FORDATA VDR vs Virtual Vaults
FORDATA VDR
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| Figure | FORDATA VDR | Virtual Vaults |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | €275/mo | €520/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 3 | 8 |
| Spec score · Virtual Data Room Software | 8.4 (#4) | 8.6 (#2) |
| Spec score · Data Room Software | 8.4 (#6) | 8.6 (#4) |
| Founded | 2009 | 2014 |
| Headquarters | Poznań, Poland | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Permissions | Administrators can customize document and user permissions, grant permissions in bulk and block access to the VDR. | Administrators can create roles and control viewing or downloading down to document level. |
| Q&A | A built-in Q&A module manages questions from potential partners with statuses, limits and categories. | The Data Room provides private team chat, split-screen document review, Excel import/export, question limits, categories, tags and answer approval. |
| Support | Technical support is available to every VDR user 24/7 in English, German, Polish, Dutch and Ukrainian. | The Data Room plans list 24/7 email and phone support, while the Workspaces Free plan lists 24/7 personal support. |
Plans
FORDATA VDR
- LITE€275 a month
- BUSINESSPriced on request
- ENTERPRISE (PRO)Priced on request
Virtual Vaults
- Workspaces FreeFree
- Cloud archive€50, paid once
- Secure USB archive€199, paid once
- Workspaces Plus€520 a month
- Data Room Basic€754 a month
- Data Room Standard€914 a month
- Data Room Advanced€1,508 a month
- Data Room EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
FORDATA VDR
FORDATA VDR is an online virtual data room for confidential work including due diligence, mergers and acquisitions, audits and fundraising. It provides document and user permissions that administrators can customize in bulk, plus the ability to block room access. Its Q&A module organizes partner questions by status, limits and category; activity reports show file viewers and viewing time. Tools include AI redaction, translation into 59 languages with a side-by-side view, and OCR for searching, anonymizing and translating scanned or graphic content. Security controls include read-only mode, editing and copying restrictions, dynamic watermarks, Fence View, Blur View and screenshot-key blocking. FORDATA states that its European data centers are ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified, with 99.95% uptime by SLA. LITE costs €275 a month and includes 1GB storage and 15 users; higher plans require a quote. A 14-day trial is available. It runs on Android, iOS, macOS, web, Windows and self-hosted environments.
Virtual Vaults
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