Drooms
Publishes euro prices and a permanently free tier, with strictly EU and Swiss processing.
- Headquarters
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Founded
- 2001
- Segment
- European real estate, asset lifecycle, M&A and corporate finance
- Hosting
- Germany and Switzerland only
- Encryption
- Encryption in transit and at rest
- Free trial
- Free tier available
The assessment
Drooms is a German virtual data room provider founded in 2001, headquartered in Frankfurt with a parent company in Zug, Switzerland. It has a real London office and more than two decades of operating history, with particular depth in European real estate and asset lifecycle work alongside M&A.
It is one of only three providers on this table that publishes prices. The Starter tier is free forever at 150MB for two users, Professional is €49 per month, and Business is €398 per month, with annual billing discounts on both. The storage allowances are the thing to watch: they are small enough that a genuine diligence exercise will push you up a tier or two.
Its positioning is data sovereignty. Processing happens exclusively in the EU or Switzerland, and Drooms markets this explicitly against the reach of the US CLOUD Act. For a UK buyer that argument needs care, because since Brexit the UK is itself a third country to the EU, and Drooms publishes no UK-specific data protection language and offers no UK storage region.
Worth a look if you want published pricing, a free tier to test with, and European rather than American processing, and if EU rather than UK storage satisfies your requirement. Do the storage arithmetic before you sign: 150MB and 500MB entry allowances do not survive contact with a real document set. If someone has told you Drooms is the sovereign choice, be precise about whose sovereignty, because EU and Swiss processing is not a UK data residency answer.
Parent company Drooms AG, Zug, Switzerland.
11-12 Tokenhouse Yard, London EC2R 7AS
Strengths
- A genuinely free Starter tier at €0 with no credit card, which few dedicated data room providers offer
- Strictly EU and Swiss processing, explicitly positioned against extraterritorial access under the US CLOUD Act
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022, the current version of the standard
- ISO/IEC 27018 for personal data in the cloud
- More than twenty years of operation with a real London office
Limitations
- No UK data residency, and no UK-specific GDPR language: post-Brexit the UK is a third country to the EU, so European sovereignty is not the same thing as UK compliance
- No SOC 2 attestation of any type
- No ISO 27701
- Paid tier pricing is not reliably readable from their own pricing page: two readings returned materially different figures, so a quote is required in practice
- Prices are in euros only, bringing currency and VAT friction for UK buyers
- Entry tiers are very small at 150MB and 500MB, so real diligence volumes escalate to higher tiers quickly
Pricing, hosting and certification
A free Starter tier at €0 per month is published and verified: 150MB, two user licences, three data room projects, no credit card required. Above that Drooms names a Professional tier, a Business tier and a custom Enterprise tier, with storage and user licences that scale within each. We do not publish figures for the paid tiers: two separate readings of their own pricing page returned materially different numbers, which indicates the page prices dynamically from a storage and user configurator rather than from a fixed list. Ask for a written quote. Euro denominated, with no sterling pricing published.
✓ Published on the provider's own site
Germany and Switzerland only. Drooms states that contractually agreed data processing takes place exclusively in the EU or Switzerland. No UK data residency.
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022
- ISO/IEC 27018:2020
Counted only where named publicly by the provider.
Typical use cases
- Real estate transactions and asset lifecycle
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Due diligence
- Corporate finance
Sources consulted
Last reviewed 26 July 2026
What we could not confirm
Published openly, because a gap in the evidence is information too. Anything listed here could not be verified from a primary source, so we have not scored Drooms as though it were true.
- The paid tier prices. Two separate readings of drooms.com/en/pricing returned materially different figures for the Professional and Business tiers, and one returned an implausible result showing both tiers at the same price. The page appears to price dynamically from a configurator. Only the €0 Starter tier is verified
- Several Drooms facts were originally gathered through a text proxy because drooms.com refused direct requests, and should be re-verified against origin
- Whether a time-limited trial exists alongside the free Starter tier
- SOC 2 status
- UK GDPR posture
- Whether sterling pricing is available on request