Evisort vs Ironclad Pricing for Small Legal Teams
Evisort and Ironclad have almost the same median contract, about $41,000 a year. The difference is the floor: Ironclad signs deals from $15,000, Evisort from $35,167. Here is what year one costs on each, with and without AI.
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Short answer. On price alone, Evisort and Ironclad land in almost the same place for a typical buyer: Vendr's median signed contract is $41,850 a year for Evisort and $40,110 for Ironclad, about 4 percent apart. The difference is at the bottom. Ironclad has signed deals as low as $15,000 a year, while the cheapest Evisort deal in the same data is $35,167. For a small legal team, Ironclad is the one that scales down, and Evisort usually makes sense only for a company that already runs Workday.
Both are enterprise contract tools with no published price. Evisort was bought by Workday in October 2024 (about $310 million, as reported at closing) and is now sold as Workday Contract Lifecycle Management and Workday Contract Intelligence, "powered by Evisort AI". The old evisort.com pricing address redirects to Workday's contract management page, which offers a demo and no figure. Ironclad is still independent and sells a platform plus modules on a custom quote. So every number below comes from buyer data and is labeled with its source.
Evisort vs Ironclad pricing side by side
| Question a buyer asks | Evisort (Workday CLM) | Ironclad |
|---|---|---|
| Is a price published? | No. Request a demo on workday.com | No. Custom quote |
| Median signed contract (Vendr, Feb 2026) | $41,850 a year | $40,110 a year |
| Lowest and highest recorded | $35,167 to $49,193 | $15,000 to $107,025 across 371 purchases |
| Main price driver | Contract volume, then users and modules | Users, contract volume and modules |
| Small-team guide figure | $30,000 to $60,000 a year for 5 to 15 users and 500 to 2,000 contracts | 10 to 20 users and 500 to 1,500 contracts a year is Vendr's smallest band |
| Implementation | $10,000 to $50,000+ (Vendr, Costbench) | $10,000 to $40,000 standard, $75,000+ complex (Vendr) |
| AI | The core of the product (Contract Intelligence) | AI Assist and advanced analytics add 15 to 40 percent to the platform (Vendr) |
| Typical negotiated saving | 15 to 30 percent below the first quote (Vendr guide) | About 21 percent (Vendr) |
| Best fit | Companies already on Workday HCM or Financials | In-house teams that want legal-owned intake, drafting and approvals |
The full breakdown of each vendor, with every reported figure and how much weight it deserves, is on our Evisort pricing page and our Ironclad pricing breakdown.
Is Evisort cheaper than Ironclad?
Not for a small team. At the median the two are within $1,740 a year of each other, which is noise at this price level. At the low end Ironclad is $20,167 a year cheaper than the cheapest Evisort deal on record. And Ironclad's spread is huge: its highest recorded contract is 7.1 times its lowest, while Evisort's printed band is only 1.4 times wide. In plain terms, Ironclad sells everything from a modest starter deployment to a six-figure enterprise rollout, and Evisort's recorded deals cluster in a narrow band in the low forties.
One caution on Evisort. A second data source, Costbench, shows a median of $157,500 a year, but it rests on four buyer reports and labels itself directional. That is 3.8 times Vendr's median. The likeliest reading is that Costbench's four reports are large enterprise deals and Vendr's sample is mostly smaller ones. If your team is under 20 people, anchor on the $30,000 to $60,000 range Vendr gives for small teams, not on the $157,500 figure.
What year one costs on each
Year one is license plus implementation. We used the midpoint of each implementation range for the typical case and the bottom of the range for the low case. For Ironclad we also show the median with AI added, because Evisort's price already includes its AI and Ironclad's often does not.
| Scenario | License a year | Implementation | Year one | Three years, no increase |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evisort, lowest recorded | $35,167 | $10,000 | $45,167 | $115,501 |
| Evisort, median | $41,850 | $25,000 | $66,850 | $150,550 |
| Ironclad, lowest recorded | $15,000 | $10,000 | $25,000 | $55,000 |
| Ironclad, median | $40,110 | $25,000 | $65,110 | $145,330 |
| Ironclad, median plus 15 percent AI | $46,127 | $25,000 | $71,127 | $163,381 |
| Ironclad, median plus 40 percent AI | $56,154 | $25,000 | $81,154 | $193,462 |
| LegalSoul Professional, yearly | $1,788 | $0 | $1,788 | $5,364 |
Here is the part most comparison pages miss. Once you price AI into Ironclad, the median Evisort deal is the cheaper of the two by $4,277 to $14,304 in year one. So the honest answer to "which is cheaper" depends on what you are buying. If you want a contract workflow with light AI, Ironclad. If AI extraction across thousands of existing contracts is the point, Evisort's median buys it without the add-on.
Which is better for a small legal team, Evisort or Ironclad?
Ironclad, for most teams under 20 people. It is the only one of the two with signed deals in the $15,000 range, its smallest Vendr band is described as 10 to 20 users, and it was built for legal to own the contracting process before signature: intake forms, templates, approvals, redlines and signing. Evisort's strength is after signature, pulling terms and dates out of a large pile of existing agreements. Workday says Contract Intelligence deploys in 21 days on average and can analyze 450,000 documents in 24 hours, both figures based on select customer stories. A team with 300 contracts does not need that throughput.
The exception is a company that already runs Workday for HR or finance. Bundling is the biggest lever on Evisort's price, and Workday says Contract Intelligence can sit on top of a CLM you already have. If procurement and HR already live in Workday, the conversation with your account team is different from a standalone purchase, and you should ask for the bundle price before comparing anything.
Evisort vs Ironclad for security review
Workday's contract management page lists ISO 42001, 27001 and 27701 for the product. Ironclad's security page lists SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type II reports and ISO 27001, 27017 and 27018. Ask both for the current report under NDA rather than trusting a comparison site, because those pages mix up which certificate covers which product. If your own company keeps getting asked for SOC 2 by its customers while you run this review, it may be worth mapping your own controls to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 in the same quarter, since the evidence requests look alike.
What both vendors leave out of the quote
- Implementation. Quoted as a separate one-time line on both. Ask whether it is fixed fee.
- Contract volume overages. Evisort prices mainly on volume. Find out what happens when you load your archive in year one.
- AI as a module. On Ironclad, AI Assist and analytics can add 15 to 40 percent. Get it into the first order form; Vendr says buyers who add AI later pay more.
- Integrations. Both connect to e-signature, storage and CRM. Ask which connectors are included and which are priced.
- Renewal terms. Costbench reports Evisort contracts auto-renew with 60 to 90 days' notice. Put a renewal cap and a calendar reminder in place on either.
When neither is the right purchase
A lot of small in-house teams start shopping for a CLM because supplier paper piles up unread, not because they need a repository with approval workflow. If that is your situation, a $40,000 to $70,000 first year solves a bigger problem than the one you have. The Agiloft vs Ironclad pricing comparison and the Sirion vs Ironclad pricing comparison show the same pattern with the other enterprise names: Ironclad is usually the only one a small team can buy at its size.
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Questions to ask both vendors before you sign
- Is the price driven by contract volume, users or both, and what happens if we go over?
- Is AI extraction in the base price or a separate module?
- Is implementation fixed fee, and how many weeks until go-live with our own templates?
- Which integrations are included, and what does each additional one cost?
- What is the renewal increase cap, and what is the notice period to cancel?
- For Workday: what is the bundle price if we already run Workday HCM or Financials?
- For Ironclad: what is the smallest package you will sell to a team of our size?
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