# Adobe Acrobat Sign (slim)

> 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.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-acrobat-sign.md (~7,700 tokens) · this version ~2,030 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-acrobat-sign.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-acrobat-sign
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-09

**D · 52.6/100 · rank #652 of 842 · #6 in Contracts, proposals & e-signatures · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: 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.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Adobe Inc. · category: Contracts, proposals & e-signatures · legal entity: Adobe Inc. · provenance 81/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.na1.adobesign.com/api/rest/v6` (HTTP)
- Auth: OAuth · pricing: Paid · x402: no · 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
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- API: REST v6 under `/api/rest/v6` on the account's shard, for example https://api.na1.adobesign.com. Resources include agreements, transient documents, library documents, widgets (web forms), MegaSign (bulk send), users, groups, workflows and webhooks. v5 and SOAP are deprecated but still answer
- Credentials: OAuth 2.0 authorisation code grant. Access tokens last one hour, refresh tokens expire after 60 days without use, and `POST /oauth/v2/revoke` revokes either. Scopes such as `agreement_read`, `agreement_write`, `agreement_send`, `library_read`, `widget_write`, `user_login` and `webhook_write` take a `:self`, `:group` or `:account` modifier
- Applications: Created in the Acrobat Sign web UI as CUSTOMER (own account) or PARTNER (other accounts). Partner applications need Adobe's certification for full access to other accounts
- Rate limits: Per user by minute, hour and day, set by service plan and not published. `/search` calls are limited to 1,000 a minute, 2,500 an hour and 7,200 a day. Identical GET calls are limited to three a minute on Global, Enterprise and Developer tiers and three in three minutes on others
- Throttling: 429 with code `THROTTLING_TOO_MANY_REQUESTS` or `THROTTLING_HIGH_SYSTEM_LOAD`, a `Retry-After` header and `retryAfter` in the body. Document processing is also limited by participants, file size and pages
- Pagination: `pageSize` and `cursor` on list calls, with `page.nextCursor` in the response. `GET /agreements` allows at most 500 a page
- Concurrency: ETag on GET, 304 with `If-None-Match`, and `If-Match` required on PUT and DELETE, with 412 `RESOURCE_MODIFIED` on a stale write
- Webhooks: Created with `POST /webhooks` for an account, group, user or one resource. The endpoint must echo `X-AdobeSign-ClientId`. 5 seconds to respond, retries doubling from 30 seconds for up to 72 hours, then the webhook is disabled. Optional OAuth 2.0 and two-way SSL to the endpoint
- Signing: `GET /agreements/{agreementId}/signingUrls` returns signing URLs for embedded or in-person signing, and `POST /agreements/{agreementId}/views` returns embeddable views
- Audit: `GET /agreements/{agreementId}/auditTrail` returns the audit report for an agreement, and `/events` its history
- Uploads: `POST /transientDocuments` takes one file per call and keeps it seven days. Default file limit 10 MB
- SDKs: C#, Java and JavaScript SDKs and REST samples in adobe/acrobat-sign, MIT, all marked deprecated. Adobe points developers to the REST v6 reference and its Postman workspace
- Pricing: Developer Edition free. Acrobat team plans with e-signatures $16.99 to $29.99 a licence a month. Acrobat Sign Solutions, the product sold for API and enterprise use, by quote
- SLA: Unified SLA effective 3 August 2026 covers Acrobat Sign Solutions for Enterprise at 99.9 per cent monthly uptime, with credits of 5 to 25 per cent of monthly fees
- Sub-processors: List updated 28 September 2026. For Document Cloud and Acrobat Sign it names Microsoft, Akamai, Fastly, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Mitek, Elastic, Brave Software, OpenAI, Google and Telesign, with locations
- Prices: Developer Edition free per month (plan); Acrobat Standard for teams $16.99 per seat per month; Acrobat Pro for teams $23.99 per seat per month

- Scores: Reliability 66, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 54, Agent ergonomics 55, Security & auth 66, Payments & pricing 25, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 10, Transparency & trust 70 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Graded as a hosted API. · Schema & documentation, Graded on the REST v6 API. · Agent ergonomics, List calls take `pageSize` and return ETags for 304 responses. · Security & auth, OAuth 2.0 authorisation code grant with one-hour access tokens, refresh tokens that lapse after 60 days unused, a revoke endpoint and per-re… · Payments & pricing, Read with the hosted rubric. · Maintenance & community, The newest dated entry in the API release notes is November 2025, more than 180 days before this check, and the developer guide was last upd… · Transparency & trust, Closed service under the Adobe General Terms of Use of 3 October 2025 and the Acrobat Sign product terms of May 2023. The documentation repo…
- Sources: 20, open questions: 10, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: esign.send, esign.templates, esign.embed, esign.status
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/adobe-acrobat-sign.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/adobe-acrobat-sign.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-acrobat-sign from a page on adobe.com or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/adobe/acrobat-sign, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. 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`
2. Request only the scopes the task needs, with the `:self` modifier. `:account` lets the token act for every user in the account
3. On 429 wait the seconds in `Retry-After` or `retryAfter`. Retrying sooner resets the timer on accounts created after 20 May 2025
4. 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
5. 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`

## Connect

```bash
GET /api/rest/v6/base_uris HTTP/1.1
Host: api.na1.adobesign.com
Authorization: Bearer {accessToken}
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/adobe-acrobat-sign

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