Startup data room pricing.

What a room costs for a seed round, a Series A and a sale, with a calculator for your own numbers.

A startup data room on a published plan costs between $15 and $299 a month on our list; Ellty is $149 a month with a 14-day free trial. Quote-only rooms usually cost more and bill per project. Prices checked Sep 30, 2026, indicative.

Pricing a founder can plan around.

Open the calculator

Try before you pay.
12 of 17 rooms list a free trial. Build the real index during it.
Know the monthly number.
7 rooms publish a price; for the other 10 we show a labelled planning range.
Stop when the round closes.
Monthly billing lets you archive the room after closing instead of paying for a year.

Data room cost calculator

Totals in US dollars for the life of the room, indicative only. Listed prices are each vendor's entry plan; vendors who only quote get our own market band. Get the real figure from the vendor before you sign.

How many months you need it

Seats for your own team

Data you will upload

Provider	How it is priced	Total for the project	Link
Ellty	$149 monthly	$596	Visit Ellty
iDeals	Quote (our band)	$2,450 to $8,100	Pricing details
Firmex	Quote (our band)	$2,450 to $8,100	Pricing details
SecureDocs	$250 monthly	$1,000	Pricing details
Ansarada	Quote (our band)	$2,450 to $8,100	Pricing details
Datasite	Quote (our band)	$6,500 to $18,900	Pricing details
Citrix ShareFile	$55 monthly	$220	Pricing details
CapLinked	$299 monthly	$1,196	Pricing details
Drooms	Quote (our band)	$2,450 to $8,100	Pricing details
Intralinks	Quote (our band)	$6,500 to $18,900	Pricing details
DealRoom	Quote (our band)	$2,450 to $8,100	Pricing details
SmartRoom	Quote (our band)	$2,450 to $8,100	Pricing details
Onehub	$15 monthly	$60	Pricing details
Digify	$120 monthly	$480	Pricing details
ShareVault	Quote (our band)	$2,450 to $8,100	Pricing details
DocSend	$45 per seat monthly	$360	Pricing details
Venue by DFIN	Quote (our band)	$6,500 to $18,900	Pricing details

Three ways a room bills you.

All 17 rooms, sorted by how the invoice is built and then by our ranking. Tap a name for its pricing notes.

One monthly fee per room

The price on the vendor site is the bill, inside the plan limits.

6 rooms

Ellty $149 monthly 14-day free trial
SecureDocs $250 monthly Free trial offered
Citrix ShareFile $55 monthly Free trial offered
CapLinked $299 monthly Free trial offered
Onehub $15 monthly Free trial offered
Digify $120 monthly Free trial offered

A fee for each sender

Every person on your side who shares files adds a seat.

1 room

DocSend $45 per seat monthly Free trial offered

A quote for each project

Priced after a sales call on data, months, users and support.

10 rooms

iDeals Quote-based deal room Free trial offered
Firmex Quote-based deal room Free trial offered
Ansarada Quote-based deal room Free trial offered
Datasite Enterprise deal platform Demo, no trial
Drooms Quote-based deal room Demo, no trial
Intralinks Enterprise deal platform Demo, no trial
DealRoom Quote-based deal room Free trial offered
SmartRoom Quote-based deal room Demo, no trial
ShareVault Quote-based deal room Free trial offered
Venue by DFIN Enterprise deal platform Demo, no trial

Before the sales call.

A quote-only vendor asks five things. Have the answers ready and you get a firm number in one call.

How much data? Gigabytes or pages. The biggest lever on a quote.
For how long? First invite to closing, plus a month of slack.
Who works on your side? The admins who upload and answer questions.
What support level? Business hours, 24 hours, or a named project manager.
Any extras? Redaction, single sign-on, a second room for a parallel process.

Enterprise deal platforms

$1,200 to $3,500 a month, smallest size

Datasite, Intralinks, Venue by DFIN

Quote-based deal rooms

$450 to $1,500 a month, smallest size

iDeals, Firmex, Ansarada, Drooms, DealRoom, SmartRoom, ShareVault

How data size multiplies the range

Up to 2 GB x1

2 to 10 GB x1.35

10 to 30 GB x1.9

Over 30 GB x2.8

Our own planning ranges, not vendor prices. Always ask for a written quote.

The running cost of a raise.

What you have paid by each month of a raise with three people on your side and a 2 to 10 GB room. The billing model decides how fast the line climbs.

Indicative. Ellty and DocSend at their published prices; deal room and enterprise lines at the middle of our planning ranges, so a real quote can sit above or below them.

Flat

Same fee each month, whatever the number of investors. Easy to stop after closing.

Per seat

Grows with your team, not with investors. Cheap for one sender, dearer for four.

Per project

Priced up front on volume and months. Page or gigabyte overage can move the final bill.

A budget for each stage.

Typical length and team size for four company moments, priced on three kinds of room. All figures indicative.

01
Pre-seed or angel round

2 months, 1 admin

Ellty
$298

Other flat rooms
$30 to $598

Deal room quote
$900 to $3,000

Enterprise quote
$2,400 to $7,000
02
Seed round

3 months, 2 admins

Ellty
$447

Other flat rooms
$45 to $897

Deal room quote
$1,800 to $6,100

Enterprise quote
$4,850 to $14,200
03
Series A

4 months, 3 admins

Ellty
$596

Other flat rooms
$60 to $1,196

Deal room quote
$2,450 to $8,100

Enterprise quote
$6,500 to $18,900
04
Sale of the company

6 months, 4 admins

Ellty
$894

Other flat rooms
$90 to $1,794

Deal room quote
$5,150 to $17,100

Enterprise quote
$13,700 to $39,900

Six contract lines to read before you sign.

Line in the order form	What it can mean	What to ask for
Storage or page cap	A cap in gigabytes or pages, then a charge for each unit over it	The overage price in writing, and a warning before it applies
Admin seats	Only a set number of people on your side can upload or answer	Room for the CEO, CFO, counsel and one more without a plan change
Minimum term	Three, six or twelve months billed even if the round closes early	Month-to-month after the first month, or a short minimum
Auto-renewal	The plan renews at list price unless you cancel by a set date	A reminder date in the calendar and cancellation by email
Setup or onboarding fee	A one-off charge for building the index or training	Waived when you upload the folders yourself
Archive after closing	A fee for a read-only copy or for keeping the room open	A full export (files, index, activity log) included at the end

Questions founders ask

How much should a startup budget for a data room?

Published plans on our list start at $15 a month and flat room plans reach $299. A three-month seed raise on a flat plan usually lands in the hundreds of dollars; the same job in a quote-based deal room is commonly several thousand.

Who pays for the data room when a startup is sold?

The company on the sell side usually opens and pays for the room, because it controls what buyers see. In a banker-led sale the bank often picks the vendor and the fee is settled by the company in the deal costs.

Do investors pay or count as users?

Investors and buyers join as invited guests and are not charged. Most room plans bill for admins on your side and for storage; tools billed per sender charge for each teammate who shares files.

What happens to the cost after the round closes?

On a month-to-month plan you export the room, keep the copy with the closing documents and cancel. Keep it open only if you reuse it for board packs or investor updates.

Why do quote-only rooms not show a price?

10 of the 17 rooms here price each project after a call, because data size, months, users and support all change the figure. They mostly serve banker-led sales and large rounds.