DISCO Pricing and DISCO eDiscovery Cost per GB Compared With Relativity and Everlaw
DISCO prints no price, but a public city order form does. It lists Active Review at $40 per GB a month, early case assessment at $20 per GB once plus $5 a month after 90 days, Vault at $5, and a $500 minimum per database a month. The city negotiated Active Review down to $25. Houston budgets $278,400 a year for its DISCO software, and since February 2026 DISCO sells one per GB rate with its AI included.
Review, list
$40
Negotiated
$25
Vault
$5
Per GB a month on DISCO order form N-2021-049 with the City of Santa Ana, signed March 2021, Schedules A and D. Read October 24, 2026.
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DISCO from the 2021 Santa Ana order form. Everlaw from its GSA list, Vault data at its suspended rate; ECA data is left out of the comparison rows. Nextpoint at its published $262.50 per user a month. CaseAgent is a matter agent, not an eDiscovery host, priced per firm.
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The short answer
How much does DISCO cost?
Every figure on this page comes from documents we read on October 24, 2026: DISCO order form N-2021-049 in the City of Santa Ana's public records, the City of Houston's council action and Legal Department briefing for its DISCO contract, DISCO's annual report for 2025 and its February 2026 earnings release, its current pricing page and its Terms and Conditions. DISCO has no GSA schedule and no federal contract on USAspending.gov. We build CaseAgent, which does not host eDiscovery, so we are not bidding against DISCO for your review.
The rate card
DISCO pricing per GB on a public order form
Per GB a month. Minimum $500 per database a month at list, $400 negotiated. Data in two places in one month is billed at the higher rate.
Since February 2026
One per GB rate on processed data
DISCO announced "one transparent, per GB price on processed data with no ingest fees", with its Cecilia AI and Case Builder included. The rate itself is not printed.
Billed separately
Auto Review, per document
The pricing page puts Auto Review under a per document charge, and legal hold under its own per GB rate with unlimited users and custodians.
Never charged
Users
DISCO has not charged for user licenses since at least 2019, so a large review team adds services cost, not seat cost.
Three rules in that schedule decide the bill more than the rate does. Each monthly invoice "will be based on the highest data volume during the previous month", so a load that is culled a week later still bills the full month. Data that sits in more than one place in a month is "billed at the highest applicable rate". And "absent notification from Customer, all data ingested will be ingested into Active Review", the most expensive tier, unless someone writes to DISCO's services team first and asks for ECA.
The order form is from 2021, and DISCO has changed models since. In 2026 it dropped the ingest fee and moved to processed data, which usually measures smaller than the uncompressed collection the 2021 form billed on. Treat $40 and $25 as the only dated reference points a buyer can hold up, not as today's quote. What has not changed is the structure: data in review costs eight times data in Vault, so moving closed databases out of review is the cheapest saving on any DISCO account.
What buyers actually pay
Houston chose DISCO over ten bidders and budgets $278,400 a year for the software
Houston, software a year
$278,400
support and maintenance included
Santa Ana, 3 year cap
$22,500
about $7,500 a year, one database
The City of Houston ran a request for proposals in 2023 and received eleven, from DISCO, Consilio, Lighthouse, Exterro, IPRO, Modus, CloudNine and others. DISCO scored highest. Ordinance 2023-0925 awarded it a four year agreement with two one year options, up to $2,354,000. The Legal Department's briefing set the software at $278,400 a year, a one time $25,000 implementation fee, and an estimated $41,600 a year for optional services or extra storage. Its old system was licensed for 400 GB of active cases; the city needed 1 to 2 TB.
Santa Ana is the small end. It bought DISCO for a single public records database for three years, at $25 per GB a month for Active Review, a $400 monthly minimum and a not to exceed amount of $22,500, with no automatic renewal. Both cities negotiated terms a law firm can ask for too.
| Buyer | Scope | Term | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Houston, TX | eDiscovery software and services for the Legal Department and IT, after an 11 bid RFP | 4 years plus two 1 year options, from 2023 | Up to $2,354,000 |
| Houston Legal Department plan | Software subscription with support | Per year | $278,400 |
| Houston Legal Department plan | Implementation | Year one only | $25,000 |
| City of Santa Ana, CA | One public records review database, $25 per GB Active Review | 3 years from March 2021, no auto renewal | Not to exceed $22,500 |
Houston from the Request for Council Action for item T29822, the October 2023 council minutes and the Legal Department briefing of December 1, 2022. Santa Ana from order form N-2021-049, Schedule D. USAspending.gov shows no federal contract with CS DISCO, and there is no GSA price list.
