A careful buyer's guide
Some websites help you build a contract by answering questions. Others give you a file to fill in yourself. We compared seven options to help you choose, looking at their contracts, explanations, editing tools, signing options, and prices.
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The ranking
How we compared them
We looked at each website's selection, not just one contract. Where possible, we read several agreements or previews. We checked who drafted them, which important terms we could actually read, and how clearly the website explains them.
We also checked the advertised editing tools, file formats, signing, prices, and support. Some sites show complete contracts; others show only samples or descriptions. We distinguish what we could read from what a site says it offers.
We did not buy documents from the other sites or test their checkout, support, cancellations, paid downloads, or completed signing process.
Does it address the business and legal terms that matter for this deal?
Were the agreements drafted by someone who understands how the relevant industry works?
Could we read how payment, ownership, ending the deal, and disagreements are handled?
Does the site have a contract for the kind of deal you are making?
Does the site explain your choices and common risks in plain English?
Are there guided questions, editable fields, Word, PDF, Pages, or ODT files?
Can buyers finish and sign the agreement, understand the price, and get help if needed?
Could we read the full contract, a sample, or only the site's description?
A closer look
Here is how each service works, what it offers, what it costs, and what we could and could not check.
How it works: Choose an agreement, then decide how you want to complete it. For a custom contract, answer guided questions, review the filled-in document, and download it in Word or PDF. You can also sign it online and send it to the other party to sign. If you prefer to fill it in yourself, choose an editable Word or PDF template instead. Most websites we reviewed offer one approach or the other, rather than both.
Selection and guidance: The catalog covers music, film and TV, social media, live events, sports, and fashion. Separate agreements address different jobs: a creator posting sponsored content, for example, needs different terms from someone making content for a brand to post. College athlete deals and non-college endorsements are also separate, as are model bookings and photography or styling services. Every agreement is drafted by an entertainment attorney who graduated from Harvard Law School. Matching guides explain the deal and the choices involved.
Price we found: $50 single contract; $150 one-industry access or $300 all-industry access for one year
How it works: Choose a template and edit it on LegalZoom's website rather than downloading a blank form first. You can then download a PDF or send it for electronic signatures. Its broader legal library may be useful if you also need documents outside entertainment.
Selection and guidance: LegalZoom advertises 150+ attorney-drafted templates, with separate entertainer-promoter, musician, performance, music, and artist pages. We could read a substantial entertainer-promoter sample, but found less public section-by-section guidance and less coverage of film, creator, sports, and fashion relationships than on entertainment-focused websites.
Price we found: $59 per document or $99 per year, as currently advertised
How it works: Create an account and answer questions to build your document. Depending on the plan, you can download, store, and sign it electronically. Some memberships also include document help or access to a lawyer. Check what your plan includes before paying for a membership.
Selection and guidance: Its entertainment selection includes musical-performance, influencer, movie-production, artist-agent, musician, talent-management, and recording agreements. Public pages generally provide short explanations and FAQs, although the site is a general legal service rather than an entertainment-focused library.
Price we found: $149, $249, or $349 annual tiers after trial, as currently advertised
How it works: Answer questions step by step, then download or print the document created from your answers. LawDepot offers a trial, subscriptions, and single-document purchases. Electronic signing uses a separate LawDepot service and is available for eligible PDFs.
Selection and guidance: The library includes guided forms for performance, recording, influencer, production, licensing, photography services, and model or entertainment releases. Only part of the performance contract was publicly visible during our review, so buyers can see the questionnaire flow more clearly than the complete final wording.
Price we found: 7-day trial then $49 monthly; $155.88 annual; varying single-document licenses
How it works: Buy a music contract pack, download the files, and edit them in Word, Pages, or Google Docs. You fill in the terms yourself. There is no online questionnaire to complete the documents for you and no built-in signing tool.
Selection and guidance: The catalog is organized into artist and band, record-label, producer, publishing, promoter, and other music packs, with drafting notes and document previews helping buyers choose. The full pack lists 59 templates, and the site says music-law professionals update the materials annually for US, UK, and Australian practice. Complete paid contract text was not publicly readable.
Price we found: $79 for the Artist & Band pack shown; $99 relaunch sale for the separate 59-template full pack
How it works: Choose a film or creator agreement and answer questions that adjust its terms. The site then provides an instant download. Built-in signatures were marked as coming soon when we reviewed it, so you would need to arrange signing separately.
Selection and guidance: The focused catalog includes performer, crew, work-for-hire, development, location, and production forms for independent filmmakers and creators. Thoolie says entertainment lawyers draft the templates and explains what each document is designed to do, but the full agreement text was not public during our review. Individual purchases, a free tier, and monthly Full Access are available.
Price we found: $29.99 performer and crew agreements; $49.99 operating agreements; $9.99 monthly Full Access
How it works: Choose a form, enter your details, and download the result in PDF, Word, or ODT, a format used by software such as LibreOffice. You can buy one document or choose a trial or subscription. We could not confirm whether electronic signing is included.
Selection and guidance: Musician, DJ, photography, videography, artist-management, and film-NDA forms sit within a library of thousands of general documents. The pages provide short usage explanations and familiar download formats, but offer less entertainment-specific selection and deal guidance than the more specialized websites.
Price we found: $144 annual or $49 monthly after trial, with a single-document option
How to choose
Choose a template for the specific job. A contract for hiring a musician to perform at an event will not cover hiring an influencer to promote a product.
Step-by-step questions can help you avoid missing important details. A blank Word or PDF template may suit you if you already know the terms and want to fill them in yourself.
Check whether online signing is included and available for your document. Can you send it to the other party to sign too? Downloading a file does not necessarily give you those tools.
A lawyer's review is especially useful when a deal involves a lot of money, more than one country, unusual terms, or an existing disagreement.
We checked our own agreement descriptions and links against our forms and contracts on October 3, 2026. Information and prices for the other websites come from the August 28 review below. We have not rechecked their offerings as part of that update.
We relied on contract text, previews, pricing pages, and product descriptions published by the websites themselves. We did not use affiliate rankings or anonymous customer reviews. We reviewed the agreements, prices, and features on August 28, 2026.
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