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PandaDoc advertises $19 per seat, but the features sales teams want (CRM sync, bulk send, approvals, rooms) sit at $49 per seat, and API access and SSO are Enterprise only. Atlas gives you unlimited free e-sign, unlimited seats, the API, and every integration on every plan, whether you are a two-person team or a Fortune 500 sales org. Atlas also adds a managed option from $1,500/mo.
TL;DR
$49 per seat per month for the features most teams need, not the advertised $19, and API and SSO are a custom Enterprise quote.
PandaDoc publishes its pricing. The free eSign tier is capped at 60 documents a year with a reported maximum of 2 recipients per document. Starter is $19 per seat per month on annual billing ($35 monthly).
Business, where CRM integrations, bulk send, approval workflows, and deal rooms live, is $49 per seat annually ($65 monthly). That is a 2.5x jump from the advertised entry price. On capped plans, document overages run $2.00 to $3.50 per document, per the vendor pricing page.
Monthly billing costs 25 to 45 percent more than annual, and annual plans are non-refundable. Atlas e-sign is free with no seat pricing, no document caps, and no annual lock-in.
| Plan | Annual (per seat/mo) | Monthly (per seat/mo) | Key gates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free eSign | $0 | $0 | 60 docs/year, 2 recipients per doc (reported) |
| Starter | $19 | $35 | No CRM, no bulk send, no rooms |
| Business | $49 | $65 | CRM, bulk send, approvals, rooms start here |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | CPQ, SSO, workflow automation, production API |
| Atlas | Free | Free | Unlimited e-sign, all integrations, API, unlimited seats |
Unlimited seats, every integration, the production API, and template sends at any volume, all on every Atlas plan including Free.
PandaDoc prices per seat on every paid tier and staircases features across three plans. Third-party guides also report that Salesforce integration and bulk send can carry extra fees even on Business.
Atlas has one answer for all of it: unlimited seats, every integration, the REST API, and the MCP server on every plan, including Free. Atlas works with PDF and DOCX, detects fields with AI, and sends from the dashboard, Claude, or ChatGPT.
| Feature | Atlas | PandaDoc |
|---|---|---|
| E-sign volume | Unlimited, free, forever | Free tier capped at 60 docs/year; unlimited from Starter |
| Seats | Unlimited on every plan | Per seat on every paid tier |
| CRM integrations | Included on every plan | Business ($49/seat) and up; Salesforce may cost extra (reported) |
| Repeat sends at volume | Template sends via API and MCP, every plan | Bulk send is Business and up; may carry extra fees (reported) |
| API access | Included on every plan | Production API is Enterprise only |
| Webhooks | In development | Enterprise only (reported) |
| Workflow automation | From $99.99/mo, and included with the managed department | Enterprise only |
| SAML SSO | Planned, not yet available | Enterprise only |
| Send from Claude or ChatGPT | Yes | Not published |
| Humans who run your contracts | From $1,500/mo | Not offered |
PandaDoc Free covers one person: 60 documents a year, 2 recipients each. Atlas Free covers a whole team with no limits on e-sign.
PandaDoc Free eSign allows 60 documents a year, and third-party guides report a 2-recipient limit per document. That covers a person, not a team.
Atlas Free includes unlimited e-sign for unlimited team members, unlimited templates, AI field detection, reminders, an audit certificate on every signed document, API and MCP access, and sending from the dashboard, Claude, or ChatGPT, plus 5 trial workflow runs. Signers never need an account on either product. The difference is what the sender gets.
Enterprise
Yes. Atlas has no seat pricing, so a 10,000-person company pays nothing extra for users, and the Managed Contracts Department scales with your contract volume.
Atlas is built for a five-person startup and a Fortune 500 procurement team on the same plan structure. Seats are unlimited on every plan. Adding your whole legal, sales, and finance org costs nothing.
Access is controlled with admin and member roles, teams, and workspaces. Each organization sees only its own agreements. Signers see only the fields meant for them. Every signed document carries an audit certificate that records who signed, when, and from where, and the signed PDF is hashed with SHA-256 so any later change is detectable.
Developers and agents get the same surface on every plan: a REST API, an MCP server, an append-only event log you can poll, idempotency keys, and templates. The Business plan prices workflow runs by volume. Outbound webhooks are in development. SAML SSO and SCIM provisioning are planned but not yet available.
