Acrobat Sign vs Firma.dev
Stop waiting on a sales call to sign a document
Adobe hides its API pricing behind a quote. Firma.dev's is €0.049 per envelope, right here.
You cannot find out what Adobe Acrobat Sign's API costs.
There is no rate card. Production access is quoted individually. If you want to know whether it fits your budget, the first step is a conversation with a salesperson, and the second step is waiting.
Ours is €0.049 per envelope, which is roughly 5 cents. That number is on this page because it is the same number for everybody.
Where each one fits
Firma.dev is the better choice when
Know the price upfront
You want to know the price before you commit to anything
Free branding
You want your own branding without a setup fee
Start today
You want to start today without a developer or a purchase order
Adobe Acrobat Sign is the better choice when
Deep PDF tooling
You need deep PDF tooling and document manipulation alongside signing
Already standardised on Adobe
Your organisation is standardised on Adobe and procurement is already solved
Notarisation and qualified signatures
You need notarisation or qualified electronic signatures
Comparison
Comparison at a Glance
Checked 25 July 2026. Where a figure is Adobe's own published number, it is marked as such. Where it comes from third-party reporting, it says so.
Paying to put your own logo on your own contract
Adobe's custom branding is restricted to their Enterprise plans. It is capped at five themes. And it cannot fully remove Adobe references from the documents or the signing portal, so your customers see Adobe's brand on your paperwork regardless of what you pay.
Branding that doesn't cost extra
On top of that, configuring it is reported to carry a one-off setup fee of somewhere between $500 and $2,000, depending on complexity.
With Firma.dev, branding is included. Upload a logo, set your sending domain, edit the email templates. There is no fee, no tier, and no Adobe.
I'm a geek. I don't have to speak to anyone. I can just get started now.
Rasmus Rowbotham, Founder, FoundBase
FoundBase looked at providers that required a sales call and did not publish pricing, then built the integration in a single evening instead.
You don't need to be a developer for this
Most comparisons on this site are written for engineers. This one probably is not, because most people evaluating Adobe are not shopping for an API, they are trying to stop chasing paperwork.
From $230 a month to $14
Splendid Consulting is an accounting firm in Toronto. They were paying about C$230 a month for 200 signatures, moved to Firma.dev, and now pay about C$14. Their operations lead built the whole thing himself, using AI, and he does not write code.
As a non-coder, I did all the building myself. It took like a day with AI. It wasn't that much challenging.
Yavuz Mert, Operations Lead, Splendid Consulting
That is a 94% reduction, and nobody filed a purchase order to get it.
One API call, or none at all
If you do want to hand it to a developer, creating and sending a document is one call:
We also publish an MCP server that lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or GitHub Copilot read our API reference and write the integration for you. That is how a non-coder gets this done in a day.
Where your documents live
Adobe operates EU data centres, and EU storage is available. It is not automatic.
Routing your data to an EU region has to be configured during implementation, which means it is another item in a project plan rather than a default.
Firma.dev is hosted in the EU as standard, on AWS in Paris with CloudFront in Stockholm. There is nothing to configure and nothing to ask for.
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