Dropbox Sign vs Calisto Sign
Dropbox Sign sells unlimited sending per seat, and its team plan starts at two seats whether you have two senders or one. Calisto Sign has no seats: the charge follows the signature.
Offers for leaving Dropbox Sign
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 Dropbox Sign.
Nothing is written until you have seen what will come across.
Dropbox Sign 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 Dropbox Sign, feature by feature.
| Feature | Calisto Sign | Dropbox Sign |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | ||
| Priced per envelope, never per userDropbox Sign sells seats per user per month. | ✓ | ✗ |
| No annual term or monthly planDropbox Sign's published rates are annual-commitment rates; month to month costs more. | ✓ | ✗ |
| No envelope or transaction allowance to run out ofDropbox Sign's paid plans are unlimited requests per seat; the allowance is the seat count. | ✓ | ✗ |
| Anyone in the account can send without a licenceDropbox Sign's Standard plan carries a two-seat minimum. | ✓ | ✗ |
| A month with nothing signed costs nothing | ✓ | ✗ |
| Sending | ||
| Reusable templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bulk send to many recipientsBulk send is a Standard-plan feature on Dropbox Sign. | ✓ | ✓ |
| 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 opensDropbox Sign offers signer authentication; government ID checks are not a published feature of the standard plans. | ✓ | ✓ |
| 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 CRMsDropbox Sign connects natively to Dropbox, Google and HubSpot; 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 Dropbox Sign prices separately, beside what a Calisto envelope already carries.
The second seat
Standard starts at two seats. A solo operator who needs branding and bulk send pays for a colleague who does not exist. A Calisto envelope is one rate, however many people send.
The API is a separate plan
Embedded signing on Dropbox Sign is sold as its own API plan. Calisto Sign has no API tier — and says so in the table — because the apps it signs for are already in the same system.
Unlimited is still a seat
Unlimited requests are unlimited for the seat that holds them. On Calisto, the quiet month costs nothing and the busy month costs exactly its envelopes.
Calisto Sign is priced per envelope. Never per seat.
What Dropbox Sign 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 Dropbox Sign
Completed envelopes generally stay with Dropbox Sign, 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 Dropbox Sign 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.