Legistarvs
CivicPlus
CivicPlus: Civic Engagement Technology
Legistar
Legislative Management System
As of 30 August 2026, Legistar's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Legistar by Granicus is a legislative management system that helps government bodies track legislation, manage meetings, and maintain public records. Softwr lists it under Government. Legistar is made by Granicus, launched in 1999, available on Web.
Overview
What Legistar does
Legistar by Granicus is a legislative management system that helps government bodies track legislation, manage meetings, and maintain public records. The platform provides complete legislative workflow management from introduction to final action.
What people use it for
- Legislative agenda management
- Meeting management and video processes
- Public records management
- Government transparency
Related searches
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Legistar.
- Pricing is not published; sold by quote through a sales process
Cross-shopped
What people choose instead of Legistar
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- LegistarvsAccela
Accela: Civic Solutions for Modern Government
- LegistarvsGranicus
Granicus: Digital Government Experiences Platform
- LegistarvsDocuWare
DocuWare: Document Management and Workflow Automation
Capabilities
Features
Legislation Tracking
Meeting Agendas
Voting Records
Public Portal
Document Management
Video Streaming
Integration with Video Streaming
Microsoft Office
Integration with Microsoft Office
Records Systems
Integration with Records Systems
Web support
Available on web
Behind it
Who makes Legistar
- Company
- Granicus
- Based in
- Denver, Colorado
Keep looking
Where to go from Legistar
- Legistar alternativesEvery product people weigh against it
- Legistar pricingPlans, floors and what the tiers exclude
- Legistar badgesWhich rules it meets, and the figure behind each
- All Government softwareThe full category
- Best Government softwareThe shortlist, and how it was cut
Best Government software for
Compare Legistar with
- OpenGov
- DocuWare
- Accela
- CivicPlus
- CityView
- Laserfiche
- Socrata
- NextRequest
- MuckRock
- ClearGov
- iCompass
- Polco
- CKAN
- Clariti
- DataSF
- Google Cloud for Government
- GovPilot
- CivicPlus Asset Management
Other Government software
Permitting, licensing and land management for local government, built natively on Salesforce
Pricing on request12 researched notesDigital forms and workflow modules for small municipalities priced out of enterprise govtech
Pricing on request12 researched notesLocal government asset and work order software, the former Beehive Industries platform
Pricing on request12 researched notes
Softwr does not host reviews and shows no star rating for Legistar, because a rating we did not collect is not ours to publish. What is here is the pricing and platform detail from the vendor’s own pages, limitations we could state concretely, and alternatives a reviewer confirmed people weigh against it. Tell us if any of it is wrong.
More on Legistar
Legistar alternatives
What people switch to, and what they give up
Legistar pricing
Every tier, and where the cost actually lands
Compare Legistar
Put it head to head with anything we hold
Legistar badge
Its rating, and an embed for your own site
Best Government software alternatives
GIS-centric public asset and work management, the product formerly sold as Cityworks
quote
Combined EAM and CMMS for utilities and municipalities with Esri GIS at the centre of the asset register
quoteLocal government asset and work order software, the former Beehive Industries platform
quote
Public sector enterprise asset management, sold for years as Lucity
quote
Parks and recreation management for municipalities with published annual pricing and no per-seat fee
Per year, all inclusive with unlimited users
Cloud ERP built only for small and mid-sized local governments and utility districts
quote
Recreation management for small parks departments, priced on your annual revenue with no contract
Per year by department annual revenue