Best Conga CLM Alternatives in 2026: 13 Contract Management Platforms for Salesforce Teams and Beyond

Conga's contract product has carried a few names over the years, Apttus CLM, then Conga Contracts, now part of the broader Conga Revenue Lifecycle Management platform alongside Composer, Sign, and CPQ. What hasn't changed is the core pitch: a contract generated directly from the Salesforce Opportunity that created it. For a sales-led org already deep in Salesforce, that proximity is genuinely valuable, part of why Conga holds the #1 spot in G2's Winter 2026 Grid Report for Enterprise Usability and Enterprise Relationships. It's also why most Conga alternative searches start the same way: a "Get Conga Pricing" contact form instead of published tiers, an implementation that rewards a Salesforce admin over a legal ops generalist, and a module stack that adds up fast.

This guide covers 13 alternatives for two kinds of buyers: teams that want to stay close to Salesforce with a lighter, less module-heavy tool, and teams that want contract management off Salesforce entirely, including Rework, for teams whose contracts should be generated from their own CRM instead of licensed from a second platform. Evaluated on Salesforce dependency, real pricing, and setup effort. For the broader category, see the Best Contract Management Software in 2026 roundup.

Updated August 2026: pricing verified against vendor pricing pages where published. Figures marked "reported" come from third-party pricing analyses and buyer benchmark data, since most CLM vendors, including Conga, don't publish rates. Evisort no longer exists as a standalone product following Workday's 2024 acquisition; it's covered here as Workday CLM, powered by Evisort AI.

Key Facts

Contract Management Software and What It's Worth Fixing

• The global CLM software market is valued at $3.39 billion in 2026 and is projected to reach $6.26 billion by 2031, a 13.06% compound annual growth rate. (Mordor Intelligence, 2026)
• Legal teams spend an average of three hours reviewing a single contract, before negotiation even starts. (LegalOn, 2026 State of AI for In-House Legal)
• 47% of contract professionals save more than 7 hours per week per employee after adopting a CLM tool. (Zoho, The State of Contract Management in 2026)
• Conga's own commissioned Forrester Total Economic Impact study found a composite organization achieved a 294% ROI with payback in under six months on Conga CLM, evidence the category pays back even by the incumbent's own numbers. (Conga / Forrester)
• Conga holds a 4.3 out of 5 rating across 2,088 G2 reviews, with implementation complexity and reporting depth among the most repeated complaints.

Quick Comparison Table

Stage Fit Matrix

Company size changes the right CLM trade-off, from simple, transparent tools for small teams to governance-heavy platforms for global enterprises.

Sizing and Persona Table

1. Ironclad: The Most Intuitive Workflow Builder, With Deep Salesforce Ties

Ironclad is the tool most legal and RevOps teams look at first when Conga's admin burden gets old but staying close to Salesforce still matters. Its Workflow Designer is genuinely drag-and-drop and no-code, so unlike Conga, legal ops staff can build and edit approval chains without a Salesforce admin. Ironclad keeps a real Salesforce integration for Salesforce-committed teams, just without the rest of the Conga suite (Composer, Sign, CPQ) stacked on top.

Pricing: No public pricing. Third-party pricing analyses report base annual licensing from $30,000 to $150,000 or more per year, plus $10,000 to $75,000-plus in implementation fees. A Forrester Total Economic Impact study commissioned by Ironclad found a composite customer achieved 314% ROI over three years. (Hyperstart; Ironclad)

Best for: Salesforce-committed teams that want Conga-level Salesforce proximity without Conga's full suite pricing or admin overhead. See the best Ironclad alternatives guide if Ironclad itself turns out to be the wrong fit, and Ironclad vs DocuSign CLM for a direct comparison. Not ideal for: Teams that need fast search across a large legacy contract archive, or that were hoping to spend meaningfully less than Conga.

2. Agiloft: The No-Code Platform for Teams Leaving Salesforce Entirely

Agiloft is the answer for the second kind of Conga refugee: the team whose real problem isn't integration depth, it's that they never wanted a CLM tied to a single CRM's data model. Agiloft runs independently of Salesforce, and its no-code engine lets legal, procurement, and operations build their own object models and workflows without a Salesforce developer.

Pricing: Astra AI tier is free. The full CLM platform is quote-only; reported estimates span roughly $6,000 to $60,000-plus per year depending on tier and user mix. (Agiloft; reported range via Hyperstart)

Best for: Teams whose real complaint about Conga is the Salesforce dependency itself, wanting to configure their own contract data model on a platform that isn't tied to any single CRM. See the best Agiloft alternatives guide, or Agiloft vs Conga CLM for the direct head-to-head. Not ideal for: Teams without the internal or partner bandwidth to build a genuinely custom configuration; that build effort is real, even off Salesforce.

