Leegality

What is Leegality?

Leegality describes itself as a "document infrastructure platform" — meaning it owns the full lifecycle of a legal or contractual document, not just the signature on it. In practice, a typical Leegality workflow looks like this: you upload (or auto-generate) a document template, you wire it to your application data via API, you trigger an eSign request that goes to the signatory's phone or email, the signatory completes Aadhaar OTP / DSC / Aadhaar biometric verification, an electronic stamp paper is automatically procured from SHCIL (Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd — the only authorised eStamp issuer in most Indian states) and affixed to the document, the signed and stamped document is archived with an audit trail, and the legally valid PDF is returned to your system via webhook.

Each piece of that chain is its own piece of regulation. Aadhaar eSign is governed by the IT Act 2000 and the eSign Service Guidelines published by the CCA (Controller of Certifying Authorities) and uses Aadhaar OTP authentication backed by UIDAI plus a Class II / Class III certificate from an empanelled Certifying Authority. eStamping is governed by the Indian Stamp Act and is operationally controlled at state level — most Indian states have authorised SHCIL to issue e-Stamp Paper, but the operational rules, ceiling amounts and acceptance vary state-by-state. Document archival requirements vary by industry — RBI's IT framework for banks, IRDAI's record-keeping rules for insurers, and the Companies Act for corporate-secretarial documents all attach different retention and tamper-evidence requirements.

The reason Leegality is the default for regulated buyers is that they have actually built and operate all of these pieces — Aadhaar eSign, DSC-based signing, SHCIL eStamp integration across the larger states, tamper-evident archival, and a complete compliance audit log — under one product. A team trying to wire these together manually with point integrations to UIDAI, a CA, SHCIL, and a document-archival vendor will typically need 4–8 months of engineering effort and a dedicated compliance lawyer. Leegality compresses that to a 4–8 week integration, in exchange for per-document fees.

The founding story is worth knowing. Shivam Singla joined NLSIU intending to become a corporate lawyer; the experience of being asked to physically print, sign, scan and courier multiple documents just to enrol in his own law school convinced him there was a real product opportunity. He started Leegality the same year he graduated, in 2016, alongside Sapan Parekh and Prakhar Agrawal. The product was initially a do-it-yourself document-assembly tool but quickly pivoted to focus on signing and execution — the deeper, more regulated and harder problem. The company is registered at Udyog Vihar Phase 3 in Gurugram, not New Delhi as some older sources state.

Capabilities

Pricing & plans (2026)

Leegality does not publish full list prices — pricing is custom per contract — but the structure has three components most buyers should understand:

• Per-eSign fees — typically ₹10–₹40 per Aadhaar eSign at moderate volume; lower at committed multi-million-document contracts. DSC-based signing is similarly priced; some certificate costs are passed through.
• Per-stamp fees — pass-through of the actual stamp-duty amount to SHCIL plus a service fee (typically ₹15–₹50 per stamp on top of duty). Stamp duty itself varies hugely by document type and state — a ₹50 lakh home loan agreement in Maharashtra has very different stamp-duty math than a ₹2 Cr commercial lease in Karnataka, and Leegality's price-per-eStamp service fee is small relative to the stamp duty in those cases.
• Platform / subscription fee — annual platform licence covering API access, archival, audit-trail, dashboard and support. Typically ₹3L–₹25L+ per year depending on team size, document templates, and integration breadth.

Total annual contracts for mid-sized Indian fintechs and NBFCs typically land in the ₹10L–₹1Cr+ range, with the per-eSign fees usually being the largest line item. The page's previous "From ₹8,000/month" figure didn't reflect the real structure — there is no flat ₹8K/month plan we could verify. Always validate via a quote on leegality.com; multi-product contracts (eSign + eStamp + archival together) typically unlock material discounts vs buying eSign alone.

When Leegality is the right call

1. You're a regulated buyer (bank, NBFC, insurance, lending fintech) — the audit-trail, tamper-evidence and RBI/IRDAI-compliant archival are what you specifically need. Leegality is the most mature Indian player on these requirements.
2. You need eSign AND eStamp in one workflow — most loan agreements, lease deeds, share-transfer documents and high-value commercial contracts need both. Leegality runs the integrated workflow end-to-end.
3. You need state-coverage across most Indian states — Leegality's SHCIL integration covers 18+ states, more than most pure-eSign competitors.
4. You're doing Indian Aadhaar-based eSign at consumer scale — Aadhaar eSign requires very specific UIDAI + CA + IT Act compliance; Leegality has 9+ years of operational experience on this surface.

Leegality is the wrong call when: you only need global cross-border eSign with no India-specific compliance (use DocuSign or Adobe Acrobat Sign); you need an integrated KYC-first identity stack and eSign is a side feature (look at Signzy or IDfy instead); or you're a very early-stage startup with a low document volume where the per-document cost matters more than the workflow depth (consider Digio's entry-tier pricing).

Pros & cons

Alternatives

Related insights & playbooks

• KYC & Identity tools hub — full comparison set
• Fintech insights hub — lending, BNPL and compliance trends
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• PAN verification micro-copy