DocuSign Notary vs Notarize pricing and what each one costs a business per month

For occasional single-signer documents the two are close, around 25 to 33 USD a session. For a business with your own commissioned notaries, Proof is the one you can price today: Pro+ costs 199 USD a month plus 15 USD per in-house meeting and its identity and signing fees. DocuSign's equivalent is an enterprise quote, usually added to an existing DocuSign agreement. Teams already standardized on DocuSign eSignature often get the better deal there, while teams that want a published price list lean to Proof.

If you notarize every week, compare both against a flat plan, because per-signer and per-seal fees are what push these bills up.

DocuSign figures come from the DocuSign Notary product page (checked October 24, 2026) and its February 2025 on-demand launch, which priced a session at 30 USD for the first signer with up to 3 seals and 5 USD per extra seal. Proof figures come from proof.com/pricing and Proof's own pricing help article. Both vendors change prices, so get a written quote before you sign.

The useful difference is transparency. Proof prints its add-ons, so you can model a closing package or a corporate resolution set to the dollar. DocuSign prints a starting price and leaves the rest to the order screen or the contract, which is fine for a single document and hard for a budget.

Each row is one month at list prices with network notaries and no volume discounts. DocuSign rows use the published starting price, so treat them as a floor rather than a quote.

The Proof two-signer, three-document session works out to 77 USD: 25 USD for the meeting, 8 USD for two identity checks, 4 USD for signing, 10 USD for the second signer and 30 USD for two extra seals. At four simple sessions a month, DocuSign on-demand is the cheapest option in the table if you bill monthly, and we would tell a buyer that. From about a dozen multi-signer sessions a month, both per-session models cost more than a plan that includes sessions.

DocuSign Notary makes the most sense for a company that already runs its agreements through DocuSign eSignature. The notarization happens inside the same envelope workflow, the completed documents land where the rest of your contracts live, and procurement only has one vendor to negotiate with. If your legal or operations team already tracks executed agreements in contract management software, keeping notarized versions in the same flow is worth more than a few dollars per session. It is also built for scale: DocuSign says the product fits organizations doing 200 or more notarizations a year, and its enterprise terms reflect that.

Proof is the better pick for real estate and lending. It has a published title price list, a large notary network available around the clock and integrations built for closings, and its enterprise tiers add fraud monitoring and admin controls. It also suits a buyer who needs to forecast spend before talking to sales, because every fee is on the pricing page. The trade-off is that those fees stack: a document set with several signers and seals costs two to three times the 25 USD people remember.

Title agencies, law firms, banks and HR teams often employ commissioned remote notaries already. On Proof that means Pro+ at 199 USD a month, then 15 USD per in-house meeting plus 4 USD identity and 4 USD signing per meeting, with 5 USD per extra seal or signer. For one staff notary running 30 simple sessions a month, that is about 889 USD.

On DocuSign, your notaries work inside the enterprise Notary product, and DocuSign also issues the digital certificates they sign with. Pricing is quoted, so ask for the per-seat fee, the per-transaction fee and whether identity checks are billed separately. ENotary Business includes 2 own-notary seats for 299 USD a month, or 149 USD billed yearly, and sessions your notaries run do not use the 12 network sessions in the plan. See how bring your own notary seats work.

• What does a two-signer, three-document session cost in total, including identity, signing and seal fees?
• Does the on-demand price require a paid eSignature or business plan underneath it?
• Is identity verification charged per signer, per attempt or per session?
• Which states are the network notaries commissioned in, and are they available nights and weekends?
• How long are recordings, journals and audit trails stored on the plan we are buying?
• What is the per-seat price for our own notaries, and is there a minimum annual commitment?

These two are often the first names on a shortlist, not the only ones. OneNotary runs DocuSign's on-demand network and sells its own plans, NotaryCam and NotaryLive price per session, and BlueNotary is the low-cost choice for teams with their own notaries. Our DocuSign Notary cost page goes deeper on DocuSign alone, Notarize pricing breaks down every Proof fee, and the Notarize alternatives page puts the main vendors in one table. Claims teams pricing total loss powers of attorney can compare the same numbers on our remote online notarization for insurance claims page.

For a single signer and one document, DocuSign's on-demand price starts at 25 USD, against about 33 USD on Proof Pro once identity and signing fees are added. For multi-signer sessions DocuSign does not publish every add-on, so compare written quotes. With your own notaries, Proof's Pro+ is priced publicly and DocuSign's enterprise product is quoted.

Does DocuSign do notarization?

Yes. DocuSign Notary handles remote online notarization in two ways: on-demand sessions with a notary from its network, provided through its partner OneNotary, and an enterprise product where your own commissioned notaries notarize inside DocuSign. Both use audio and video sessions, ID checks and knowledge-based authentication.

Is Notarize the same as Proof?

Yes. Notarize renamed itself Proof in 2023. Its business plans are sold as Proof Pro, Pro+ and enterprise tiers at proof.com, while the consumer notarization service is still widely known as Notarize, which is why both names show up in searches and price comparisons.

How much does DocuSign Notary cost per month?

DocuSign does not publish a monthly price for the enterprise Notary product. It is quoted by DocuSign sales and usually added to an existing agreement. On-demand notarizations are charged per session, starting at 25 USD, so a month of 12 single-signer sessions starts at about 300 USD.

What is a cheaper alternative to DocuSign Notary and Notarize?

For a team running about 12 or more sessions a month, especially with several signers, a plan with sessions included usually costs less. ENotary Business is 299 USD a month, or 149 USD billed yearly, with 12 network sessions of up to 4 signers and 10 documents each, plus 2 own-notary seats.

Take last month's notarizations and write down three numbers: sessions, average signers per session and average notarized documents per session. Ask DocuSign for a written quote on that exact month, price it on Proof from the table above, and compare both with the online notary cost page. If the per-session bills are within a few dollars of a plan, keep the flexibility. If they are two or three times higher, the decision is made.