3. DocuSign CLM: Lifecycle Management Without Living Inside Salesforce

DocuSign CLM fits a specific kind of Conga search: a team that wants lifecycle management sitting on top of the eSignature platform they already trust, not on top of their CRM. It's often deployed alongside Salesforce, but it isn't a Salesforce-native app the way Conga is.

Pricing: No public pricing for DocuSign CLM. Third-party pricing analyses report enterprise CLM contracts from $25,000 to $100,000 or more per year, on top of any existing DocuSign eSignature licensing, and reviewers consistently flag it as one of the more expensive tools in the category. (Bind Legal)

Best for: Enterprises already standardized on DocuSign eSignature that want lifecycle management without adding Salesforce dependency to their contracting stack. If e-signature, not full lifecycle management, is the actual need, the best DocuSign alternatives guide covers that narrower comparison. Not ideal for: Teams starting from zero, or anyone hoping DocuSign CLM will cost meaningfully less than Conga; the reported range runs comparable or higher.

4. LinkSquares: AI-Driven Analytics Instead of a Salesforce Trigger

Conga's whole design treats a contract as something generated from a Salesforce Opportunity. LinkSquares treats it as something to be mined after signature: obligations, risk clauses, and renewal dates surfaced automatically through its LinkAI engine, regardless of which CRM produced the deal.

Pricing: No public pricing. Reported figures put the median annual cost around $31,000, with enterprise deployments exceeding $75,000 depending on whether a team licenses Analyze, Finalize, or both. (Vendr)

Best for: Legal teams whose real complaint about Conga is visibility into what's already signed, not the Salesforce-triggered intake process. See the best LinkSquares alternatives guide if the analytics focus isn't quite the fit. Not ideal for: Sales-led organizations that specifically valued Conga's Opportunity-to-contract trigger; LinkSquares doesn't try to replace that workflow.

5. Icertis: Enterprise Governance at a Different Scale Than Conga

Icertis sits above Conga in scale and price, worth including because some Conga evaluations start as "we need something more governed," not "we need something cheaper." It reports managing more than 10 million contracts and over a trillion dollars in contract value for some of the world's largest enterprises.

Pricing: No public pricing. Third-party analyses report annual subscriptions from $150,000 to $500,000-plus, with first-year costs (implementation included) commonly reaching $200,000 to $300,000-plus. (SignEasy)

Best for: Large enterprises and regulated industries that need governance and AI contract intelligence at a scale Conga isn't built for. The best Icertis alternatives guide covers this segment in more depth. Not ideal for: Any team looking to spend less than Conga; Icertis runs well above it, and the implementation timeline is longer too.

6. Rework: CRM, Contracts, and Ops on One Platform

Rework is the relevant pick for a team whose problem with Conga isn't feature depth, it's that the whole product only makes sense bolted onto Salesforce. Take away the Salesforce Opportunity that triggers Conga's contract generation, and a team is paying for a document suite (CLM plus Composer plus Sign plus CPQ) that doesn't do much on its own. Rework's Contract module tracks agreements, renewals, and approvals inside the same platform as Sales Ops (CRM plus pipeline), Lead Management, Work Ops, and the People app (HRIS plus time and attendance), so a sales-led or ops-heavy team gets contracts generated from its own CRM, not a second platform it has to license just to make the first one useful.

Pricing: Rework does not publish a price for the Contract module. Rework sells packaged plans, not per-user licenses, and Contract is quoted per organization. See rework.com/pricing for the published Sales Ops, Lead Ops, and Work Ops lines, or ask the team for a Contract quote.

Best for: Mid-size sales-led or operations-heavy businesses (roughly 10-200 people) that want contracts generated from their own CRM instead of licensing Salesforce plus a Salesforce-native CLM suite on top of it. Not ideal for: Legal teams needing clause-level AI redlining, formal obligation management, or the compliance depth of Icertis or Sirion. Those teams are better served by a dedicated CLM.

7. Juro: Browser-Native Speed, No Salesforce Required

Juro takes the opposite approach from Conga's Salesforce-embedded model. It's browser-native: contract creation, negotiation, and e-signing happen in one collaborative interface, with no CRM dependency and no lengthy admin build.

