{ "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": "2026-10-09T10:42:34.338883253Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 288, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 267, "p95ms24h": 290, "samples24h": 33, "samples30d": 33, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 33, "ok": 33 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.adobe.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T07:57:34.442944052Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T10:42:34.338883253Z" } }, "answer": "PandaDoc scores 63.1 (B) on agent readiness against Adobe Acrobat Sign's 52.6 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Adobe Acrobat Sign leads on reliability, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "pandadoc", "name": "PandaDoc", "vendor": "PandaDoc", "vendorUrl": "https://www.pandadoc.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "e-signatures", "summary": "PandaDoc is a document platform for proposals, quotes, contracts and e-signatures. Its REST API and hosted MCP server create documents from templates, send them for signature, embed signing sessions and report status through webhooks.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pandadoc", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pandadoc.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pandadoc.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pandadoc.json", "repo": "https://github.com/PandaDoc/pandadoc-openapi-specification", "license": "Proprietary service under PandaDoc's Master Services Agreement. The OpenAPI specification, the API client SDKs and the MCP server guide on GitHub are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.pandadoc.com/public/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "pandadoc-node-client" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "pandadoc-python-client" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 authorisation code is the recommended method for the REST API, with `read` and `write` scopes and a Bearer token. Registering an OAuth application needs production API access, which is in the API Developer plan and a paid add-on on Business and Enterprise. API keys (`Authorization: API-Key ...`) are labelled legacy. A key belongs to one workspace and carries its owner's role, a sandbox key is self-serve from the developer centre, and a production key needs approval from Sales. The MCP server takes OAuth only, with PKCE and dynamic client registration, and scopes `read`, `write`, `documents:read`, `documents:edit` and `documents:send`. A person signs in and approves each connection.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free eSign plan at $0 with API and MCP access, capped at 25 documents created through the API and 5 documents sent a month. Starter is $19 a user a month billed annually ($35 monthly) and Business $49 ($65 monthly). Enterprise is priced by Sales. Each document created with a production credential uses one usage credit. Starter gets a one-time grant of 25 and Business 50, then credits are bought as packs on the billing page, with no public pack price found. Sandbox keys aren't charged, and the 14-day trial asks for a card only to change plan. Prices are from the help centre, because www.pandadoc.com/pricing answered our reader with a browser check (checked 2026-10-07).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found in the developer docs, the OpenAPI spec or the help centre's billing articles (checked 2026-10-07).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 49684, "pypiWeekly": 11543, "asOf": "2026-10-07" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.pandadoc.com", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.pandadoc.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://openapi.pandadoc.com/_build/openapi.yaml", "registryName": "com.pandadoc.mcp/mcp", "capabilities": [ "esign.send", "esign.templates", "esign.embed", "esign.status", "contracts.generate" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "mcp", "oauth", "api-key", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "sandbox", "python", "typescript", "java", "php", "status-page", "eu-region" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-02", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.1, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 368, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 68, "maintenance": 77, "payments": 30, "reliability": 58, "schema": 87, "security": 61, "transparency": 59 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-07" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The public OpenAPI spec lists 133 operations and reached version 8.21.0 on 2 October 2026, and the hosted MCP server, with OAuth and dynamic client registration, is open to every plan including Free. The status page records three incidents affecting document creation, sending or the API between 15 July and 6 September 2026, and writes have no idempotency keys.", "bestFor": "Suited to agents that prepare a proposal, quote or contract from a template, send it for signature and track it, for a team that already works in PandaDoc.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.0.3 spec with 133 operations, version 8.21.0 on 2 October 2026, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of each docs page", "Hosted MCP server in the official MCP registry as com.pandadoc.mcp/mcp, with OAuth, PKCE and dynamic client registration", "API and MCP access on every plan including Free, and a sandbox key that isn't charged", "Rate limits published per endpoint, from 100 to 2,000 requests a minute on production keys", "API request logs and a per-document audit trail are readable through the API" ], "weaknesses": [ "Three incidents hit document creation, sending or the API between 15 July and 6 September 2026, the longest about 3.5 hours", "No idempotency keys, and each document created with a production credential uses one usage credit", "Production API keys need approval from Sales, and usage credit pack prices sit on the in-app billing page", "Webhook deliveries aren't retried automatically, and a subscription failing for 7 days is deactivated", "The Python SDK was last released in April 2024 and the Node SDK's 7.0.0 line has been a release candidate since January 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "Wait for `document.draft` before sending. Creation is asynchronous and a new document stays in `document.uploaded` for a few seconds", "Match the region. Accounts on app.pandadoc.eu use api.pandadoc.eu and mcp.pandadoc.eu, and the global hosts reject them", "Check for an existing document before retrying a create. There's no idempotency key and each production create uses a usage credit", "Retry 409 after a pause and back off on 429. A sandbox key allows 10 requests a minute per endpoint", "Don't rely on webhooks alone. Failed deliveries aren't retried, so poll the status endpoint as a fallback" ], "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": 63.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 68, "maintenance": 77, "payments": 30, "reliability": 58, "schema": 87, "security": 61, "transparency": 33 }, "provenanceScore": 84 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://api.pandadoc.com/public/v1/documents?count=5\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: API-Key $PANDADOC_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add pandadoc --transport http https://mcp.pandadoc.com/v1/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "pandadoc": { "url": "https://mcp.pandadoc.com/v1/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/esign.send", "tool": "https://letme.dev/pandadoc" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "PandaDoc", "domain": "pandadoc.com", "domainRegistered": "2013-03-07", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.pandadoc.com/master-services-agreement/", "privacy": "https://www.pandadoc.com/legal/privacy-notice/", "statusPage": "https://status.pandadoc.com", "changelog": "https://developers.pandadoc.