Ivo Pricing: What In-House Contract AI Costs

We do not sell Ivo or any competing tool, so we can say plainly which numbers are solid and which are not. This is a pricing page, not a product review. For the product comparison, read Ivo vs Robin AI.

How does Ivo sell its software?

Ivo sells through a demo. Its site offers a "Request Demo" button and no pricing page. Its own information page for AI assistants says it directly: Ivo does not publish standard pricing, and pricing is custom-quoted based on deployment scope, users, contract volume, and integrations. Our directory records the tool the same way, as "pricing on request." You can see the listing at Ivo in our directory.

What you are buying shapes how it is priced. Ivo reviews contracts against a playbook of your positions and applies redlines in Microsoft Word or Google Docs. It also maps relationships between agreements and answers questions across a contract set. That puts it in the "playbook review" group, which is different from a drafting add-in and different from a full contract lifecycle platform. We sorted the field in AI Contract Review Software: 10 Compared.

Two other things are worth knowing before the first call:

• No self-serve plan. You cannot sign up with a card and try it on a Friday afternoon.
• Trial terms are unclear. Ivo's own FAQ does not mention a free trial. One competitor's review says Ivo has offered a seven-day trial on real contracts and tells readers to confirm current terms. Another third-party review says there is no free trial. Both are secondhand, so ask directly and get the answer in writing.

What do buyers report paying?

Here is every figure we found this week, with where it came from.

Claim	Source	How firm is it?
No published standard price	Ivo's own site and information page	Verified
Custom quote based on scope, users, contract volume, integrations	Ivo's own information page	Verified (vendor-stated)
About $6,000 per user per year, about $500 per month	Third-party reporting, repeated by a vendor comparison page that labels it "user-reported"	Reported, unconfirmed
Flat, all-inclusive annual fee per user	One third-party pricing article	Reported, unconfirmed
Volume discount for teams of 10 or more	The same article, threshold not confirmed	Reported, unconfirmed
Annual contract required	A vendor comparison page	Reported, unconfirmed

Notice what the table says. Only the first two rows come from Ivo. Everything with a dollar sign traces back to secondary reporting, and one of the pages that repeats the number does not name its original source. Several sites repeating a figure does not make it a quote. The people publishing these pages mostly sell competing tools, which is a reason to check the number, not to dismiss it.

We use $6,000 per user per year below because it is the only number available, and because it is easy to swap out. If your quote comes back different, change one cell.

What does year one cost for a team of four?

Here is the worked example. The scenario is a four-person in-house legal team reviewing incoming contracts in Word. The license figure is the reported one. The time figures are our own illustrative assumptions, not Ivo's numbers, so replace them with your own.

Line item	Basis	Year-one estimate
License	4 users at a reported $6,000 per user per year, no discount	$24,000
Playbook setup, internal time	Assumption: 15 hours per lawyer to define positions, review first redlines, tune	60 hours
Word rollout and pilot, internal time	Assumption: 6 hours per lawyer for install, training, pilot matters	24 hours
Total internal time	60 + 24 hours	84 hours
Internal time at $150 per hour (assumed blended rate)	84 hours x $150	$12,600
Year-one all-in estimate	License plus internal time	about $36,600

Some honest caveats on this table. The 15 and 6 hour figures are guesses to make the arithmetic concrete, and your team may be faster or slower. The $150 hourly rate is a placeholder. A volume discount is only reported for teams of 10 or more, so do not assume one at four seats. And the license line is the reported rate, not a quote.

What the table shows is the shape of the cost. The invoice is roughly two thirds of the year-one number. The other third is your own people's time, which no vendor sends you a bill for but which is real money.

What does playbook setup add to the cost?

Playbooks drive redline quality, so this is the line most buyers underestimate.

According to Ivo's FAQ, you do not need a playbook to start. A playbook builder drafts one from your executed agreements, you review every position before saving it, and solutions attorneys are available if you need help. Ivo also says you can begin using the tool within about a week of implementation, with no long rollout or heavy metatagging. A competitor's review adds that a review can layer up to three playbooks, and that implementation involves importing contracts, setting permissions, and establishing playbooks.

Those are vendor-stated or secondhand claims, and they are credible as far as they go. The tool can produce a first draft of your positions quickly. What it cannot do is decide your positions for you. Someone senior still has to answer questions like:

1. Which liability caps are acceptable and which require escalation?
2. Which fallback language do we offer for indemnity, and in what order?
3. What did we concede once to close a deal that must not become the default?
4. Who approves exceptions?

That work happens in your calendar, not on Ivo's invoice. A signed precedent that contains a one-off concession is a known trap: if the draft playbook learns from it, you get a tool that confidently offers away something you only gave up once. Budget for a lawyer to read every position the builder proposes.

If your contract mix is uneven, for example lots of NDAs but few of anything else, the setup cost is spread over fewer matters and the payback is slower. Playbook tools reward repetition.

