{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "adobe-acrobat-sign", "name": "Adobe Acrobat Sign", "vendor": "Adobe Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/business/sign.html", "kind": "http-api", "category": "e-signatures", "summary": "Adobe Acrobat Sign is an e-signature service. Its REST API v6 creates agreements from uploaded files or library templates, sends them for signature, returns signing URLs and audit trails, and reports status through webhooks.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-acrobat-sign", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-acrobat-sign.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-acrobat-sign.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/adobe-acrobat-sign.json", "repo": "https://github.com/adobe/acrobat-sign", "license": "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", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.na1.adobesign.com/api/rest/v6", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "Access is self-serve for a developer's own account. A person creates an Adobe ID, signs up for the free Developer Edition and creates an API application in the Acrobat Sign web UI, then completes an OAuth 2.0 authorisation code flow in a browser. Access tokens last one hour and refresh tokens expire after 60 days without use. Scopes are set per application and per token, each with a `:self`, `:group` or `:account` modifier. Only a group or account admin can grant the wider modifiers. PARTNER applications that reach other customers' accounts need Adobe's certification.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public price for API use. Acrobat Sign Solutions, the product Adobe sells for API and enterprise e-signing, is by quote. Acrobat team plans with e-signatures are public at $16.99 to $29.99 a licence a month, and the pricing page doesn't say whether they include API access. An agent's owner can start without a contract on the free Developer Edition, where test documents carry a test label. Whether sign-up asks for a card isn't stated (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$16.99 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer guide, the release notes or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 26, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.adobe.com/acrobat-sign/", "capabilities": [ "esign.send", "esign.templates", "esign.embed", "esign.status" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "enterprise", "oauth", "webhooks", "closed-source", "sales-led", "free-tier", "status-page", "sla", "bug-bounty" ], "lastRelease": "2025-11-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 52.6, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 652, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 10, "payments": 25, "reliability": 66, "schema": 54, "security": 66, "transparency": 70 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The REST API has OAuth 2.0 scopes that can be limited to one user, a group or the account, `Retry-After` on throttled calls and a free Developer Edition. Adobe calls its own SDKs obsolete, the newest dated API change is November 2025, and API plans are sold through sales with no public price.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "OAuth 2.0 scopes split read, write and send per resource, each limited to the authorising user, a group or the whole account", "Throttled calls return 429 with a `Retry-After` header and a `retryAfter` body field, and the guide asks for exponential backoff", "ETags give 304 on unchanged reads and `If-Match` on updates, so a stale write fails with 412 `RESOURCE_MODIFIED`", "Webhooks retry with doubling intervals for up to 72 hours and can call an endpoint secured with OAuth 2.0 or two-way SSL", "A free Developer Edition account includes API access, and a 99.9 per cent uptime SLA with credits covers the enterprise product" ], "weaknesses": [ "Adobe's SDK page says the C#, Java and JavaScript SDKs are obsolete and out of step with REST v6", "The newest dated entry in the API release notes is November 2025, eleven months before this check", "API plans (Acrobat Sign Solutions) are sold through sales. No per-transaction price is published", "Per-endpoint request limits depend on the service plan and aren't published. Only the `/search` and polling limits carry numbers", "No llms.txt, no MCP server and no current OpenAPI file were found. The downloadable Swagger files date from 2018" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call the base URI endpoint first and cache `api_access_point`. Each account lives on one shard such as `api.na1.adobesign.com`, and other hosts answer `INVALID_API_ACCESS_POINT`", "Request only the scopes the task needs, with the `:self` modifier. `:account` lets the token act for every user in the account", "On 429 wait the seconds in `Retry-After` or `retryAfter`. Retrying sooner resets the timer on accounts created after 20 May 2025", "Don't poll. An identical GET repeated past the plan's threshold returns 429. Subscribe to webhooks, or send `If-None-Match` with the ETag", "Create agreements in `DRAFT` state, check them, then move to `IN_PROCESS`. No idempotency key exists, so check before re-sending a failed `POST /agreements`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 52.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 10, "payments": 25, "reliability": 66, "schema": 54, "security": 66, "transparency": 59 }, "provenanceScore": 81 }, "connect": { "http": "GET /api/rest/v6/base_uris HTTP/1.1\nHost: api.na1.adobesign.com\nAuthorization: Bearer {accessToken}" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/esign.send", "tool": "https://letme.dev/adobe-acrobat-sign" }, "sameCompany": [ "adobe-firefly", "adobe-pdf-extract", "adobe-photoshop-api", "adobe-commerce" ], "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Developer Edition", "unit": "month", "usd": 0, "note": "free account with API access, test documents labelled, per the developer guide on 2026-10-08" }, { "item": "Acrobat Standard for teams", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 16.99, "note": "per licence, annual billed monthly, per the pricing page on 2026-10-08. API access not stated" }, { "item": "Acrobat Pro for teams", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 