Scrive vs Calisto Sign
Scrive is a European signing service built around eID, sold as a personal licence for every sender on an annual contract. Calisto Sign has no licence: the charge follows the envelope.
Offers for leaving Scrive
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 Scrive.
Nothing is written until you have seen what will come across.
Scrive sells a licence. 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 Scrive, feature by feature.
| Feature | Calisto Sign | Scrive |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | ||
| Priced per envelope, never per userScrive sells eSign Online per user per month. | ✓ | ✗ |
| No annual term or monthly planScrive's rates are billed annually, with three months' notice before the contract ends. | ✓ | ✗ |
| No envelope or transaction allowance to run out ofScrive includes unlimited documents per licence; the allowance is the licence count. | ✓ | ✗ |
| Anyone in the account can send without a licenceScrive licences are personal, and everyone who sends needs one. | ✓ | ✗ |
| A month with nothing signed costs nothing | ✓ | ✗ |
| Sending | ||
| Reusable templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bulk send to many recipientsBulk send is an Enterprise feature on Scrive. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic reminders on a schedule | ✓ | ✓ |
| Business forms that render, place their own fields and sendScrive's forms builder is a paid add-on. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Signing | ||
| Signers never need an accountOnly the person who starts a contract needs a Scrive licence. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Identity | ||
| Government ID and liveness check before the document openseID and ID verification are add-ons with variable fees on Scrive; Calisto charges identity per check, as its own product. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Records | ||
| Certificate anyone can verify from a public link, no accountScrive offers a public document verification page. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audit trail of views, entries, signatures, downloads and remindersScrive includes an evidence package. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Where it stops | ||
| Qualified electronic signatures (eIDAS QES) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Public API and developer plansScrive sells an eSign API as its own product. | ✗ | ✓ |
| 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 Scrive prices separately, beside what a Calisto envelope already carries.
A licence per sender
Scrive licences are personal, and everyone who sends needs one, billed annually. Anyone in a Calisto account can send, and only the envelopes are charged.
eID and SMS on top
eID, SMS authentication and forms are add-ons with variable fees. In Calisto, identity is its own per-check product, switched on per document.
Three months' notice
Scrive asks for notice three months before the contract ends. Calisto Sign has no contract to give notice on.
Calisto Sign is priced per envelope. Never per seat.
What Scrive 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 Scrive
Completed documents generally stay with Scrive, 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 fees and the notice period, and hold what leaving costs you as credit in your Calisto wallet. Cancel, show us the proof, and it is released. A person reviews some claims, such as a contract in another currency.
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, national eID signing and a developer API are theirs; the record the signature belongs to is ours.
Bring your Scrive 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.