When the contract load outgrows your team, the Managed Contracts Department runs intake, drafting, routing, chasing, filing, and reporting for you. It is priced by company size and contract volume, so it works as an outsourced contracts function that grows with you instead of a headcount line.
| Requirement | Atlas |
|---|---|
| Seats | Unlimited on every plan, no per-seat pricing |
| Roles and access | Admin and member roles, teams, workspaces, per-organization isolation |
| Audit trail | Audit certificate on every signed document, SHA-256 hash of the signed PDF |
| Compliance | ESIGN and UETA in the US; eIDAS in the EU where applicable |
| Encryption | In transit and at rest |
| API and agents | REST API, MCP server, event log, idempotency keys, on every plan |
| Approval control | A person clicks Send before any signer gets an email |
| Volume pricing | Business plan: 100+ workflow runs a month, custom volume pricing |
| Outsourced operations | Managed Contracts Department, priced by company size and contract volume |
| Outbound webhooks | In development |
| SAML SSO and SCIM | Planned, not yet available |
Managed service
Only from Atlas. No competitor on these pages bundles people who run your contracts; Atlas does, from $1,500 a month.
PandaDoc sells software your team operates. It has no managed contracts offering.
No software vendor in this category bundles humans who run your contracts. If you want the work done for you, the rest of the market offers two options: ALSPs like Axiom at published rates of $150 to $350 per hour, or a contracts administrator hire at roughly $86,000 to $105,000 a year fully loaded ($7,200 or more a month).
The Atlas Managed Contracts Department starts at $1,500 a month, priced by company size and contract volume. That is about one fifth of a loaded contracts admin hire, software included. The Atlas team runs each contract from intake to filed: intake by email, Slack, or form, drafting from your approved templates, routing and chasing, approvals routed to whoever you name including in-house or outside counsel, filing executed copies into your CRM, drive, and finance tools, renewal and obligation tracking, and reporting built around what you track. During negotiation Atlas coordinates counsel's redlines and edits with the other side. Atlas does not give legal advice.
Questions
Yes, at any team size. PandaDoc Free caps at 60 documents a year. Unlimited sending starts at $19 per seat per month, and the features most teams need start at $49 per seat. A 20-person sales team on PandaDoc Business pays $980 a month. Atlas e-sign is free and unlimited for unlimited seats.
The free tier is capped at 60 documents a year. Paid tiers include unlimited documents and e-sign, but seats are metered and features are staircased across Starter, Business, and Enterprise. Atlas has no document or seat limits on any plan.
Production API access, SSO, CPQ, workflow automation, webhooks, and content locking, per the vendor pricing page and third-party guides. Atlas includes API access, the MCP server, and all integrations on every plan, and workflow automation from $99.99 a month. Outbound webhooks are in development.
Atlas. It offers unlimited free e-sign forever, with unlimited team members, every integration, API access, and an audit certificate on every signed document, for PDF and DOCX files. PandaDoc Free is capped at 60 documents a year.
Yes. Atlas drafts order forms, MSAs, and other agreements from your templates and fills them from deal, contact, and company data. It sends for signature, reminds the current signer on request, files the signed PDF back to the HubSpot deal, and returns the executed terms as structured data. CRM integrations are included on every plan with no per-seat fee for your sales team.
No. Large sales orgs are where per-seat pricing hurts most: 200 reps on PandaDoc Business is $9,800 a month before Salesforce or bulk send add-ons, and API and SSO still require an Enterprise quote. Atlas has unlimited seats on every plan, admin and member roles, teams and workspaces, per-organization isolation, an audit certificate with a SHA-256 hash on every signed document, and the REST API and MCP server on every plan. The Business plan prices workflow runs by volume. The Managed Contracts Department runs the contract desk for you, priced by company size and contract volume. Outbound webhooks are in development. SAML SSO and SCIM are planned but not yet available.
No. Like the rest of the category, PandaDoc is software you operate. The Atlas Managed Contracts Department handles intake, drafting from templates, routing, chasing, filing, renewal calendar, and monthly reporting from $1,500/mo.
Prices last verified September 2026.
Unlimited e-sign is free. You pay when Atlas handles the rest.