Zoho Sign alternative: counting envelopes, per person
Zoho Sign counts 25 envelopes per user per month on Standard and five a month on the free plan. FairSign does not count envelopes at all and charges per account, not per user. Stay with Zoho if you already run on the Zoho suite.
Zoho Sign is genuinely inexpensive, and if your company already runs on Zoho CRM, Books and Mail, leaving is the wrong move. This page is not going to argue otherwise.
What sends people looking is the meter. The free tier is five envelopes a month for a single user, and the Standard plan counts 25 envelopes per user per month. You end up doing arithmetic every month about whether you can send one more contract.
Three signature requests a month, forever, with nothing counted against you. Self-signing is unlimited and never leaves your browser.
Zoho Sign vs FairSign
| FairSign | Zoho Sign Standard | |
|---|---|---|
| How sending is counted | Not counted, unlimited on the $12 plan | 25 envelopes per user per month on Standard |
| Free tier | Three signature requests a month, forever | Five envelopes a month, one user |
| How it is billed | Per account, monthly or yearly, cancel any time | Per user, and the listed rates are billed annually |
| Unlimited envelopes | Included at $12/mo | Professional plan and above |
| Fits into an existing suite | No suite. An API, a Chrome extension and a web app | Deep integration with the rest of Zoho |
| Signing your own document | Runs in your browser, the file is never uploaded | Uploaded to their servers |
Sources: zoho.com/sign/pricing, Standard plan, read 2026-09-12 · zoho.com/sign/pricing, free plan, read 2026-09-12 · zoho.com/sign/pricing, read 2026-09-12 · zoho.com/sign/pricing, Professional plan, read 2026-09-12
Which one should you actually buy?
Stay with Zoho Sign if you already pay for Zoho. A signature tool that writes back into the CRM you use every day is worth more than two dollars a month, and we cannot do that.
Come here if Zoho Sign is the only Zoho product you use, or if the envelope count is something you think about. One price, no meter, and no per-user maths: $24 covers 3 people.
Zoho's prices are not printed on their pricing page for the paid tiers, only the envelope allowances, which is itself a reason people go looking. The allowances above are quoted directly from that page.