About Virtual Data Room Compare
One page that reads every virtual data room provider's own pricing page and records what is printed there, with a link and a date on every figure, including the providers that print nothing at all.
Why this site exists
The search results for virtual data rooms are dominated by pages ranked by referral commission, because the contracts are large and the commissions are a percentage of them. This site exists to hold the boring, checkable half that those pages skip: what each provider says it costs, in its own words, on a day you can see.
Who it is for
A founder or finance lead pricing a room for a raise or a sale, who wants a floor before booking four demos.
A corporate development or deal team comparing quotes, who needs the published tiers to decompose a quoted one.
Anyone who has read three comparison pages with three different rankings and no dates on any figure.
What is on this site
One question, "best virtual data room", answered with a comparison that works on the page with no account, 4 guides on the questions around it, a data table you can cite (the figures and their method), and the sources every figure rests on.
- Data room software: what the category actually contains: Data room software spans document sharing products with a data room tier and purpose-built deal platforms. What separates them, and how to tell which one you are pricing.
- Virtual data room due diligence: what the room has to do: Diligence is a process with an index, a question queue and an audit trail, not a folder of files. What that asks of a data room, and which plan tier usually carries it.
- The best data rooms for M&A, and why the price is quoted: M&A data rooms are the part of this market that publishes least. What the deal platforms price on, what they will not print, and how to make three quotes comparable.
- How to compare virtual data rooms without a demo call: Most virtual data room comparisons are affiliate pages ranked by commission. What to read instead, and the four figures that make two providers comparable.
What it does not do
- No affiliate links and no paid placements: no provider on this page pays us, and no ranking here is for sale.
- No invented figures: a provider that publishes no price is listed as publishing none, never with an estimate.
- No quality ranking: we have not run a deal on any of these products and do not pretend to have scored them.
- No undated numbers: every figure carries the page it came from and the day it was read.
Who answers for it
Joseph Ellul, Operator.
Reach us
Contact for a question about the site, or hello@virtualdataroomcompare.com. The legal terms are on Terms and Privacy.
This site carries no affiliate links and takes no payment from any provider on this page. Three virtual data room affiliate programmes exist and none of them is open to a publisher in the market this site serves, so there is nothing to disclose beyond that: no link here earns us anything, and no provider paid to be on the list or to be near the top of it. If that changes, the paid row will say so in the row itself.