23.99, "note": "per licence, annual billed monthly, per the pricing page on 2026-10-08. API access not stated" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Adobe Inc.", "domain": "adobe.com", "domainRegistered": "1986-11-17", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms.html", "privacy": "https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html", "statusPage": "https://status.adobe.com", "changelog": "https://developer.adobe.com/acrobat-sign/docs/overview/releasenotes/acrobatsignreleasenotes", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Adobe General Terms of Use (effective 3 October 2025) cover Adobe's services and software and name Adobe Inc. for North America, Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited elsewhere and Adobe KK for Japan.", "Enterprise customers contract under the Adobe General Terms for enterprise with the Acrobat Sign product terms (PSLT 2023v2, a PDF) and a sales order. The General Terms of Use are the document a developer or online buyer accepts.", "The Adobe Privacy Policy (last updated 24 October 2025) covers Document Cloud apps and services.", "The API answers on shards of adobesign.com, such as api.na1.adobesign.com, a second Adobe domain registered on 22 December 2011 per RDAP. Older examples use echosign.com.", "www.adobe.com/.well-known/security.txt is PGP-signed, expires on 30 July 2027 and names psirt@adobe.com and a bug bounty on Intigriti.", "RDAP for adobe.com gives a registration date of 1986-11-17." ], "score": 81 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-acrobat-sign.json", "live": { "slug": "adobe-acrobat-sign", "probe": { "target": "https://api.na1.adobesign.com/api/rest/v6", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:20.472586644Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 265, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 269, "p95ms24h": 314, "samples24h": 44, "samples30d": 44, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 44, "ok": 44 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.adobe.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T07:57:34.442944052Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:20.472586644Z" } }, "answer": "Docusign scores 62.5 (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.", "b": { "slug": "docusign", "name": "Docusign", "vendor": "Docusign, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.docusign.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "e-signatures", "summary": "Docusign is an e-signature and agreement management service. Its eSignature REST API creates envelopes from documents or templates, sends them to signers, embeds signing in an app and reports status. A hosted MCP server exposes a subset as tools.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/docusign", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/docusign.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/docusign.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/docusign.json", "repo": "https://github.com/docusign/OpenAPI-Specifications", "license": "Proprietary service under Docusign's Master Services Agreement. The OpenAPI specifications repository and the eSignature SDKs on GitHub are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.docusign.com/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "docusign-esign" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "docusign-esign" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 access tokens only, sent as a Bearer header. A developer creates an integration key in a free developer account and chooses authorisation code grant (with a secret or PKCE), JWT Grant for a service that impersonates a consenting user, or Implicit Grant. Moving to production means a Go-Live review of the key's API activity, a paid account and an administrator. Public integrations must join the partner programme. Since 30 September 2026, a production integration key used with the MCP server also needs Docusign's approval through a form.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Developer API plans start at $50 a month billed annually (Starter, from 40 envelopes a month), then $300 (Intermediate) and $480 (Advanced), with larger plans through sales. A free developer account with no time limit lets an agent build and test in the demo environment without a contract, but envelopes sent there aren't legally binding. Workflow Builder and Agreement Manager need an IAM subscription (checked 2026-10-07).", "priceSummary": "$50 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the spec files or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-07).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 42, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 542682, "pypiWeekly": 305902, "asOf": "2026-10-07" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.docusign.com", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docusign/OpenAPI-Specifications/master/esignature.rest.swagger-v2.1.json", "capabilities": [ "esign.send", "esign.templates", "esign.embed", "esign.status", "contracts.generate" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "paid", "sandbox", "oauth", "mcp", "openapi", "webhooks", "node", "python", "java", "csharp", "php", "ruby", "status-page", "soc2", "iso27001" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 388, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 30, "reliability": 57, "schema": 70, "security": 64, "transparency": 72 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-07" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The eSignature REST API has public Swagger and OpenAPI files on GitHub, OAuth 2.0, a free developer sandbox and Connect webhooks, and the MCP server reached general availability on 30 September 2026. Production needs a paid plan from $50 a month and a Go-Live review, and the status site lists 34 incidents since 9 July 2026.", "bestFor": "Teams whose company already uses Docusign and needs an agent to send envelopes from templates, embed signing and track status with a full audit trail.", "strengths": [ "Public Spec files under MIT on GitHub for eSignature v2.1 (213 paths, 414 operations) and ten other APIs", "Free developer account with no time limit, on a separate demo environment (demo.docusign.net, mcp-d.docusign.com)", "Rate limits published