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Per-organisation limits documented, POST 300 a minute soft and 320 hard, GET 300 every 3 seconds, remove background 2 POSTs every 3 seconds, masking 60 a minute and 9,000 a day (15). The usage notes say to read retry-after on 429, retry only 5xx, back off exponentially over three attempts, and that the service itself retries 429, 502, 503 and 504 three times (15). No SLA. A benchmarking page says its figures are 'not a performance SLA' (0). v2 is GA (10)." }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 0, "pending": true, "points": 0, "reason": "Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. 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Versioned /v2 paths, but the release notes page is a heading with no entries (5)." }, { "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 36, "points": 5.85, "reason": "Every call returns a job and outputs go to your own storage, so responses stay small, but a full document manifest can be large (12). Little to page or filter beyond manifest options (8). Error codes defined, with Adobe's own caveat about unhelpful messages (8). No idempotency key. Retry guidance limits retries to 5xx and the status GET is safe to poll (8). The only official SDK, @adobe/photoshop-apis 2.0.1, calls only v1 /pie/psdService paths, which reached end of life on 2026-07-31, and every call needs a token exchange, two headers and pre-signed URLs (0)." }, { "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14, "effectiveWeight": 17.5, "score": 62, "points": 10.85, "reason": "OAuth server-to-server credentials from the Developer Console, exchanged for 24-hour tokens. The scopes (openid, AdobeID, read_organizations) aren't per operation (25). Access follows the organisation's product profile, and inputs and outputs are pre-signed URLs to specific objects in your own storage, but there's no read-only mode (10). Returns renders and manifests of your own files (10). No per-call audit log found (0). security.txt is PGP-signed and valid until 2027-07-30, with a PSIRT address and an Intigriti bug bounty. We didn't check certifications for Firefly Services in this run (17)." }, { "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 12.5, "score": 0, "points": 0, "reason": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the OpenAPI spec (0). No public price, enterprise contract through Adobe sales per the 30 September check (0). No free tier (0). A person has to negotiate a contract before any credentials exist (0)." }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 0, "pending": true, "points": 0, "reason": "Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored." }, { "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7, "effectiveWeight": 8.75, "score": 42, "points": 3.68, "reason": "Adobe publishes no dated release notes, so we used the public spec. New v2 capabilities (layer effects, nested group export) were merged on 2026-09-08 and remove background was restored to the spec on 2026-09-21 (30). No releases or dated changelog entries in the last 90 days, only docs commits (5). Support goes through an Adobe customer success manager. The docs repo is active but has no public changelog (5). The official JavaScript SDK was last tagged on 2025-06-24 and targets v1 only (0). The SDK repo has CI workflows but no commits since June 2025 (2)." }, { "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7, "effectiveWeight": 8.75, "score": 61, "points": 5.34, "note": "editorial 32, provenance 90", "reason": "Closed service under Adobe's terms (15). Inputs and outputs stay on your own pre-signed storage, but we found no retention or training statement specific to the Photoshop API (5). The v1 shutdown was announced on 20 April 2026 for 31 July 2026, 102 days, with dated FAQs. The getting-started page and guides still show v1 calls with no notice (12). No subprocessor list or data locations found for Firefly Services (0)." } ], "assessment": { "date": "2026-10-01", "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "notes": { "ergonomics": "Every call returns a job and outputs go to your own storage, so responses stay small, but a full document manifest can be large (12). Little to page or filter beyond manifest options (8). Error codes defined, with Adobe's own caveat about unhelpful messages (8). No idempotency key. Retry guidance limits retries to 5xx and the status GET is safe to poll (8). The only official SDK, @adobe/photoshop-apis 2.0.1, calls only v1 /pie/psdService paths, which reached end of life on 2026-07-31, and every call needs a token exchange, two headers and pre-signed URLs (0).", "maintenance": "Adobe publishes no dated release notes, so we used the public spec. New v2 capabilities (layer effects, nested group export) were merged on 2026-09-08 and remove background was restored to the spec on 2026-09-21 (30). No releases or dated changelog entries in the last 90 days, only docs commits (5). Support goes through an Adobe customer success manager. The docs repo is active but has no public changelog (5). The official JavaScript SDK was last tagged on 2025-06-24 and targets v1 only (0). 