Agiloft vs Icertis vs Ironclad: Which CLM Fits Your Team

Procurement asks for the notice period on a supplier renewal, and nobody can find it in time. The clause sits in an untagged PDF, and the auto-renewal goes through. Agiloft vs Icertis vs Ironclad is a choice between three ways to stop that. Each one gets there from a different starting point.

We scored the three on the same five weighted criteria: after-signature tracking, procurement fit, authoring and review, time to value and pricing clarity. Facts come from each vendor’s home, product, procurement, integration and pricing pages, plus Vendr’s public price pages, read on November 1, 2026. Our scoring rules are public, and related guides sit in the contract management hub. Start with our contract lifecycle management software guide or our best contract management software ranking for the wider field, and our Icertis vs Ironclad vs Sirion comparison swaps Agiloft for Sirion.

Agiloft vs Icertis vs Ironclad: which should you pick?

Pick Icertis if SAP Ariba runs your sourcing and your supplier portfolio is large: it scores 8.4 out of 10. Pick Ironclad, at 8.2, if procurement reviews a lot of vendor paper and buys in Coupa. Pick Agiloft, at 8.0, if your contract processes are unusual and you want to configure them without code.

Platform	Built around	Best for	Named S2P links	Our score
Icertis	Contract intelligence embedded in SAP	Large supplier portfolios on SAP Ariba	SAP Ariba, Coupa, Workday, NetSuite	8.4
Ironclad	Workflow, review and intake agents	Procurement teams reviewing vendor paper, often in Coupa	Coupa, SAP Ariba, Zip, Ramp, NetSuite	8.2
Agiloft	No-code CLM with Astra AI	Teams with custom approval chains and many systems	SAP Ariba, Coupa, Oracle, NetSuite, Tradeshift, Zip	8.0

How are Agiloft, Icertis and Ironclad built differently?

Icertis treats contracts as data that feeds SAP and other systems. Ironclad starts with the workflow: request, review, approve and sign without waiting on legal every time. Agiloft starts with configuration. Its pitch is that any approved admin can change contract types, approval chains and processes without code or a support ticket.

Your situation	Lean toward	The question to ask in writing
SAP Ariba runs sourcing and contracts should stay in SAP	Icertis	Which features come with Premium vs Premium Plus?
Procurement reviews vendor paper daily and buys in Coupa	Ironclad	Does the requisition wait for the signed contract before a PO issues?
Approval chains differ by entity, region or spend band	Agiloft	Can our admin change this approval chain live in the demo?
You want to test AI review before buying a CLM	Agiloft	What does Astra Free cover, and what moves us to Pro?
Legal, sales and procurement want one system of record	Any of the three	Who owns migration of old contracts, and at what cost?

What does Agiloft do best?

Agiloft does configuration without code best. Its home page says approved team members can configure contracts, approval chains and processes without writing code or opening a support request. Its platform page adds multi-entity approval chains and routing logic. The system bends to your rules.

For procurement, its procurement page tracks renewals, notice periods and supplier commitments. It names SAP Ariba, Oracle, NetSuite, Coupa and Tradeshift among 1,000+ connected systems. Its integrations page adds Zip, Workday and Slack. Agiloft recommends its own services team or a certified partner for the first rollout.

What does Icertis do best?

Icertis does the SAP-native supplier record best. Its SAP page says contract intelligence runs natively inside SAP processes. Contracts are anchored to SAP master data, and sourcing projects link to the contracts they produce. SAP sells it as SAP Ariba Contract Intelligence by Icertis.

After signature, its procurement page tracks supplier obligations, milestones, renewals, service levels and commercial commitments. Vera Obligations assigns each obligation an owner and tracks it. Its comparison page lists 160+ open API endpoints for systems outside the standard connectors.

What does Ironclad do best?

Ironclad does governed review of vendor paper best. Its procurement page says the Contract Review Agent checks vendor paper against playbooks and supplier precedent. It flags non-standard terms and missing protections. The Intake Agent reads incoming vendor paper and fills the launch form.

