Ellty pricing: a posted monthly rate for a full deal room

Billing mechanics: what moves the Ellty figure

In short: one rate per month, set by Ellty at $149 a month, with no charge for each extra person in the room.

Taken at face value, the posted figure buys the room by the month. A new bidder group, another law firm or an extra lender leaves it unchanged; an additional month of diligence does not. So the term is the single input that matters. Processes rarely finish on the date in the first timeline, which is why we would add a cushion of two or three months to the adviser's estimate and approve that total.

Coverage at this price

Eight of our twelve checklist items are covered at this rate, including the buyer question workflow and AI assistance that several quote-only rivals lack. The two gaps most likely to surface in a counterparty's security questionnaire are single sign-on and in-room redaction; the grid shows the rest.

Checklist tally: 8/12. Vendors rarely state which plan carries which function, so have the ones you rely on named in the order form.

Cost calculator

The sliders start on a typical owner-managed business sale: 6 months and 8 people. Only the months slider changes the total; the people slider shows what each person costs.

Ellty cost by term and team size

A flat rate gives three identical columns, which is the point of it: Ellty costs the same for five people as for a hundred. The figure that moves is the cost per person, which works out at $29.80 per person a month with five people and $1.49 with a hundred, before any plan limit forces a step up.

USD, before tax. Calculated from $149/mo; a bigger team can trigger a plan upgrade. Check current terms with Ellty.

Priced against iDeals, Datasite and Ansarada

We matched Ellty with the three providers nearest to it on deal focus and overall score, then priced two identical rooms for every row: half a year for five people, and a full year for twenty-five.

Provider	Score	Pricing clarity	Entry price	6 mo, 5 people	12 mo, 25 people	Coverage
Ellty	9.2/10	9.7	$149/mo	$894	$1,788	8/12
iDeals	9.1/10	8.8	Quote on request	Quote	Quote	9/12
Datasite	8.9/10	8.3	Quote on request	Quote	Quote	10/12
Ansarada	8.6/10	8.0	Quote on request	Quote	Quote	8/12

iDeals, Datasite and Ansarada do not publish a rate, so Ellty at $894 for six months with five people is the one number in this set that can be verified today. A proposal from any of the three would have to fall under our band before cost alone settled the choice.

The free trial and what to check in it

Ellty gives 14 days of free trial access. That window is best spent on the checks that tell you whether the posted plan is big enough: push a full folder tree through bulk upload, build permission groups for two rival bidders, send a dummy question through the Q&A queue and see how the watermark sits on a scanned agreement. Any ceiling on seats, storage or parallel rooms shows up here rather than mid-deal.

Contract questions we would raise with Ellty

We mark Ellty 9.7 for pricing clarity, ahead of the 7.8 mean across all 18 providers. Whatever the mark, an order form leaves gaps; these are the points we would want answered in writing before the first invitation is sent.

1. At the posted figure, what ceilings apply to seats, storage or parallel rooms, and what would the next step up cost if our process outgrew them?
2. Is the subscription rolling month by month, and what notice closes the room after signing?
3. Which AI functions sit inside the posted figure, and will the vendor confirm in writing that our documents are never used for model training?
4. What does the close-out package contain (files, Q&A history, activity log), and is it inside the rate?
5. Should the timetable slip by a quarter, does the posted figure hold, or does a minimum commitment or price review kick in?