Carta is the equity
record. Keep it.
This is not a page arguing you should cancel Carta. It is a page about what Carta is not: an operating system for the fund that holds the shares. Two different jobs, and only one of them publishes a price.
Four tiers, no prices.
Launch, Build, Grow, Scale — none of which publish a number. Launch is free but only for companies under 25 stakeholders that have raised under $1M. 409A valuations are a paid add-on on Launch and Build, and only bundled from Grow up. ASC 718 / IFRS 2 stock-compensation reporting and SAML SSO appear only on Scale.
Where the line actually falls.
| Capability | DeelSignal | Carta |
|---|---|---|
| Cap table & share register | Holders, share classes, convertibles, round modelling | Statutory registers across US, UK, SG, AU, DIFC |
| 409A valuations | Not offered — buy it from someone who signs it | Licensed valuation staff, audit defence included |
| ASC 718 / IFRS 2 | Not offered | Included on Scale |
| Deal pipeline & sourcing | 12-factor scoring, IC workflow, warm-intro paths | Carta CRM — company records and pipelines, no scoring |
| Fund accounting | Capital accounts, calls, distributions, carry waterfall | Separate Carta product, separately priced |
| Founder portal | Applications, structured MIS reporting, milestones | Not offered |
| DSignal Reports | Live-data reports, DSignal Portfolio on every paid plan | On higher tiers |
| Published pricing | Every band, on the site | None |
Where Carta wins.
Carta employs licensed valuation professionals and defends their 409As in audit. It maintains statutory share registers in five jurisdictions, files ASC 718 and IFRS 2 stock-compensation reporting, issues Schedule K-1s and handles QSBS attestation. That is consultant work with a professional's signature behind it, not a software feature — we are a software company, we do not offer it today, and it sits on our longer-term roadmap rather than the current product. If your bottleneck is a 409A or an audit-ready register, this comparison is not close and you should stay on Carta for that piece.
You keep the 409A. You still move everything above it.
Most funds that stay on Carta for the register and the valuation move the deal CRM, portfolio monitoring, capital accounts and LP reporting here — and our professional-services team does that move for you. We connect the two systems, migrate the history and build your LP report templates to the shape your investors already expect. You keep the signature you need for the regulated layer, and you stop paying four vendors for everything above it.
Carta is where the shares live. We are where the fund runs. Most of our customers keep both — and cancel the CRM, the reporting tool and the spreadsheet instead.
- 01 Carta pricing and plans — carta.com/pricing
- 02 Carta platform scale figures — carta.com company page
- 03 409A valuation methodology — carta.com/409a
Figures reflect Carta's publicly available pricing and product information as of September 2026 and are subject to change. Carta is a trademark of eShares, Inc. dba Carta, Inc.; references here are nominative fair use for comparison purposes only and do not imply endorsement, affiliation or sponsorship.
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