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HawkSoft vs Verisk

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HawkSoft

Insurance

Agency management made simple

From
$199/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
Verisk logo

Verisk

Insurance

Insurance data, ISO forms and rating content that most American P&C products are built on

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: HawkSoft no pricing published on website; customers must contact sales; Verisk the ISO content has no real substitute for a carrier writing standard lines, so renewal negotiations start from a position where walking away is not credible.
  • They diverge on capability: HawkSoft covers Policy management, Verisk covers ISO forms and rating content.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which HawkSoft and Verisk actually diverge.

Attributes where HawkSoft and Verisk differ
AttributeHawkSoftVerisk
Starting price$199/monthOn request
Pricing modelsubscriptionquote
PlatformsWindows, WebWeb, API, Windows
Founded1995Unknown

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Insurance).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in HawkSoft

  • Policy management
  • Client database
  • Document management
  • Integrated accounting
  • Commission tracking
  • Email integration
  • Task management
  • Reporting

Only in Verisk

  • ISO forms and rating content
  • ClaimSearch
  • Extreme event models
  • Property data
  • Xactimate
  • Underwriting analytics

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

HawkSoft

  • Agency managementnot Verisk
  • Policy servicingnot Verisk
  • Client managementnot Verisk
  • Accountingnot Verisk
  • Commission trackingnot Verisk

Verisk

  • A carrier filing standard commercial lines products that must use recognised forms and loss costsnot HawkSoft
  • A claims organisation checking submitted claims against the industry database for prior activitynot HawkSoft
  • A property insurer pricing catastrophe exposure for reinsurance placementnot HawkSoft
  • An MGA that needs bureau content without building and filing proprietary forms in every statenot HawkSoft

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

HawkSoft

  • No pricing published on website; customers must contact sales

Verisk

  • The ISO content has no real substitute for a carrier writing standard lines, so renewal negotiations start from a position where walking away is not credible.
  • Pricing is negotiated separately per product and per line, and large insurers routinely find overlapping agreements across underwriting, claims and actuarial that nobody had counted together.
  • Circular updates to forms and loss costs must be loaded into your policy system on a schedule, which is recurring work that carriers with older platforms do partly by hand.
  • The breadth of the portfolio means account management is spread across product teams, so a problem in one service does not necessarily get attention from the people selling you another.
  • Usage-based components such as data prefill and claims searches make annual spend hard to forecast, and the variance lands in the year you grow fastest.

Pricing, plan by plan

HawkSoft

$199/month
  • HawkSoft CMS$199/month
    • Policy management
    • Client management
    • Document storage
  • HawkSoft Plus$349/month
    • All CMS features
    • Integrated accounting
    • Commission tracking

Verisk

On request
  • Verisk Insurance Solutions$undefined/year
    • ISO forms and loss cost licensing
    • Data and analytics services by line
    • API access

Which should you pick?

Choose HawkSoft if

  • You need policy management.
  • You work on Windows, Web.
  • You also want client database.
HawkSoft review

Choose Verisk if

  • You need iso forms and rating content.
  • You work on Web, API, Windows.
  • You also want claimsearch.
Verisk review

Questions people ask

Is HawkSoft or Verisk better?
Neither clearly leads. HawkSoft starts at $199/month and Verisk at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, HawkSoft or Verisk?
HawkSoft starts at $199/month and Verisk at On request.
Does HawkSoft or Verisk run on more platforms?
HawkSoft runs on Windows, Web. Verisk runs on Web, API, Windows.
What is HawkSoft best used for?
HawkSoft is most often used for agency management, policy servicing, client management, accounting. Of those, agency management and policy servicing are not what Verisk is typically brought in for.
What can HawkSoft do that Verisk cannot?
HawkSoft covers Policy management, Client database, Document management, Integrated accounting. Verisk covers ISO forms and rating content, ClaimSearch, Extreme event models, Property data.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

HawkSoft: How much does HawkSoft cost?

HawkSoft does not publish pricing on its website. Prospective customers must contact the sales team at (866) 884-4680 (Option 4) or [email protected] to obtain a quote.

Source
Verisk: Can a carrier avoid ISO content entirely?

Only by developing and filing proprietary forms and rates, which a handful of large insurers do. For everyone else the filing and legal cost of independence exceeds the licence.

Verisk: Is Xactimate part of Verisk?

Yes. It came with the Xactware acquisition and is the dominant property claims estimating tool in North America, used by carriers and by the contractors they pay.

Verisk: Did Verisk sell off businesses?

Yes. It divested non-insurance units including its energy research business in 2023 and refocused on insurance data and analytics.

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