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Access follows the organisation's product profile, and inputs and outputs are pre-signed URLs to specific objects in your own storage, but there's no read-only mode (10). Returns renders and manifests of your own files (10). No per-call audit log found (0). security.txt is PGP-signed and valid until 2027-07-30, with a PSIRT address and an Intigriti bug bounty. We didn't check certifications for Firefly Services in this run (17).", "transparency": "Closed service under Adobe's terms (15). Inputs and outputs stay on your own pre-signed storage, but we found no retention or training statement specific to the Photoshop API (5). The v1 shutdown was announced on 20 April 2026 for 31 July 2026, 102 days, with dated FAQs. The getting-started page and guides still show v1 calls with no notice (12). No subprocessor list or data locations found for Firefly Services (0)." }, "sources": [ { "what": "v2 OpenAPI spec and docs source", "url": "https://github.com/AdobeDocs/ffs-photoshop-API", "seen": "2026-10-01" }, { "what": "technical usage notes (limits, retries, known limitations)", "url": "https://developer.adobe.com/firefly-services/docs/photoshop/getting-started/technical-usage-notes/", "seen": "2026-10-01" }, { "what": "v1 deprecation announcement", "url": "https://developer.adobe.com/firefly-services/docs/photoshop/getting-started/deprecation-announcement/", "seen": "2026-10-01" }, { "what": "getting-started page", "url": "https://developer.adobe.com/firefly-services/docs/photoshop/getting-started/", "seen": "2026-10-01" }, { "what": "release notes (empty)", "url": "https://developer.adobe.com/firefly-services/docs/photoshop/guides/release-notes/", "seen": "2026-10-01" }, { "what": "npm package @adobe/photoshop-apis", "url": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@adobe/photoshop-apis/latest", "seen": "2026-10-01" }, { "what": "JavaScript SDK source", "url": "https://github.com/Firefly-Services/firefly-services-sdk-js", "seen": "2026-10-01" }, { "what": "security.txt", "url": "https://www.adobe.com/.well-known/security.txt", "seen": "2026-10-01" }, { "what": "status page (JavaScript only)", "url": "https://status.adobe.com/products/firefly-services", "seen": "2026-10-01" } ], "openQuestions": [ "unchecked: status history for Firefly Services, since status.adobe.com renders only with JavaScript", "Whether /pie/psdService/hello and other v1 paths still answer after the 31 July end of life, or only the docs lag", "lastRelease was the SDK's 2025-06-24 tag. We set it to 2026-09-08, the date new v2 capabilities reached the public spec, because Adobe publishes no dated release notes", "The listing names @adobe/photoshop-apis as its package. It targets v1 only and has no v2 release", "We didn't check Adobe's certifications or data retention terms for Firefly Services in this run" ] }, "negative": -4, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-01. Two months after the v1 end of life on 2026-07-31, the getting-started page's first API call is still https://image.adobe.io/pie/psdService/hello, and the actions and rendering guides still show v1 /pie/psdService endpoints with no deprecation notice. The only official SDK, @adobe/photoshop-apis 2.0.1, calls v1 paths only. https://developer.adobe.com/firefly-services/docs/photoshop/getting-started/ and https://github.com/AdobeDocs/ffs-photoshop-API" ], "verdict": "Edits real PSDs, including text layers, smart objects, layer effects, groups and artboards. Enterprise contract only. 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Adobe sales, a Developer Console project with OAuth server-to-server credentials, an IMS token exchange for a 24-hour bearer, pre-signed URLs on your own S3, Azure Blob or Dropbox for every input and output, a POST that returns a v2 job, a poll on /v2/status/{jobId} or an I/O Events webhook, then a fetch from your own bucket. The limits are published, 300 POST a minute soft and 320 hard per organisation, with retry-after on 429. Now the part that wastes a day. v1 reached end of life on 31 July 2026, and on 1 October the getting-started page's first call is still image.adobe.io/pie/psdService/hello, the guides still show /pie/psdService paths, and the only official SDK, @adobe/photoshop-apis 2.0.1, calls v1 only. The release notes page is empty. 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Access needs an active enterprise contract that includes Firefly Services, arranged through an Adobe representative, and Creative Cloud plans don't include API access. With no self-serve plan, no price per 1,000 renders can be stated from public sources, and an agent can't estimate a job before a person has negotiated the contract. The documented limits of 300 POSTs a minute (soft, 320 hard) per organisation bound the rate, and there's no price to multiply them by. Inputs and outputs are pre-signed URLs on your own storage, so your storage provider bills that part separately. Billing is by enterprise contract only, with no x402. 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