--- title: iDeals vs Firmex (2026): Pricing, Plans and Features Compared | HelpRange url: https://www.helprange.com/ideals-vs-firmex --- iDeals vs Firmex # iDeals vs Firmex – and a flat-price alternative iDeals and Firmex are both mid-market M&A data rooms and neither publishes prices. iDeals sells Core, Premier and Enterprise plans with unlimited users; Firmex sells a one-time Single Project Data Room or a yearly subscription priced by storage. HelpRange publishes one flat price per team. [Try HelpRange free](https://www.helprange.com/#signUpSection) [See the comparison](#compare) Your whole team, unlimited guests, one price. Or $199 for a single deal. No sales call. Unlimited is $174 a month for your whole team – data rooms, NDA before access, AI Q&A. The Deal Room Pass is $199 once for 90 days and never renews. Sign up and pay by card. [See pricing](https://www.helprange.com/pricing) | | **iDeals** | **Firmex** | **HelpRange** | |---|---|---|---| | **Public pricing** | No – plans listed, “Get price” | No – models described, “Get a quote” | Yes | | **Plans** | Core (1 project, 5 admins), Premier (1 project, unlimited admins), Enterprise (unlimited projects) | Single Project Data Room (one-time fee) or Data Room by Subscription (yearly, unlimited projects) | Pro, Unlimited, or Deal Room Pass for one deal | | **Priced by** | Admins, storage, project length (quote) | Data volume and project length; subscription by data per year | Flat per team – no per-user, page or GB charges | | **Reported price** | ~$460–500 / month entry (third-party estimate) | ~$5K–10K per 3-month project; subscriptions from ~$25K / year (reported) | Unlimited $174 / month, $139 billed yearly | | **Users** | Unlimited on every plan | Unlimited users, projects and pages | Unlimited | | **Storage on entry plan** | 0.5–2 GB on Core | Priced by storage | No storage tiers on data rooms | | **NDA before access** | Yes – terms of use per group, on first or every sign-in | Not described on the plan pages | Yes – click-to-sign NDA with PDF record | | **Q&A** | Basic workflow on Core; answer approvers on Premier/Enterprise | Yes – Q&A workflow | AI answers from the documents; no human Q&A workflow | | **AI** | AI redaction (Core); AI chat and translation (Premier+); MCP connector (Enterprise) | Not mentioned on the pricing or product page | AI Q&A with page references for guests | | **Trial** | Free trial on every plan | Free trial on request (with demo) | 3-day trial, then a free plan | | **Support** | 24/7 multilingual | 24/7/365 | E-mail support | Information about other products comes from their public websites and pricing pages (checked October 2026) and may change – please verify with the vendor. **Choose iDeals if…** you want unlimited users with a plan structure that scales from one project to many, a Q&A workflow with approvers, and AI tools on the higher plans. **Choose Firmex if…** you run repeat deals and want a yearly subscription with unlimited projects, or a one-time single-project room, with 24/7/365 support. **Choose HelpRange if…** you want the price before a sales call: $199 once for a 90-day deal, or $174 a month per team for unlimited rooms, users and guests. HelpRange: free plan; Pro $39 per team per month; Unlimited with data rooms, NDA and AI $174 per team per month ($139 billed yearly). [Plans & pricing](https://www.helprange.com/pricing) FAQ ## iDeals vs Firmex – questions Is iDeals cheaper than Firmex? For one deal they are close on public estimates: about $460–500 a month for an iDeals entry plan versus about $5,000–10,000 for a three-month Firmex project. For repeat deals, Firmex subscriptions are reported from about $25,000 a year. Both quote per deal. Where do these figures come from? Plans were read on idealsvdr.com/virtual-data-room-pricing and firmex.com/pricing on 7 November 2026; neither shows prices. The cost figures are third-party estimates (Peony, Ellty and others), as in our iDeals and Firmex pricing posts. Do iDeals and Firmex charge per user? No. iDeals includes unlimited users on every plan (Core is limited to five admins); Firmex lists unlimited users, projects and pages and prices by storage. Is there a data room for a single deal? Yes – the HelpRange Deal Room Pass: $199 once for 90 days, everything in Unlimited (data room, NDA before access, watermarks, AI Q&A, unlimited users and guests) for one deal, no subscription. Related [iDeals pricing](https://www.helprange.com/insight/2024/07/11/ideals-vdr-pricing/)[Firmex pricing](https://www.helprange.com/insight/2026/10/31/firmex-pricing/)[How to use iDeals VDR](https://www.helprange.com/insight/2026/11/07/ideals-vdr-guide/)[iDeals alternative](https://www.helprange.com/idealsvdr-alternative)[Firmex alternative](https://www.helprange.com/firmex-alternative)[Data room pricing report 2026](https://www.helprange.com/data-room-pricing-report)[Deal Room Pass](https://www.helprange.com/deal-room-pass) ## Try it on your own documents 3-day free trial, then a free plan. No credit card required. [Start free trial](https://www.helprange.com/#signUpSection)