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Documenso

Open-source e-signature platform you can self-host or use as a hosted cloud.

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Since 2023

Operated by Documenso, Inc.

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running an electronic signature workflow in Documenso by uploading a PDF or starting from a template, assigning recipients as signers, approvers, viewers, assistants or CC, placing signature and other fields on the document and sending it for signing in parallel or in sequence, after which each recipient signs by drawing, typing or uploading a signature image and the completed PDF is sealed at the platform level with an X.509 certificate that proves integrity and authenticity, with an audit log attached and an optional trusted timestamp from a time stamping authority

Where your files are processed

Mixed - depends on version and feature

The vendor's own documentation separates them. On the device: Self-hosted Community/Business/Enterprise. On their servers: Hosted web application, Hosted REST API. A single answer for the whole product would be wrong for one of them.

Documenso has three delivery modes. The hosted web app and hosted API run on Documenso infrastructure, and the current GDPR documentation says Documenso Cloud application data is stored in data centres within the European Union, document storage uses EU-based infrastructure, and backups are in geographically separate EU locations; the generic privacy policy also contains a US transfer/processing clause, so contractual/subprocessor details should be checked for a given deployment.

The self-hosted Community/Business/Enterprise editions run on the customer's own infrastructure and storage. The self-hosted edition is customer_server; the hosted web/API editions are vendor_cloud.

No single all-local or all-cloud claim fits the product.

What it does

Documenso is an open-source e-signature platform, currently at release 2.20.0 (8 October 2026), that can be self-hosted or used through the vendor's hosted cloud. You upload a PDF (or a DOCX that the server converts to PDF), add recipients and fields such as signature, date, name and text, then send it for signing with an audit trail, direct links and optional templates.

It prepares recipients, fields and workflow settings around the uploaded document; it does not modify the PDF's visible text, images or layout. The open-source Community Edition is AGPL-3.0 and free; the Business Edition is a fixed yearly self-hosted licence for production use; Enterprise is tailored/quote-based with SLAs and priority support.

Hosted plans run from Free (5 documents/month) through Individual, Teams and Platform. The hosted service is not the AGPL edition, and self-hosting is a deployment/data-location choice rather than a guarantee about every configured email, verification or webhook path.

Best for

Teams that want an auditable signing flow they can run on their own infrastructure, or a lower-cost hosted alternative to DocuSign; teams that need to modify PDF body text or layout should use a different content tool instead.

Worth knowing

It signs and tracks documents rather than modifying their visible PDF content: no redaction, compression, merging, OCR, layout changes or general content changes. Recipient/field/template configuration is workflow preparation, not document content modification.

The AGPL licence and the paid Business and Enterprise editions matter if you plan commercial self-hosting, and the project has paused external pull requests, so community contributions are limited to issue reports. Self-hosting decides where documents are stored, not what every configured path sends; recipient links, storage backends, verification and webhook integrations are configured rather than implied by the licence.

The current GDPR documentation states EU data centres for hosted application data and document storage, but the generic privacy policy contains a US transfer/processing clause, so check the DPA and subprocessors for a specific deployment. The hosted cloud and the AGPL Community Edition are different offers; hosted prices are current vendor list prices in USD and are not a price for the open-source edition.

No GBP price is verified and no currency conversion is made.

Details, and where each comes from

Vendor statements, our own reading of their pages, and the things nobody has established yet, each answered separately. Where we have not confirmed something it says so rather than guessing, and a row nobody has established is greyed out.

Versions covered
Web · API · Self-hosted
Website
documenso.com
Requires an account
Yes
Watermark on the free tier
Not verified
Maximum file size
Not verified
Batch processing
Not verified
Data residency
European Union
Open source
Yes
Self-hostable
Yes
Licence
Open-source Community Edition under AGPL-3.0, with separate commercial self-hosted...

Open-source Community Edition under AGPL-3.0, with separate commercial self-hosted Business and Enterprise licences and hosted cloud plans. The Community Edition is free; the Business Edition is a fixed yearly licence for production use; Enterprise is tailored/quote-based with SLAs and priority support.

Hosted cloud is Free (5 documents/month), Individual USD 25/month, Teams USD 40/month including five users (additional users USD 8/month), and Platform USD 250/month. No GBP price is verified, so priceFromGbp remains null.

