# DocuSeal vs SignWell (slim)

> DocuSeal and SignWell score within a point of each other for e-signatures, 62.4 and 61.9 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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DocuSeal and SignWell score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 62.4 (B) and 61.9 (C). SignWell leads on reliability. Both do e-signatures.

- DocuSeal: B 62.4, rank #433 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/docuseal.min.md
- SignWell: C 61.9, rank #454 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/signwell.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 Security & auth, 52 against 47; Payments & pricing, 55 against 35; Maintenance & community, 90 against 77; Transparency & trust, 79 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 Reliability, 81 against 50. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | DocuSeal | SignWell |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 81 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 56 | 52 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 52 | 47 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 55 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 90 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 65 |

| Fact (where they differ) | DocuSeal | SignWell |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | DocuSeal, LLC | Docsketch, LLC (DBA SignWell) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.docuseal.com` | `https://www.signwell.com/api/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| 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 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 | 2026-10-05 | 2026-09-28 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-03-14 | 2025-08-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-06 | 2026-05-28 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 19k stars, 28k npm/wk | 1 stars, 270 npm/wk |