As of 28 Oct 2026, the panel rates Docusign eSignature 3/5 and Skribble 3/5 in E-Signature. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 1 of the 6 judges picks Docusign eSignature and 5 pick Skribble. Docusign eSignature scores higher on 3 of 7 criteria (Signing workflow & signer experience, Integrations & API and Evidence, validation & retention). Skribble scores higher on 4 of 7 criteria (European sovereignty, Pricing transparency, eIDAS levels & trust services, plus 1 more). Provenance — Docusign eSignature: Rest of world; Skribble: UK / wider Europe. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
Docusign eSignature and Skribble split this bench along two lines. Docusign eSignature leads signing workflow at 7.7 vs 5.8 (5 judges lean Docusign, 0 Skribble, 1 tie) and integration and API at 6.7 vs 6.2 (4 lean Docusign, 1 Skribble). Skribble leads sovereignty at 6.5 vs 4.2, the widest gap: 6 judges lean Skribble, 0 lean Docusign. Its capture says documents are hosted in Swiss or German data centres chosen at setup; Docusign's says data is 'likely' stored in Australia, the United States, the EU and/or Canada, with EU data residency a sales contact. Skribble edges signature levels (6.7 vs 6.5) and pricing transparency (6.2 vs 5.8). Evidence and retention is weakest for both at 3.8 vs 3.5, and neither verdict found public information on either. Weighted totals favor Skribble on five judges; Docusign eSignature takes the skeptic at 5.7 vs 5.2. The lean flips by judge and criterion.
Choose Docusign eSignature if
You need reusable templates, conditional fields, bulk send and delegated signing for high-volume workflows — signing workflow is 7.7 vs 5.8, with 5 judges leaning Docusign eSignature and 0 leaning Skribble.
Your team builds against an API and needs documented connectors — integration and API is 6.7 vs 6.2, with 4 judges leaning Docusign eSignature vs 1 for Skribble.
You sign across many languages and must document accessibility — the verdict lists 44+ signing languages and WCAG 2.0 Level AA.
You want an automatically generated audit trail and tamper-proof certificates — evidence and retention is 3.8 vs 3.5, with 3 judges leaning Docusign eSignature vs 1 for Skribble.
Choose Skribble if
You need documents hosted in Swiss or German data centres chosen at setup — sovereignty is 6.5 vs 4.2, with 6 judges leaning Skribble and 0 leaning Docusign eSignature.
You operate in Europe and need ZertES alongside the three eIDAS levels mapped to plans — signature levels is 6.7 vs 6.5, with 2 judges leaning Skribble vs 1 for Docusign eSignature.
You need published prices before talking to sales — Skribble lists Starter at 0 EUR per month (pay per use) and Pro at 6 EUR per month (per user, billed annually); pricing transparency is 6.2 vs 5.8.
You want identification fees published up front — identity verification is 6.2 vs 6.0, with 2 judges leaning Skribble vs 1 for Docusign eSignature.
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Data Protection Officer
Knows every signer who holds an ID card up to a camera hands biometric and identity data to a provider they never chose. Asks who performs the identification, where documents and ID data are stored, how long the audit trail keeps IP addresses, and who the subprocessors in the trust service chain are.
Docusign eSignature
Skribble
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
eIDAS levels & trust services
Docusign eSignature
All three eIDAS levels are named and placed: simple signatures sit in every plan, the advanced level in higher plans, and qualified signatures as an add-on, with Docusign presenting itself as a registered qualified trust service provider in Europe whose advanced signatures carry tamper-proof PKI certificates. The legal effect of each level for the EU and UK is stated. We found no public information on a link to the EU Trust List entry, on qualified electronic seals for company documents, on ZertES for Switzerland, on per-country availability, or on the signature level being shown in the signed document and its audit trail.
Skribble
All three eIDAS levels are named as such with the plans and yearly volumes that include them, qualified signatures are offered under both eIDAS and ZertES, and organisational seals exist on request in Pro and Scale. Skribble states itself that it is neither a ZertES nor an eIDAS trust service provider — the certificates come from unnamed partners that comply with those frameworks — and we found no public information naming a qualified trust service provider with a trust-list entry or showing the signature level in the finished document and audit record.
Signer identification
Docusign eSignature
Identification is documented by method — automatic validation of government ID documents, biometric liveness via video selfies with randomized facial movements, one-time passwords, phone authentication, and reuse of existing CLEAR or ID.me accounts — with human oversight, a proof file of verification results, and an identity wallet so a signer need not repeat a check. We found no public information on who performs the identification in each country, which countries and ID documents are accepted, or on the retention and deletion of the ID and biometric data afterwards. The pricing pages themselves send identity verification to sales.
Skribble
Methods are documented per level — confirmed email for simple, mobile number for advanced, ID scan plus selfie video for qualified — with self-identification, a live video call guided by the identification partner's trained staff, on-site identification, and a choice of Swiss or EU legal framework. But identification is performed by unnamed partners apart from Swisscom appearing as a fallback purchase, and we found no public information on retention or deletion of the ID documents and selfie videos, or on where that ID data is stored.
