Diligent Entities pricing: what it costs and what is included

Diligent does not publish a price for Diligent Entities. As of October 2026, the Entities product page offers "Request a demo" and "Request pricing" buttons, and the Entities ROI calculator tells buyers to contact Diligent for a quote. No Diligent page states whether you pay per entity, per user, per module or as a flat enterprise subscription.

That leaves third-party benchmarks and one modeled study as the only dollar figures. Vendr's marketplace data puts annual quotes for organizations with fewer than 50 entities at $20,000 to $50,000, with organizations managing hundreds of entities commonly quoted above $75,000. A Forrester Total Economic Impact study hosted on Diligent's site models a composite customer paying $65,000 a year in licensing plus $35,000 in one-time onboarding and training.

Those numbers buy software: a system of record, a compliance calendar and statutory forms for 12 jurisdictions, only one of which is a US state. Diligent does not act as a registered agent, and no Diligent page shows that state filing fees or most Secretary of State filings are covered. A PE firm or fund manager budgeting for 50 to 250 entities has to price those separately before comparing Diligent with anything else.

Diligent Entities has no published list price, so benchmarks fill the gap

Every dollar figure attached to Diligent Entities comes from a procurement marketplace, a review listing or a modeled study, never from a Diligent rate card.

What Diligent's own pages say

Diligent's pricing page describes "tiered pricing, designed to accommodate companies at any stage of growth" and promises "a package tailored to your organization's size and stage of growth." It quotes the Forrester Wave™ GRC Platforms Report, 2026: "Diligent stands out for its simple, tiered pricing approach in a market hampered by complex pricing." The page defines no tiers, and Diligent's site defines no enterprise or mid-market tiers, no per-entity or per-jurisdiction rate card and no user thresholds for Entities.

The closest thing to an official number is the Forrester TEI study, which Diligent hosts. It states the composite organization "pays $65,000 per year" and adds that "The exact pricing each organization gets depends on the level of complexity of the organization's entity operations."

What third-party benchmarks report

The figures below are not like-for-like; each covers a different scope and comes from a different kind of source.

Vendr says multi-year deals and bundling with Diligent Boards "typically result in discounted per-entity pricing." An undated TrustRadius review calls Entities "quite expensive" and says the reviewer would probably not recommend it "for companies with only a few entities."

What a Diligent Entities subscription includes

Entities is a corporate record system with a compliance calendar, document storage, DocuSign signing and statutory forms for 12 jurisdictions, with e-filing documented in a subset.

Entity records, group structures and documents

The help center overview lists "Secure data and document storage, advanced searches, reporting and analysis, group structure and visualization, compliance and risk management, workflows and integrations." Entity types cover company, individual, corporate partnerships, trusts and other, with ownership topics for shares, group structures and Group Structure Visualisation, per the help center index dated 12 Dec 2025.

The 2026 release notes add document templates and AI Document Summary. A 2021 datasheet says "Charting is included with every instance of Diligent Entities, but the Designer Edition allows for greater formatting and export options and custom views." No current page confirms the Designer Edition still exists, and no current Diligent page says whether e-filing, DocuSign, the AI features or the Inbound API are separately priced.

Compliance calendar, e-filing and reporting

The entity compliance page describes a compliance calendar that applies "entities and compliance rules automatically based on jurisdiction and relevant dates," an audit trail recording time, date and user for every action, and a pending events workflow. The same page says Entities "integrates with DocuSign to provide an efficient, auditable and secure signing process."

E-filing reaches "key government bodies in certain jurisdictions." Statutory forms are available for 12:

• Australia

• Canada

• France

• Gibraltar

• Hong Kong

• Ireland

• Jersey

• Malta

• Netherlands

• South Africa

• United Kingdom

• United States (Delaware)

Delaware filings run through the ICIS XML Filing Service, per Diligent's Entities tips blog, and the Jun 29, 2026 release notes let batch Delaware e-filings run for 30 or more entities at once. For a PE firm holding 120 entities registered across Delaware, Florida, California and New York, that means the Delaware annual reports can leave the system that holds the record. Diligent's product pages list no e-filing for Florida, California or New York.

What the subscription leaves out

Registered agent service sits outside the subscription, and Diligent documents no coverage for state filing fees or filings beyond its supported jurisdictions, so budget them as separate lines.

Diligent does not act as a registered agent. Its Dec 4, 2018 newsroom release describes a "unified offering" of Blueprint OneWorld (the product's former name) with CSC registered agent services, and a Mar 13, 2018 registered agents blog positions Entities as a tool registered agent companies use. Diligent's own compliance guide lists "registered agent management: maintaining designated agents for service of process in each jurisdiction" as something users manage, and says the central compliance team does not execute all filings.

