Flat-rate eDiscovery No long-term contract Add AI when you need it
The predictable monthly cost is substantially lower than competitors, with no hidden hosting or user fees. It allows us to pass real savings on to our clients.
Kavarn is an eDiscovery platform on a private, dedicated instance for law firms and legal departments, operated by Konvergence Inc at a published $3,250 a month on a 12-month agreement.
Calculate the Savings
At that volume the flat rate is cheaper than per-GB hosting across the published range. The recurring $3,250 holds up to the 2 TB of storage included, with ingestion quoted above 1 TB. Where the flat rate wins, and where it does not.
Per-GB figures use published market ranges and our own assumptions. How these figures are worked out. Run it on your own numbers.
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Fees we don't charge
We charge one flat fee per private instance. Most eDiscovery invoices are built from line items. Eight of them never appear on ours, and ingest processing is one flat fee.
User seats
$0
No per-user fee
Others: $75 to $125 per user, per month
Hosting
$0 per GB, or per doc
2 TB included in the monthly rate; more storage from $345 a month
Others: charged per GB, every month
Production
$0
no fee per export or production; uses the 10 TB monthly bandwidth, then $60 per TB
Others: $150 to $185 an hour of technical time, or $275 per GB
Bates stamping
$0
part of ingestion: covered for the first 1 TB
Others: $0.005 to $0.02 per page, where not already inside a production charge
OCR
$0
part of ingestion: covered for the first 1 TB
Others: $0.005 to $0.03 per page
Analytics
$0
email threading and clustering included
Others: $16.67 to $150 per GB, or $0.04 a document. The unit differs by provider
Redaction
$0
included in the platform
Others: $0.90 to $2.50 a file, or $65 an hour when a reviewer applies them
Database export at matter end
$0
your data back at no charge; uses the monthly bandwidth
Others: $15 to $275 per GB
Ingest Processing
$1,725 once
covers your first 1 TB
Others: charged per GB loaded
Bandwidth beyond the included 10 TB a month is $60 per TB. Ingestion above 1 TB at onboarding is quoted.
A team of 6 pays $450 to $750 a month in seat fees alone on those rate cards. On Kavarn, enjoy no user fees.
The comparison figures come from providers' own public rate cards on Washington State contract No. 10521 (contract 10521). Not every line favors us: support beyond the 8 included hours is $290 an hour, above the $105 to $175 an hour some providers charge for project management. Every rate we charge is on the price sheet. There is no per-user fee and no limit on named users. Each standard instance is sized for about 100 people working at the same time; firms that regularly need more can add a second instance.
What a reviewer sees
Document review, coding and metadata on one screen, with the document itself rendered in the browser rather than downloaded.
Where the flat rate wins, and where it does not
Most platforms bill by volume, so the number on your invoice depends on how much data the other side dumps on you. The honest comparison is all-in against all-in: per-GB billing is hosting plus reviewer licenses plus processing plus project management, charged across every open matter, and the flat rate includes all of it.
Updated October 28, 2026
You cannot forecast it
Per-GB hosting means a matter that doubles in volume doubles in cost, months after you quoted the client a number. The calculator shows where the break-even sits for your own volume and term.
You cannot compare it
Processing, hosting, users, productions and exports are priced separately and quoted privately, so two proposals rarely line up on the same axis. The Fee Field Guide decodes all 19 of them, and the four models in general use are set out by what each one meters.
You share the application
On a shared platform, every firm's matters run inside one application. Kavarn gives your firm its own instance. More on the security page.
Where these figures come from
The comparison assumes 6 reviewers, 4 hours of project management a month and an 18-month matter, priced against published rate cards for seats and project management, a published market range for hosting, and a working assumption for processing. Which figure rests on which, and what changed when one of them was sourced, is set out in the methodology note on the pricing page.
The whole workflow, on infrastructure that answers to you
Each firm runs on its own dedicated instance built on Konvergence Archimedes. The case hierarchy maps onto litigation directly: a top-level data zone is a case, its child zones are the data stores inside it.
A private, dedicated instance
16 vCPU, 16 GB RAM and 2 TB NVMe provisioned for your firm alone, invite-only, with daily automated backups. Scale up on 24 hours' notice.
Defensible by architecture, not by policy
Each tracked action is timestamped and hashed into an immutable audit log, so chain of custody comes from how the system records work rather than from a policy document.
Deduplication that is intrinsic
Content-addressed storage resolves identical files to a single hash, so deduplication is a property of how data is stored rather than a processing step.
What $3,250 a month covers
The base plan, in full. Items marked with an asterisk are included allowances with a published overage rate beyond them.
| Component | Included |
|---|---|
| Private, dedicated instance | 16 vCPU · 16 GB RAM · 2 TB NVMe |
| Archimedes eDiscovery platform | Platform license for the whole firm |
| Bandwidth | 10 TB per month * |
| Managed support | 8 hrs per month, Mon–Fri 9 AM–4 PM Eastern Time * |
| Daily backups | Automated and retained |
| Tamper-evident audit log | Immutable, exportable by database or production |
$3,394 a month all in, with the $1,725 ingestion fee spread over the 12-month term.
* Included amount. Bandwidth beyond 10 TB per month bills at $60/TB or a committed bundle. Support beyond 8 hours per month bills at $290/hr.
See it on a live instance
Thirty minutes on the platform with the people who build it, with a written scope and price before anything starts.
Questions we get asked frequently
How long does it take to get running?
An instance is provisioned within 24 to 48 hours of the agreement. Migration time depends on the volume and condition of your existing data; we scope it in writing before onboarding starts, and a $1,725 rush fee, in addition to the ingestion fee, applies only if you ask us to compress the schedule.
What happens to our data if we leave?
You may export in the agreed formats, including load files and native originals with metadata intact, and we then delete the data and decommission the instance and its network under a documented process. There is no exit fee and no hostage period.
Does the price change if a matter gets bigger?
The platform rate does not. Storage can be increased on your instance as needed rather than metered: the instance includes 2 TB to start, and a firm that needs more adds it in fixed monthly steps rather than paying per gigabyte. On a running instance, bandwidth is the only meter, at 10 TB included per month and $60 per TB beyond it, or a committed bundle at a lower rate. Matters that are finished but must be kept can move to archive storage at $4 per GB per month. Additional instances can be added to the network as needed, for example beyond about 100 people working at the same time. If the question is how big a matter really is, the guide to how many pages are in a gigabyte sets it out by file type.
Can we meet an opposing party's ESI protocol?
We would go over this in an initial walkthrough. We cover the requirements an ESI protocol usually sets, against a live instance: production formats, Bates conventions, load-file specifications, metadata fields and privilege-log structure. Every term is defined in the glossary.
Who can see our matter data?
Your firm decides who on your side sees it: access is granted per data zone by email invitation, with role-based permissions. Konvergence senior support staff also hold administrative access to every instance by default, for customer service. Additional security and encryption schemes can be discussed and quoted on request.
Is there a per-user charge?
No. It is a platform license for your own private instance on its own network, with no seat limit, so adding reviewers, paralegals, contract attorneys or staff to a matter does not change the invoice. Additional instances can be added to the network as needed, for example beyond about 100 people working at the same time.