PandaDoc has a strong reputation as a document automation platform: document creation, e-signatures, proposal building and CRM integrations in one product. For sales teams building proposals from scratch, it is a good fit and this page is not going to pretend otherwise.
But if your team mostly sends documents that already exist — contracts, agreements, onboarding paperwork, NDAs — you are paying per seat for a proposal builder nobody opens.
How PandaDoc Pricing Works
PandaDoc charges per seat. As of August 2026 its published plan comparison is:
| PandaDoc plan | Billed annually | Billed monthly | Pricing model | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free eSign | $0 | $0 | per account | 60 per year |
| Starter | $19/user/mo | $35/user/mo | per seat | unlimited |
| Business | $49/user/mo | $65/user/mo | per seat | unlimited |
| Enterprise | custom | custom | custom | unlimited |
Every seat costs the same whether that person sends fifty documents a month or none.
How GetDocsSigned Pricing Works
GetDocsSigned charges a flat rate by volume, and every plan includes unlimited users.
- Free — $0: 3 signature envelopes a month, 2 live forms, 2 record folders
- Starter — $9.99/month: 25 envelopes a month, 10 live forms, 5 GB storage
- Professional — $49.99/month: 150 envelopes a month, 50 live forms, 2,000 form responses, 25 GB storage, your branding
- Business — $99.99/month: unlimited envelopes, forms, responses and records, unlimited storage
No per-user fees. Your whole team gets full access on every plan, including the free one.
Side-by-Side Cost at Five Team Sizes
Using PandaDoc Business at its annual rate of $49/user/month — the cheaper of its two billing options.
| Team size | PandaDoc Business | GetDocsSigned | Monthly difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 users | $245/mo | $49.99 (Professional) | $195 |
| 10 users | $490/mo | $49.99 (Professional) | $440 |
| 20 users | $980/mo | $99.99 (Business) | $880 |
| 50 users | $2,450/mo | $99.99 (Business) | $2,350 |
| 100 users | $4,900/mo | $99.99 (Business) | $4,800 |
At 50 users that is $28,200 a year, and the gap widens with every hire — because on one side the price is a function of headcount and on the other it is not.
Where PandaDoc Is Genuinely the Better Choice
- Unlimited documents on every paid plan. PandaDoc does not meter sending at all above the free tier. GetDocsSigned includes a monthly envelope allowance until you reach Business. If you send very high volume from a single seat, PandaDoc Starter at $19/month is hard to beat on price per document.
- Proposal and quote building. A real drag-and-drop document builder, plus CPQ for configuring and pricing deals. GetDocsSigned has no equivalent — it expects the document to already exist.
- Native CRM integrations. HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive and others, maintained by PandaDoc. We have an API and webhooks, not a catalogue.
- Payments embedded in the document. Stripe, PayPal and Square, self-serve. GetDocsSigned offers payment collection only as an approval-gated add-on on paid plans, enabled by hand after a request.
- Document analytics. Per-page time-on-document reporting that tells a salesperson which section the buyer actually read.
If your sales motion depends on any of those, PandaDoc is the right tool.
Where GetDocsSigned Is Better
- Unlimited users on every plan, including free — a different pricing model, not a discount
- AI form builder that turns a description or an uploaded PDF into a working online form
- Records with compliance checklists so every signed document files itself into a folder per person, with a checklist of what is still missing
- Automated reminders that chase the missing documents on a schedule
- Continuous-scroll signing where signers move through the document naturally rather than page by page
- Templates and bulk send on every tier
- Full audit trail with IP address, timestamp and user agent on every signing event, and ESIGN Act compliance
Who Should Use Which
Choose PandaDoc if your sales team creates custom proposals and quotes, you need deep native CRM integration, you want self-serve payment collection inside documents, or you are one or two people sending very high volume.
Choose GetDocsSigned if you send documents that already exist, you have a team of any size and do not want to pay per seat, you need what happens after the signature — records, checklists, reminders — or you want the whole team on the tool without a procurement conversation.
The Bottom Line
PandaDoc is a document automation platform with e-signatures included. GetDocsSigned is a document collection platform: forms in, signatures on, records filed.
If you are paying PandaDoc $490 a month for ten seats when what you actually needed was collection and signing, that is $440 a month back — and it comes with records management, compliance checklists and automated reminders that PandaDoc does not have.
There is no trial to start and no card to enter: the free plan is permanent, and it is enough to send a real document to a real signer and judge it for yourself.