Diligent's pages leave three more questions open:

• State filing fees: no Diligent page says whether Entities pays them on your behalf.

• Foreign registrations: no page describes a foreign registration filing service.

• Delaware franchise tax: franchise tax deadlines are one category of compliance information that organizations may need to monitor, and the Jun 29, 2026 release notes name "Tax Data Request (State of Delaware)" and "Franchise Tax Payment Request (State of Delaware)" wizards, but no Diligent page says whether Entities calculates or remits the tax.

The statutory costs those gaps leave with you are not small for a fund. Under § 18-1107(b) and § 17-1107(a) of 6 Del. C., every domestic and foreign Delaware LLC and LP owes an annual tax that House Bill 400, signed May 21, 2026 and effective January 1, 2026, raised from $300 to $400. Legal commentary from Strategy Law and Capitol Services says $300 still applied to the tax due June 1, 2026, and $400 first applies to tax year 2026, payable June 1, 2027. The Division of Corporations tax FAQ still lists $300. These deadlines follow Delaware's state tax calendar and are subject to annual change, so confirm current Division instructions each year.

• Delaware $400 tax: generally due June 1 following the close of the calendar year, for each LLC and LP.

• Late penalty: $200 for a late LLC or LP payment, plus 1.5% monthly interest.

• Florida annual report: $138.75 for an LLC, rising to $538.75 after May 1, per the Florida Division of Corporations.

Verify these filing and annual report amounts against the current official state fee schedules before budgeting. Also confirm whether each annual report deadline is fixed or anniversary-based and verify the separate administrative dissolution trigger date, which may differ from the late-payment date. Multiply those by every fund vehicle and SPV, and the software subscription is only part of the bill.

Implementation, contract terms and renewal increases

One-time onboarding and an annual escalator push the three-year cost well above the first-year quote.

Onboarding, migration and timelines

The Forrester TEI models $35,000 in one-time onboarding and training (risk-adjusted $38,500) on top of $65,000 annual licensing (risk-adjusted $68,250), for a three-year total of $204,750. Implementation runs six months in the model, covering proof of concept, data migration and user training. Customers interviewed for the study reported an energy company taking about a year to self-implement roughly 75 entities and about six months for 220 entities with professional services, and an investment management head of legal reporting six months including training for lawyers, view-only users and administrators.

Vendr's benchmark puts initial setup, data migration and configuration at $5,000 to $25,000 and up, with training at $2,000 to $10,000; standard training is included, while customized sessions and admin workshops are typically paid separately. Neither Diligent nor the TEI publishes a fee schedule or a go-live commitment, and no PE or fund-manager migration case was found.

Term, auto-renewal and price escalation

Diligent's Proprietary Limited terms set a one-year Initial Term if the Order Form states none, and the Agreement "will automatically renew for additional one (1) year terms" unless either party gives written non-renewal notice at least 30 days before expiration. The same document states: "For each year of this Agreement, the pricing shall increase by 5% over the pricing effective in the previous year," and lets Diligent go above 5% for a Renewal Term with 60 days' written notice. Fees are paid annually in advance and are deemed non-refundable.

Diligent's US terms may differ, so confirm the escalator in your Order Form. The Diligent Corporation terms invoice fees about 30 days before each anniversary, payable within 30 days, with a 1.5% per month finance charge on late amounts. Vendr reports that contracts commonly include automatic annual price escalations of 3% to 5% at renewal, and that adding entities or users mid-contract "may trigger prorated fees or require contract amendments." A fund manager adding SPVs every quarter should ask how mid-term additions are billed, and diary the non-renewal window before signing.

Reduce portfolio compliance costs with Discern

After pricing a quote-based system of record, a separate registered agent, state fees and filings outside Delaware, you still have no single number for what compliance costs per entity. Discern publishes one: $350 per state registration per year, with registered agent service, annual report filing, active standing and status monitoring, franchise tax alerting, unlimited users, automated payments and Delaware franchise tax filing included; Discern calculates Delaware franchise tax using both available methods and files the lower amount, change of agent filings are free, and formations and foreign registrations cost $99 plus state fees, all listed on Discern's published pricing page.

For PE firms and fund managers running 50 to 250+ entities, Discern's multi-entity payment system pays from 150+ bank accounts with segregated funds and per-entity payment segregation, replaces the 400+ annual invoices a different agent in every state generates, and tracks the general partner chain across LP structures. See how White Wolf's private equity team saved 100 hours per year on filings.

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