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Best Legal Hold Software in 2026

Managing a legal hold involves coordinating custodians and keeping track of matters and preservation steps. Compare audit trails, automated reminders, and custodian acknowledgment, then consider hold templates and matter tracking for the process you need to manage. Custodian limits, free-plan availability, and paid-from pricing provide additional comparison points. Exterro eDiscovery and Knovos Manage are among the entries, alongside OnitX CLM and Relativity Legal Hold. Think about how your organization tracks matters and custodians, and use the listed criteria to compare the hold-management details each option specifies.

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    CrashPlan Legal Hold

    Paid APILinuxMac+2

    CrashPlan Legal Hold provides ongoing preservation and an API path into existing eDiscovery systems.

    6.1 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Casepoint Legal Hold

    Paid APIWeb

    Casepoint Legal Hold combines hold workflows, custodian management, questionnaires, reporting, and cloud preservation in one service.

    5.8 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Logikcull

    Free trial Web

    Logikcull combines review, redaction, production, and discovery workflows with integrations and a natural-language search option.

    5.8 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Everlaw

    Paid APIWeb

    Everlaw combines litigation and investigation workflows with review, production, and AI tools.

    5.7 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Vidhaana Legal Hold Management

    Free trial AndroidiPhoneWeb

    Vidhaana combines legal hold support with contract and compliance tools across web and mobile apps. Its listed AI Power Plan is ₹999 a month, with a 14-day trial and no free plan.

    5.7 14-day trial Visit site
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    Hanzo

    Paid Self-hostedWeb

    Choose Hanzo if an enterprise legal or compliance team needs preservation, collection, and review across varied digital sources.

    5.6 Pricing on request Visit site
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    EvidenceVault

    Paid Web

    EvidenceVault combines legal holds, retention controls, and auditable disposition records for MSP workflows. It requires a Kapsul8 subscription, and customers must request portfolio-based pricing.

    5.5 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Knovos Manage

    Paid Self-hostedWeb

    Knovos Manage covers matter workflows, legal holds, billing, conflict checking, and multiple deployment models. Pricing requires an inquiry, so prospective users will need to request costs.

    5.5 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Relativity Legal Hold

    Paid AndroidAPIiPhone+4

    Legal Hold combines custodian communications, in-place preservation, workflow alerts, and a path to RelativityOne review.

    5.5 Pricing on request Visit site
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    ELM Solutions Legal Holds

    by ELM Solutions Legal Holds
    Paid Web

    Organizations managing legal holds alongside Passport or TyMetrix 360° should consider it for automated communications, tracking, and audit reporting.

    5.3 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Krellix Mail

    Paid Windows

    Krellix Mail focuses on locally controlled collection, documented integrity, and independently verifiable exports.

    5.3 From $299/yr Visit site
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    Litera CAM Litigation Hold

    Paid Web

    Choose Litigation Hold if your organization needs to coordinate custodians and preserve held content in iManage or NetDocuments through CAM.

    5.3 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Reveal

    Paid APISelf-hostedWeb

    Reveal combines eDiscovery processing, analytics, AI review, and language tools for litigation and investigation work.

    5.3 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Pagefreezer

    Paid ExtensionWeb

    Pagefreezer combines archiving across websites, social media, SMS, and corporate chat with search, replay, export, and access controls.

    5.2 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Q1 Defensible Legal Hold

    Paid

    Choose Q1 Defensible Legal Hold if your legal firm or corporation needs hold notices, repository preservation, and automated collection in one suite.

    4.9 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Zapproved Legal Hold Pro

    Paid Web

    ZDiscovery Hold brings hold tracking, preservation, reporting, and support into a browser-based service for legal teams.

    4.9 Pricing on request Visit site
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    OpenAxes

    Paid API

    OpenAxes brings discovery, requests, legal holds, governance, and remediation into a single listed utility. Its pricing requires an inquiry, and deployments can follow several models.

    4.8 Pricing on request Visit site
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    DISCO Hold

    Paid Web
    4.7 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Knovos GRC

    Paid Web
    4.5 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Microsoft Purview eDiscovery

    Paid Web

    Purview eDiscovery covers matter tracking and several related workflow controls in a web product. The listed plan requires an eligible Microsoft subscription and annual billing at $12 a month.

    4.4 From $12/user/mo (annual) Visit site
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    Exterro Legal Hold

    Paid
    4.3 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Nuix Legal Hold

    Paid
    4.2 Pricing on request Visit site
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    OpenText Core Legal Hold

    Paid Web
    4.2 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Onit Legal Holds

    Paid

    Onit Legal Holds covers the main listed steps of a legal-hold workflow, from templates through matter tracking. Buyers should request pricing and assess whether these functions fit their process.

    4.1 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Sightline for Legal Hold

    Paid Web
    4.0 Pricing on request Visit site

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