DocuSign gets it signed.
Apdf shows every step to it.
Request signatures from your app, and get every open and page read before them back as a webhook — with the PDF generated by the same API. One flat price, not an envelope plan.
Why teams outgrow the DocuSign API.
DocuSign is built to move envelopes. For an app that sends documents to people outside the company, that leaves two gaps: the PDF before the envelope, and everything the reader does before signing.
Priced by the envelope
The API Starter plan is $50 a month billed annually — $75 month to month — for a starting amount of 40 envelopes. Every envelope over that is billed on top.
Delivered, then silence
Connect events stop at envelope and recipient status: sent, delivered, completed. None says which page was read, or for how long.
Generation costs extra
Document generation must be purchased for production plans, and only creates DOCX files. The API plans list no merge, compress or OCR.
Steep steps up
The next plan is $300 a month billed annually for a starting 100 envelopes. PowerForms for the API start on Advanced at $480.
What you get instead.
Signatures priced for apps, plus the two steps DocuSign leaves to you: generating the PDF and knowing how it was read.
Signatures, priced for apps
Up to ten signers per request, fields placed by text anchor, coordinates or the PDF’s form fields, and a sealed PDF with its audit trail — on every plan, the free one included.
The road to the signature
Every open, page read, comment and form entry reaches your app as a typed event with the signer’s name — so you know who is stuck on the terms before the deadline, not after.
The PDF, generated
Render the contract from your HTML, convert the Word file or fill a PDF form — then send it for signature with the same key. Generation is part of the plan, not an add-on.
Apdf vs. DocuSign
Both get the document signed. Only one tells your app what happened before the signature — and generates the PDF too.
Need qualified signatures? Use DocuSign. Sending documents from your app? Use Apdf.
More signatures,
less per month.
DocuSign sells envelopes, and generation on top. Apdf prices the workspace — generation, tracking and signatures in one plan.
API Starter, billed annually — 40 envelopes a month.
- $75 a month if you pay month to month
- Envelopes over the allowance billed on top
- Document generation purchased separately, DOCX only
- Next plan: $300/mo billed annually for 100 envelopes
Pro, billed monthly — the whole team, one workspace.
- 50 signature requests a month, however many sign
- Generation and 20,000 PDF operations included
- Page reads and signatures as webhooks
- Hard caps, never an overage charge
Switch in an afternoon.
No envelope model to learn and no plan to negotiate. If you have sent an envelope through DocuSign’s API, you already know the shape.
Bring the PDF
Pass the URL of the PDF you already send, or generate it from HTML or a Word file through the same API.
Replace the envelope call
One signature request names the signers and places the fields — by text anchor, coordinates or the PDF’s form fields.
Swap Connect for events
Point an automation at your endpoint. Signed, declined and completed arrive there — and every page read before them.