Contractbook pricing, features and alternatives

The short answer

Buy Contractbook if you are an SMB whose contracts are scattered across email and personal folders, and the fix is template drafting plus a searchable repository rather than clause negotiation. Reviewers describe that before-and-after in exactly those terms. The plan most sales-adjacent teams land on is Accelerate: ten users, 500 signed contracts a year, and the HubSpot and Salesforce integrations included.

Skip it if legal negotiates heavily customized agreements through multi-step approval chains, because the simplicity that makes this work for a ten-person team is the ceiling for a legal ops one. Skip it too if sales contracts must be generated from CRM quotes with pricing logic: that is a CPQ or deal desk job, and no repository substitutes for it.

Where Contractbook fits

Contractbook fits a company with roughly one to ten contract-generating users where the current system is a shared drive and a search of somebody's sent folder. It drafts from templates, collects e-signatures and lands the signed version in a searchable repository without a manual upload step, which is the whole job for teams whose agreements follow a few standard shapes. It has been owned by Scrive, the Swedish e-signature company, since June 2025, which is why review sites now list it as Contractbook by Scrive.

The plan structure tells you more about fit than any feature list, because it is drawn on two axes at once. Essential covers one user, 100 signed contracts a year and five templates. Centralize moves to five users, 350 contracts and 15 templates, with automations and the API sold as add-ons. Accelerate covers ten users, 500 contracts and 25 templates, and folds in automations, SSO and the HubSpot and Salesforce integrations. Read that as the vendor's own map of where you outgrow it.

The contract cap is the ceiling that catches sales teams, and it is not the one they model. Accelerate's 500 signed contracts a year works out to roughly four per rep per month across ten reps. A team sending many small agreements, NDAs, order forms, short renewals, hits that long before it hits the ten-user limit, and the pricing page lists extra users in packs of five rather than one at a time. Count last year's signed documents before you pick a tier.

Getting your existing contracts in is the part of the project that slips. Contractbook has promoted a Gmail Importer for pulling agreements out of email, and the questions that matter are how it handles older scanned PDFs and how much manual tagging is left once the import finishes. Ask how key dates and counterparties are extracted, because a repository whose renewal dates are blank is a shared drive with better fonts. Our SaaS renewal tracker is the interim version while you find out.

What Contractbook replaces cleanly: the shared drive, the email thread that passes for an approval, the e-signature tool bought separately, and the spreadsheet of renewal dates. What it does not replace: a clause library, detailed approval routing, procurement contracting at enterprise scale, or the quote-to-contract logic upstream of all of it, which belongs in CPQ software. It sits in our contract management software directory at the light end.

Contractbook pricing

Contractbook publishes plan limits and not plan prices, and that distinction is sharper here than with most vendors. Its pricing page lists Essential, Centralize, Accelerate and Custom with clear user and contract ceilings. When we checked in September 2026, the price side of the same page showed the same figures against different plans, some cards reading request a quote, and a currency switcher offering EUR, USD, GBP and DKK with no obvious default. We are not publishing those numbers until the vendor confirms them, so there is no rate table on this page and the omission is deliberate.

Six things decide the number that comes back, and the first two are the ones the plan names already encode.

1. The user count, billed in packs of five above your plan's ceiling rather than one seat at a time. A sixth user on Centralize is a pack decision, not a seat decision.
2. The signed-contract allowance for the year, which is a separate ceiling from users: 100 on Essential, 350 on Centralize, 500 on Accelerate. Ask what happens in month eleven when you cross it, and what the overage costs.
3. Whether automations and the API are inside the plan or sold on top. They are add-ons below Accelerate, which is the single biggest reason the cheapest plan understates what you will pay.
4. The integrations you need. HubSpot, Salesforce and SSO arrive with Accelerate, so a five-user team that needs CRM sync may be buying a ten-user plan for a reason that has nothing to do with headcount.
5. Your currency and billing term. The page offers four currencies, and the annual figure in your own currency is the one to get in writing.
6. The template count, capped at five, 15 and 25 across the three named plans. Teams with many contract types hit that quietly, usually in the second year.

Contractbook pricing has to be requested, so make the request specific. Ask for the annual price of your plan in your currency, the cost of an extra user pack, what an overage on signed contracts costs, and whether automations and the API sit inside or outside the quote. There is a 14-day trial with no card, after which accounts drop to a limited free plan, so the evaluation is free and the budgeting is not. Our SaaS contract negotiation checklist covers the clause-level version, and how we review software explains why a page with conflicting figures gets no rate table from us.

What Contractbook gives up

You give up knowing the price before you ask. The plan limits are published and the prices on the page were not consistent, so a budget line here starts with an email to the vendor. At this end of the market that is real friction: the appeal is buying a tool without running a project, and you cannot size it without a quote.

You give up heavy legal workflow. There is no deep clause library, no complex approval routing and no serious redlining layer, which is the same simplicity reviewers praise, read from the other direction. If a meaningful share of your agreements get negotiated line by line, compare Juro for browser-based contracting with more headroom, and read our Juro against Ironclad comparison for where the mid-market ceiling sits.

