For developers · 25¢ per envelope · No monthly fee

Building an e-signature integration? Compare before you commit.

Siglio vs. DocuSign for developers

Get a sandbox key in about a minute and 25 free sandbox envelopes, no card and no account review. Then 25¢ per envelope, flat, delivered by email and text.

25¢ per envelope, no seats Email and text Sandbox key in a minute

You get a sandbox key on the next screen. Real delivery, not a simulation.

Check your email

We sent a sign-in link to . It is good for 15 minutes, and your sandbox key is waiting on the other side.

Side by side

What each one costs, and what each one includes

 SiglioDocuSign Developer StarterDocuSign Developer Intermediate
Price per envelope25¢Not publishedNot published
Monthly fee$0$50$300
Per-seat fee$0Not publishedNot published
Minimum commitment$0Not publishedNot published
SMS deliveryIncluded at the same 25¢“Does Not Include”“Does Not Include”
Sandbox accessKey on screen in about a minute. No card, no account review.Free developer account, no cardFree developer account, no card
Webhook on every eventEvery event type, every accountNot publishedNot published
Multi-signerTwo per envelope, signed in orderNot publishedNot published

DocuSign figures are quoted from DocuSign's published developer plans page and eSignature plans page, checked on 14 September 2026. Envelope allowances are quoted as “Starting amount of 40 envelopes/month” and “Starting amount of 100 envelopes/month”; the price of an envelope beyond the allowance is not stated on either page. Sandbox wording is theirs: “Developer accounts operate in a Docusign non-production (demo) environment. They have most enterprise features enabled by default and don't expire.” A cell reading “Not published” is not stated on those pages, which is not the same as saying it does not exist. On the eSignature side, SMS delivery is sold as an add-on “Starting at $0.36/delivery” on the Business Pro plan. Prices change; check the source before relying on it.

On the sandbox row, the practical difference: signing up here is an email address and a magic link, and the key is on the screen that follows. No account review, no card, and the 25 free envelopes deliver to real inboxes and real phones rather than a simulation. DocuSign’s developer account is also free and needs no card; what their page does not state is how long it takes to have a key in your hand, so we have not put a number on it.

How it works

The e-signature API in three steps

One endpoint and one event. If the integration you are picturing is an SDK, a template system and a field editor, this is smaller than you expect.

01

Tag the PDF

Put ^S1 where the signature goes and ^D1 where the date goes, in white text. Invisible to the reader, findable by us.

02

POST it

One JSON request with the file and the signer. Delivery by email, text or both starts immediately.

03

Get the webhook

envelope.completed lands on your endpoint with a link to the signed PDF and its certificate.

Pricing

What it costs

WhatSiglio
Per envelope25¢
Monthly fee$0
Per seat$0
Minimum$0
SMS deliveryIncluded, same 25¢
Sandbox25 envelopes free, no card

You are billed when an envelope is created, not when it is signed. A declined or ignored envelope still costs 25¢.

Questions

The fair version of the comparison

Should I just use DocuSign?

If you need templates, bulk send, CLM, notary, identity verification, payments, dozens of prebuilt integrations or a named account team, yes. Those are real products and Siglio has none of them. This page is for the case where the integration you actually need is: send this PDF to this person, tell me when it is signed.

What is genuinely different here?

Three things. The price is one published number at every volume instead of a plan. There are no seats, so adding a colleague costs nothing. And text delivery is included at the same 25¢, which matters if your signers are contractors, tenants, patients or field staff rather than people at desks.

Why are so many competitor cells blank?

Because the rule for this page is that a competitor figure comes from the competitor’s own published page or it does not go in the table. DocuSign publishes plan prices and included allowances; it does not publish a per-envelope rate, a seat fee or a minimum on those pages. “Not published” means we could not source it, not that it does not exist.

How long does the integration take?

One POST to create and send an envelope, and one webhook handler for the completion event. Bearer token auth, no JWT assembly and no consent screen. The honest long pole is deciding where you store the signed PDF, because we hand it back rather than keeping an archive for you.

Can I try it without deciding anything?

That is what the 25 free envelopes are for. No card, no call, and sandbox delivers for real, so send the first one to your own phone and see what your signers will see before you write a line of integration code.

What are the limits?

Two signers per envelope, signed in order. PDF only, up to 15 MB, no encrypted files. Webhooks on every account with one endpoint per environment and every event type. If any of those is a dealbreaker, better to find out on this page than in week two.

Get a sandbox key and decide afterwards

One email address, no card, no call. 25 envelopes that deliver for real.

You get a sandbox key on the next screen. Real delivery, not a simulation.

Check your email

We sent a sign-in link to . It is good for 15 minutes, and your sandbox key is waiting on the other side.