Signing workflow & signer experience
Docusign eSignature
Team-shared templates, conditional fields, bulk sending, delegated signing, eWitness, custom branding and 44+ signature languages are documented per plan, with no-code web forms that can be embedded in the customer's own applications, versioned before publishing, and optimized for mobile signing. Accessibility appears as a WCAG 2.0 Level AA feature on the plans page. We found no public information on automatic reminders, self-service signing links, or a published accessibility conformance statement.
Skribble
Signing order, automatic reminders with admin-chosen frequency plus manual per-document reminders, bulk signing, email, link and QR-code invitations, and browser signing without login or app are all documented, as are up to twenty users per plan and company branding as an add-on. We found no public information on templates with field placement, conditional fields, delegation or substitute signers, or on signer accessibility.
Evidence, validation & retention
Docusign eSignature
An audit trail is automatically generated and stored for every agreement, included from the entry plans, and signatures rest on tamper-evident PKI certificates. We found no public information on what the audit trail records — events, times, authentication method or IP data — on qualified timestamps, long-term validation or a validation report, on how long signed documents and evidence are kept, or on exporting them with evidence intact. The only retention statement is the privacy policy's general commitment to keep personal data no longer than necessary.
Skribble
A publicly offered E-Signature validator, paid validation and conversion services on an annual fee, and claimed AATL conformity in all plans give the signatures some verifiable standing, and accounts with their documents are deleted when the customer contract ends. We found no public information on an audit trail or certificate of completion, its contents, qualified timestamps, long-term validation, or how long documents and evidence are kept before that deletion.
Integrations & API
Docusign eSignature
A free developer account with an API overview in the developer centre, embedded web forms, pre-population of forms via API, and connectors for Word, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Dynamics 365 and Power Automate — downloadable from Microsoft AppSource — are documented, alongside Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics and NetSuite via sales, cloud storage connectors on every plan, and an App Center with more than 1,000 partner integrations. We found no public information on webhooks, a sandbox, API access to each signature level, rate limits or SDKs.
Skribble
An open REST API is documented with an immediately testable demo key, covers all three signature standards, and is available from Pro upward, with signing directly from Microsoft 365, Google Drive, SAP and Salesforce and a platform status page. We found no public information on webhooks, embedded signing in the customer's own application, SDKs, or published rate limits.
European sovereignty
Docusign eSignature
The controller is Docusign, Inc. of San Francisco, personal data may be stored in infrastructure in Australia, the United States, the European Union and/or Canada, and transfers may run to a list of countries including the United States, India, Israel and Egypt. European elements are proven — a Dublin EMEA entity, Docusign France SAS, data centres in three EU countries, Binding Corporate Rules for EEA/UK transfers, and the vendor's own European registered trust service provider status — but data residency is not included in any public plan and is routed to sales. We found no public information on a subprocessor list with locations, on where identification and trust-service processing happen, or on a published data processing agreement.
Skribble
Documents are stored exclusively in Germany or Switzerland in ISO-certified data centres with the customer choosing CH or DE at setup, contracts run through a Zurich AG or a Karlsruhe GmbH, a data processing agreement is published, and the privacy policy lists subprocessors with full addresses — including the US companies Cloudflare, Clay Labs and Make.com around the platform and a UK SMS provider, while payment runs through Stripe Ireland. We found no public information on the location of the trust service and identification chain, on ownership, or on where signer ID data is held.
Pricing transparency
Docusign eSignature
Personal at 9 € /Monat with 5 envelopes per month, Standard at 23 € /Monat pro Nutzer with 100 envelopes per user and year, and Business Pro at 38 € /Monat pro Nutzer are public with billing periods, features and user counts, alongside auto-renewal with cancellation at least five business days before term end, overage billing, taxes exclusive, identity checks from 2,35 €/Ausweisüberprüfung, and a note that prices may apply to new customers only. We found no public price for the qualified signature add-on, for API plans, or for the Business Pro envelope allowance, and the identity verification pages direct buyers to sales. A given monthly volume at the qualified level is therefore not computable from public pages.
Skribble
Starter at 0 EUR pay-per-use with two simple signatures free, Pro at 6 EUR per user per month billed annually with unlimited simple and 120 advanced or qualified signatures a year, and identification fees of 15.50 EUR per eIDAS identification and CHF 37 per ZertES identification from a minimum of 50, charged only when successful, are all public, along with the one- or twelve-month terms, the two-month EU notice right and the early termination fee. We found no public information on prices for the Individual, Team and Scale plans — Scale is quoted on request — nor on the pay-per-signature price beyond the free allowance or on separate API pricing.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
Docusign eSignature
Skribble
Legal entity
Not determined
Not determined
Ownership
Not determined
Not determined
Data residency
Not determined
Not determined
Subprocessors
US CLOUD Act reach
US CLOUD Act reach
Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
As of 28 Oct 2026, the panel rates both 3/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 1 of the 6 judges picks Docusign eSignature and 5 pick Skribble. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is Docusign eSignature or Skribble European?
Docusign eSignature is not European by provenance (Rest of world). Skribble is European (UK / wider Europe). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.
Where do Docusign eSignature and Skribble store customer data?
Per the vendors’ own pages as captured — Docusign eSignature: its pages as captured do not say. Skribble: Default not stated; pages mention Germany and Switzerland.