Page Vault Alternatives for Solo Lawyers (2026 Comparison)

July 11, 2026 · Updated July 12, 2026

Page Vault is the name big firms know for web capture. It is also built for big firms: subscription pricing behind a “request pricing” form, and on-demand capture projects that start at $199 for websites and $349 for social media profiles, performed by their team on your behalf.

If you are a solo or small-firm lawyer who needs to preserve a web page a few times a month, that model rarely fits. You do not want a sales call. You want to paste a URL, pay a known price, and get evidence you can defend.

Here is an honest look at the Page Vault alternatives that fit a solo practice, including where each one genuinely beats the others.

What actually matters in a capture tool

Before the list, three questions worth asking about any web evidence service, because they separate the tools more sharply than features do:

1. Where does the evidence live? On the vendor’s servers, on your laptop, or somewhere independent of both?
2. Can the proof be verified without the vendor? If the service disappears mid-case, can you still show the capture is authentic?
3. Is the price on the page? Quote forms and annual contracts are a tax on small practices.

Page Vault

The incumbent for law firms. Page Vault captures web pages, social media, and video through managed software or an on-demand service, with affidavits available for captures. It is well established in the legal market and AmLaw 100 firms use it.

The friction for a solo practice is structural. Software pricing requires a quote. On-demand captures start at $199 per website project and are performed by Page Vault’s team, which works well for a litigation department outsourcing a batch of captures and less well for a lawyer who needs one page preserved today. The captures live in Page Vault’s cloud, and verifying them relies on Page Vault as an ongoing institution.

Choose Page Vault if your firm wants outsourced, affidavit-backed capture projects and the budget is not the constraint.

Hunchly

The investigator’s workflow tool. Hunchly ($169 per year, 30-day trial) is a browser extension that automatically captures every page you visit during an investigation, hashes captures, and organizes them by case. OSINT professionals swear by it, for good reason: for long-running investigations with hundreds of pages, nothing else matches its workflow.

The trade-offs mirror its strengths. It is a subscription for a workflow, not a per-page service. Captures are stored locally on your machine, so preservation is only as durable as your own backups. And the capture is made by you, on your computer, which keeps you in the chain of custody.

Choose Hunchly if you run sprawling multi-page investigations and want everything captured as you browse.

Perma.cc

The academic standard for citations. Perma.cc, built by the Harvard Library Innovation Lab and supported by libraries, preserves web pages so that citations in scholarship and court opinions stop rotting. It is trusted, institutional, and free through participating libraries. For citing a web page in a brief or article, it is excellent.

It solves a different problem than evidence capture, though. Preservation depends on institutional custody: you trust a library consortium to keep the copy. There is no user-facing cryptographic proof you can hand to opposing counsel, and no hash-based verification path designed for FRE 902(14) certification.

Choose Perma.cc if you need stable citation links rather than evidence-grade captures.

ProofSnap

Proof-first capture with self-custody files. ProofSnap generates captures with cryptographic proof that remains verifiable even if ProofSnap itself disappears, which is a real and rare virtue in this market. Its guides on courtroom authentication are genuinely useful.

The structural difference: ProofSnap hands you the evidence as a ZIP file, and from that moment the files are your responsibility. If your laptop dies, your cloud sync misfires, or the ZIP is misplaced during a multi-year case, the proof survives but the evidence it proves does not. Self-custody suits some practices; it is a real operational burden for others.

Choose ProofSnap if you are comfortable being the long-term custodian of your own evidence files.

Permavault

Both halves: the evidence and the proof survive independently of the vendor. Permavault is a capture service where you paste a URL, a neutral automated system captures the full page, and both the capture and its cryptographic fingerprints are stored on a permanent decentralized network of roughly 300 independent nodes, funded by a long-term storage endowment. The capture is made by an automated system, not by you, so you stay out of the chain of custody.

Every capture is fingerprinted with cryptographic hashes at capture and comes with a verifiable record anyone can check, without trusting us. An optional Certificate of Authenticity starts at $9; the Legal tier adds a qualified electronic timestamp from Disig a.s., an EU-listed qualified trust service provider, applied to the signed capture manifest, plus an independent Bitcoin-anchored timestamp and a declaration template designed to support authentication under FRE 902(13) and 902(14). Under eIDAS Article 41, a qualified electronic timestamp carries a presumption of the accuracy of its date and time in EU courts.

$4.99 per capture. The price is on the page. No subscriptions, no sales calls, no annual contracts.

The honest limitation: Permavault is newer than everything else on this list, and it is a capture service, not an investigation workflow like Hunchly or a managed service like Page Vault. What it is designed to do is the thing none of the others do: it is designed so that ten years from now, your capture and its proof remain retrievable and verifiable even if every company on this page, including ours, is gone.

Side by side

Every tool on this list is good at what it was built for. The question is what you need: an outsourced capture department, an investigation workflow, stable citations, self-custody proof, or a capture that outlives every company involved. Including ours.