Relativity Scraps Per-Seat Licensing for Single Data Fee

Relativity announced a new pricing structure for its cloud-based RelativityOne platform that replaces per-seat user fees with a single data fee, a move the company frames as giving law firms and legal teams more flexibility as usage of the platform expands into privacy and data-security matters. For legal operations and pricing teams, per-seat software licensing has long been a fixed cost that scales awkwardly with matter volume and staffing changes; a consumption- or data-based model shifts technology cost structures closer to variable spend tied to actual case activity. This kind of repricing by a major e-discovery vendor is likely to influence how other legal tech providers structure fees as firms push back on rigid seat-based costs amid broader efforts to control legal technology spend.