Contractbook vs Zefort
Two European contract repositories, built for different starting points. Contractbook treats each contract as a record with fields, offers a 14-day trial and a limited free tier afterwards, and has a pricing page that needs confirming with the vendor. Zefort prints every tier in euros, charges by contracts stored and shows neither a free tier nor a trial. Contractbook is Danish and now under Scrive according to our data, while Zefort is Finnish, with EU hosting listed on its Team plan. Neither is aimed at heavy redlining.
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Choose Contractbook ifyou want a 14-day trial without handing over a card, then keep a limited free tier afterwards. You care about HubSpot and Salesforce links and structured fields for each contract.
Choose Zefort ifyou hold a large archive of signed agreements and want OCR, key date discovery and a printed price list in euros. You are fine starting through a demo, even though nothing is free to try.
Contractbook and Zefort side by side
| Contractbook | Zefort | |
|---|---|---|
| Our contract management rank | #1 of 17 | #2 of 17 |
| Established in | Denmark | Finland |
| List price, 10 November 2026 | Annual billing by plan: $399 (1 user and 5 users listed), $599 for 10 users; page needs vendor confirmation | EUR 995, 1,995 or 3,995 a month excl. VAT on annual billing, by contracts stored; extra blocks EUR 50; onboarding EUR 1,995 |
| Free tier | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Self-hostable | — | — |
| Built for | A company that needs renewal and obligation tracking to actually work | A company with a big back catalogue of signed agreements and no in-house counsel |
| Not for | A legal team negotiating heavily redlined paper | A legal team that negotiates every agreement clause by clause |
Both are reviewed in full in our contract management ranking: Contractbook and Zefort.
Where they differ
Contractbook 2 · Zefort 3 · open 1- 01
Trial first or demo first
Contractbook starts you on two weeks of full access with no card, then a limited free access tier whose limits the page does not specify. Zefort's pricing page lists no free tier or trial, only a demo and a sales-led start. A team that wants to open the product tomorrow and judge it with its own contracts has an easy path with Contractbook, and no equivalent at Zefort.
Edge: Contractbook
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What the Zefort price list shows
Zefort prints Team at EUR 995 a month on annual billing (EUR 1,195 monthly) for 5,000 contracts, Enterprise at EUR 1,995 for 10,000 and Enterprise+ at EUR 3,995 for 50,000, all excluding VAT. Extra contracts cost EUR 50 a month per block, and onboarding is a one-time EUR 1,995 unless started through self-service. Every number sits on one page, so a finance reviewer can model the cost of growth without asking for a quote.
Edge: Zefort
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Contractbook plans that disagree with themselves
Contractbook lists Essential at $399 a month billed annually for 1 user, Centralize at $399 for 5 users and Accelerate at $599 for 10 users, with a custom plan for large teams. The page shows strikethrough prices of $1,499 and $3,499, and the Centralize card says Request a quote, so our data says the figures need confirming with the vendor. Seat and signed-contract limits are stated, but the price itself is less settled than Zefort's.
Edge: Zefort
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Reading old paper versus managing live deals
Zefort lists a contract repository, smart OCR, advanced search, activities and reminders, and from Enterprise templates, AI custom metadata and automatic key date discovery, with playbooks on Enterprise+. Contractbook names an AI Contract Assistant, AI import, data extraction, filtering and sorting of contract details, key date reminders, and create, collaborate and sign. Contractbook reaches further into drafting and signing, while Zefort starts from the archive. Both are lighter on negotiation than enterprise lifecycle tools.
Depends on the buyer
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Where the data sits and who owns the vendor
Zefort lists EU data hosting on Team and single tenant plus a cloud data mirror on Enterprise+, with Zefort Oy headquartered in Kaarina, Finland and no owner stated. Contractbook is headquartered in Copenhagen, its footer reads Scrive ApS, and our data says it joined Scrive in June 2025. No hosting model is given for it, and its security page was not read. Zefort gives the clearer hosting answer.
Edge: Zefort
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Links to the rest of the stack
Contractbook names HubSpot and Salesforce on its Integrate menu and links API documentation, which gives a sales team a visible route into CRM data. Zefort lists SSO and 2FA on Team and API access with an SLA from Enterprise, but no specific third-party integrations appear on its pricing page. The Zefort Agent is labelled New in one place and coming soon in its FAQ, so check its status before relying on it.
Edge: Contractbook
When neither fits
If your lawyers negotiate each clause in redlined drafts, neither is the strongest choice. Juro is built around drafting and negotiation in the browser, and Ironclad is an enterprise lifecycle platform.
Contractbook or Zefort: questions
3 answersWhat does a team of ten pay if it picks Zefort or Contractbook?
Zefort's Team plan covers 2 admins and 8 users, so ten people means Enterprise at EUR 1,995 a month on annual billing, with 4 admins and 21 users.
Contractbook's Accelerate card lists 10 users at $599 a month billed annually, but the page is inconsistent and needs confirming. The two figures are in different currencies and the vendors count different things.
Which one is cheaper when the archive grows past its allowance?
Zefort states the cost: EUR 50 a month for each extra block, 500 contracts on Team, 1,000 on Enterprise and 2,000 on Enterprise+.
Contractbook lists contract uploads per plan (50 on Essential, 5,000 on Centralize and Accelerate), and no price for extra uploads appears in our data. For forecasting, Zefort is the easier one.
Does either company say where its servers are?
Zefort's Team plan lists EU data hosting, and Enterprise+ adds single tenant and a cloud data mirror. Contractbook names no hosting model in our data, and links a DPA request and a Security page that were not read. Self-hosting is not stated for either.
Sources
Checked 10 November 2026- Contractbook pricing page: Essential, Centralize and Accelerate card prices, user and upload limits, and the strikethrough and quote inconsistencies.
- Contractbook home page: the 14-day trial, Copenhagen address, Scrive ApS footer, named AI functions and HubSpot and Salesforce integrations.
- Zefort pricing page: tier prices, contract allowances, extra block cost, onboarding fee, EU hosting and the feature list by tier.
- Zefort legal page: Zefort Oy, Kaarina headquarters and the Business ID in the footer.