How does it compare to published-price add-ins?

The reason to look at the alternatives is not that they are better. It is that you can compute their cost before talking to anyone. Our directory records three contract tools with published pricing. The same four-seat team, license only, looks like this:

Tool	Published pricing line in our directory	Four seats, license only, per year
Ivo	Pricing on request (reported about $6,000 per user per year)	About $24,000, reported
Gavel	Gavel Exec free tier (25 queries); paid tier $160/user/month	$7,680 monthly billing, or $6,960 at the $1,740 per user annual rate Gavel lists
Genie AI	Free plan; Pro $75/month; Enterprise from $600/month	Not a like-for-like comparison, see below

Gavel's own comparison page lists the $160 monthly rate, a $1,740 annual rate per user, 25 free queries per user without a card, and cancel-anytime terms. It also notes Gavel was acquired by Relativity in June 2026 and continues to operate, which is covered in our acquisitions tracker.

Two cautions before you read that table as a verdict. First, these tools do different jobs. Gavel Exec is a Word add-in for drafting and redlining, while Ivo is built around playbooks and questions across a whole contract set, so a price gap can reflect a feature gap. Second, Genie AI lists plan-level prices without a per-seat rate in our directory, so we left it out of the seat math rather than force a number. If you want the full picture of who publishes what, see the legal AI pricing guide.

The takeaway: a published price lets you test the tool on real work before committing a budget line. With a demo-gated tool, the commitment comes first and the evidence second. That is not automatically bad. Many enterprise software categories are sold this way. It does mean the burden of proof sits with you.

What should you ask on the demo call?

Send these in advance so the answers come in writing, not in a call recap.

1. What is the per-seat price and what exactly is included? Ask whether review, intelligence, the assistant, and collaboration features are all in one fee or split into products.
2. Is there a minimum seat count or a minimum contract term? Reported pricing implies an annual contract. Confirm it.
3. When does the volume discount start, and what is the price at our size?
4. Is there a pilot on our real contracts, how long does it run, and what does it cost?
5. What do renewal terms look like? Ask about price increases, notice periods, and whether pricing is locked for the second year.
6. Who builds the playbooks, how many hours of your team's time are included, and what do we owe?
7. What are the security attestations? Ivo says it holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 and publishes a trust page. A SOC 2 report is an independent CPA assurance report on a provider's controls, so ask for the report itself and its date. The ISO 27001 standard covers an information security management system, so ask for the certificate and its scope.
8. Is customer data used to train models? Ivo says it is not. Get that in the contract, not just the FAQ.
9. What happens to our data and playbooks if we leave? Ask about export formats and deletion timelines.

For the full buyer framework behind these questions, use our checklist for evaluating legal AI tools.

When does Ivo's price make sense?

A rough break-even helps. Take the reported $6,000 per seat per year and a $150 hourly blended rate. The seat pays for itself at 40 hours of recovered time a year per user. That is the whole test, and it depends entirely on your volume. A team that reviews hundreds of similar agreements a year and saves even 20 to 30 minutes each clears it comfortably. A team that sees a few dozen bespoke contracts a year may not.

The time saved per contract is the number to pin down in a pilot. Vendor pages quote savings figures of 45 minutes per contract and up to 75 percent of review time, but those are vendor-reported best cases. Measure your own: run the same ten agreements through your current process and through the tool, and time both.

If your volume is moderate, a cheaper add-in with a published price may be the better first purchase. If your volume is high and repetitive, a playbook engine is built for exactly that, and the license is a small share of the cost of the lawyer time it replaces.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Ivo cost?

Ivo does not publish a price. Third parties report about $6,000 per user per year, roughly $500 per user per month, billed annually. Ivo says its pricing is custom-quoted based on deployment scope, users, contract volume, and integrations, so your quote may differ. Ask for it in writing.

Does Ivo offer a free trial?

Ivo's own FAQ does not mention one. A competitor's review says Ivo has offered a seven-day trial using real contracts, while another third-party review says there is none. Ask Ivo directly whether a pilot is available and what it costs.

Is Ivo priced per user?

Reported pricing is per user per year, as a flat annual fee. Ivo itself says the quote also depends on deployment scope, contract volume, and integrations, so confirm whether your quote is seat-based, volume-based, or a mix.

What is a cheaper alternative to Ivo?

It depends on the job. For drafting and redlining in Word, Gavel Exec publishes a $160 per user per month rate and a free tier of 25 queries per user. For a wider look, see our contract review software comparison and the Robin AI pricing breakdown, which also covers why that vendor's situation changed.

See in-house contract tools with their pricing lines

Pricing lines in our directory are checked against vendor pages, and featured placement is labeled and never affects ordering. Browse in-house contract tools and their pricing lines, compare the full contract review category, or, if you sell one of these tools and publish a price, submit it for free.