Is there a way to pay for Adobe Sign without paying per user?

Adobe prices its plans per licensed user. If you want a price that does not grow with each sender, you need a tool priced per company. SignElectronically plans include seats, 3 on Starter, 10 on Plus and 25 on Pro.

Do we lose anything by leaving Acrobat?

You lose nothing you already signed. Completed agreements are ordinary PDF files that you can download and keep. What you give up is the PDF editor that comes with Acrobat. If people on your team edit PDFs daily, keep Acrobat for them and move only the signing.

Can SignElectronically open PDFs made in Acrobat?

Yes. A PDF is a PDF, whichever program produced it. Upload the file, place the fields and send it. Form fields that were created in Acrobat are not imported as signing fields, so you place those once and save a template.

Is the signature as valid as one made with Adobe?

Validity comes from the law and the evidence, not from the brand of the tool. In the United States the ESIGN Act and UETA ask for intent, consent, attribution and a retained record. Each completed envelope here carries a certificate with those facts. See is an electronic signature legally binding for the details and the excluded document types.

What does a ten person team pay with SignElectronically?

Plus covers 10 seats and 500 envelopes a month for $149 a month, or $74 a month when billed yearly. That is the whole bill, with bulk send and webhooks included.

Adobe Sign alternative

Adobe Sign Pricing and What a Team Really Pays

Adobe Sign pricing follows Acrobat. eSignatures are sold as Acrobat Sign inside Acrobat plans and charged per user, so the bill rises with every person who sends. SignElectronically is the flat option, one company plan with seats included from $24 a month.

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The model

How Adobe prices eSignatures

Sold inside Acrobat

Signing is a part of the Acrobat product family. You choose an Acrobat plan and signing comes with it, next to PDF editing, conversion and the rest of the toolset.

Licensed per user

Every colleague who needs to send documents needs a license. Three senders cost three times what one sender costs, and a hiring round moves the bill.

Varies by plan and region

Adobe lists different plans for individuals, teams and larger companies, with prices that differ by country. Read the current figure on the vendor page before you compare.

Model against model

Per user licenses and a flat company plan

This table compares how the two products are sold. It contains no Adobe prices on purpose, because they depend on plan and region and change over time.

How SignElectronically and Adobe Acrobat Sign are priced
Question	SignElectronically	Adobe Acrobat Sign
How you buy it	One company plan, bought online	As part of an Acrobat plan
What the price is based on	The plan, with seats included	The number of licensed users
Where the current price is	On our pricing page, four plans	On the Adobe plan page for your region and plan type
Adding a colleague who sends	No extra cost until the seats of the plan are used	One more user license
How volume is stated	Envelopes per month, per company	Per the terms of the Acrobat plan you choose
What else comes in the package	Signing, templates and audit trail only	PDF editing and the wider Acrobat toolset

Adobe information reflects its public plan pages as of 2026-10-10. Adobe and Acrobat are trademarks of their owner. Check the vendor page before you decide.

Our side of the bill

What SignElectronically costs, in full

SignElectronically plans with seats and envelope quota
Plan	Seats	Envelopes	Monthly billing	Yearly billing
Starter	3 seats	50 per month	$49/mo	$24/mo, billed as $288 yearly
Plus	10 seats	500 per month	$149/mo	$74/mo, billed as $888 yearly
Pro	25 seats	2,000 per month	$499/mo	$249/mo, billed as $2,988 yearly

Enterprise starts at 50 seats and is bought online with a seat calculator. Signers never need a seat.

To compare fairly, take the per user price from your Adobe quote, multiply it by the number of people who send, and put the result next to the row that fits your team.

If only one person in the company sends documents, a per user plan can be the cheaper choice. The flat plan pays off from the second or third sender, and it keeps paying off as the team grows.

Comparing more vendors? The same arithmetic is worked through with public list prices on our page about DocuSign alternatives.

Switch from Adobe Sign

Move the signing, keep the PDFs

A migration is mostly a template job. Nothing you signed in the past has to be touched.

Step 1
List what you send

Write down the documents your team sends most, who signs each one and in what order. Five or six document types usually cover almost everything.
Step 2
Export finished agreements

Download your completed agreements and their audit reports from Adobe and store them in your own archive. They stay valid, because a signed PDF does not depend on the tool that sent it.
Step 3
Rebuild the templates

Upload each source PDF, drag the fields onto the page, name the signing roles and save it as a template.
Step 4
Send one real document

Pick a low risk agreement, send it to a colleague first and read the sealed PDF and its certificate together.
Step 5
Move the team

Invite the colleagues who send, give each a role and let the Acrobat licenses that were only used for signing run out at renewal.

Templates carry roles instead of names, so one offer letter serves every hire. Read how eSignature templates work, and how a batch of them goes out from a spreadsheet with bulk send.

Fair doubts

Three objections we hear from Acrobat teams

We already pay for Acrobat anyway

Then count who really needs it. People who edit PDFs every day should keep their license. People who hold one only to send a contract twice a month are the cost a flat plan removes.

Our clients know the Adobe name

Signers see your company name, your document and a clear consent step. Afterwards anyone can check the sealed file on the public verify page, which is stronger reassurance than a logo in an email.

Will the evidence hold up

Each envelope gets a certificate with UTC timestamps, IP addresses, consent and SHA-256 fingerprints of the file before and after signing. The electronic signature audit trail page shows every field.

Questions

Adobe Sign pricing FAQ

Adobe sells eSignatures as Acrobat Sign inside its Acrobat plans, and the price is charged per user. The amount depends on the plan and region, so the Adobe plan page is the only reliable source. We do not quote a figure here because we cannot keep it accurate for you.

Other comparisons

DocuSign alternatives Per user plans next to one flat plan. HelloSign alternative Seats and API in the same plan. PandaDoc alternative For teams that only need signatures. Features Everything a plan includes.

Try the signing step before you compare quotes

Upload a PDF on the homepage, place a signature and look at the result. It takes about a minute and needs no account.