# DocuSeal vs Docusign (slim)

> Docusign and DocuSeal score within a point of each other for e-signatures, 62.5 and 62.4 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Docusign and DocuSeal score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 62.5 (B) and 62.4 (B). DocuSeal leads on schema & documentation, payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do e-signatures.

- DocuSeal: B 62.4, rank #433 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/docuseal.min.md
- Docusign: B 62.5, rank #429 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/docusign.min.md
- DocuSeal, good for A software company adding signing to its own product, paying per completed document, with HTML, PDF tag and DOCX variable templates and embeddable forms, and a choice of US or EU hosting or self-hosting. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 77 against 70; Payments & pricing, 55 against 30; Maintenance & community, 90 against 81; Transparency & trust, 79 against 72. Also Open source.
- Docusign, good for Teams whose company already uses Docusign and needs an agent to send envelopes from templates, embed signing and track status with a full audit trail. Ahead on Reliability, 57 against 50; Agent ergonomics, 70 against 56; Security & auth, 64 against 52.

| Category | DocuSeal | Docusign |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 56 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 52 | 64 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 55 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 90 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | DocuSeal | Docusign |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | DocuSeal, LLC | Docusign, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.docuseal.com` | `https://mcp.docusign.com/mcp` |
| Auth | API key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 with an added attribution term for the open-source edition, and a paid Pro licence for on-premises use. The SDKs and the CLI are MIT. The hosted cloud runs under DocuSeal's terms and conditions | Proprietary service under Docusign's Master Services Agreement. The OpenAPI specifications repository and the eSignature SDKs on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 42 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-03-14 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-06 | 2025-10-09 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 19k stars, 28k npm/wk | 543k npm/wk, 306k PyPI/wk |