Nitro Software

Nitro Smart Redact: pricing, features and limits

Name: Nitro Smart Redact
Author: Nitro Software

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Nitro Smart Redact does not publish a price.

Key facts

Vendor: Nitro Software
Headquarters: Not recorded
Media: PDF, Image
Deployment: Online
Method: Manual, AI-powered
Free tier: No
Trial: None
Entry price: Not published

What it does

OCR
Audit log
Entity detection

Plans and pricing

Nitro Smart Redact plans. Every figure records where it came from.
Plan	Price	Includes
Standard	Not published	250 documents/year per user · For individuals and small teams · Contact sales for pricing Other: 250 documents per year per user Seats: Unlimited
Plus	Not published	500 documents/year per user · For growing teams with consistent volume · Contact sales for pricing Other: 500 documents per year per user Seats: Unlimited
Enterprise	Contact sales	5,000+ documents/year · Unlimited seats available · Volume discounts Other: 5,000+ documents per year Seats: Unlimited

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What will it cost?

Documents a month

Pages per document

100 pages a month

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Worked out from each plan's published rate, reading the figures above as one month's work. Subscription plans read *Included in the plan* rather than a per-document figure: a monthly fee is not a per-document price, and dividing one into the other would need a volume no vendor publishes. A metered plan is priced past its allowance at its published overage rate; one that caps out with no such rate says so instead of quoting a price it would not honour.
Plan	Published price	Total
Standard	Not published	—
Plus	Not published	—
Enterprise	Contact sales	—

Our assessment

Nitro Smart Redact is a separate, purpose-built redaction product from Nitro Software (distinct from their long-standing Nitro Pro PDF editor), aimed at regulated industries handling FOI requests, court filings, HIPAA-covered patient records, insurance claims and legal discovery/settlement materials. Detection uses NLP to go beyond simple keyword/regex matching, covering 30+ PII categories across both structured and unstructured text, and automatically extends to scanned/image documents via OCR. Every suggested redaction is presented for user review, with pixel-perfect manual drawing tools and custom term creation/ignoring available alongside the automated suggestions, and a real-time preview before anything is finalized. Redaction removes both the visible content and hidden metadata, and the vendor states no data is retained after processing.

It leans on enterprise security credentials: ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, and adherence to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

Pricing is structured around annual per-user document allowances rather than a flat subscription: Standard (250 documents/year/user, for individuals and small teams), Plus (500 documents/year/user, for growing teams with consistent volume), and Enterprise (5,000+ documents/year, unlimited seats available, volume discounts) — but no plan shows a public dollar figure; all three require contacting sales for a quote.

Strengths

NLP-based detection covers 30+ PII categories including unstructured data, not just pattern matching
Automatic OCR extends detection to scanned/image documents, not just digital-text PDFs
Removes hidden metadata as well as visible content
Strong enterprise compliance posture: ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework
Backed by an established PDF vendor (Nitro Software) rather than an early-stage startup

Limitations

No public pricing at all — every tier, including the entry-level Standard plan, requires contacting sales
Plans are capped by annual document count per user (250/500 on Standard/Plus) rather than unlimited use
PDF/image-focused only — no stated support for Office formats, email exports, or other file types
As a newer product line alongside the established Nitro Pro editor, it has a shorter track record than some competitors

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