01COUNTERSIGNED VS JOTFORM SIGN
Jotform Sign rides on one of the best form builders around. Its free Starter plan allows 10 signed documents a month, and the next step, Bronze, is $34 a month billed annually for 100. Countersigned is built only for agreements, and gives you 20 envelopes a month and up to 20 templates free.
20 envelopes a month and up to 20 templates. Free forever.
02SIDE BY SIDE
Countersigned Free against Jotform Sign’s own published plans. Jotform Starter covers 10 signed documents a month.
| Feature | Countersigned Free | Jotform Sign |
|---|---|---|
| 01Signed documents on the free plan | 20 a month | 10 a month Advantage: Countersigned. |
| 02Price for 20 a month | $0 | $34/mo (Bronze, annual) Advantage: Countersigned. |
| 03Price for 100 a month | $20/mo (Pro) | $34/mo (Bronze, annual) Advantage: Countersigned. |
| 04Form builder | Agreements only | Full form builder with payments and logic Advantage: Them. |
| 05Ready-made templates | Bring your own PDFs | 1,000+ signing templates Advantage: Them. |
| 06Mobile app | Browser only | Jotform Sign Mobile Advantage: Them. |
JOTFORM SIGNPUBLISHED SELF-SERVE PLANS
03DO THE MATH
Pick how many agreements you send a month. We’ll find Jotform Sign’s cheapest published plan that covers it, and ours.
One sender, cheapest self-serve Jotform Sign plan that covers your volume, at its listed monthly rate. Checked October 10, 2026.
04IN FAIRNESS
We’d rather you choose with the whole picture. If your process starts with a form, Jotform is excellent at forms. If it starts with an agreement, Countersigned sends 20 free a month to Jotform’s 10, and costs less as you grow.
A complete form builder with conditional logic and payments.
More than 1,000 ready-made signing templates.
A dedicated mobile app, approval flows and signer delegation.
Integrations with cloud storage, CRMs and email tools.
PCI DSS Level 1, HIPAA-enabled forms on Gold, and high-volume plans up to 1,000 documents a month.
05HOW IT’S FREE
Free isn’t a trial or a teaser. It comes from how we build, and who builds it.
The team behind DocuPipe spent a decade building machine-learning systems. Now we write, review and test Countersigned with AI at every step. That lets a small team run a complete signing product without legacy code or a large sales floor to fund, so the essentials can stay free.
It also means we move quickly. When something you need is missing, tell us.
Countersigned is built by the team behind DocuPipe, the document-intelligence platform with ISO 27001:2022 certification, a SOC 2 Type II report and annual penetration tests. Those attestations cover DocuPipe, not Countersigned yet, but the habits came with us.
06SWITCHING
There’s no import tool yet, and you don’t need one. Your agreements are PDFs.
Email or Google. No credit card, no trial clock.
Upload the PDFs you already send, place signer fields, and save up to 20 as reusable templates.
Recipients sign in the browser without an account, and everyone gets the completed PDF.
07QUESTIONS
Jotform’s free Starter plan includes 10 signed documents a month. Countersigned Free includes 20 envelopes a month and up to 20 templates.
Up to 200 envelopes a month, Countersigned Pro is $20 per seat. Jotform Bronze is $34 a month billed annually for 100 signed documents, and Silver is $39 for 250.
We build with AI at every step, so a small team can run the whole product without a large sales organization to pay for. Free covers 20 envelopes a month and up to 20 templates, permanently. Teams that need more pay for Pro: $20 per seat per month for 200 shared envelopes. That, not your data, is the business model.
Countersigned records each signer’s consent, signing events, IP address and browser, and produces a completed PDF with a completion record and document hashes. In the US, the ESIGN Act and UETA generally prevent a signature from being denied legal effect just because it’s electronic, but whether e-signing suits a particular agreement depends on the document and the law that applies. Countersigned doesn’t yet offer certificate-backed PDF sealing or qualified eIDAS signatures.
Sending pauses until your allowance resets on the first of the month, or you can upgrade to Pro for 200 shared envelopes at $20 per seat per month. Signing and template reuse never use up envelopes; only sending does.
No. Recipients open a private link, review the document and sign in the browser. They don’t need an account or a subscription, and everyone gets the completed PDF.
08YOUR NEXT AGREEMENT
