# DocuSeal vs Dropbox Sign (slim)

> Dropbox Sign scores 68.9 (B) to DocuSeal's 62.4 (B) for e-signatures. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Dropbox Sign scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against DocuSeal's 62.4 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. DocuSeal leads on 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
- Dropbox Sign: B 68.9, rank #202 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/dropbox-sign.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 Payments & pricing, 55 against 25; Maintenance & community, 90 against 85; Transparency & trust, 79 against 68. Also Open source.
- Dropbox Sign, good for An agent that sends a prepared PDF or a saved template for signature from one company account and tracks it to completion by webhook or polling, with the signed PDF and audit trail at the end. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 50; Schema & documentation, 88 against 77; Agent ergonomics, 72 against 56; Security & auth, 65 against 52.

| Category | DocuSeal | Dropbox Sign |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 56 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 52 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 55 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 90 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | DocuSeal | Dropbox Sign |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | DocuSeal, LLC | Dropbox, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.docuseal.com` | `https://api.hellosign.com/v3` |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| 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 the Dropbox Sign terms of service. The OpenAPI spec repository is Apache 2.0 and the official SDKs are MIT |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-09-10 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-03-14 | 2025-01-07 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-06 | 2025-01-14 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 19k stars, 28k npm/wk | 22 stars, 150k npm/wk |