with numbers (3,000 calls an hour per account, 500 per 30 seconds in production) and returned in response headers", "Each envelope has an audit_events endpoint, and Connect webhooks support HMAC signatures, OAuth and mutual TLS", "Sub-processor list updated 18 September 2026 with an RSS feed, and 30 days' notice of new sub-processors in the data protection attachment" ], "weaknesses": [ "health.docusign.com lists 34 incidents since 9 July 2026, including a two-hour NA4 disruption on 30 July and email notification failures from 25 to 30 September", "Production access needs a paid account, an admin and a Go-Live review, and MCP integration keys need Docusign's approval since 30 September 2026", "The eSignature spec is Swagger 2.0 with no enums, no required lists and no security definitions. Valid values sit in prose", "The `signature` scope covers most of the eSignature API, and MCP admins can only switch access on or off, with no read or write tool control", "No llms.txt, no security.txt, and no bug bounty, written deprecation policy or SLA found in the pages reviewed" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call /oauth/userinfo once after sign-in, cache `base_uri` and the account ID, and send every eSignature call to that host under /restapi/v2.1", "Create and send an envelope in one Envelopes:create call with `status` set to `sent`. Docusign asks for five calls or fewer per envelope", "Subscribe to Connect or set `eventNotification` for status. Polling one envelope more than once every 15 minutes is flagged and can fail the Go-Live review", "Set `transactionId` on envelope creation so a retry after a lost response can find the envelope. The ID is valid for seven days", "Read `X-RateLimit-Reset` and `X-BurstLimit-Remaining`, and stop calling until the reset after a 429" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 30, "reliability": 57, "schema": 70, "security": 64, "transparency": 59 }, "provenanceScore": 85 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install docusign-esign -save" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/esign.send", "tool": "https://letme.dev/docusign" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Starter plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 50, "note": "Starting amount of 40 envelopes a month, $600 billed annually" }, { "item": "Intermediate plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 300, "note": "Starting amount of 100 envelopes a month, $3,600 billed annually" }, { "item": "Advanced plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 480, "note": "Adds PowerForms, Bulk Send, signer attachments and Connect, $5,760 billed annually" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Docusign, Inc.", "domain": "docusign.com", "domainRegistered": "1999-06-14", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.docusign.com/legal/terms-and-conditions/msa", "privacy": "https://www.docusign.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://health.docusign.com", "changelog": "https://developers.docusign.com/changelog/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-07", "notes": [ "The Master Services Agreement names Docusign, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and is dated 14 November 2022. The privacy notice (effective 9 October 2025) gives 221 Main Street, Suite 800, San Francisco, CA 94105.", "The eSignature API answers at docusign.net hosts, auth at account.docusign.com and the MCP server at mcp.docusign.com. We did not look up the registration of docusign.net.", "www.docusign.com/.well-known/security.txt and developers.docusign.com/.well-known/security.txt return 404.", "status.docusign.com redirects to health.docusign.com, which loads its incidents from a JSON feed on the same host.", "RDAP for docusign.com gives a registration date of 1999-06-14 and MarkMonitor Inc. as registrar." ], "score": 85 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/docusign.json", "live": { "slug": "docusign", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.docusign.com/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:27.085686859Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 403, "lastMs": 86, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 80, "p95ms24h": 115, "samples24h": 218, "samples30d": 218, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 93, "ok": 93 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 125, "ok": 125 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://health.docusign.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T07:57:48.963524131Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "docusign/OpenAPI-Specifications", "version": "20.1.00", "released": "2020-04-17", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:09:01.313876796Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "docusign-esign", "version": "10.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:08:57.83420854Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "docusign-esign", "version": "6.1.0", "released": "2026-03-13", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:09:01.102662485Z" } ], "githubStars": 24, "npmWeekly": 542682, "pypiWeekly": 298433, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://docusign.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:29.983479591Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.docusign.com/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:17:32.846205768Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "0fbf96791151" }, { "url": "https://www.docusign.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:27:28.037387175Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "018152190058" }, { "url": "https://www.docusign.com/legal/terms-and-conditions/msa", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:27:25.653607346Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "63db5ccf0cd1" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:27.085686859Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Adobe Inc.", "b": "Docusign, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.na1.adobesign.com/api/rest/v6", "b": "https://mcp.docusign.com/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "OAuth", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "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", "b": "Proprietary service under Docusign's Master Services Agreement. 