What is a standard cure period for breach of contract?

30 days is the median across the largest cohort we measured: Master Services Agreements under United States law, based on 49 contracts. The full spread by contract type is below.

What this clause is

A cure period is the time a party gets to fix a problem before the other side is allowed to walk away. If your supplier misses what they promised, the clock in this clause is how long they have to put it right before you can terminate.

Why it matters

A long cure period sounds generous until you are the one waiting. Sixty days of a supplier failing to deliver, with no right to exit, is two months of paying for something you are not getting. A short period cuts both ways, because it also applies to you.

What the market actually does

Measured across 369 contracts in 12 cohorts. Each row is a separate group of contracts, so a technology cohort and a healthcare cohort are counted and reported separately rather than averaged together.

Measured market position by contract type, jurisdiction and industry
Contract type	Governing law	Industry	Median	Middle 50% range	Contracts
Master Services Agreement	United States	Healthcare	30 days	30 days	49
Master Services Agreement	United States	Technology	30 days	30 days	47
SaaS agreement	United States	Technology	30 days	30 days	42
Professional services	United States	Technology	30 days	14.5 days to 30 days	35
Licence agreement	United States	Healthcare	60 days	30 days to 60 days	33
Supply agreement	United States	Healthcare	30 days	30 days to 60 days	27
Professional services	United States	Healthcare	30 days	30 days	26
Licence agreement	United States	Industrial	30 days	30 days	25
Master Services Agreement	United States	Financial services	30 days	30 days	22
Licence agreement	United States	Technology	30 days	30 days	21
Licence agreement	United States	Consumer	30 days	30 days	21
SaaS agreement	Australia	Technology	30 days	14 days to 30 days	21

Sources: negotiated agreements filed with the us sec, sec filings and published standard terms, published standard customer terms, covering 2020 to 2026. Individual companies are never named. Cohorts are published only where at least 20 contracts were measured.

If your contract is worse than this

If your contract gives the supplier materially longer than the market, ask for it to come down to 30 days, and ask for a shorter period, or no cure right at all, for failures that cannot sensibly be fixed later, such as a confidentiality breach.

Check your own contract against this

Citrus reads a supplier contract and tells you which clauses sit outside the market, in plain English, with the comparison shown. One contract, no card.

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Other clause benchmarks

Figures reflect the Citrus reference set as at 2026-07-19. These are market observations, not legal advice, and the right position for your contract depends on what you are buying and what leverage you have.