DISCO's own filings give the scale from the other side. Its 2025 annual report counts 1,549 customers and $156.8 million of revenue, which is about $101,000 per customer a year on average (our arithmetic), and 330 customers paid more than $100,000 over twelve months. Ninety one percent of revenue was usage based, billed monthly and cancelable on a month's notice.
Professional services
DISCO hourly rates for project work, forensics and depositions
The $250 line is the one most matters touch. Setting up tags and review stages, running productions, moving data between Active Review, ECA and Vault, and resolving ingest exceptions are all services work. Since moving data to the cheaper tiers is itself billed at $250 an hour, ask whether your team can do it in the platform or whether it has to go through DISCO's services desk. Current managed review rates are quoted per project.
$250 an hour
Project management, data operations, review management
$350 an hour
Forensic collection and consulting
$350 per account
Forensic capture of a webmail account
$495 an hour
Consulting on DISCO technology and AI
$495 an hour
Deposition summary services
$600 an hour
Expert testimony
The contract
Six clauses in the DISCO terms that change the bill
- 1
Pay as you go prices can change on notice
DISCO may update transactional pricing "at any time upon notice", effective on the date of the notice, and notice can be a price posted on its website. Get the rate fixed for the matter in the order.
- 2
Subscriptions renew for a year
Unless either side gives written notice 30 days before the end, and DISCO may raise the renewal fee on 30 days of notice. Santa Ana struck the auto renewal entirely.
- 3
Commitments are prepaid and survive termination
Discounts for minimum usage commitments come with prepaid commitments that are "nonrefundable" and remain binding even if you terminate the order.
- 4
30 days to pay, 30 days to dispute
Invoices are due in 30 days, late balances carry 1.5 percent a month, and any dispute must be raised within 30 days of the invoice or the right is waived.
- 5
The rest of the term falls due
On termination, unpaid fees for the remaining term become immediately payable. Only usage based work can be ended for convenience, on 30 days of notice.
- 6
Retrieve the data before you leave
You must pull your data before termination takes effect; after that it is deleted. If access is suspended for non payment, hosting charges keep running and data can be deleted after 30 days.
Honest comparison
DISCO vs Relativity, Everlaw and other review platforms on published pricing
| Tool | How it is priced | Public figure | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| DISCO | One per GB rate on processed data, AI included, users free | 2021 order form $40 per GB a month list, $25 negotiated; Houston $278,400 a year | Firms that want AI review, timelines and depositions in one platform with services on call |
| RelativityOne | Committed data volume, mostly through providers | GSA list $268,490.13 for 3 TB of review data, about $7.28 per GB a month | Large or repeat matters |
| Everlaw | Per GB of peak data a month, unlimited users, AI credits | GSA list $25.24 per GB pay as you go, $10.41 on 5 TB; DOJ order $1.15 | Teams running review themselves |
| Logikcull | Per GB stored a month, 10 GB minimum, or subscription | A county paid $36,000 for six months with 250 GB active | Subpoenas and small productions |
| Nextpoint | Per user, hosting included, 250 GB processed a month | From $262.50 per user a month | Small trial teams with large collections |
| CaseAgent | Flat per firm | $149 Solo, $399 Firm (5 users), $899 Practice (15 users) a month | Reading the matter file, drafting with citations, deadlines. Not a review platform |
RelativityOne and Everlaw from their GSA price lists, Logikcull from a Humboldt County invoice, Nextpoint from its own cost calculator post, read October 2026.
Where DISCO wins: for a small or mid sized matter there is a real entry point, since one database and a few hundred gigabytes can be bought month to month, while RelativityOne's smallest public bundle is 3 TB. AI questions, summaries and timelines are in the data rate rather than in credits, and users cost nothing. Where it loses: at list price, $40 per GB a month in review is well above Everlaw's $25.24 government rate, and the services desk at $250 an hour sits between your team and some routine data moves. Relativity's bundles also fall to about $3.71 per GB a month at 150 TB, which DISCO's public figures never approach.