The cloud and self-hosted editions have different deployment and support terms; the hosted cloud is not the AGPL Community Edition.

Redaction
No redaction feature
Programmatic access
HTTP API
Last availability check
Responded in 153 ms 21 October 2026

Checked automatically by our own runner, not reported by the vendor. 100% of our last 30 checks got a response.

What the redaction verdict rests on

From the vendor's own documentation, read 22 September 2026. Not tested by us.

What that does not establish

The vendor’s own site was read on 22 September 2026 and contains no mention of redaction, sanitisation, blackout or whiteout. Absence from a vendor’s own material is not proof that a feature does not exist - it may be undocumented, or on a page the reading did not reach - but for a NEGATIVE claim it is the strongest evidence available, and it is weaker than a positive quote.

Recorded as such rather than presented as certainty.

https://documenso.com/

What the vendor says

Claims are labelled rather than repeated as fact. Where we have checked something ourselves, it says so and shows when. Checked means we read the vendor's own page and it says what we recorded - not that we tested the behaviour, unless the note says we did.

  • “Documenso aims to be the world's most trusted document-signing tool.”

    Reported by the vendor Read 16 October 2026

    Present as a vendor mission statement, not an independently verifiable fact. Downgraded from verified to reported rather than presenting it as a measured trust claim.

    Standing: Re-read: the text is unchanged, but the page publishes values that move

    Check it yourself: the source, the SHA-256, and how we checked
    Read
    https://github.com/documenso/documenso
    From
    the text a browser renders
    SHA-256
    f7e7cc3eac6fc2167942ebb97724949424d3f190ec169bc59c897bc0d563d804

    How we checked

    Re-read the current repository README on 2026-10-16. The sentence is present but is a mission/marketing statement with no evidence attached.

    What this hash proves, and what it does not

  • “Run Documenso in production on your own infrastructure.”

    Reported by the vendor Read 16 October 2026

    Confirmed on the current self-hosted page. This is a deployment statement, not a claim that every email/webhook/verification path stays on the customer infrastructure; those are configuration-dependent.

    Standing: Re-read and matched byte for byte

    Check it yourself: the source, the SHA-256, and how we checked
    Read
    https://documenso.com/self-hosted
    From
    the text a browser renders
    SHA-256
    25db194d6d79ce406c5362d6f6f478ab2613c632e0f04ca65155359eb778b1ba

    How we checked

    Re-read the current self-hosted page on 2026-10-16; the sentence is present, and the page also documents the Community, Business and Enterprise self-hosted editions.

    What this hash proves, and what it does not

Each claim is quoted from the vendor's own pages. This section describes what we have and have not checked - it is not a judgement about anyone.

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How this record was put together

Editorial review.
No editor has signed this record off. That is not the same as nothing having been checked, and the lines below say what has.
Source reading.
2 claims taken from the vendor's own pages, read between 16 October 2026 and 16 October 2026.
Website availability.
The vendor's site was last checked on 21 October 2026.
Behaviour testing.
We have not run this tool ourselves, so everything here rests on the vendors’ own pages.

Sources: https://documenso.com/ (product/cloud and self-hosted editions); https://github.com/documenso/documenso/releases/tag/v2.20.0 (release 2.20.0, 8 October 2026); https://github.com/documenso/documenso (AGPL-3.0, repository created 2023); https://docs.documenso.com/docs/users/documents/upload (PDF used as-is; DOCX converted to PDF; no encrypted/password-protected PDFs); https://docs.documenso.com/docs/users/documents/add-fields and /docs/concepts/field-types (signature/date/name/text fields); https://docs.documenso.com/docs/developers/api (REST API v2 at app.documenso.com/api/v2, API key, document/recipient/field/template endpoints); https://documenso.com/pricing (Free 5 docs/month; Individual USD 25; Teams USD 40 incl. 5 users, +USD 8/user; Platform USD 250; read 2026-10-16); https://documenso.com/self-hosted (Community/Business/Enterprise); https://docs.documenso.com/docs/compliance/gdpr (EU cloud data centres); https://documenso.com/terms and /privacy (Documenso, Inc.; US transfer clause); read 2026-10-16.