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-07", "notes": [ "www.pandadoc.com answered every request from our reader with a Vercel browser check (HTTP 429), so the terms, privacy notice, security page, sub-processor list and security.txt on that host were not read. The terms URL is the one named in the OpenAPI spec and the privacy URL the one linked from PandaDoc/mcp-server-guide.", "The registered company name was not confirmed first-hand. The MIT licence files on GitHub read \"Copyright (c) 2021 PandaDoc\".", "The API answers at api.pandadoc.com and api.pandadoc.eu, and the MCP server at mcp.pandadoc.com and mcp.pandadoc.eu.", "app.pandadoc.com and api.pandadoc.com return 404 for /.well-known/security.txt.", "RDAP for pandadoc.com gives a registration date of 2013-03-07 and expiry on 2028-03-07." ], "score": 84 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pandadoc.json", "live": { "slug": "pandadoc", "probe": { "target": "https://api.pandadoc.com/public/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T10:42:51.996589771Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 200, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 200, "p95ms24h": 520, "samples24h": 207, "samples30d": 207, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 93, "ok": 93 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 114, "ok": 114 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.pandadoc.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T10:41:57.515887792Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "PandaDoc/pandadoc-openapi-specification", "version": "v7.27.1", "released": "2026-05-18", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:24:38.986435339Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "com.pandadoc.mcp/mcp", "version": "1.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T02:57:46.004536428Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "pandadoc-node-client", "version": "6.2.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:24:37.971551567Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "pandadoc-python-client", "version": "6.2.0", "released": "2024-04-08", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:24:38.801559871Z" } ], "githubStars": 6, "npmWeekly": 49684, "pypiWeekly": 10927, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://pandadoc.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "unknown", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:38.152830762Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.pandadoc.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:17:55.997591832Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e7cd0cb1a50c" }, { "url": "https://www.pandadoc.com/legal/privacy-notice/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 429, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:29:33.711832356Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "url": "https://www.pandadoc.com/master-services-agreement/", "kind": "terms", "status": 429, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:29:35.722967757Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T10:42:51.996589771Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Adobe Inc.", "b": "PandaDoc", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.na1.adobesign.com/api/rest/v6", "b": "https://api.pandadoc.com/public/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Freemium", "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. 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Adobe Acrobat Sign leads on reliability, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Adobe Acrobat Sign or PandaDoc?" }, { "answer": "Adobe Acrobat Sign uses an OAuth sign-in. PandaDoc takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Adobe Acrobat Sign and PandaDoc need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pandadoc.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pandadoc.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 58\n- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 61\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 70 against 59\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### PandaDoc (B)\n\nGood for: Suited to agents that prepare a proposal, quote or contract from a template, send it for signature and track it, for a team that already works in PandaDoc.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 54\n- Agent ergonomics, 68 against 55\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 77 against 10\n\nWatch for: Three incidents hit document creation, sending or the API between 15 July and 6 September 2026, the longest about 3.5 hours\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Adobe Acrobat Sign | PandaDoc | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 66 | 58 | Adobe Acrobat Sign +8 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 87 | PandaDoc +33 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 68 | PandaDoc +13 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 61 | Adobe Acrobat Sign +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 30 | PandaDoc +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 10 | 77 | PandaDoc +67 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 59 | Adobe Acrobat Sign +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **52.6 · D** | **63.1 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Adobe Acrobat Sign | PandaDoc |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Adobe Inc. | PandaDoc |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.na1.adobesign.com/api/rest/v6` | `https://api.pandadoc.com/public/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\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 PandaDoc's Master Services Agreement. The OpenAPI specification, the API client SDKs and the MCP server guide on GitHub are MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `com.pandadoc.mcp/mcp` |\n| Last release | 2025-11-01 | 2026-10-02 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-10-24 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 26 stars | 50k npm/wk, 12k 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**PandaDoc.** The public OpenAPI spec lists 133 operations and reached version 8.21.0 on 2 October 2026, and the hosted MCP server, with OAuth and dynamic client registration, is open to every plan including Free. The status page records three incidents affecting document creation, sending or the API between 15 July and 6 September 2026, and writes have no idempotency keys.\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### PandaDoc\n\n1. Wait for `document.draft` before sending. Creation is asynchronous and a new document stays in `document.uploaded` for a few seconds\n2. Match the region. Accounts on app.pandadoc.eu use api.pandadoc.eu and mcp.pandadoc.eu, and the global hosts reject them\n3. Check for an existing document before retrying a create. There's no idempotency key and each production create uses a usage credit\n4. Retry 409 after a pause and back off on 429. A sandbox key allows 10 requests a minute per endpoint\n5. Don't rely on webhooks alone. Failed deliveries aren't retried, so poll the status endpoint as a fallback\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Adobe Acrobat Sign or PandaDoc?\n\nPandaDoc scores 63.1 (B) on agent readiness against Adobe Acrobat Sign's 52.6 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Adobe Acrobat Sign leads on reliability, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Adobe Acrobat Sign and PandaDoc need an API key?\n\nAdobe Acrobat Sign uses an OAuth sign-in. PandaDoc takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Adobe Acrobat Sign and PandaDoc without installing anything?\n\nYes. 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