Pricing

A hundred and fifty documents a year, free.

Free forever for verified nonprofits, not a trial: about three documents a week, renewed every January. Past it, $30 a month for a thousand, and as many people as you like on any plan.

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Not sure which one?

Two questions, and nothing to fill in.

Documents a year

Registered nonprofit

Answer both and the tier that fits gets the ribbon.

Community

Free

for verified nonprofits, renewed every year

Every document, free

A real allowance for verified nonprofits, renewed every year, not a trial that expires.

150 documents a year
Unlimited teammates
Unlimited signers, who never need an account
Audit trail, certificate, and verification
Mobile-friendly signing
Reusable templates

Start free

No credit card. Nothing to cancel.

Impact

$30/month

$360 a year for verified nonprofits, or $38 month to month · $600 commercial

36¢ a document · against $1.47 an envelope elsewhere

For a nonprofit that has outgrown the free allowance.

1,000 documents a year
Everything in Community
AI search that understands what you meant
AI summaries of amounts and renewal dates
Scanned paperwork read and made searchable

Choose Impact

Unlimited people. Documents are what you buy.

Mission

$48/month

$576 a year for verified nonprofits, or $60 month to month · $960 commercial

23¢ a document · against $1.47 an envelope elsewhere

For the busiest week of your year, not just the average one.

2,500 documents a year
Everything in Impact
Assignments and activity feeds across teams
Approval workflows
Admin controls and reporting
Priority support with a named contact

Choose Mission

Unlimited people. Documents are what you buy.

Past the free allowance and $30 a month is still out of reach? Tell us what you can manage. Nothing stops sending for a verified nonprofit in the meantime.

Need single sign-on, data residency, an uptime commitment or terms your counsel writes? Talk to us about Enterprise. Built to the contract, once there is one.

The obvious question

Why a hundred and fifty, and why not per envelope?

Per-envelope pricing taxes the behaviour we want

Charging per signature makes an organization ration the tool. The important contracts go through it and the volunteer forms go back to paper. So the tiers are bands, not meters: you buy a year’s documents, not a year’s chances to be charged. Inside your band the next document costs nothing, so the answer to “is this worth using Baton for?” is always yes, and a volunteer form never has to justify itself. Reach the top of your band and we talk about the next tier; we do not meter you toward it.

A hundred and fifty covers the routine paperwork

About three a week: volunteer agreements, board resolutions, the occasional grant. It is deliberately not sized above what every charity sends — an organization that crosses it is growing, and $30 a month for a thousand is the next rung, not a wall. For scale: DocuSign’s cheapest paid plan is $120 a year for 60 envelopes. Our free one includes 150. If your year is busier, tell us — we would rather hear it than have you ration the tool.

The floor does not rise

Everything in the nonprofit column (routing, templates, search, the audit trail, the certificate) stays there. New paid capabilities may arrive above it, and an API and AI summaries are on the Impact roadmap for exactly that reason. Nothing you can do today moves behind the price tomorrow.

Eligibility

What counts as a nonprofit, and how we check

A registered charity, NGO, foundation, association, social enterprise, school, place of worship, or community group. To confirm it, we ask for three things:

1
Your registration certificate
In Nigeria, your CAC document. Elsewhere, whatever your local registry issues: a charity number, a certificate of incorporation, a determination letter. Any one of them is enough.
2
Your organization’s website
A live address we can open. If you do not have a site, an active page on a platform you control works just as well.
3
Something showing the work is real
An annual report, a funder’s letter, a programme document, board minutes. One document that shows an active cause rather than a registration on paper.

You do not wait on us to start. Create your organization and send your first document straight away, because verification is what confirms the free allowance, not a gate in front of the product. Until it is confirmed, nothing is charged and nothing is deleted.

If you are a commercial organization, you are welcome here on Impact. Same product, same audit trail, $50 a month.

Compared

What is different, and what is the same

Four rows where Baton differs and two where it does not. A comparison that found us ahead on everything would not be worth reading, and the two even rows are the ones most people assume are a differentiator.

	Baton	DocuSign	Dropbox Sign	Zoho Sign	SignNow
Priced byWhat you are billed for as the team changes.	Documents	Seats	Seats	Seats	Seats
Free tier for verified nonprofitsWhether a charity can run on it without a purchase order.	150 a year	Discount via TechSoup	No	No	No
Search your library by meaning“Which agreement has the March reporting deadline” shares no words with the clause that answers it.	Yes	Keyword	Keyword	Keyword	Keyword
Scanned pages read on our machinesMost paper a charity receives is a scan. OCR here means the page image never leaves.	Yes	Cloud	Cloud	Cloud	Cloud
Signers need an accountAsking a trustee to register before signing is where most documents stall.	No	No	No	No	No
Audit trail on every documentWhat makes a signature hold up when somebody disputes it.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Checked against each product’s own documentation in August 2026. If any of this has changed, tell us and we will correct it.

Leaving

How to take your documents and go

Download the signed PDFs. Each one carries its certificate page (who signed, when, from where, and the hash of the file they saw) as part of the document itself, so the evidence does not depend on us still being here.

That is the only export guarantee worth making, and it is the reason the certificate is baked into the PDF rather than served from our database. More detail on the audit trail and security.

Send your first document today

Sign in with your email. We send a six-digit code, there is no password to invent. Name your organization, and you are on the board.