Its Coupa link is the deepest of the three. Ironclad’s Coupa integration guide launches a contract inside the Coupa requisition approval flow. Neither process completes until both teams approve. It can hold the requisition until the contract is signed, so POs issue only for agreed spend.

How do Agiloft, Icertis and Ironclad score?

Icertis scores 8.4, Ironclad 8.2 and Agiloft 8.0 out of 10. Icertis leads on after-signature tracking and procurement fit. Ironclad leads on authoring and review. Agiloft ties Ironclad on after-signature tracking and scores highest on time to value, but it gives up points on procurement fit and review.

Criterion	Max points	Icertis	Ironclad	Agiloft
After-signature tracking	3	2.8	2.6	2.6
Procurement fit	2.5	2.4	2.2	2.1
Authoring and review	2	1.8	1.9	1.7
Time to value	1.5	1.0	1.1	1.2
Pricing clarity	1	0.4	0.4	0.4
Score	10	8.4	8.2	8.0

The gap is small, so let your stack break the tie. If you are still choosing the suite these contracts feed, our source-to-pay suites ranking compares the suites. Coupa vs SAP Ariba covers the two suites these CLMs connect to most.

What the record holds in each platform

A contract record is only as good as its fields, their owners and their sources. The table shows how each vendor says it fills the fields procurement relies on after signature. Ask each one to show these fields on a real supplier agreement, in writing, before you sign.

Field	Who owns it	Icertis	Ironclad	Agiloft
Supplier and legal entity	Procurement	Supplier master synced from SAP	Supplier data pulled from Coupa or SAP Ariba	Synced from SAP Ariba, Coupa or other connected systems
Renewal date and notice window	Contract owner	Renewals tracked across supplier agreements	Renewal Agent; act before renewal windows close	Renewals and notice periods tracked, with reminders
Obligations	Named obligation owner	Vera Obligations assigns an owner to each	Shared view of obligations and exposures	Obligations extracted, with alerts on deliverables
Approval chain	Procurement operations	Not named on the pages we read	Workflow Designer Agent builds workflows	Multi-entity approval chains set up without code
Version changes	Legal	Not named on the pages we read	Contract Family Agent links related agreements	Shows where language changed between versions
Signed contract back to S2P	Procurement operations	Synced with SAP Ariba	Published to the Ariba workspace or synced to Coupa	Bi-directional sync through pre-built connectors

How does each connect to SAP Ariba and Coupa?

All three name SAP Ariba and Coupa, and the depth differs. Icertis is sold and embedded with SAP, per its platform page. Ironclad’s SAP Ariba setup guide prefills launch forms from Ariba and publishes signed contracts back. Agiloft lists both on its procurement page and describes its sync as bi-directional.

For Coupa, Ironclad documents the fullest workflow, from requisition launch to approval sync. Icertis lists Coupa among its standard connections. Agiloft names Coupa, but we did not find a Coupa workflow guide on the pages we read, so ask Agiloft to show which fields move in each direction. Ironclad’s integrations page also lists Zip and Ramp.

If your intake runs in front of the suite, check that link too. Our intake-to-procure software guide explains how request tools hand off to contracts and purchasing.

How do their AI tools compare?

All three now sell AI agents, and Agiloft also sells its AI on its own. Agiloft Astra reviews contracts in Microsoft Word against review playbooks, which Agiloft calls Screens, and suggests redlines. Its Astra page adds ConvoAI for plain-language search. Agiloft CLM customers get Astra through the AI on the Inside package.

Icertis has Vera Copilot and a set of Vera AI agents. Its integrations page adds agent interoperability with Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI, Claude and SAP Joule. Ironclad’s Ironclad Agent launch post names Search, Analytics, Workflow Designer and Contract Family agents. Intake, Contract Review, Archive and Renewal agents already existed.

Data use is the part to get in writing. Agiloft’s Astra Clean Data Promise says your contracts are never used to train AI models, on every plan. Ironclad says every agent request inherits its policy-based access control. Icertis frames it as agents acting within boundaries you set.