Pricing: No public pricing. Reported figures put Standard plans starting around $1,000 per month with a 5-user minimum, and total annual costs ranging from $15,000 to $60,000-plus depending on team size and plan. (Bind Legal)

Best for: Series B to Series D technology and SaaS companies that want to move faster than a Salesforce-embedded CLM implementation allows. Not ideal for: Large, regulated enterprises with heavy contract volume, or teams whose deal flow genuinely needs Salesforce-triggered contract generation.

8. Concord: Transparent, Published Pricing Off Salesforce

Concord is the rare CLM vendor that just publishes its prices, which matters if Conga's "Get Conga Pricing" contact form is part of what's pushing a team to look elsewhere. It targets SMB and mid-market teams rather than enterprise Salesforce shops.

Pricing: Essentials is $499/mo for 5 users (billed annually), with additional users at $49/mo. Business is $899/mo (5 users included, $69/mo per additional user). Enterprise is $1,299/mo (5 users included, $89/mo per additional user), with custom terms available above that. (concord.app/pricing)

Best for: SMB and mid-market teams that want predictable, published pricing and never wanted Salesforce dependency in their contracting stack to begin with. Not ideal for: Larger legal departments running complex, multi-stage approval workflows, or teams that specifically need CRM-triggered contract generation.

9. Malbek: A Modern, AI-Native Challenger to Conga's Interface

Malbek is one of the newer names here, and its pitch answers the most common Conga complaint directly: a dated interface. Named a Gartner Leader for the first time in 2025 and a Major Player in IDC's 2025 buy-side CLM MarketScape, it's built with AI embedded at every stage rather than layered on top of an older architecture.

Pricing: No public pricing, and unlike most tools on this list, there isn't a consistently reported third-party range either. Malbek's own site routes every pricing inquiry to a demo request. (malbek.io)

Best for: Mid-market to enterprise legal and procurement teams that want AI-native configurability and are willing to evaluate a newer vendor over Conga's longer track record. Not ideal for: Teams that want pricing transparency before a sales call, or that need the integration depth a longer-established platform has already built.

10. Evisort (now Workday CLM): AI-Native Contract Intelligence Inside Workday

Evisort built its reputation as an AI-first CLM before Workday acquired it in 2024. As of 2026, it no longer exists as a standalone product: it's sold as Workday Contract Lifecycle Management and Workday Contract Intelligence, both "powered by Evisort AI." Worth including because it's the natural landing spot for a team running, or evaluating, Workday for HR and finance that wants contract intelligence in the same ecosystem, the same logic that pulls Salesforce shops toward Conga.

Pricing: No public price list. Pricing is quote-based under Workday's enterprise model, and reported figures put mid-market deployments around $60,000 to $120,000 per year, with enterprise bundles reaching well into six figures depending on modules and existing Workday licensing. (Vendr)

Best for: Organizations already running, or actively evaluating, Workday for HR and finance that want contract intelligence in the same ecosystem instead of a separate Salesforce-adjacent tool. Not ideal for: Teams outside the Workday ecosystem; there's no standalone Evisort product left to buy, so this only makes sense as part of a broader Workday decision.

11. Sirion: Agentic Obligation and SLA Management at Enterprise Scale

Sirion goes further than Conga into what happens after signature. Where Conga's strength is generating and routing a contract, Sirion leans into agentic AI that monitors obligations, tracks SLA compliance, and reconciles invoices against contract terms after the deal is done.

Pricing: No public pricing, and unlike most tools here, there isn't a consistently reported third-party range either. One third-party estimate positions full enterprise deployments at $150,000 to $400,000-plus per year (reported, Dioptra).

Best for: Global enterprises managing complex, high-value commercial relationships that need obligation tracking Conga doesn't attempt to provide. Not ideal for: Small or mid-size legal teams; Sirion's depth and pricing are built for enterprise-scale commercial complexity, the same audience Icertis targets.

12. PandaDoc: Lightweight Document Workflow, Not a Legal-Grade CLM

PandaDoc isn't a CLM in the Conga sense, worth naming plainly. It's document workflow and e-signature software sales teams already use for proposals and simple agreements, worth a look for teams whose actual "Conga problem" is never needing a full CLM suite.

