Comparison

Firmex prices for the firm running twenty deals. You are running one.

Firmex sells unlimited data rooms on an annual quote-based subscription — a genuinely good shape for an advisory firm with a steady deal pipeline. For a company running a single fundraise or sale, the contract is the wrong size before the product is even opened.

Side by side

Firmex facts verified on firmex.com and its knowledge base, August 2026.

	Firmex	YourDataRoom.app
What it is built around	An advisor's platform: unlimited projects on an annual subscription, or a fixed-term single-project room priced by data volume and length. Toronto-founded in 2006, a Datasite company since 2021, serving 223,000+ companies across banking, corporate, legal, and government verticals.	Running a diligence process — the room, its phases, and the counterparties in it are the core objects.
Dynamic per-viewer watermarking	Watermarks with admin-configurable fields, alongside view, save, and print restrictions.	Every plan, from $49/mo. Viewer name, email, and timestamp burned into every page of view-only PDFs, server-side.
Staged disclosure	Groups plus granular per-document permissions, with a "View As" toggle so an admin can check what each user sees. Staged release is an admin practice, not a named feature.	A phase is a property of every document and every investor, enforced by the server on each request. Above-phase documents are invisible — absent from listings, 404 on direct fetch.
Visitor Q&A	A purpose-built Q&A tool for managing and routing multiple buyers’ questions inside the room, replacing spreadsheets and email. No AI features are listed anywhere on its site.	Investors ask the data room directly; the AI answers with citations from the documents their phase allows, any hour.
Per-visitor analytics	Real-time, customizable reports on who is active and what they are viewing.	Per-investor engagement across the whole room — sessions, documents viewed and downloaded, questions asked — on every plan.
Pricing model	Quote-based, no published prices: a one-time fee for a single fixed-term project (priced by data volume and project length), or an annual subscription with unlimited projects.	Flat $49 / $149 / $349 per month, published, capacity-tiered, every capability in every plan. Monthly, cancel anytime.

Where Firmex is the right answer

A firm running many concurrent deals — the unlimited-projects annual subscription is real cost certainty, and "no conversations about data room extensions or overages" is its own pitch to investment banks. For an advisory practice with a steady pipeline, that model fits.
Redaction: draw-shape redaction with a draft/publish workflow and unredact capability, inside the room. We have not built redaction tooling at all.
Established breadth: nearly two decades in market, 223,000+ companies in 180+ countries (its homepage figures), across verticals from biotech to mining to government.
SOC 2 Type II audited since 2019. We hold no formal certifications — our security page says exactly what we do instead.

The structural difference

Firmex ships a "View As" toggle so an admin can verify what each user sees — a genuinely useful tool, and a tell about the model: when disclosure is a stack of per-group, per-document permissions maintained by hand, checking it is a recurring task. In our model there is nothing to check by eye: the server filters every listing, count, search, and fetch by the investor's phase on every request, and what an investor cannot see is absent, not locked — a direct request returns 404, not 403, byte-identical to a document that does not exist. The enforcement detail — including what we have not built, like redaction — is on the security page.

Compare the products, not the pages

The live demo data room is open — ask it a question and watch the citations come back. Pricing is here, flat, monthly, and published — no annual contract, no quote.