Zoho Sign vs Calisto Sign
Zoho Sign is priced per seat with a monthly envelope cap on its entry plan and credits for SMS. Calisto Sign is one rate per envelope, with nothing capped and nothing to top up.
Offers for leaving Zoho 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 Zoho Sign.
Nothing is written until you have seen what will come across.
Zoho 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 Zoho Sign, feature by feature.
| Feature | Calisto Sign | Zoho Sign |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | ||
| Priced per envelope, never per userZoho Sign sells seats per user per month. | ✓ | ✗ |
| No annual term or monthly planZoho Sign's published rates are annual-commitment rates; month to month costs more. | ✓ | ✗ |
| No envelope or transaction allowance to run out ofZoho Sign Standard carries 25 envelopes per user per month. | ✓ | ✗ |
| Anyone in the account can send without a licenceEvery Zoho Sign sender is a seat. | ✓ | ✗ |
| A month with nothing signed costs nothing | ✓ | ✗ |
| Sending | ||
| Reusable templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bulk send to many recipientsBulk send is available on Zoho Sign's Professional plan and above. | ✓ | ✓ |
| 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 opensZoho Sign authenticates signers by SMS and email, billed in credits; government ID with liveness is 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 CRMsZoho Sign connects natively to Zoho CRM 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 Zoho Sign prices separately, beside what a Calisto envelope already carries.
The seat itself
Every Zoho Sign sender is a seat, billed for the year. A Calisto envelope is charged once, when it is sent, whoever sent it.
The 26th envelope
Standard carries 25 envelopes per user per month; unlimited sending starts on Professional. On Calisto there is no cap; there is a rate.
Credits for SMS
SMS authentication on Zoho Sign is billed in credits on top of the seat. In Calisto, a signer can finish on their own phone by QR code, and identity is its own per-check product.
Calisto Sign is priced per envelope. Never per seat.
What Zoho 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 Zoho Sign
Completed envelopes generally stay with Zoho 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 Zoho 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.