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Adobe Acrobat Sign vs Docusign: which is more reliable? (2026)

Adobe Acrobat Sign is more reliable than Docusign, scoring 61.6 vs 44.3 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Adobe Acrobat Sign reported 16 incidents and Docusign reported 17, with effective uptime of 99.28% and 98.35% respectively. Adobe Acrobat Sign resolves incidents faster on average (4h).

Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score

MetricAdobe Acrobat SignDocusign
Reliability score61.644.3
Rank (e-signature tools)#10#11
Uptime (90 days)99.28%98.35%
Incidents (90 days)1617
Partial / major outages21
Avg time to resolve4h13h 59m
Outages we detected00
Transparency score100/100100/100

Where Adobe Acrobat Sign and Docusign differ

  • Docusign reported 6% more incidents than Adobe Acrobat Sign over the last 90 days (17 vs 16).
  • Adobe Acrobat Sign had 2 partial or major outages, compared with 1 for Docusign.
  • Adobe Acrobat Sign fixes problems faster: 4h on average, against 13h 59m for Docusign (3.5× quicker).
  • Adobe Acrobat Sign's longest outage on record lasted 1d 4h (Sep 17, 2026); Docusign's lasted 1h 31m (Apr 17, 2026).

90-day uptime

Adobe Acrobat Sign

Aug 5, 2026 – Sep 16, 2026: no incidentsSep 17, 2026: 68.40% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 18, 2026: 73.26% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 19, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026: no incidentsSep 24, 2026: 99.72% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 25, 2026 – Sep 26, 2026: no incidentsSep 27, 2026: 99.81% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 28, 2026 – Oct 2, 2026: no incidentsOct 3, 2026: 99.73% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 4, 2026 – Oct 7, 2026: no incidentsOct 8, 2026: 99.84% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 9, 2026 – Oct 10, 2026: no incidentsOct 11, 2026: 99.82% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 12, 2026: no incidentsOct 13, 2026: 99.73% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 14, 2026: 96.50% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 15, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026: no incidentsOct 19, 2026: 99.94% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 20, 2026: no incidentsOct 21, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 22, 2026 – Oct 24, 2026: no incidentsOct 25, 2026: 99.98% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 26, 2026: no incidentsOct 27, 2026: 97.66% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 28, 2026: 99.90% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 29, 2026 – Oct 31, 2026: no incidentsNov 1, 2026: 99.71% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Nov 2, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.267% average daily uptimeToday

Docusign

Aug 5, 2026: 97.99% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 6, 2026: 99.12% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 7, 2026 – Aug 10, 2026: no incidentsAug 11, 2026: 88.01% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 12, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 13, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 14, 2026: 96.98% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 15, 2026 – Aug 23, 2026: no incidentsAug 24, 2026: 96.15% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 25, 2026 – Aug 26, 2026: no incidentsAug 27, 2026: 99.78% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 28, 2026: 98.86% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 29, 2026 – Sep 3, 2026: no incidentsSep 4, 2026: 99.56% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 5, 2026 – Sep 8, 2026: no incidentsSep 9, 2026: 98.78% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 10, 2026 – Sep 27, 2026: no incidentsSep 28, 2026: 96.33% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 29, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 30, 2026: 93.29% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 1, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 2, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 3, 2026: 87.47% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 4, 2026 – Oct 7, 2026: no incidentsOct 8, 2026: 95.51% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 9, 2026 – Oct 15, 2026: no incidentsOct 16, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 17, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026: no incidentsOct 19, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 20, 2026: no incidentsOct 21, 2026: 98.46% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 22, 2026 – Oct 30, 2026: no incidentsOct 31, 2026: 98.87% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Nov 1, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Nov 2, 2026: 95.87% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)
90 days ago98.345% average daily uptimeToday

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