Is Icertis or Striven better?

Neither clearly leads. Icertis starts at On request and Striven at $35/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Icertis or Striven?

Icertis starts at On request and Striven at $35/month.

Does Icertis or Striven run on more platforms?

Icertis runs on Web. Striven runs on Web, Mobile, API.

What is Icertis best used for?

Icertis is most often used for an enterprise that cannot answer which of its live contracts contain a given liability or indemnity clause without a manual review, a business losing revenue to unclaimed rebates, missed price escalations or auto renewals nobody tracked, a regulated organisation that must demonstrate to an auditor that specific terms are present across a contract population, a sales organisation where legal review is the longest step in the deal cycle and standard agreements are being reviewed as though they were bespoke. Of those, an enterprise that cannot answer which of its live contracts contain a given liability or indemnity clause without a manual review and a business losing revenue to unclaimed rebates, missed price escalations or auto renewals nobody tracked are not what Striven is typically brought in for.

What can Icertis do that Striven cannot?

Icertis covers Clause library and templates, Negotiation and redlining, Approval workflow, Obligation management. Striven covers CRM, Project management, Accounting, HR management.

ERP · head to head

Icertis vs Striven

Icertis

ERP

Enterprise contract lifecycle management built on Microsoft Azure

From: On request
Rated: -

Full review Website

Striven

ERP

All-in-one business management for growing companies

From: $35/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Each has a real cost: Icertis the value comes from structured clause and metadata models, and building those is legal and commercial work your own people must do, so a project resourced as an IT deployment stalls at the point where somebody has to decide what the standard clauses actually are.; Striven occasional performance issues with slow load times in some modules
They diverge on capability: Icertis covers Clause library and templates, Striven covers CRM.
Prices and features above were last checked on 30 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Icertis and Striven actually diverge.

Attributes where Icertis and Striven differ
Attribute	Icertis	Striven
Starting price	On request	$35/month
Pricing model	quote	Unknown
Platforms	Web	Web, Mobile, API
Founded	Unknown	2008

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

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 Icertis

Clause library and templates
Negotiation and redlining
Approval workflow
Obligation management
Contract repository
Microsoft integration
ERP and CRM connectors
Reporting and risk analysis

Only in Striven

CRM
Project management
Accounting
HR management
Inventory
QuickBooks
Outlook
Google Workspace

What people use each for

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

Icertis

An enterprise that cannot answer which of its live contracts contain a given liability or indemnity clause without a manual reviewnot Striven
A business losing revenue to unclaimed rebates, missed price escalations or auto renewals nobody trackednot Striven
A regulated organisation that must demonstrate to an auditor that specific terms are present across a contract populationnot Striven
A sales organisation where legal review is the longest step in the deal cycle and standard agreements are being reviewed as though they were bespokenot Striven

Striven

Software consolidationnot Icertis
Business operationsnot Icertis
Project-based businessesnot Icertis

Where each one falls short

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

Icertis

The value comes from structured clause and metadata models, and building those is legal and commercial work your own people must do, so a project resourced as an IT deployment stalls at the point where somebody has to decide what the standard clauses actually are.
This is priced and scoped for large enterprises, so an organisation with a few thousand straightforward agreements pays for capability it will not configure and would reach most of the same benefit with a lighter mid-market product.
Implementations run in quarters rather than weeks once integrations to CRM and ERP are in scope, and the business case usually assumes benefits that only start after the historic contract population has been migrated and tagged.
Migrating legacy contracts means extracting terms from signed PDFs, and automated extraction needs human review to be trustworthy, so the backlog of old agreements is a labour cost that is routinely left out of the initial estimate.
The platform is built on Azure with its strongest integrations in the Microsoft stack, which is an advantage inside a Microsoft estate and a source of friction for an organisation standardised elsewhere.

Striven

Occasional performance issues with slow load times in some modules
Dated UI in places with clunky mobile app experience
Very limited customization options compared to enterprise ERP solutions
No Zapier or third-party app marketplace integration

Pricing, plan by plan

Icertis

On request

No published plan breakdown. See the Icertis review.

Striven

$35/month

Standard$35/month
- Accounting
- CRM and sales
- Project management
Enterprise$70/month
- All Standard features
- Advanced customization
- Priority support

Which should you pick?

Choose Icertis if

You need clause library and templates.
You also want negotiation and redlining.

Icertis review

Choose Striven if

You need crm.
You work on Web, Mobile, API.
You also want project management.

Striven review

Questions people ask

Is Icertis or Striven better?: Neither clearly leads. Icertis starts at On request and Striven at $35/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Icertis or Striven?: Icertis starts at On request and Striven at $35/month.
Does Icertis or Striven run on more platforms?: Icertis runs on Web. Striven runs on Web, Mobile, API.
What is Icertis best used for?: Icertis is most often used for an enterprise that cannot answer which of its live contracts contain a given liability or indemnity clause without a manual review, a business losing revenue to unclaimed rebates, missed price escalations or auto renewals nobody tracked, a regulated organisation that must demonstrate to an auditor that specific terms are present across a contract population, a sales organisation where legal review is the longest step in the deal cycle and standard agreements are being reviewed as though they were bespoke. Of those, an enterprise that cannot answer which of its live contracts contain a given liability or indemnity clause without a manual review and a business losing revenue to unclaimed rebates, missed price escalations or auto renewals nobody tracked are not what Striven is typically brought in for.
What can Icertis do that Striven cannot?: Icertis covers Clause library and templates, Negotiation and redlining, Approval workflow, Obligation management. Striven covers CRM, Project management, Accounting, HR management.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Icertis: How is this different from storing contracts in SharePoint?

A document store answers where the contract is. CLM answers what is in it. If your questions are about locating files, a document store is enough. If your questions are portfolio wide, such as total exposure to a clause type or which agreements renew next quarter, you need the terms as data.

Striven: What is Striven's pricing model?

Striven uses user-based pricing: Standard plan at $35/user/month and Enterprise plan at $70/user/month. For accounts with fewer than 5 users, an additional $25 per user applies.

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Icertis: Do we need a legal operations team to make this work?

In practice yes, or someone doing that job under another title. The system enforces decisions about standard language, approval thresholds and acceptable deviation, and if nobody owns those decisions the workflow becomes an approval queue with no rules behind it.

Striven: Does Striven offer a free trial or free tier?

Yes, Striven offers a 7-day free test drive with no credit card required. However, there is no permanent free version or free tier for production use.

Source

Icertis: What does it compete with?

SAP Ariba contract management, Coupa, Conga, DocuSign CLM, Sirion and Agiloft, among others. The split is roughly enterprise depth against mid-market speed, and Icertis sits firmly at the enterprise end.

Striven: What modules does Striven include?

Striven includes accounting, CRM and sales management, project management, task management, inventory, HR, OKRs, and workflow automation across all plans.

Source

Icertis: Is contract data extraction from legacy agreements automated?

Partly. Extraction tooling gets you a draft set of fields, but anything you intend to rely on for a legal or financial decision needs human verification, so budget for review effort proportional to the size of your back catalogue.

Striven: Does Striven offer optional add-ons like customer portals?

Yes, Striven offers optional monthly portal plans: free tier for up to 100 customers/vendors/applications per month, $99/month for 500, and $499/month for unlimited access.

Source

Icertis vs Striven

Icertis

Striven

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Icertis

Only in Striven

What people use each for

Icertis

Striven

Where each one falls short

Icertis

Striven

Pricing, plan by plan

Icertis

Striven

Which should you pick?

Choose Icertis if

Choose Striven if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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