Kept vs Pactly

Contract lifecycle management for growing legal teams.

Kept

Built for SMBs

  • ✓ From $0 (free forever) — Business $29/year
  • ✓ AI reads any contract PDF and extracts the notice period
  • ✓ Cancellation deadline (not just renewal date) on your calendar
  • ✓ Ask Kept — chat with your contracts
  • ✓ MCP — plug into ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor
  • ✓ Set up in 5 minutes, no implementation call
Pactly

Legal ops teams wanting full CLM.

Pricing: Enterprise / per-user.

Positioning: Contract lifecycle management for growing legal teams.

Checked against Pactly's public website on 5 September 2026. Plans change — confirm with them before deciding. Tell us if anything here is out of date.

Where Kept wins

  • Priced for SMBs, not legal ops.
  • AI reading and renewal automation focused on the deadline.
  • MCP + chat.

Where Pactly wins

  • Contract creation and negotiation workflows.

If you need those, Pactly may be a better fit. If you want a fast, cheap way to stop contracts auto-renewing unnoticed, Kept is built for that.

Try Kept in five minutes.

Track 10 contracts free, forever — AI reads each one and reminds you before the deadline. Then $29/year for unlimited.

Check one contract free

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