E-signature software in the UK costs from about £8 to £33 per user a month on self-serve plans billed annually, and from about £10 to £54 billed monthly, going by the prices each vendor showed on its own UK pricing page on 14 October 2026. The headline number is only half the answer: plans differ in whether they charge per user or per account, how many documents you can send, and whether the price includes VAT.
UK prices, read on 14 October 2026
Each figure below is per user a month unless it says otherwise, exactly as shown in pounds on the vendor's own pricing page that day. Prices change, and some of these pages run experiments, so check the page before you buy.
| Plan | Billed annually, a month | Billed monthly | Sends included | VAT, as the page states it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DocuSign Personal (1 user) | £8 | £12 | 5 a month | Not stated beside the price |
| DocuSign Standard | £20 per user | £34 per user | 100 per user a year on annual; 10 per user a month on monthly | Not stated beside the price |
| DocuSign Business Pro | £33 per user | £54 per user | As Standard | Not stated beside the price |
| Adobe Acrobat Standard (individual) | £14.99 | £24.98 | No limit stated | Included |
| Adobe Acrobat Pro (individual) | £19.97 | £29.96 | No limit stated | Included |
| Dropbox Sign Essentials (1 user) | £11.67 | £15.83 | Unlimited | Not stated |
| Dropbox Sign Standard (2 users minimum) | £20 per user | £24 per user | Unlimited | Not stated |
| Zoho Sign Standard | £8 per user | £10 per user | 25 per user a month | Excluded |
| Zoho Sign Professional | £13 per user | £17 per user | Unlimited | Excluded |
| Signable Essentials (unlimited users) | £480 a year, not per user | Annual only | 300 a year | Excluded |
| Signable Pay As You Go | From £2.60 per envelope | Bundles from 10 for £30 | Per envelope | Not stated |
Adobe's individual annual prices are an annual commitment billed monthly; its team licences, priced excluding VAT, ran from £14.16 to £24.94 a month on an annual plan. DocuSign's monthly figures come from the plan data behind the page's monthly toggle. Higher tiers at DocuSign (Enhanced), Dropbox Sign (Premium) and Signable (Business and Enterprise) were priced on request.
Three other well-known tools did not show pounds to a UK visitor that day: PandaDoc and SignNow priced in US dollars, and Youtrust, the new name for Yousign, showed euros by default. They are left out of the table rather than converted.
Three things that change the real cost
- Per user or per account. Most plans charge for each person who sends. A team of five on a £20 per-user plan pays £100 a month, so multiply before you compare. Signable's Essentials plan and our own plans are priced per account instead.
- Sends included. A low price with 5 sends a month suits occasional use and becomes expensive if you outgrow it. Check what happens past the allowance: some vendors charge per extra envelope, and not every page shows that rate.
- VAT. Some pages include VAT and some do not, and several do not say. A price excluding VAT costs a VAT-registered business the same in the end, but a business that cannot reclaim VAT pays 20% more than the figure shown.
What moves you up a tier
- Your own branding on the signing pages: Standard at DocuSign and Dropbox Sign, Essentials at Signable, Professional at Zoho Sign.
- Bulk send, one document to many signers: Business Pro at DocuSign, Standard at Dropbox Sign, Business at Signable, Enterprise at Zoho Sign.
- Text-message or phone checks on the signer: Standard at Dropbox Sign; at Zoho Sign from Standard, paid for in credits.
- An API to send from your own systems: a separate developer plan at DocuSign and Dropbox Sign, Business at Signable, Enterprise at Zoho Sign.
Free plans and trials
Zoho Sign had a free plan for one user with 5 envelopes a month, and a 14-day trial. Dropbox Sign offered a 30-day trial and a free plan whose limits its pricing page did not give. Adobe offered a free trial of Acrobat Pro. DocuSign's pricing page showed no free plan or trial, but a 30-day refund on annual plans, and Signable's showed no trial.
Where 99 Data Rooms fits
99 Data Rooms is a data room with e-signature built in, priced per account rather than per user. Plus is £19 a month, or £190 a year (about £15.83 a month), including VAT, with 5 signature requests a month and up to two signers on each. Pro is £49 a month with unlimited requests and more than two signers. There are no per-user fees: every plan is one flat price, and we never charge per seat, per user or per viewer. Invite colleagues into your rooms as members at no extra cost, on every plan. Free, Plus and Pro are one account each; a Business company account brings the whole company under one plan with unlimited seats. The Free plan does not include e-signature.
Because those prices are per account and include VAT, while most of the figures above are per user and several exclude VAT, they are not the same unit: work out what your team would pay in total on each before comparing. What the price also includes is the data room around the signature: secure sharing, page-by-page reading analytics and a signing order you set, with a certificate of completion kept with the signed document. Our guide to placing signature fields on a PDF shows the signing side step by step.
Is a paid tool worth it at all?
Under the law of England and Wales an electronic signature is admissible in evidence, and the Law Commission concluded in 2019 that one can validly sign most documents, including a deed, provided the deed's witness is physically present. A paid tool adds what makes a signature easy to prove later: a record of who signed, when and how they were checked, and a fingerprint of the exact file. Our guides to whether electronic signatures are legal in England and Wales and to the e-signature audit trail go into both.
Frequently asked questions
How much does DocuSign cost in the UK? On 14 October 2026 its UK page showed Personal at £8 a month billed annually or £12 monthly, Standard at £20 or £34 per user, and Business Pro at £33 or £54 per user, with no VAT wording beside the prices.
Is there free e-signature software? Some vendors have free plans with low limits, such as Zoho Sign's single-user plan with 5 envelopes a month. Check the limits and whether the free plan keeps an audit record you can rely on.
Do UK e-signature prices include VAT? It depends on the vendor. On the pages we read, Adobe's individual prices included VAT, Zoho Sign and Signable excluded it, and DocuSign and Dropbox Sign did not say. Our own prices include VAT.
Is per-user or per-account pricing better? Per account is usually better value for a team that shares the sending; per user can be better for one person who sends a lot on an unlimited plan. Multiply by your team size before comparing.
Work out your own number
Count who sends, how many documents a month, and whether you can reclaim VAT, then price each option for that team. Our pricing page sets out what each of our plans includes.
Sources
- DocuSign eSignature plans and pricing (UK), read 14 Oct 2026, https://ecom.docusign.com/en-GB/plans-and-pricing/esignature
- Adobe Acrobat plans (UK), read 14 Oct 2026, https://www.adobe.com/uk/acrobat/plans.html
- Dropbox Sign pricing, read 14 Oct 2026 from the UK, https://sign.dropbox.com/products/dropbox-sign/pricing
- Zoho Sign pricing, read 14 Oct 2026 from the UK, https://www.zoho.com/sign/pricing.html
- Signable plans, read 14 Oct 2026, https://www.signable.com/plans/
- Electronic Communications Act 2000, section 7, https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/7/section/7
- Law Commission, Electronic execution of documents (Law Com No 386, 2019), https://lawcom.gov.uk/project/electronic-execution-of-documents/
- VAT rates, https://www.gov.uk/vat-rates
Our prices on this page are UK prices in GBP and include VAT where it applies. Checkout shows the price for your country, and any tax added to it.