ClearTerm vs ContractKen

ClearTerm analyzes English-language master services agreements and services agreements from a software freelancer’s perspective. It highlights issues such as work-for-hire terms, broad intellectual-property assignment, long payment periods, and uncapped indemnity, then supplies plain-English findings and negotiation wording. Shield Mode reviews a single contract and provides a 0–100 safety score with risk classifications. Diff Mode compares two versions, assesses how changes affect risk, and counts as one scan. Users can paste text or upload selectable-text PDFs within limits: no more than 4 MB and 40 pages, and about 100,000 characters of extracted text. Scanned or photographed contracts are unsupported because the service does not perform OCR. The first scan each month requires no account; a free account includes five monthly scans, which do not roll over. ClearTerm sends contract content to Google Gemini for analysis and says uploaded files and extracted text are not retained in its own storage. It says it is not a law firm and does not replace a lawyer for high-stakes matters.

ContractKen is contract review software delivered as a web product and extension, operating as an AI sidekick inside Microsoft Word. It supports drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts, then turning agreements into operational business intelligence. During review, it identifies and explains problematic language against customer playbooks and can redline the wording. Drafting can use a customer’s precedents, termsheets and clause library, which contains more than 700 commercial clauses and accepts customer-owned clauses. The Word add-in also provides formatting and proofreading. Listed capabilities include clause extraction, risk identification, term comparison and OCR. Custom workflow integrations can include iManage, while enterprise single sign-on supports Azure AD, Okta and Google Workspace. ContractKen says customer documents, prompts and outputs are not used to train public or shared models. It states TLS 1.2-or-higher protection in transit and AES-256 at rest. Private deployment can place inference inside a customer Azure tenant or VPC. Pricing starts at 119 /user/mo billed annually.