Our Relativity pricing and Everlaw pricing pages read those platforms' government price lists in full, and the Nextpoint pricing post covers the per user model. The features side by side are in our guide to legal document review software, and the litigation page shows what CaseAgent does with the file between productions.
Before you sign
Six questions for a DISCO quote
1
What is the per GB rate, and on which measure?
Processed data under the 2026 model. Hold it against $25 negotiated and $40 list on the public order form.
2
Is the month billed on the peak?
The 2021 form billed the highest volume of the month. Ask for average, or cull before you load.
3
What is the monthly minimum?
$500 per database at list, $400 negotiated. On many small matters, the minimum is the bill.
4
What does Vault cost, and who moves data there?
An eighth of the review rate in 2021. Find out whether the move is a click or a $250 an hour services task.
5
What does Auto Review cost per document?
It is the one AI feature outside the per GB rate. Get the rate before the first batch runs.
6
Can the rate change mid matter?
Pay as you go pricing can change on notice. Ask for the rate to be fixed for the matter or the term.
Questions buyers ask
DISCO pricing questions, answered from the source
How much does DISCO cost?
DISCO publishes no price, so the public contracts are the benchmark. A 2021 Santa Ana order form lists Active Review at $40 per GB a month, ECA at a $20 per GB ingest fee plus $5 a month after 90 days, and Vault at $5, with a $500 minimum per database a month. The city negotiated $25. Houston budgets $278,400 a year for its DISCO software.
How much does DISCO cost per GB?
On the only DISCO rate schedule in a public record, Active Review is $40 per GB a month at list and $25 after negotiation, ECA is $20 per GB once plus $5 a month after the first 90 days, and Vault is $5 per GB a month. Since February 2026 DISCO sells one per GB rate on processed data with no ingest fee, and does not print it.
Does DISCO charge for AI?
Not on the per GB rate. DISCO's pricing page says it bills on processed data "with no additional charge for unlimited use of Cecilia AI", and lists Q&A, document summaries, deposition summaries and auto timelines as included. Auto Review, its AI document review, is the exception: it carries a per document charge that is not published.
Is DISCO pay as you go?
Mostly, yes. DISCO's 2025 annual report says 91 percent of revenue was usage based, billed monthly and cancelable with one month's notice, and 9 percent came from subscriptions committed to a fixed data volume. Usage above a subscription volume is billed at the schedule or DISCO's then current rates.
Does DISCO have a minimum charge?
On the 2021 public order form, yes: $500 per database per month, which Santa Ana negotiated to $400. That made the city's minimum for one review database $4,800 a year. Commitment discounts under the current terms also come with prepaid usage commitments that are nonrefundable and stay binding after an order is terminated.
How does DISCO measure billable data?
The 2021 order form measures volume after uncompressing the transport files but before other processing, bills each month on the highest volume reached in the previous month, and charges data sitting in two locations at the higher rate. Data ingested without written instructions goes into Active Review, the most expensive tier. The 2026 model bills processed data.
What is DISCO Vault?
Vault is DISCO's nearline storage for inactive databases, priced at $5 per GB a month on the 2021 order form, an eighth of the Active Review list rate. Vault keeps the work product but cannot be searched or reviewed until it is restored, and the order form says it is meant for long stays such as appeals, not the gap between discovery and summary judgment.
Is DISCO cheaper than Relativity?
For small matters, usually. RelativityOne's public GSA list starts at a 3 TB bundle for $268,490, so a 100 GB matter has no direct Relativity entry point outside a provider. At DISCO's negotiated $25 per GB, 100 GB of Active Review costs $2,500 a month. At several terabytes Relativity's bundles fall to about $7.28 per GB a month or less.
Is DISCO cheaper than Everlaw?
At list prices, no. Everlaw's GSA list charges $25.24 per GB a month on pay as you go and $10.41 on a 5 TB bundle, against DISCO's $40 list rate on the 2021 order form. A negotiated DISCO rate of $25 sits level with Everlaw's pay as you go price. Both include unlimited users, so compare written quotes for the same data.
Can I cancel DISCO?
Usage based work can usually be stopped on 30 days of written notice, but subscriptions cannot be ended for convenience and renew for a year unless you give notice 30 days before the end. On termination, unpaid fees for the rest of the term become due, and you must retrieve your data first because DISCO then deletes it.
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