Solta vs DocSend
By João Saraiva
DocSend, from Dropbox, shares documents with page-by-page insights, eSignatures, and data rooms it calls Spaces.1, 2 Solta publishes PDFs, and what Claude and ChatGPT make, at a link you choose who can open. Every PDF opens in Solta's own viewer, with zoom, text you can select and find, and a download button.
The short answer
Side by side
| What is compared | Solta | DocSend |
|---|---|---|
| PriceAs of 13 October 2026 | Free. Pro is $12 a month or $108 a year, for one publisher. Team is $49 a month for 3 publishers, then $12 a month for each one after. | Billed yearly: Personal $10 and Standard $45 per user a month; Advanced $150 and Advanced Data Rooms $180 a month, with 3 users. Billed monthly: $15, $65, $250 and $300.1 |
| Free plan or trial | A free plan with no end date: public, unlisted and private sites, a password on 1 site at a time, the last 5 versions of each, 200 MB of storage, 30 days of analytics, and a small Solta badge on the site and on embeds. | No free plan on its price list. New accounts get a 14-day trial of Advanced Data Rooms; without a card, the account then moves to a free limited plan, and links with premium features stop working.1, 3 |
| Who opened it | Views and visitors by day, countries, devices, pages and referrers, with no cookie: 30 days back on Free, a year on Pro, all of it on Team. It counts visitors but doesn't say who they are. | Document-level analytics on Personal; page-by-page insights, and notifications as a document is read or forwarded.1, 2 |
| Who can open it | Public, unlisted or private on every plan, and a password on 1 site at a time on Free. On Pro, a password on any site, or named people who verify their email once. Only your workspace, on Team. | Email authentication for visitors, allow and block lists, NDAs before a document opens, and dynamic watermarks, from Advanced.1 |
| Data rooms | No data rooms. A folder of PDFs and other files can be published as one site, and every PDF opens in Solta's own viewer. | Spaces, its data rooms: lightweight on Advanced; on Advanced Data Rooms, up to 4,000 assets a room, group permissions and indexing.1, 2 |
| Visitor log | No log of who viewed what. Analytics are totals, and a site that asks for an email first, on Pro and Team, lists who gave one and when. | Logs of all visitor activity, to view, filter and export, on Advanced Data Rooms.2 |
| Signatures | None. Solta has no way to sign a document. | eSignatures: 4 a month on Personal, unlimited from Standard.1 |
| Who pays | Viewers, commenters and approvers are free on every plan. Only people who publish are paid for. | Unlimited visitors on every plan.1 |
| Working as a team | Team is a shared library for 3 publishers or more, with a setting that lets in only the workspace. People who view or comment don't take a seat. | 1 user on Personal and Standard; 3 on Advanced and Advanced Data Rooms.1, 2 |
Prices and terms checked on 13 October 2026, on each company's public pages. Solta's prices are in US dollars, before VAT, as on the pricing page.
Where DocSend is stronger
- Page-by-page insights into how a document was read, and by whom. Solta's analytics count visitors but don't say who they are.2
- Data rooms with up to 4,000 assets each, and group permissions.2
- A log of every visitor's activity that you can filter and export. Solta keeps no log of who viewed what.2
- eSignatures on every plan, and NDAs and dynamic watermarks from Advanced. Solta has none of these.1
Who each one is for
DocSend
For sending documents and data rooms when knowing how each page was read, and by whom, is the point.2
Solta
For a PDF that goes out with the interactive work around it, or on its own, at a link with versions, a password or named viewers, and viewers who never pay.
How to move
- Take the PDF you shared on DocSend.
- Paste it, or drop the folder, zip or PDF, at solta.now. No account is needed to try it: an unclaimed site stays up 24 hours, and claiming it keeps the address.
- Choose who can open it: public, unlisted or private on Free; a password or named people on Pro; only your workspace on Team.
- Send the new link. A new version of the PDF goes live only when you publish it, at the same link.
Sources
- DocSend: https://www.docsend.com/pricing/, checked on 13 October 2026.
- DocSend: https://help.dropbox.com/plans/dropbox-docsend-advanced-data-rooms-plan, checked on 13 October 2026.
- DocSend: https://help.dropbox.com/plans/dropbox-docsend-trial-overview, checked on 13 October 2026.
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Try it with your own file
No account needed. Paste it or drop it, and the link is yours to keep once you claim it.