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Adobe Acrobat Sign leads on reliability.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Adobe Acrobat Sign or Docusign?" }, { "answer": "Both use an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Adobe Acrobat Sign and Docusign need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. 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Adobe Acrobat Sign leads on reliability. Both do esign send.", "verdicts": { "adobe-acrobat-sign": "The REST API has OAuth 2.0 scopes that can be limited to one user, a group or the account, `Retry-After` on throttled calls and a free Developer Edition. Adobe calls its own SDKs obsolete, the newest dated API change is November 2025, and API plans are sold through sales with no public price.", "docusign": "The eSignature REST API has public Swagger and OpenAPI files on GitHub, OAuth 2.0, a free developer sandbox and Connect webhooks, and the MCP server reached general availability on 30 September 2026. Production needs a paid plan from $50 a month and a Go-Live review, and the status site lists 34 incidents since 9 July 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-acrobat-sign-vs-docusign", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-acrobat-sign-vs-docusign.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-acrobat-sign-vs-docusign.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-acrobat-sign-vs-docusign.min.md" }, "markdown": "Docusign scores 62.5 (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. Both do esign send.\n\n- Adobe Acrobat Sign: grade D, 52.6/100, rank #652 of 842. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/docusign.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/docusign.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Adobe Acrobat Sign (D)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 66 against 57\n\nWatch for: Adobe's SDK page says the C#, Java and JavaScript SDKs are obsolete and out of step with REST v6\n\n### Docusign (B)\n\nGood for: Teams whose company already uses Docusign and needs an agent to send envelopes from templates, embed signing and track status with a full audit trail.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 70 against 54\n- Agent ergonomics, 70 against 55\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 81 against 10\n\nWatch for: health.docusign.com lists 34 incidents since 9 July 2026, including a two-hour NA4 disruption on 30 July and email notification failures from 25 to 30 September\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Adobe Acrobat Sign | Docusign | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 66 | 57 | Adobe Acrobat Sign +9 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 70 | Docusign +16 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 70 | Docusign +15 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 64 | Adobe Acrobat Sign +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 30 | Docusign +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 10 | 81 | Docusign +71 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 72 | Docusign +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **52.6 · D** | **62.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Adobe Acrobat Sign | Docusign |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Adobe Inc. | Docusign, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.na1.adobesign.com/api/rest/v6` | `https://mcp.docusign.com/mcp` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| 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 | Proprietary service under Docusign's Master Services Agreement. The OpenAPI specifications repository and the eSignature SDKs on GitHub are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 42 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2025-11-01 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-10-24 | 2025-10-09 |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | yes, with an opt-out |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 26 stars | 543k npm/wk, 306k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Adobe Acrobat Sign.** The REST API has OAuth 2.0 scopes that can be limited to one user, a group or the account, `Retry-After` on throttled calls and a free Developer Edition. Adobe calls its own SDKs obsolete, the newest dated API change is November 2025, and API plans are sold through sales with no public price.\n\n**Docusign.** The eSignature REST API has public Swagger and OpenAPI files on GitHub, OAuth 2.0, a free developer sandbox and Connect webhooks, and the MCP server reached general availability on 30 September 2026. Production needs a paid plan from $50 a month and a Go-Live review, and the status site lists 34 incidents since 9 July 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Adobe Acrobat Sign\n\n1. Call the base URI endpoint first and cache `api_access_point`. Each account lives on one shard such as `api.na1.adobesign.com`, and other hosts answer `INVALID_API_ACCESS_POINT`\n2. Request only the scopes the task needs, with the `:self` modifier. `:account` lets the token act for every user in the account\n3. On 429 wait the seconds in `Retry-After` or `retryAfter`. Retrying sooner resets the timer on accounts created after 20 May 2025\n4. Don't poll. An identical GET repeated past the plan's threshold returns 429. Subscribe to webhooks, or send `If-None-Match` with the ETag\n5. Create agreements in `DRAFT` state, check them, then move to `IN_PROCESS`. No idempotency key exists, so check before re-sending a failed `POST /agreements`\n\n### Docusign\n\n1. Call /oauth/userinfo once after sign-in, cache `base_uri` and the account ID, and send every eSignature call to that host under /restapi/v2.1\n2. Create and send an envelope in one Envelopes:create call with `status` set to `sent`. Docusign asks for five calls or fewer per envelope\n3. Subscribe to Connect or set `eventNotification` for status. Polling one envelope more than once every 15 minutes is flagged and can fail the Go-Live review\n4. Set `transactionId` on envelope creation so a retry after a lost response can find the envelope. The ID is valid for seven days\n5. 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