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DocSend starts at $30 a month. The plan you actually want costs $150.
Every published plan, read off their own page on 25 Aug 2026. Then the math for a 6-week raise, and where DocSend earns the money.
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The plans, and what each one leaves out
DocSend is a Dropbox product. Standard is billed per user; Advanced and Advanced Data Rooms bundle 3 users. There is no free plan.
Standard
$30
per user, per month · 1 user included
- Multi-file sharing
- Document level analytics
- Video and rich media analytics
- Unlimited eSignature
- Custom branding
- Unlimited visitors
- No watermarking
- No email authentication for readers
- No data rooms
- No NDAs
Advanced
$150
per month · 3 users included
- Everything in Standard
- Dynamic watermarking
- Email authentication for visitors
- Allow and block lists
- NDAs a reader must accept first
- Lightweight data rooms
- No audit log
- No due diligence tracking
Advanced Data Rooms
$180
per month · 3 users included
- Everything in Advanced
- Full data rooms
- Due diligence tracking
- Data room audit log
- Automatic file indexing
- Priority email support
- Twice the data room capacity, and that is the ceiling
Enterprise
Custom
contact sales · No published price
- Everything above
- SSO, Salesforce and sub-teams as paid add-ons
- No price you can read before a call
One caveat, stated plainly. Their page has a monthly and a yearly toggle, and advertises up to 40% off for the year. The prices above are what it showed us on 25 Aug 2026.
Month to month, expect to pay more.
What one raise costs
A pre-seed raise runs about 6 weeks. Nobody sells 6 weeks, so you pay for 2 months and cancel.
1 founder, Standard
$60
$30 a month
2 months of billing. No watermark, no reader authentication.
2 founders, Standard
$120
$60 a month
Standard is priced per user, so a cofounder who sends decks is a second seat.
Any founder, Advanced
$300
$150 a month
The cheapest plan that watermarks a page with the reader's email.
Deckhand
$99
Free, or $99 once
Free covers the link, the reader's email and open alerts. $99 adds the watermark, forever.
The gap is not $30 against $99. It is the watermark. That sits on a $150 plan at DocSend, and inside the one-time $99 here.
The next raise costs you nothing again. See the two side by side.
When DocSend is worth the money
5 cases where we would tell you to buy it. We do not build any of this, and we are not going to.
1
You need a due diligence room with an audit log and file indexing, not one deck.
2
You want NDAs and eSignature inside the same tool as the deck.
3
3 or more people at your company send documents every week, all year.
4
You send video and rich media and want analytics on those too.
5
Investors know the DocSend page, and that recognition matters to you.
Deckhand does one job: get a deck read, and tell you who read it and how far they got. How to know if a VC read your deck.
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Questions
- How much does DocSend cost?
- Their page showed 3 published plans on 25 Aug 2026. Standard is $30 per user per month. Advanced is $150 a month with 3 users, and Advanced Data Rooms is $180 with 3 users. Enterprise is quoted on a call.
- Does DocSend have a free plan?
- No. There is a 14-day trial of Advanced Data Rooms, with unlimited visitors excluded. After that you pick a paid plan or stop. Deckhand is free forever, unlimited decks, a tracked link each.
- What does DocSend cost for a 6-week raise?
- You buy months, not weeks, so 6 weeks is 2 bills. One founder on Standard pays about $60. Want the reader's email watermarked on every page? That is Advanced, about $300 for the same 6 weeks.
- Which DocSend plan watermarks a deck?
- Dynamic watermarking starts on Advanced, at $150 a month for 3 users. Standard does not include it. On Deckhand the reader-email watermark is part of the one-time $99.
- Is DocSend worth it for a pre-seed round?
- If you need a data room, NDAs, eSignature or a team of 3, yes. If you are one founder sending one deck, you are paying for a data room you will not open.
- What is the cheapest way to track a pitch deck?
- Free, with no account: drop the PDF on Deckhand and the tracked link is live in 20 seconds. You see who opened it, when, and how far they got. Papermark is the other credible free option, and it is open source.
- Does Deckhand have a subscription?
- No. There is Free, and there is Deckhand Lifetime at $99, once, forever. No seats, no monthly bill, nothing to cancel when the round closes.