eSignature without a subscription

Almost every e-signature product on the market is built around a monthly plan, even for people who sign a handful of documents a year. If you need to sign a lease, an offer letter or a one-off contract and do not want to start a subscription to do it, that design works against you before you have typed a single field.

FairSign separates the two things a subscription usually bundles together: signing your own documents, which is free forever, and sending a document to someone else, which works without any subscription at all.

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The two things that get bundled everywhere else

Signing your own document

Placing your own signature on a PDF someone sent you, or on your own paperwork. This costs almost nothing to run, since it happens entirely in your browser, so FairSign never charges for it and never will.

Sending a document for someone else to sign

This involves delivery, tracking and storage, which costs us something real, so it is metered: 3 free a month, then a credits pack or a subscription depending on how often you do it.

What each way of paying actually suits

	Best for	Price
Self-signing	Anyone, any volume	Free forever
Free sending	A document or two a month	$0, 3/mo included
Credits pack	Occasional, no recurring plan	$7 for 10 sends, never expires
Pro subscription	Sending regularly	$12/mo, unlimited

No plan on this page requires a subscription to get started, and self-signing never has, and never will.

Why other tools default to a subscription

A monthly plan is simpler to sell and easier to forecast than metered usage, so most e-signature companies build only one product: a subscription sized for a frequent sender, with a free trial in front of it to get you started. Someone who signs three documents a year is not the customer that pricing was designed for, and it shows: the trial expires, the plan resumes billing, and the occasional user ends up paying for capacity they never use.

We built the free tier and the credits pack because that person is a real customer, not an edge case, and charging them a monthly fee for an annual need is not a fair price, it is just the only price most tools offer.

A landlord signing three leases a year

Picture someone who owns two rental units and signs a new lease whenever a tenant turns over, roughly two or three times a year, plus the occasional repair estimate or contractor agreement. That workload does not justify a monthly subscription at any price, yet most e-signature tools would still ask for a card on file before the first document is signed.

With FairSign, that same landlord signs their own paperwork for free, and sends the lease to a new tenant using one of the three free monthly requests, or a credits pack if a busier year needs more. Nothing about the price they pay depends on committing to a plan they will mostly leave unused.

FAQ

Do I have to pay anything to sign my own document?

No. Self-signing is free forever, with no account and no trial that expires. It runs in your browser, so it costs us nothing to host, and we pass that through rather than gating it behind a plan.

What if I need to send it to someone else, but only once?

The free plan includes 3 send requests a month at no cost. Beyond that, a credits pack is $7 for 10 sends that never expire, so an occasional sender never has to start a subscription just to send one document.

Is a credits pack worse value than a subscription?

Per send, yes, a subscription is cheaper once you send often. That is exactly why it should be optional: someone sending two or three documents a year pays for two or three documents, not for a $12/mo plan sized for someone sending fifty.

Cancel any time, no cancellation fee, 14-day refund written into policy.

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