You give up headroom on volume twice over. Users are capped per plan and billed in packs of five above it, and signed contracts are capped per year on top of that. Both ceilings are low by design, and the second one moves with your sales activity rather than your headcount, so a strong quarter can push you into a higher plan for a reason nobody budgeted.

You give up a self-evident answer on security, which matters because you are about to upload every agreement you have. Certifications, data residency options and hosting arrangements are a frequent buyer question here and not something this page can settle for you. Ask for the documentation, hand it to whoever owns security, and work through our vendor security review checklist so the answer is written down rather than remembered.

You give up procurement-grade contract management. Supplier and procurement contracting at enterprise scale is a different product category, and so is contract generation driven by CRM pricing logic. ContractWorks is the nearer answer when a secure repository with renewal reminders is the entire requirement, and Ironclad is where approval chains and clause libraries live.

How Contractbook compares

Three of the five options below refuse to publish a usable rate, which is normal in contract management and unhelpful when you are building a shortlist. The split that decides it is not features. It is whether you are buying a repository, a drafting tool or a negotiation platform. Contractbook and Juro compete on self-serve drafting for teams without legal ops. ContractWorks competes on being a secure store with reminders and little else. PandaDoc is the one here that publishes per-seat rates, because it comes at the problem from documents and e-signature rather than from legal. Ironclad is what you buy once legal rather than operations owns the decision. The price column says custom quote where that is the truth, since an invented figure for a quote-only vendor is worse than a blank.

What to test in a Contractbook trial

The trial runs 14 days with no card, and the account drops to a limited free plan afterwards, so you get a fortnight and then a reminder. Pilot one contract type end to end rather than migrating everything, and design each step to answer a question a quote cannot.

1. Build your most-used agreement as a template with its variable fields, then hand it to somebody who is not a lawyer and watch them produce a correct draft without help. That is the product's whole promise, and it either happens or it does not.
2. Take one contract from draft through signature to renewal reminder inside the fortnight. A repository that stores signed documents but misses the renewal date has solved the easy half.
3. Import a batch of your real contracts, older scanned PDFs included, and count how much manual tagging is left afterwards. Multiply that by your archive size to get the migration estimate nobody quotes you.
4. Search and tag against those real contracts rather than the sample data, using the searches your team makes every week: counterparty, expiry month, contract type.
5. Push one deviation through. Take a contract that departs from the template and needs approval, then find out what the approval looks like, who can grant it, and whether it is recorded anywhere you could audit.
6. Count last year's signed documents and your contract types against the plan ceilings, and ask what an overage costs. 500 signed contracts a year is roughly four per rep per month at ten reps, so run the division with your own numbers.
7. Request the security documentation on day one and get it reviewed before you upload anything sensitive. If that review cannot finish inside a fortnight, it has to start before the trial does.

Contractbook questions buyers ask

How does Contractbook work?

You create contracts from templates, send them for e-signature, and store signed agreements in a central repository where they can be searched and tracked.

How much does Contractbook cost?

Contractbook lists Essential, Centralize, Accelerate and Custom plans with limits on users and signed contracts per year. The prices on its page were inconsistent when we checked in September 2026, so ask for a written quote in your currency.

Is Contractbook secure?

It is a common buyer question. Ask the vendor for its security documentation, certifications, and data hosting details, and have your IT or security team review them before uploading sensitive contracts.

Does Contractbook offer a free trial?

Yes. Contractbook's pricing page offers a 14-day trial with no credit card, after which accounts move to a limited free plan.

Is Contractbook good for small businesses?

Yes, that is its main audience. Reviewers from small and mid-sized companies praise how quickly it brought order to contracts that were previously scattered.

What are contract management tools?

Software that handles the life of an agreement in one place: drafting from templates, routing for approval, collecting signatures, storing the signed version where it can be searched, and tracking renewal dates. Contractbook covers the lighter end of that range; clause libraries and complex approval routing sit with heavier CLM platforms.

What are the 5 steps of contract management?

In a tool like Contractbook the cycle is draft from a template, review and approve any deviation, sign electronically, store the executed version in a searchable repository, then track key dates and renewals. The step teams most often skip is the last one, which is why a repository with blank renewal dates is a common complaint.

Can I draft a contract myself?

That is the point of template-based tools: a non-lawyer fills in variable fields on an agreement legal has already approved. Test it in the trial by handing your most-used template to someone outside legal and seeing whether they produce a correct draft unaided. Deviations from the template still need an approval path.

What is the best contract management software for small businesses?

There is no single answer, but Contractbook is built for exactly that buyer: SMB ops, finance and legal teams without a CLM administrator. Juro is the closest comparison for teams expecting to grow into heavier workflows, and ContractWorks suits companies that mainly need a secure repository with renewal reminders.

Related

If Contractbook is on your shortlist, the comparisons worth running are Juro for self-serve drafting with more headroom, ContractWorks where a secure repository and renewal alerts are the whole requirement, and Ironclad once legal owns the decision. The head to head buyers ask for most is Juro against Ironclad, the full set sits in our contract management software directory, and our SaaS renewal tracker is what the repository is meant to replace.

Contractbook sits in our Contract Management Software directory.