Documenso vs GetTerms Comparison 2026
Both cover legal & contracts. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Open source signing you can host yourself
Policies and a cookie banner for five dollars
At a glance
- GetTerms starts cheaper, at $5.
- Only Documenso has a free tier.
Side by side
Documenso | GetTerms | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $25 | From $5 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | Paid subscription |
| Free tier (they differ) | Yes | No |
| Billing | Not stated | Not stated |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | None |
| Runs on (they differ) |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Documenso
Open source signing you can host yourself
Documenso is an electronic signature service whose code is public, so a business that cannot send contracts to somebody else's server can run the whole thing on its own. The hosted version behaves like the incumbents: fields, signing order, audit trail and a completed PDF. Five documents a month cost nothing. Self-hosting means the signing infrastructure becomes yours to keep running, which is a real commitment and the reason most people take the hosted plan.
Our note
Take the hosted plan unless there is a specific reason the documents cannot leave your infrastructure, because self-hosting a signing service means you now own its uptime and its backups. Five documents a month is a real free tier for somebody sending the occasional contract.
GetTerms
Policies and a cookie banner for five dollars
GetTerms generates a privacy policy, a cookie policy and the consent banner that has to sit in front of them, priced per website rather than per company. The cheaper plan covers fifty thousand banner views a month and the dearer one removes the cap. Policy edits, regulation monitoring and multiple languages separate the two. This produces a document rather than legal advice, and a business with real exposure should still pay a lawyer to read it.
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