GetSigning vs Adobe Acrobat Sign
Adobe Acrobat Sign is signing bundled into a PDF editor. If you already live in Acrobat all day, that bundling is convenient. If you just need a contract signed, you are buying a large piece of software to get a small piece of it.
The short version
| GetSigning | Adobe Acrobat Sign | |
|---|---|---|
| How it is billed | Per document | Per user, per month |
| Cost to start | £0 | A subscription, typically annual |
| Transaction limit | None | Team plans cap at 150 per user a year |
| Extra users | Free | Another licence each |
| Also gives you | Signing, and nothing else | A full PDF editor |
| Where your data lives | United Kingdom | Depends on plan and region |
The transaction cap is the part people miss
Adobe's team plans limit you to 150 transactions per user per year. That sounds generous until a busy quarter, and going over means buying more licences rather than paying for what you used. A per-document price has no cliff in it: the two hundredth document costs exactly what the first one did.
Where Adobe wins: if you genuinely need Acrobat. Editing PDFs, OCR, redaction, combining and exporting are real tools and we do none of them. We take a finished document and get it signed.
What you give up
- The PDF editor. We convert Word, ODT and images to PDF so you can place fields on them, but we do not edit PDFs.
- Adobe's integration library and enterprise identity tooling.
- Qualified electronic signatures for the narrow set of documents that require them.
What you get instead
- One price. £1.19 a document, including VAT, at any volume.
- No per-user charge, so your whole office can send.
- No annual cap to trip over in a busy month.
- UK hosting, a UK company, ICO registered.
- A full API included, not held back for a higher tier.
£1.19 a document. That is the whole price list.
Three documents free to try it, no card needed. Every signature comes with a certificate and a tamper-evident audit trail.
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