Pricing: Figures below come from third-party pricing trackers reflecting PandaDoc's published site: a free plan (5 documents/month), Starter from $19/user/month billed annually (2-seat cap, no CRM integrations), Business from $49/user/month billed annually, and custom Enterprise pricing. (reported, Vendr; Proposify)

Best for: Sales and ops teams sending standard proposals and simple agreements, not negotiated legal contracts. See Best PandaDoc Alternatives for the document-automation category in more depth, or how to choose document automation software for the buying framework. Not ideal for: Any team with real negotiated contracts, clause libraries, or multi-stage legal approvals; that's the gap Conga, and every other tool on this list, fills that PandaDoc doesn't.

13. ContractWorks: A Simple, Flat-Fee Contract Repository

ContractWorks, an Onit product, is the anti-Conga in one specific sense: instead of a suite of modules (CLM, Composer, Sign, CPQ) that adds up fast, it's a flat-fee repository with unlimited users, priced by document volume and e-signature license count rather than seats or Salesforce dependency.

Pricing: No published pricing on ContractWorks' own site. Third-party pricing analyses report the Standard plan starting around $700/month (2,500 documents, 5 e-signature licenses), Professional around $900/month (10,000 documents, 10 licenses), and Enterprise around $1,100/month (unlimited documents, 20 licenses), all billed annually with unlimited users on every tier. (Hyperstart)

Best for: Small teams and small legal departments whose Conga problem is that they never needed anything close to Conga's suite of modules, just a simple, searchable contract home. Not ideal for: Teams that actually need Conga's Salesforce-triggered generation or multi-stage approval routing; ContractWorks intentionally doesn't compete there.

Why Teams Look Beyond Conga

Conga earns its market position honestly. It holds a 4.3 out of 5 rating across 2,088 G2 reviews, and G2's Winter 2026 Grid Report named Conga CLM the #1 Leader in the category, with #1 rankings for Enterprise Usability and Enterprise Relationships. Most teams evaluating alternatives aren't fleeing a broken product. They're running into the cost of the thing that makes Conga Conga: it was built to live inside Salesforce.

The Salesforce dependency is the whole product, for better and worse. Conga's core pitch, contract generation triggered directly from a Salesforce Opportunity, only pays off if a team is already deep in Salesforce. Conga has since opened its Advantage Platform to run without Salesforce as underlying infrastructure, but most real-world deployments still sit inside the Salesforce ecosystem. For teams evaluating alternatives, that dependency usually means Salesforce licenses, admin time, and platform fees become a permanent line item underneath the CLM cost.

The full suite adds up fast. Conga rarely gets bought as CLM alone. Composer, Sign, and CPQ are common companions, and third-party benchmarks report a full CLM-plus-Composer-plus-Sign-plus-CPQ deployment reaching $100,000 to $300,000-plus per year, well above the reported $360 to $889 per-user-per-year range for CLM licensing alone. (Bind Legal)

Implementation complexity rewards specialists, not generalists. Reviewers describe initial setup as requiring real technical expertise, with Composer templates and CLM configuration favoring admins who already know the Salesforce object model, a steeper starting point than a tool that doesn't require Salesforce fluency first.

Pricing opacity compounds the sizing problem. Conga's pricing page routes every visitor to a "Get Conga Pricing" form rather than listing tiers, and add-on creep (extra modules, extra Salesforce licenses, renewal increases) is a recurring complaint in reviews.

Reporting and interface depth haven't kept pace. Reporting functionality is one of the most-cited areas for improvement in Conga's own G2 reviews, a real gap next to newer, AI-native tools like Malbek and LinkSquares built with analytics as a first-class feature.

None of this makes Conga the wrong choice for every team. Its own commissioned Forrester study found a 294% ROI with payback in under six months, and for an organization already running deep Salesforce CPQ, keeping contract generation inside that same data model is a genuine advantage few standalone tools fully replicate. The question this guide answers is what to evaluate instead, for the two kinds of teams that usually go looking: the ones who want to stay close to Salesforce with less overhead, and the ones who want off Salesforce entirely.

How to Choose: Decision Framework

The right Conga alternative starts with the dependency and operating depth the team wants to keep or remove.

What to Do Next

Figure out which kind of Conga evaluation this actually is before picking two tools to trial. If the answer is "we like being close to Salesforce, we just want less overhead," put Ironclad and DocuSign CLM head to head against your real approval workflow. If the answer is "we want off Salesforce, period," trial Agiloft or Concord against a handful of real contracts, not a canned demo.

If your actual problem is that contracts only make sense because Salesforce generates them, and you're open to replacing both at once, start with Rework. Pricing for Contract is quoted per organization; see rework.com/pricing. For the wider contract management landscape beyond this list, the Best Contract Management Software in 2026 roundup covers additional categories.