API comparison · 25¢ per envelope · No monthly fee

Adobe Sign API vs. Siglio: 25¢ per envelope, no seats

Start with 25 free sandbox envelopes, no card and no licence to assign. After that, 25¢ per envelope with no seats and no minimum, sent by email and text in one call.

25¢ per envelope, no seats Email and text Sandbox key in a minute

You get a sandbox key on the next screen. Real delivery, not a simulation.

Check your email

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Published figures

What each one publishes

 SiglioAdobe Acrobat Sign
Price per envelope25¢Not published
Monthly fee$0Not published for the tiers that carry API access
Per-seat fee$0US$16.99, US$23.99 and US$29.99 per licence per month on the published business plans (annual, billed monthly)
Minimum commitment$0Not published
SMS deliveryIncluded at the same 25¢Not published
Sandbox accessKey on screen in about a minute. No card, no account review.“Register a Developer account”; the terms are not published
Webhook on every eventEvery event type, every account“Webhooks are supported in the REST API v6 and later”; the plans that carry them are not stated
Multi-signerTwo per envelope, signed in orderNot published

Adobe figures are quoted from Adobe's published Acrobat for business plans page and its Acrobat Sign API FAQ, checked on 14 September 2026. The per-licence prices are from the business plans page; the API FAQ states that “API access is reserved exclusively for enterprise and developer tier accounts”, and the price of those tiers is not published. So the published seat prices and the tiers that carry API access are not the same thing, and the table says so rather than implying one price covers both. A cell reading “Not published” is not stated on either page. Prices change; check the source before relying on it.

The thing worth noticing is that the prices Adobe publishes and the tier that carries API access are not the same thing. The per-licence prices above are the business plans; the API FAQ says access is reserved for enterprise and developer tier accounts, and those are not priced on the page. If you need Acrobat itself, none of that is a criticism, it is just a different purchase from an API key.

How it works

The e-signature API in three steps

A bearer token, one POST and one webhook. No licence to assign to anybody and nothing to install.

01

Tag the PDF

Put ^S1 where the signature goes and ^D1 where the date goes, in white text. Invisible to the reader, findable by us.

02

POST it

One JSON request with the file and the signer. Delivery by email, text or both starts immediately.

03

Get the webhook

envelope.completed lands on your endpoint with a link to the signed PDF and its certificate.

Pricing

What it costs

WhatSiglio
Per envelope25¢
Monthly fee$0
Per seat$0
Minimum$0
SMS deliveryIncluded, same 25¢
Sandbox25 envelopes free, no card

You are billed when an envelope is created, not when it is signed. A declined or ignored envelope still costs 25¢.

Questions

Reading this one honestly

Why can I not see an Adobe API price?

Because Adobe does not publish one on the pages linked under the table. The business plans page prices licences; the API FAQ says API access is reserved for enterprise and developer tier accounts and does not price them. We are not going to estimate a number and put their name next to it.

What does Adobe Acrobat Sign do that Siglio does not?

Everything around the document rather than the send: Acrobat itself, PDF editing, enterprise identity and provisioning, government and regulated-industry compliance programmes, and integration into a suite most large companies already own. If your organisation runs on Adobe, that gravity is real and this page is not going to move it.

Where does Siglio actually fit?

Software that needs to send a document for signature and get it back signed, at a published 25¢ with no licence to assign to anyone, including signers on a phone who get it by text instead of email.

Is the signature as legally sound?

Electronic signatures have carried the same legal force as ink in the United States since 2000 under the federal ESIGN Act, and at state level under UETA. What survives a challenge is the record behind the signature, so every completed envelope carries a certificate page with the timestamp and IP address of each event. For a use case near an edge, ask your own counsel rather than any vendor page, ours included.

How do I check the numbers myself?

Both source links under the table go to Adobe’s own pages, dated the day we read them. Read them before you rely on anything here, and if something has changed or we have it wrong, tell support and we will fix the page.

Try it before you price anything

25 free envelopes, no card, no call. The key is on the next screen.

You get a sandbox key on the next screen. Real delivery, not a simulation.

Check your email

We sent a sign-in link to . It is good for 15 minutes, and your sandbox key is waiting on the other side.