Zeal vs Conga
Conga CLM is enterprise contract lifecycle management, sold inside a Salesforce-centred platform alongside CPQ and billing, and priced by quote. Zeal is an AI contract intelligence platform at $99 a seat with a 14-day trial. Conga fits large quote-to-contract operations. Zeal fits teams that need contract intelligence without an implementation project.
Comparison accurate as of October 23, 2026. Every Conga claim below links to their own published page.
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The difference is the shape of the purchase, not the quality of the product
Conga does not publish pricing. Licensing is assembled from role-segmented user counts, contract volume, integration scope and annual minimums, which means the number arrives through a sales process rather than off a page, and it arrives before implementation is costed.
Zeal publishes $99 per seat per month and takes a card for a 14-day trial. First contract happens the same afternoon, because there is nothing to implement first. For a contract administrator who needs obligations tracked and renewals surfaced, the question is rarely whether enterprise CLM could do it. It is whether a four-month project and a procurement cycle are the right way to get there.
Third-party research reports Conga CLM at roughly $30,000 to $100,000 or more per year before implementation costs. ERP Research, read October 23, 2026. We cannot state a figure as fact because Conga does not publish one.
Who each one is for
Zeal suits you if
You are a small or midsize team that needs agreements drafted, tracked and monitored, and you need it working this quarter. You would rather configure it yourself than scope it with a partner, and a per-seat price you can read on a page is worth more to you than a platform you will only use a quarter of.
Conga suits you if
You are an enterprise running quote-to-contract at scale on Salesforce, with CPQ and billing in the same motion, and contracts are one component of a commercial platform rather than the whole job. You have procurement, a security review and implementation resource, and you need the depth that comes with them.
Capability by capability
Every Conga cell states what Conga publishes on its own pages, with the date it was read. Where Conga publishes nothing about a capability, there is no row rather than a blank one.
Document creation and editing
| Capability | Zeal | Conga |
|---|---|---|
| Where authoring and review happen | In the platform DOCX, XLS and PPT files are authored and redlined inside Zeal with tracked changes and clean export, so no round trip through Word or Google Docs is needed to finish a document | Microsoft Word or Google Docs Authoring and review are described as happening in MS Word or Google Docs, with a deep Salesforce, Office and Dynamics orientation. Conga published page, read October 23, 2026. |
Also in Zeal
- Spreadsheet editing (XLS, XLSX)
- Pricing schedules and fee tables edit in place rather than being maintained beside the agreement.
- Presentation editing (PPT, PPTX)
- Deal summaries and board briefings are built from the agreement itself inside the platform.
Listed because readers ask about them. Conga does not publish information either way on these, so we make no claim about their support.
Contract management and monitoring
Also in Zeal
- AI review on the entry tier
- Contract review is part of the $99 seat rather than a module scoped during implementation.
- Obligation and renewal monitoring
- Monitoring agents surface renewal dates, obligations and deviations across the portfolio at team tier.
Listed because readers ask about them. Conga does not publish information either way on these, so we make no claim about their support.
Workflow and collaboration
Also in Zeal
- Counterparty collaboration and e-signature
- Counterparties review and sign through Zeal without a licence, a seat or an add-on purchase, so negotiation and execution happen on the same document rather than over email attachments.
- Intake forms
- Requests arrive as structured forms that start a draft, which is the piece usually configured during a CLM implementation.
Listed because readers ask about them. Conga does not publish information either way on these, so we make no claim about their support.
Administration and security
| Capability | Zeal | Conga |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | $99 per seat per month Published on the pricing page, with a 14-day trial that takes a card and converts automatically unless cancelled | Not published; quote only Conga does not publish CLM pricing. Licensing is built from role-segmented user counts, contract volume, integration scope and annual minimums. Range reported by ERP Research, not published by Conga. Vendor page read October 23, 2026. |
| What you are buying | An AI contract intelligence platform Contracts and the intelligence on top of them, with 30+ integrations including Salesforce | Part of a wider commerce platform Conga CLM is sold as part of a platform spanning CPQ, Composer, Sign, Billing and Price Optimization. Conga published page, read October 23, 2026. |
Model the cost against your stack
The ROI calculator takes seat counts and contract volume and puts a number against what you are being quoted.
The trial takes a card and converts automatically after 14 days unless you cancel first. Cancel any time from account settings.
Where Conga is the better choice
Conga is built for enterprise, Salesforce-centric organisations running quote-to-contract at scale. Where contracts are one stage of a commercial process that also covers configuration, pricing, quoting and billing, a platform spanning all of it is a coherent purchase, and assembling the same thing from separate tools is usually the more expensive route.
It also fits where contracts have to exist as native Salesforce records, with quoting and billing operating on the same objects and approval matrices maintained by an administrator team. That is an architectural requirement rather than a preference, and it is what Conga is designed around. Organisations that already have procurement, a security review and implementation resource are buying into a model that expects them.
What switching from Conga involves
Legacy contracts import in bulk and become the portfolio monitoring works from, so the value does not start only with contracts signed from here onward.
SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 are in place, which is usually the first question a security review asks and the one that otherwise stalls a procurement cycle.
Data stays yours. Contracts can be exported in their original format at any time, so the decision is reversible in a way an implementation-heavy platform generally is not.
Zeal integrates with Salesforce, so a team moving off an enterprise CLM does not lose the CRM connection that justified it.
Talk to us about migration
If the question is whether your legacy contracts can come across and what security review looks like, that is a conversation rather than a trial.
The trial takes a card and converts automatically after 14 days unless you cancel first. Cancel any time from account settings.
Questions buyers ask
- What does Conga CLM cost?
- Conga does not publish CLM pricing; it is quote only, with licensing built from role-segmented user counts, contract volume, integration scope and annual minimums. Third-party research from ERP Research reports a range of roughly $30,000 to $100,000 or more per year before implementation. We cannot state a figure as fact because Conga does not publish one. Zeal publishes $99 per seat per month.
- Which is better for small teams?
- Zeal, on the shape of the purchase rather than on product depth. Conga is built for enterprise deployments and is typically partner-led, which means procurement, scoping and an implementation phase before the first contract. Zeal is $99 a seat with a 14-day trial and is configured by the team that uses it.
- How long does each take to get working?
- Zeal starts the same day: a card, a 14-day trial, and your first imported contract within the hour. Conga is a substantial implementation project, typically partner-led on a platform built for enterprise deployments. That is a reasonable trade when you need the depth, and a poor one when you need obligations tracked this quarter.
- Can we move our existing contracts across?
- Yes. Legacy agreements import in bulk, which is what gives monitoring a portfolio to work against on day one. Migration of a large historical contract set is worth walking through with us rather than attempting inside a trial, which is why the demo is the better first step on this comparison.
- Is Zeal secure enough for a procurement review?
- Zeal holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. Data is customer-owned and exportable in its original format at any time. If your review needs documentation beyond that, ask us during the briefing rather than discovering the gap late.
Put a number against the quote.
If you are comparing against a six-figure CLM you have procurement, a security review and a migration to think about. A 30-minute briefing covers all three faster than a trial will.
The trial takes a card and converts automatically after 14 days unless you cancel first. Cancel any time from account settings.