DocuSign vs Calisto Sign
DocuSign is the category's incumbent, sold per seat on an annual plan with an envelope allowance. Calisto Sign is sold per envelope, to any account, with no plan at all.
Offers for leaving DocuSign
Every offer below is live right now. Some are specific to this switch, some apply to everyone leaving another platform.
Credit
Your remaining contract becomes Calisto credit
Upload the contract you are still bound by. We read what is left on the term and credit that amount to your Calisto wallet once you have cancelled — every signature, every product, paid from it.
Import from DocuSign.
Nothing is written until you have seen what will come across.
DocuSign sells a seat. Calisto Sign sells an envelope.
A seat charges for the people who might send. An envelope charges for the ones that go out.
Feature by feature
Calisto Sign beside DocuSign, feature by feature.
| Feature | Calisto Sign | DocuSign |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | ||
| Priced per envelope, never per userDocuSign sells seats per user per month. | ✓ | ✗ |
| No annual term or monthly planDocuSign's published rates are annual-commitment rates; month to month costs more. | ✓ | ✗ |
| No envelope or transaction allowance to run out ofDocuSign Standard and Business Pro carry 100 envelopes per user per year; sending past it is charged as overage. | ✓ | ✗ |
| Anyone in the account can send without a licenceEvery DocuSign sender needs a seat. | ✓ | ✗ |
| A month with nothing signed costs nothing | ✓ | ✗ |
| Sending | ||
| Reusable templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bulk send to many recipientsBulk send is a Business Pro feature on DocuSign. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic reminders on a schedule | ✓ | ✓ |
| Parallel or sequential signing order | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fields that fill themselves from the record the document was prepared againstCalisto Sign reads the linked contact or booking; no integration to buy. | ✓ | ✗ |
| Business forms that render, place their own fields and send | ✓ | ✗ |
| Signing | ||
| Draw, type or upload a signature | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sign in person on a tablet at the counter | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hand off to the signer's own phone by QR code | ✓ | ✗ |
| Decline with a reason | ✓ | ✓ |
| Signers never need an account | ✓ | ✓ |
| Identity | ||
| Government ID and liveness check before the document opensIdentity verification is a paid add-on on DocuSign; Calisto charges it per check, as its own product. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Compliance check that adds AML screening | ✓ | ✗ |
| Verify outside signers only; your own staff are already known | ✓ | ✗ |
| Records | ||
| Certificate of completion on every finished document | ✓ | ✓ |
| Certificate anyone can verify from a public link, no account | ✓ | ✗ |
| Audit trail of views, entries, signatures, downloads and reminders | ✓ | ✓ |
| Signed waiver writes coverage against the person, with an expiry warning | ✓ | ✗ |
| Where it stops | ||
| Qualified electronic signatures (eIDAS QES) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Radio and dropdown field typesCalisto Sign places signature, initials, date, text and checkbox fields. | ✗ | ✓ |
| Public API and developer plans | ✗ | ✓ |
| Native connectors to third-party CRMsDocuSign connects natively to Salesforce and others; Calisto Sign works with Deals, and outside CRMs import through Contacts. | ✗ | ✓ |
| Contacts, documents, bookings and deals in the same system as the signature | ✓ | ✗ |
The seat is the start of the bill, not the end of it.
What DocuSign prices separately, beside what a Calisto envelope already carries.
The seat itself
Every colleague who sends is a seat, billed for the year whether they send in January or never. A Calisto envelope is charged once, when it is sent, whoever sent it.
Envelopes past the allowance
Standard and Business Pro carry 100 envelopes per user per year, and the next one is an overage. There is no allowance on Calisto Sign; there is a rate.
Identity, SMS and bulk send
ID verification and SMS delivery are add-ons, and bulk send sits on the higher plan. In Calisto, bulk send to 500 is included and identity is its own per-check product, switched on per document.
Calisto Sign is priced per envelope. Never per seat.
What DocuSign publishes, beside what Calisto Sign charges. No figure is converted between currencies; a rate is shown only where it is published.
List prices as published on 2026-09-13; a figure is shown only in the currency the vendor publishes it in. Source
Leaving DocuSign
Completed envelopes generally stay with DocuSign, because their certificates are theirs. Download them before you close the account; anything you send from Calisto Sign carries its own certificate and audit trail.
Templates rebuild with drag-and-drop field placement on the PDF you already have. Field positions are in PDF points, so a template you place once is exact on every send.
Upload the contract from the offer above. We read the term, the fee and the notice period, and what leaving costs you is held as credit in your Calisto wallet, released once you show us it is cancelled.
The pricing section on this page reads the live catalogue and is the authority on the figure. One envelope holds every document and every signer the agreement needs, and is charged once, when it is sent; drafting and placing fields cost nothing.
The table above says so plainly. Qualified electronic signatures, a developer API and native connectors to third-party CRMs are theirs; the record the signature belongs to is ours.
Bring your DocuSign data with you.
Upload your current contract and we will read the cancellation terms and credit your wallet for what leaving costs you. Bring your records across with a CSV import. Setup costs nothing.