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Adobe Acrobat Sign

18Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative labels

9 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-09-16.3, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Adobe Acrobat Sign was named 6 times in CLM and 1 other category, where PandaDoc led with 25%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business16 of 63

under the label threshold

Mid-market25 of 65

under the label threshold

Enterprise13 of 69

under the label threshold

In clm · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Adobe Acrobat Sign for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Contract lifecycle management and e-signature	Revenue operations	0%	25 of 65	20%	5	under 10 labels · led by PandaDoc at 25%
Proposal software	Revenue operations	0%	65 of 79	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by PandaDoc at 49%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Adobe Acrobat Sign yet. The next is due October 1, 2026. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Adobe Acrobat Sign across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	0	1
Mistral Small	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase10 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained7 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative18 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“PDF-heavy workflows ... 150 txns/user/year limit, fewer advanced workflows.” Grok 4.1 Fast · CLM · paraphrase prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Cons: Often requires significant engineering/setup effort to make the UX pleasant for sales reps.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Proposals · scale prompt · soft negative

“You likely need more than a basic "sign here" tool (like standard HelloSign or basic Adobe Sign)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CLM · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Adobe Acrobat Sign, over the 18 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Adobe Acrobat Sign was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

DocuSign13 of 184Not in the top three

PandaDoc10 of 185Not in the top three

Ironclad7 of 182Not in the top three

Icertis6 of 180Not in the top three

Agiloft5 of 180Not in the top three

Dropbox Sign4 of 180Not in the top three

GetAccept3 of 180Not in the top three

Proposify3 of 180Not in the top three

Qwilr3 of 180Not in the top three

Juro2 of 181Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Adobe Acrobat Sign. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 3 of the 18 answers that named Adobe Acrobat Sign and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

pandadoc.com2

boldsign.com1

business.adobe.comYour site1

contractcorridor.com1

docusign.com1

esignglobal.com1

ezsignly.com1

getaccept.com1

ironcladapp.com1

proposify.com1

Ten of the eleven domain citations in answers naming Adobe Acrobat Sign came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

boldsign.com/free-ebooks/electronic-signature-guide/comparing-e-signature-platforms1

business.adobe.com/products/sign-solutions.html1

contractcorridor.com/contractsexplained/best-e-signature-software1

docusign.com/solutions/enterprise1

esignglobal.com/blog/best-esignature-b2b-contracts-esignglobal1

ezsignly.com/blogs/top-10-esignature-tools-for-us-businesses-in-20261

getaccept.com/blog/best-electronic-signature-software1

getaccept.com/blog/best-electronic-signature-software-for-enterprise-teams1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Adobe Acrobat Sign

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Adobe Acrobat Sign; a claim can dispute any of them.

Adobe Sign 3

The company

Adobe is the company behind Adobe Acrobat Sign.

Website: adobe.com
Headquarters: San Jose, United States
Founded: 1982
Employees: about 25,988 (2021)
Ownership: Public, ABS on London Stock Exchange

From Wikidata, fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata · LinkedIn · Crunchbase

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Adobe Acrobat Sign's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Adobe Acrobat Sign, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at adobe.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.