How much do Agiloft, Icertis and Ironclad cost?

None of the three publishes a CLM price, and Agiloft Astra is the only published price here. Vendr’s Agiloft page shows a median of $67,132 a year. Its Ironclad page shows $40,492, based on 372 purchases. Vendr’s Icertis page shows no Icertis median. Our Ironclad pricing and Icertis pricing guides go deeper on each model.

Product	Published price	Vendr median a year	What drives the quote
Icertis	None	Not shown	Products, contract types and SAP edition
Ironclad	None	$40,492	Products, users, workflows and growth
Agiloft CLM	None; quote through a form	$67,132	Product (CLM or Astra) and edition
Agiloft Astra	Free plan at $0; Pro from $120 a month on annual billing	Not applicable	Monthly credits and custom playbooks

Astra Free includes 1,000 credits a month and up to 3 custom playbooks. Pro removes the playbook limit, and credits are used only for analysis, not for review in Word. Ironclad’s pricing page says quotes depend on products, users, workflows and growth. Ask every quote to separate licences, implementation, migration and integrations.

Who runs the implementation?

Agiloft recommends its own Professional Services team or a certified partner for the first rollout, per its procurement page. After that, your admins can change the setup without code. Ironclad lets you lead your own deployment, use its legal engineers or bring a partner. Icertis is also sold through SAP as SAP Ariba Contract Intelligence.

Whichever you pick, name one internal owner for the configuration before you sign. No-code setup moves the work from the vendor to your team. That is a gain only if someone on your side owns the approval chains after go-live.

What do the analysts say?

Gartner published its latest Magic Quadrant for Contract Life Cycle Management on 10 November 2025. Ironclad’s home page says it was named a Leader in that report. Agiloft’s platform page says it has been a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader six years in a row.

Icertis’s news page says it was a Leader in the 2024 report for the fifth consecutive year. We did not find an Icertis announcement of its 2025 placement, so ask Icertis for the current report. Agiloft also cites a 2026 Hackett Group Top Tech Award for contract lifecycle management.

After signature: the checklist

Run the same list in all three demos, on one of your own live supplier contracts. If a platform cannot show an item on that contract, the gap becomes manual work for your team. Ask the vendor to confirm each item in writing.

• Renewals: the notice date is extracted, a person confirms it, and the alert goes to a named owner.
• Obligations: each obligation has an owner, a due date and a link to the clause that created it.
• Approval changes: your admin edits an approval chain live, and the change is logged.
• Amendments: an amendment updates the record, and the original terms stay visible.
• S2P sync: the signed contract appears in SAP Ariba or Coupa with the right supplier and amounts.
• Audit trail: every change, approval, AI action and signature is logged with a time and a user.

Red flags in a demo

• The demo runs on clean sample contracts, never your scanned supplier paper.
• “No code” turns out to mean a services ticket for every new approval rule.
• The Ariba or Coupa “integration” is a file export someone runs by hand.
• AI actions are not logged, or ignore the permissions of the user who asked.
• An AI accuracy figure is quoted without saying how it was measured.
• Nobody can say in writing who owns migration of your old contracts.

When your suite’s contract module is enough

Your S2P suite’s contract module is enough when most contracts come from sourcing events. If you mainly need storage, expiry notices and a link to the PO, stay put. One of these three earns its cost once legal reviews a lot of third-party paper, obligations need owners, or sales contracts need the same system of record.

If the suite itself is in question, see our SAP Ariba alternatives guide or how source-to-pay differs from procure-to-pay. For AI across the wider procurement stack, our AI procurement software ranking compares more vendors.

The verdict: Agiloft, Icertis or Ironclad?

Icertis scores highest, 8.4, because its engine sits inside SAP Ariba and it assigns owners to supplier obligations. Ironclad, at 8.2, wins on review speed and the Coupa workflow. Agiloft, at 8.0, fits teams whose approval rules are complex and change often. Choose by your suite first, then by the failure you keep seeing.

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