# Documenso vs Youtrust (slim)

> Youtrust scores 70.4 (BB) to Documenso's 59.8 (C) for e-signatures. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Youtrust scores 70.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Documenso's 59.8 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Documenso leads on maintenance & community. Both do e-signatures.

- Documenso: C 59.8, rank #605 of 1349 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/documenso.min.md
- Youtrust: BB 70.4, rank #183 of 1349 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrust.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 Maintenance & community, 93 against 61. Also Open source.
- Youtrust, good for A European product team that needs eIDAS-level signatures, seals and identity checks hosted in France, with a typed API and read-only keys for agents that track status. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 90 against 79; Security & auth, 68 against 52; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; No incidents deducted, where Documenso loses 8 points for them.

| Category | Documenso | Youtrust |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 85 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 90 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 64 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 52 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 93 | 61 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 75 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Documenso | Youtrust |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Documenso, Inc. | Youtrust SAS |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.documenso.com/api/v2` | `https://api.yousign.app/v3` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| 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 hosted service under the Youtrust Terms of Use and Subscription. The OpenAPI file's licence field reads proprietary |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-22 | 2026-10-21 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | 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 | none |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | none |

Why the edge:
- Maintenance & community, Documenso +32: Documenso 93 (v2.21.1 was released on 22 October 2026 (30). Six releases in the 90 days to 2 November, v2.17.0 (19 August), v2.18.0 (9 September), v2.19.0 (29 September), v2.20.0 (8 October), v2.21.0 (19 October) and v2.21.1 (22 October), read from the repository's tags (20). 123 open issues on GitHub on 7 October, with the newest eight all answered by at least one comment, per the 7 October check (github.com pages weren't readable on 2 November); 115 commits to the main branch since 4 August, the latest on 29 October (20 of 25). Official SDKs for TypeScript (0.9.1, 1 September 2026), Python (0.6.0, 7 February 2026) and Go, per the 7 October check (15). CI, end-to-end test and CodeQL workflows in the repository, and libpdf and critical dependencies upgraded in v2.20.0. We couldn't read the current CI result (8 of 10). 30 + 20 + 20 + 15 + 8 = 93.); Youtrust 61 (Read as a closed service. The changelog's newest entries are dated 21 October 2026 (30). Ten entries between 13 and 21 October 2026 (20). A help centre, contact@youtrust.com in the OpenAPI contact block, a changelog RSS feed and a feedback form for the AI connector. No public issue tracker (8 of 15). No official SDK; the GitHub organisation holds no client library and the docs point to generators and Postman (0 of 15). The OpenAPI file is current with the October changes and the MCP setup page was updated on 7 September 2026 (3 of 10). 30 + 20 + 8 + 0 + 3 = 61.)
- Security & auth, Youtrust +16: Documenso 52 (Revocable API tokens with optional expiry, limited to one team but with full access inside it and no scopes (20 of 30). No read-only token and no confirmation step before distribute, cancel or delete (4 of 20). Signer names and field values come back through the API with no guidance on treating them as untrusted (3 of 15). Each envelope has an audit log with timestamps and IP addresses, readable by API and as a PDF. No log of API token use was found (10 of 15). security.txt without an Expires field, a disclosure policy with a 48-hour acknowledgement target, advisories published on GitHub, CodeQL in CI and a SOC 2 Type II badge on the trust page. No bug bounty found (15 of 20). Webhook requests carry the shared secret in plain text instead of a payload signature.); Youtrust 68 (Bearer API keys with an Organization or Workspace scope and a Read-Only or Full-Access permission, separate per environment, created only by Admins and Owners, and OAuth for the AI connector with revocation in account settings. No expiry or rotation guidance found (26 of 30). Read-Only keys, workspace scoping, draft-then-activate, and the AI connector's examples ask before sending. The Developer MCP's execute-request runs any call with the key's full permissions, activation, cancellation and deletion included, and the API has no approval step (14 of 20). Signer names, field answers and documents return through the API, Safe String rules strip HTML, URLs and email addresses from inputs, and no injection guidance was found (4 of 15). Audit trails per signature request and signer, downloadable, plus consumption records; no log of API calls or key use was found (8 of 15). PGP-signed security.txt, a bug bounty and annual technical audits on the security page, eIDAS certification as a trust service provider, hosting in France. ISO 27001 was not named on the pages read (16 of 20). 26 + 14 + 4 + 8 + 16 = 68.)
- Schema & documentation, Youtrust +11: Documenso 79 (Public OpenAPI 3.0.3 spec at app.documenso.com/api/v2/openapi.json with 89 operations (25). llms.txt and llms-full.txt on the docs site (10). Every operation has a summary or description, though few say when not to use a call (12). Typed request bodies with enums throughout and required fields marked (13). The spec has no examples. The guides carry curl and JavaScript examples and a table of error codes with recommended actions, and one guide page shows a Bearer prefix that the authentication page doesn't use (9). A versioning page and GitHub release notes, which are lists of merged pull requests, and the spec's own version stays at 1.0.0 (10).); Youtrust 90 (A public OpenAPI 3.0.0 file with 178 operations on 114 paths, a bearer scheme and 282 enums (25). developers.youtrust.com serves llms.txt, a per-section llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every page (10). Every operation has a description, 28 of them under 40 characters, and the guides explain the signature request lifecycle, when to use templates and the Tolerant Reader rule (14 of 20). Required fields, 282 enums, a Safe String type with stated rules, and a free-form metadata object (13 of 15). 1,307 examples in the file, every operation documents 400, 401, 403, 404, 405, 429 and 500, the error page gives the type, detail and invalid_params shape with retry guidance per code, and a list of error types is published (15). v3 in the path, a versioning page with compatibility rules, a Deprecated tag in the file, and a changelog with ten entries dated 13 to 21 October 2026 and an RSS feed, with no removal timeline (13 of 15). 25 + 10 + 14 + 13 + 15 + 13 = 90.)
- Payments & pricing, Youtrust +10: Documenso 30 (Scored on the hosted cloud, which is the graded surface. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices are public, $0, $25, $40 and $250 a month, with no per-document or per-call price (10). Free plan with API access and 5 documents a month, and the pricing page mentions no card (20). A person has to sign up and create the token in the web app (0).); Youtrust 40 (Read with the hosted rubric. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). API plan prices are public without login, Plus from €104 a month and Pro from €129 with €2 per extra signature (20). The sandbox trial lasts 40 days and needs no credit card per the API pricing page (20). A person signs up in a browser and an Admin creates the key there (0). 0 + 20 + 20 + 0 = 40.)