Access groups, NDA gating, watermarking, and a full audit trail, the same controls iDeals sells through a sales call, live the moment you create a free RoundOS room.
iDeals is built for a process most deals don't have: a sales call before you see pricing, a quote before you see the invoice, and storage-based billing that grows with the size of the diligence set, not the size of the deal. RoundOS gives you the same core controls without any of that standing in front of the room.
| iDeals | RoundOS | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Enterprise · $3,000+/month reported | Free, published, no quote needed |
| Pricing model | Storage-based | Flat, not storage-based |
| Projects on entry plan | Core plan: single project | Unlimited rooms |
| Setup | Sales call, then onboarding | Self-serve, live in minutes |
| Access control depth | 8 permission levels | Access groups, section-level rules |
| NDA, watermark, audit trail | Included | Included, free |
| Execution after the signal | Not built in | Operator drafts the follow-up |
Core, Premier, and Enterprise plans are quote-led, so the first real answer to "what does this cost" comes after a call, not a pricing page. RoundOS publishes its price: free for the room, $99 a month if you add the Operator.
Pricing tied to storage means the cost of the room grows with the number of files in it, which turns a thorough diligence package into a bigger invoice. RoundOS doesn't price the room by the gigabyte.
iDeals' Core plan runs a single project at a time, so a second live deal often means a second conversation with sales before it can start. RoundOS doesn't cap how many rooms run at once on the free plan.
Round-the-clock support is a genuine feature for a complex enterprise rollout, and a signal that the product expects you to need it. RoundOS is built to be self-explanatory enough that most teams never open a support ticket to launch a room.
Create an account, bulk-upload your documents, organize them into sections, and the room is live, the same day, with no procurement step and no plan negotiation before you can send the first link.
Sales call and plan negotiation before the first room can go live.
Create the account, bulk-upload the documents, and send the first tracking link the same day.
Recipients verify by email, then open a branded room built for the deal, not an enterprise software interface carried over from a compliance-heavy build. The controls iDeals earns its enterprise reputation on, access groups, NDA gating, dynamic watermarking, and a full audit trail, are present without the interface feeling like it was built for an admin console first.
Granular access control matters on a real deal, and RoundOS delivers it through access groups and section-level rules that a founder or deal lead can set up without a reference sheet. The practical outcome, a buyer group seeing one thing and counsel seeing another, is the same; getting there doesn't require memorizing eight levels of permission logic.
Build the room in sections and nested folders, then swap a file when a number changes. The tracking link a recipient already has keeps opening the current version automatically, with no separate approval flow required to push the update live.
The updated forecast is live in the same place the board already uses.
Both products keep a detailed record of who opened what and when. Only one of them turns that record into something to send. Because the Data Room and the Operator are the same product, a buyer reopening the financial model becomes a drafted follow-up built around exactly what they reread, not a line in an audit export you still have to read yourself.
iDeals pricing depends on the plan, the storage consumed, and whatever gets negotiated on the sales call. Buyer-reported 2026 pricing puts Enterprise rooms at $3,000 or more per month. RoundOS publishes one number: the room is free, and the Operator, which replaces the follow-up and research work iDeals doesn't touch, starts at $99 a month, flat.
Reported monthly starting point for the full multi-project tier. The exact storage-based quote still comes from sales.
Unlimited rooms, permissions, NDA, watermarking, version continuity, and page-level analytics are included free.
Export or gather the documents from an active iDeals project, and RoundOS rebuilds the structure, access groups, and NDA gate on the free plan, no new procurement cycle required to keep the same level of control.
| Step | Move |
|---|---|
| 01 | Export or gather your current iDeals documents. |
| 02 | Create a free RoundOS room and bulk-upload them. |
| 03 | Rebuild access groups, NDA, and watermarking. |
| 04 | Send new tracking links and retire the iDeals project. |
| Criterion | iDeals | RoundOS |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | No, quote-led | Yes |
| Reported Enterprise price | $3,000+/month | Free |
| Pricing basis | Tailored storage | Flat |
| Concurrent projects on entry plan | One (Core) | Unlimited |
| Self-serve setup | Limited | Full |
| Access groups / permissions | 8 levels | Access groups, section rules |
| NDA signing | Included | Free |
| Dynamic watermarking | Included | Free |
| Audit trail | Included | Free |
| Execution after the signal | Not included | Operator, from $99/month |
Yes. Access groups, section-level permissions, NDA signing, dynamic watermarking, and a full audit trail are included on the free plan, without the sales process iDeals wraps around the same capabilities.
Core, Premier, and Enterprise are quote-led plans, priced partly on storage, so the real number comes from a sales conversation rather than a published page. Buyer-reported 2026 pricing puts Enterprise rooms at $3,000 or more per month. RoundOS publishes its price directly: free for the room.
Yes. There's no cap on concurrent rooms on the free plan, unlike iDeals' Core tier, which limits you to a single active project before requiring a plan change.
Yes. Gather or export the documents from an active project, and RoundOS rebuilds the structure, access groups, and NDA gate on the free plan. Most teams finish the move in under an hour.
The core mechanisms are the same: verified per-recipient access, section-level permissions, NDA gating, dynamic watermarking, and a complete audit trail. What changes is how you get there, a self-serve flow instead of a procurement process.
No credit card, no storage-based bill, and no single-project cap. The room that would otherwise sit behind a quote is the one you get by default.
