9.2Ellty
Investor Q&A, NDA e-signing, view-only files and AI help in one room, priced openly at $149 per month and testable on a 14-day free trial.
- $149 monthly
- 14-day free trial
Startup data room providers.
Seventeen rooms, three kinds. Read a review, compare two side by side or jump to prices.
Full data rooms with a published price.
Q&A, permissions and an activity log, with the price on the website. The usual choice for a founder running a seed or Series A alone.
9.28.1SecureDocs
A flat $250 per month room with questions, NDA signing and an API, easy for a small finance team to run; trial offered.
- $250 monthly
- Free trial offered
7.8CapLinked
A US room at $299 per month with a question module and an API, used for raises, smaller sales and asset deals; trial offered.
- $299 monthly
- Free trial offered
Quote-based deal rooms.
Rooms sold per project, common in banker-led sales, large growth rounds and IPO work. Ask what the quote covers.
8.2iDeals
A UK deal room priced by quote, with redaction, Okta-style single sign-on and an API, plus both ISO 27001 and SOC 2. A trial is offered.
- Quote only
- Free trial offered
8.1Firmex
A Canadian room popular with law firms and mid-market advisers: quoted price, redaction, ISO 27001 and a trial.
- Quote only
- Free trial offered
8.0Ansarada
An Australian quote-based room with AI tools and a readiness process for companies preparing to sell; ISO 27001, SOC 2 and a trial.
- Quote only
- Free trial offered
8.0Datasite
The platform many investment banks run sell-side processes on: AI tools, a phone app, SSO and redaction, bought through a quote.
- Quote only
- Demo, no trial
7.6Drooms
A German room with AI tools, redaction and the option to run on-premises, favoured in European real estate and M&A; quote only.
- Quote only
- Demo, no trial
7.5Intralinks
One of the first virtual data rooms (1996), built for large and regulated transactions and sold by quote, with SSO and redaction.
- Quote only
- Demo, no trial
7.5DealRoom
A US room that mixes the data room with request lists and task tracking, used heavily by corporate development teams; quote and trial.
- Quote only
- Free trial offered
7.4SmartRoom
A US room known for fine-grained permission settings across many buyer groups; redaction, ISO 27001, quote only.
- Quote only
- Demo, no trial
7.0ShareVault
The room many biotech and medtech companies use for partnering and licensing as well as fundraising; quote and trial, ISO 27001.
- Quote only
- Free trial offered
6.5Venue by DFIN
DFIN's room for IPOs and capital markets work, with redaction and a question module; ISO 27001, quote only.
- Quote only
- Demo, no trial
File and deck sharing tools.
Tracked links, watermarks and folders without a Q&A module. Useful before diligence starts.
7.8Citrix ShareFile
A client file-sharing service accountants know well, at $55 per month, with e-signing, an app, SSO and HIPAA, but no question module.
- $55 monthly
- Free trial offered
7.3Onehub
A low-cost client portal at $15 per month with watermarks, an app and an API, but no question module or download locks.
- $15 monthly
- Free trial offered
7.0Digify
A Singapore document protection tool at $120 per month: stop downloads, stamp watermarks and track opens; no question module.
- $120 monthly
- Free trial offered
6.6DocSend
The deck-sharing tool most founders meet first, at $45 per seat each month: page-level reading stats, watermarks and NDA signing.
- $45 per seat monthly
- Free trial offered
A to Z.
| Provider | Score | Price | Trial | Founded | Base |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ansarada | 8.0 | Quote only | Free trial offered | 2005 | Australia |
| CapLinked | 7.8 | $299 monthly | Free trial offered | 2010 | United States |
| Citrix ShareFile | 7.8 | $55 monthly | Free trial offered | 2005 | United States |
| Datasite | 8.0 | Quote only | Demo, no trial | 1999 | United States |
| DealRoom | 7.5 | Quote only | Free trial offered | 2012 | United States |
| Digify | 7.0 | $120 monthly | Free trial offered | 2011 | Singapore |
| DocSend | 6.6 | $45 per seat monthly | Free trial offered | 2013 | United States |
| Drooms | 7.6 | Quote only | Demo, no trial | 2001 | Germany |
| Ellty | 9.2 | $149 monthly | 14-day free trial | 2020 | Australia |
| Firmex | 8.1 | Quote only | Free trial offered | 2006 | Canada |
| iDeals | 8.2 | Quote only | Free trial offered | 2008 | United Kingdom |
| Intralinks | 7.5 | Quote only | Demo, no trial | 1996 | United States |
| Onehub | 7.3 | $15 monthly | Free trial offered | 2007 | United States |
| SecureDocs | 8.1 | $250 monthly | Free trial offered | 2012 | United States |
| ShareVault | 7.0 | Quote only | Free trial offered | 2003 | United States |
| SmartRoom | 7.4 | Quote only | Demo, no trial | 2004 | United States |
| Venue by DFIN | 6.5 | Quote only | Demo, no trial | 2016 | United States |
Feature coverage.
| Provider | Investor Q&A | Viewer activity log | Dynamic watermarks | In-app redaction | NDA e-signing | Mobile app | Open API | Single sign-on | Two-step login | Bulk folder upload | View-only and download control | AI assistance |
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Questions founders ask
How many data room providers do you review?
Seventeen. The list covers full virtual data rooms with published prices, quote-based deal rooms and the deck and file sharing tools founders often start with.
Which providers publish their prices?
Ellty, SecureDocs, Citrix ShareFile, CapLinked, Onehub, Digify, DocSend. The rest quote per project; see our planning ranges.
Which ones offer a free trial?
12 of the 17 list a free trial, including Ellty with 14 days.