# Adobe Acrobat Sign vs DocuSeal (slim)

> DocuSeal scores 62.4 (B) to Adobe Acrobat Sign's 52.6 (D) for e-signatures. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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DocuSeal scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Adobe Acrobat Sign's 52.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Adobe Acrobat Sign leads on reliability and security & auth. Both do e-signatures.

- Adobe Acrobat Sign: D 52.6, rank #732 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-acrobat-sign.min.md
- DocuSeal: B 62.4, rank #433 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/docuseal.min.md
- Adobe Acrobat Sign, good for A company that already holds Acrobat Sign Solutions and wants an agent to send agreements, track them by webhook and fetch signed files and audit trails. Ahead on Reliability, 66 against 50; Security & auth, 66 against 52.
- DocuSeal, good for A software company adding signing to its own product, paying per completed document, with HTML, PDF tag and DOCX variable templates and embeddable forms, and a choice of US or EU hosting or self-hosting. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 77 against 54; Payments & pricing, 55 against 25; Maintenance & community, 90 against 10; Transparency & trust, 79 against 70. Also Open source.

| Category | Adobe Acrobat Sign | DocuSeal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 66 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 54 | 77 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 55 | 56 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 66 | 52 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 55 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 10 | 90 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 70 | 79 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Adobe Acrobat Sign | DocuSeal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Adobe Inc. | DocuSeal, LLC |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.na1.adobesign.com/api/rest/v6` | `https://api.docuseal.com` |
| Auth | OAuth | API key |
| Pricing | Paid | Pay per use |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Adobe General Terms of Use and, for enterprise customers, the Acrobat Sign product terms. The documentation and SDK repository on GitHub is MIT | AGPL-3.0 with an added attribution term for the open-source edition, and a paid Pro licence for on-premises use. The SDKs and the CLI are MIT. The hosted cloud runs under DocuSeal's terms and conditions |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2025-11-01 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-03-14 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-10-24 | 2026-10-06 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |
| Popularity | 26 stars | 19k stars, 28k npm/wk |