# Documenso vs SignWell (slim)

> Documenso and SignWell score within a point of each other for e-signatures, 62.8 and 61.9 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Documenso and SignWell score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 62.8 (B) and 61.9 (C). SignWell leads on payments & pricing. Both do e-signatures.

- Documenso: B 62.8, rank #418 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/documenso.min.md
- SignWell: C 61.9, rank #454 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/signwell.min.md
- Documenso, good for Teams that want an e-signature API they can also self-host, with templates, embedded signing and an audit log by API. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 64 against 52; Security & auth, 52 against 47; Maintenance & community, 93 against 77; Transparency & trust, 75 against 65. Also Open source.
- SignWell, good for A small software team adding signing to its own product at a per-document price with no seat minimum, embedded signing, requesting and template editing, and bulk send to 500 recipients. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 35 against 30. Also Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where Documenso loses 5 points for them.

| Category | Documenso | SignWell |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 85 | 81 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 64 | 52 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 52 | 47 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 93 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 75 | 65 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Documenso | SignWell |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Documenso, Inc. | Docsketch, LLC (DBA SignWell) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.documenso.com/api/v2` | `https://www.signwell.com/api/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 for the Community Edition, with a commercial Enterprise Edition licence. The TypeScript, Python and Go SDKs are MIT. The hosted cloud runs under Documenso's terms of service | Proprietary service under SignWell's terms and conditions. The MCP server, the CLI and the Ruby, Node, Python and PHP SDKs on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 16 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.Bidsketch/signwell-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-28 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2025-08-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-05-28 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 15k stars, 48k npm/wk, 3.6k PyPI/wk | 1 stars, 270 npm/wk |