks where their signed documents are stored.
DocuSeal is different. Every Opsily deployment runs on Hetzner servers in Frankfurt, Germany. Your PDFs, audit logs, and signer data never leave the EU. That is the default, not an upgrade.
For finance, healthcare, legal, and any team under GDPR: this is the answer to "where is our signature data?"
Open Source Means You Can Verify, Not Just Trust
DocuSeal has 11.7K GitHub stars and over 2,500 commits. The codebase is public. Your security team can audit it. Your developers can extend it. No black box.
For teams that handle sensitive contracts, the ability to inspect the software processing your documents is not a nice-to-have. It is a risk management decision.
Bulk Signing: Send Once, Collect From Many
DocuSeal supports bulk document distribution via CSV or XLSX import. Upload a spreadsheet of signers, and DocuSeal sends each one a personalized signing link with their details pre-filled.
HR teams use this for offer letters. Operations teams use it for vendor onboarding. Legal teams use it for policy acknowledgments. One template, hundreds of recipients, zero manual work.
In-Person Signing With Witness Support
Not all signatures happen over email. DocuSeal includes an in-person signing mode for kiosk-style collection. The signer uses a tablet or shared device. The witness can countersign in the same session. No back-and-forth required.
Simple, Transparent Pricing
One flat monthly fee. No per-seat charges. Add your whole team, deploy DocuSeal and your other apps, pay the same price.
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Built for Teams Who Take Compliance Seriously
Opsily-hosted DocuSeal ships with the infrastructure, audit tools, and legal standards your team needs.
GDPR Compliant Hosting
All data stored on Hetzner servers in Frankfurt, Germany. Your documents and audit logs never leave the EU. No configuration required.
Legally Binding Signatures
DocuSeal generates complete audit trails including timestamps, IP addresses, and signer identity verification. Accepted in 180+ countries under eIDAS, ESIGN, and UETA frameworks.
End-to-End Encryption
Documents in transit and at rest are encrypted. SSL certificates are provisioned automatically on every Opsily plan. Your signing sessions are always over HTTPS.
EU Server Infrastructure
Opsily runs exclusively on Hetzner in Frankfurt. No US-based cloud providers. No data transfers outside the EU. Your data residency requirements are met by default.
Open Source Auditability
DocuSeal is fully open source with 11.7K GitHub stars. Your team can inspect the code, verify how signatures are processed, and confirm there are no hidden data collection practices.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything your team needs to know before switching to DocuSeal.
Yes. DocuSeal has a free cloud tier that includes 10 signature request emails per month. That covers most individuals and small teams with occasional signing needs. If you need unlimited signature requests, the Pro plan is $20 per user per month with no document limits. DocuSeal is also fully open source, so you can self-host it at no software cost if you have infrastructure to run it on. Opsily removes the self-hosting burden by managing the deployment for you at a flat monthly fee.
Start Signing PDFs Online Today
Deploy DocuSeal on Opsily in minutes. No DevOps required. One flat monthly fee, unlimited documents, and your data stays in the EU.